The Çanakkale Biennial participated in the inaugural edition of the Bengal Biennial with a special selection.

Held from November 2024 to January 2025 in Santiniketan and Kolkata, the Bengal Biennale was a month-and-a-half-long celebration of the masters and marginalised alike.
In the inaugural edition of the Bengal Biennial, the Çanakkale Biennial participated with a special selection. The exhibition, titled "Between Memory and Motion," was hosted by Zs’ Precinct in Kolkata and featured video works by Helin Boztepe, Korhan Başaran, and Jakob Gautel, produced during previous editions of the Çanakkale Biennial.
The coordinator of this artistic collaboration, Selin Eren, gave a presentation on the cooperation between the Bengal and Çanakkale Biennials on December 20, 2024.
Through a decade-long collaboration with farmers, poets, musicians, and academics, artist Sanchayan Ghosh upholds the land as a living entity made of stories, scars and silences.
Bengal being the crucible of some of the most notable forms of art in India, has finally received its much-deserved tentpole cultural event, the Bengal Biennale, celebrated across Santiniketan and Kolkata from 29 November 2024 to 5 January 2025.
The maiden edition of the biennale is rooted in the Bengali phrase “আঁকা বাঁকা” (“aanka baanka”), which roughly literally translates to “zig-zagging” in English, while the word aanka by itself means both the act of drawing and the drawing itself, and baanka means something being aslant. It opens up a world of interpretations that the participating artists—of which there are over a hundred—are responding to through their works, retrospectives and even performances hosted across the two locations and their 86 historically significant venues, especially in Santiniketan, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to Rabindranath Tagore.
The Bengal Biennale is held in Santiniketan from 29 November to 22 December, and in Kolkata from 6 December to 5 January.