KBT FOUNDERS
The Karachi Biennale Trust (KBT) was founded, in 2016, by a group of visual art professionals and educators as a dynamic platform to promote creativity, innovation and criticality in the visual arts.
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
She has three books to her credit . Her most recent publication is A Beautiful Despair - The Art and Life Of Meher Afroz . Niilofur co- founded NuktaArt, Pakistan’s Contemporary Art Magazine and was its founding editor for 10 years, while it was in print. Her work has been printed in leading Pakistani and South Asian publications. She is regularly invited to speak at conferences in countries across the world.
Niilofur has served two terms as Vice President on the Board of the International Art Critics Association and is the former Chair of the Election and Membership Committee. She is currently the chair of the Censorship and Freedom of Expression Committee, a member of the FFC, and on the Jury of the Aica Young Critic Award.
She was invited to be on the jury of the Shanghai-based, International Public Art Prize.
Niilofur is one of the Founder of the Karachi Biennale Trust’s and it’s Managing Trustee since 2016. Currently, Niilofur Farrukh is the CEO of the Karachi Biennale.
Atteqa Malik
Trustee, Vice Chairman, Treasurer, Global Outreach Chair
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.
Bushra Hussain
General Secretary
Amin Gulgee
Curator KB17 and Trustee KBT
Dr. Asma Ibrahim
Trustee
Farzana Tunio
Trustee
Masuma Halai Khwaja
Trustee
Ainee Shehzad Salim
Trustee
Riffat Alvi
Trustee