La Biennale di Venezia brings its special project Indian Interior to Bikaner House, New Delhi, marking the fourth chapter of The Wind Makes the Sky. La Biennale di Venezia in the Footsteps of Marco Polo, curated by Luigia Lonardelli. The project commemorates the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death (1324–2024) and retraces stages of his historic journey across Asia.
Organized in collaboration with the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), this edition highlights India as Marco Polo’s final memory of the East and explores the country’s dynamic contemporary creative landscape. The exhibition brings together artists and designers whose work navigates social transformation, material innovation, sustainability, and boundary-breaking design.
Indian Interior illuminates the dialogue between art, craft, design, and everyday life in India today. The exhibition examines the aestheticization of daily spaces, the redefinition of value, and the evolving identity of Indian creativity, where tradition and experimentation coexist. Works are presented within an “Indian interior,” a fluid display that resists rigid categorization and embraces the vibrancy of contemporary cultural production.
Previous stops of The Wind Makes the Sky include Hangzhou (2024), Venice (2024) and Istanbul (2025).
The New Delhi chapter continues this journey, shifting the focus to the intimate and transformative processes shaping India’s creative system today.
The project is developed by La Biennale’s Historical Archive, in partnership with KNMA and with the support of the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, New Delhi.