Fourth Karachi Biennale KB24
THEME
27 October
10 November
2024
40 Artists | 10 Countries
Connecting art, the city and its people
Fourth Karachi Biennale KB24
CURATED BY
Waheeda Baloch
THEME
40 Artist
10 Countries
27 October
10 November
2024
Connecting art, the city and its people
Fourth Karachi Biennale
KB24 Dates
October 27 to November 10, 2024
International exhibitions at 5 venues
READING ROOM
ART PRIZES
ARTIST TALKS / WORKSHOPS
KEYNOTE TALKS / DISCURSIVE WEEKEND
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
ART AND WELLNESS WORKSHOPS FOR YOUTH
Our Outreach
Visitors and Outreach
30
Participating Countries
50
Artists
400
Discursive Sessions
70
Youth Engaging with Art
6651
Educational Programming: “Boltey Pathar” Digital Stories
KBT TRUSTEES
Art, the city and its people will always be at the core of our initiatives.
Almas Bana
Chairperson
Almas believes that art in all its manifestations not only reflects society but can provide a vision for its positive development. It should be a harbinger of change in an open society. Involvement in the Karachi Biennale provides him with such an experimental opportunity. Almas has B.Sc and M.B.A degrees from Pakistan and Certificate in International Management from Boston University, USA.
Niilofur Farrukh
Managing Trustee
In 2017, along with a group of colleagues she established the Karachi Biennale to instrumentalize art to connect a fractured city to itself, and the world with the country‘s largest international art contemporary art event. She is the CEO of Karachi Biennale and Managing Trustee of the Karachi Biennale Trust.
Niilofur co-founded NuktaArt and served as its Founder Editor for the ten years it was in publication (2004-2014). Her book Pioneering Perspectives on pioneer women artists was aimed at countering the anti-women political narrative of the 1980s in her country.
Niilofur is the President of AICA Pakistan and has served on the International Board of the International Art Critics Association.
She has written extensively for national and international publications. Her second book' The 70s Pakistan's Radioactive Decade: An Informal Cultural History of Pakistan (co-edited with Amin Gulgee and John MacCary will be launched in early 2019. 'A Beautiful Despair', a book on eminent artist Meher Afroz (edited) also expected to be out in the first quarter of 2019. At present, she is researching the art history of Karachi for a book.
Atteqa Malik
Trustee, Vice Chairman
As one of the founding members of Mauj, a media art collective in Karachi, Atteqa participated in and jointly organized, a number of workshops and activities related to new media since February 2008. She was on the International Review Committee for ISEA (International Summit of Electronic Art) 2010 held in Ruhr, Germany. Her submission to Imagining New Eurasia Project has been selected to be displayed with 88 artists at the Asian Cultural Center in Korea and online till July 2016.
As Chair, Global Outreach of Karachi Biennale Trust, Atteqa coordinated educational and art collaborations between Karachi institutions and Berlin digital activists Wolfgang Spahn and Stephen Kovats, Manchester Art Gallery, The Tetley and Canadian media artist Faisal Anwar during 2016 and 2017.
Amin Gulgee
Curator KB17 and Trustee KBT
Ainee Shehzad Salim
Trustee
Farzana Tunio
Trustee
Jehan Ara
Trustee
Jehan Ara has vast experience in Marketing, Communications and interactive New media in Hong Kong, the Far East, the UAE and Pakistan. She is a motivator, an entrepreneur, a mentor, a social activist and a strong propagator of extending the power and use of Information and Communication Technologies beyond pure traditional business, to empower and enable communities.Jehan sits on the Advisory Boards of the Punjab IT Board, the Sindh IT Board, and several universities. She is also a Board Member of the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS) which is a nonprofit research organisation established to promote, assist, support, simulates, undertake and manage policy research and advocacy. Jehan is also a Member of the PM’s Taskforce for IT & Telecom.
Asad Hasan
Treasurer
A professional consultant with extensive industry experience in the areas of capacity building, organizational re-structuring and financial modeling. Has worked overseas in Kuwait, UAE, UK, & USA. In Pakistan has successfully carried out projects for public and private sector organizations including SBP, AGA KHAN AGENCY FOR HABITAT, AKU, AKES, SECP, NBP, SNGPL, Mitsubishi, Hashoo Foundation, Karachi Port, etc.
Seema Jaffer
Trustee
Seema is on the governing Board for APWA RLCC & Vice Chairperson, Pakistan Advertising Association & member of the organising committee for Adasia 2019.
Seema has served on various juries including the Pakistan Advertisers Society, the IVSAA Communication Design Jury, SZABIST Media Studies Jury,Habib University Communication Design Jury, the NEST Jury for Women's Startup Weekend among others.
Seema is strongly committed to women empowerment and is involved in pro bono communication work for a number of organisations including TCF, Special Olympics, APWA RLCC & Karawan e Hayat.
Nadeem Ahmad
Trustee
Shanaz Ramzi
Trustee
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Exhibition Catalogue
Exhibition Catalogues
Exhbition Catalog encapsulates all the details and happenings of Karachi Biennale 2019