Mumbai Urban art festival 2024

The festival has taken over the city with exhibits, art installations, and murals by national and international artists, from Mahim East and Bandra to Churchgate Station and Jindal Mansion. it is also brought in collaboration with the Mumbai Port Trust to commemorate the 150th anniversary of one of Mumbai’s oldest docks, the Sassoon Dock in Colaba. Speaking of the importance of Sassoon Dock for the festival, co-founder and artistic director of St+Art India, Hanif Kureshi, says, “A Festival like this, especially in partnership with the Mumbai Port Trust can unlock venues that people hardly visit, just like Sassoon Dock, which has been a part of Mumbai’s platforms on which the city is built—the fishing communities. But not many people, even those who live around it, visit it. Sassoon Docks has had this age-old problem of a fishy smell because it’s a fishing dock. Eight thousand residents around the dock signed a petition to eliminate the smell. Most of them have never even been to the docks. But once the festival was on, the intensity of the smell has lowered and it has made many of these residents come to the dock to see it; they feel proud that something like this is happening in their area.”

Kochi Muziris Biennale 2024