Kerala Lalithakala Akademi to open 'Punarjjani', thirty paintings from its own collection

9 October 2026

The Kerala Lalithakala Akademi will open 'Punarjjani', an exhibition of paintings selected from its own collection, on October 13 at the Academy Art Gallery in Vailoppilly Samskriti Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram. Akademi Chairperson Prof. Prakash Murthy will inaugurate it at 11 am, with Akademi Secretary Vaikom M. K. Shibu present. Thirty paintings by thirty artists, selected from the painting camps the Akademi has organised in past years, are on display. The Akademi describes the exhibition as the first step in a project of its new governing body to revive its collection and its galleries, with curators to be involved in later exhibitions so that the artistic value and meaning of the works reach the public. The Akademi expects the exhibitions to become places where artists gather and talk to one another.