The Ekya Children’s Biennale is a celebration of children as artists, makers and creative thinkers, presented across eight Ekya campuses in Namma Bengaluru.
Centred around the theme “What Does the Future Feel Like?”, the Biennale gives children the freedom to explore, question and imagine the world through art. Each campus transforms into an immersive art space, created by the children themselves through installations, artworks, performances, and experiences.
For two months, Ekya campuses become spaces to see the world through children’s eyes. Come experience India’s first Children’s Art Biennale, created by children and hosted at Namma Bengaluru.
Come as you are. Make, explore, experiment, get messy and make something that did not exist before. This is a Biennale where children are not looking at art from the outside. They are the artists.
Walk beside them. Let them lead you through what they have made, what they imagined and what surprised them. You might discover a side of your child you don’t usually get to see.
There are 1,000+ young artists transforming their campuses into artworks, installations, performances and imagined worlds. Come curious. You may leave with a new idea about what children’s art can be.
The Biennale opens up a glimpse of learning through making, questioning, experimenting and creating. It is a chance to see children take an idea and follow it somewhere unexpected.
Something unusual is happening in the city.
Come for the art. Stay for the ideas. Leave seeing the world a little differently.
What could the future look like? What could it sound like, feel like, or become?
Children explore these questions through seven worlds:
Nature · Machines · Memory · Cities · Ritual & Culture · Play · Connection
Regenerative | Organic | Rooted in nature
Every Saturday thereafter: Until 31st October
Intelligent | Digital | Driven by innovation
Inauguration weekend:
3rd October
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Every Saturday thereafter: Until 31 October
poetic | reflective | honouring the past
Every Saturday thereafter: Until 31st October
ARchitected | Connected | designed by us
Every Saturday thereafter: Until 31 October
rooted | timeless | reimagining traditions
Inauguration weekend:
29th – 30th August
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Every Saturday thereafter: Until 31 October
joyful | experimental | built to play
Inauguration weekend:
29th – 30th August
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Every Saturday thereafter: Until 31 October
connected | human | stronger together
Inauguration weekend:
4th – 6th September
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Every Saturday thereafter: Until 31 October
Regenerative | Organic | Rooted in nature
Inauguration weekend:
19th September
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Every Saturday thereafter: Until 31 October






It is India’s First Children’s Biennale in Bengaluru. Across eight Ekya campuses, children take the lead as artists, makers and storytellers, using art, design, technology, movement and play to explore bold ideas about the future.
This is not an exhibition of children’s art. It is a biennale built by artists who happen to be children. Rather than simply displaying finished artworks, the Biennale brings together installations, performances, workshops, stories and interactive experiences shaped by children’s ideas.
Head to our website and purchase your ticket online that’s your way in.
Children 15 and under visit free no ticket needed. Anyone older needs to buy one, even if they’re coming along with a ticketed parent.
Yes! Every adult needs a ticket, parents included. It’s what makes the Biennale feel like the real cultural event it is not just a school function. Bring your friends and family along; everyone’s welcome, and everyone older than 15 buys a ticket.
Every visitor aged 15 and above needs a ticket, with one exception: Ekya & CMR NPS students don’t need one. If you’re an Ekya & CMR NPS student, just wear your school ID card while you’re biennale-hopping, and you’re in.
The central question is: What does the future feel like? Children respond to this question through creativity, imagination and experimentation, exploring futures that are already taking shape in their minds.
Children are at the centre of the Biennale, but the experience is open to everyone. Parents, families, educators, artists and visitors of all ages are invited to participate and experience the future through children’s eyes.
Yes. Each Ekya campus presents experiences connected to one or more of the seven creative lenses: Nature, Machines, Memory, Cities, Rituals and Culture, Play and Connection.
Head to the registration desk at the campus you’re visiting. Show your ticket confirmation there, and you’ll receive your passport.
Children imagine freely, without waiting for permission. Their art is not simply a subject they learn, but a language through which they express ideas that words cannot always hold.
At India’s First Children’s Biennale in Bengaluru 2026, visitors are invited to stop predicting the future and begin experiencing it through the eyes of those who will actually live in it.