Cities keep stories They are embedded in weathered buildings and fading signboards, in brittle documents, forgotten photographs and carefully folded maps whose creases have survived generations of use. Some are preserved in libraries and museums; others remain hidden in private…
I walked into Intimate Resistance at The VASL Gallery on the 25th of November 2025 with a kind of cautious curiosity. Photography exhibitions in Pakistan are rare to begin with, and when they do happen, they often fall into familiar…
Mohsin Shafi’s exhibition Between Two Worlds, presented at Kunsthalle Krems Museum in Austria, unfolds as a layered engagement with spiritual and metaphysical frameworks, resonating strongly with emerging South Asian readings of Sufi cosmology. Shafi’s artist residency in Niederösterreich program at…
When the diverse quadrants of human experience convene in one show, it is an absorbing encounter that stays with the viewer and leads us to question reflexive paradigms of memory and social immersion. Ai Wei Wei says “Art has to…
At first glance, Eternal Imprints appears to be an exhibition about ancient rock art. Not quite. Moving through the galleries of The Barracks Art Museum in Lahore, it becomes clear that the show asks a crucial question: what happens when…
I have lived in Pakistan for seventeen years and as much as I love the culture and feel at home here, I still feel like a foreigner. I grew up in a typical Australian family in Northern NSW where the…
May 09th 2026 saw the opening of In Minor Keys, the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by the (late) Koyo Kouoh. Once again, included in the roster of nations represented at the biennale, is a…
Colombo rests upon a living, aqueous tapestry of thirty-six wetland patches that intertwine with some 50 km of meandering canal.17 The city is neither entirely water nor land, remaining in a perpetual state of flux further shaped by legacies of…
Meher Afroz’s multilayered art connects strands of thought with rich and restrained color. It holds secrets that concern the nature of existence and is impregnated with esoteric meaning. As one of Pakistan’s most iconic contemporary artists, Meher’s decades-long output richly…
Karachi --- On occasion of Chawkandi Art Gallery’s 40th anniversary, Dialogues Across Time invited seventeen practicing artists to come vis-à-vis with experienced veterans, who once shaped the gallery’s advancement in its early years. Chawkandi’s founder Zohra Hussain recalls these initial…