Exhibitions & events are open to the public from Oct 27th to Nov 10th
Weekdays: 10:00 am to 06:00 pm
Weekends: 10:00 am to 07:00 pm
For queries, please contact info@karachibiennale.org.pk
Weekdays: 10:00 am to 06:00 pm
Weekends: 10:00 am to 07:00 pm
For queries, please contact info@karachibiennale.org.pk
Five Venues
Five Venues
Registrations required
Sambara Art Gallery & Frere Hall
Interactive Performative work by Lundahl & Seitl
(Timing details available after 15th October on website)
NED University (city campus)
PAWPE pop-up reading room
Attiya Dawood, Qamar Bana and Tapu Javeri will speak on their exciting publications
*Details available from 18th October onwards on website
Bagh Ibne Qasim
Five Venues
Registrations required
Sambara Art Gallery & Frere Hall
Interactive Performative work by Lundahl & Seitl
NED University (city campus)
Performance by Enora Lalet and Monika Emmanuelle Kazi.*
*Details available after 18th October on website
Sambara Art Gallery
Wisdom Conversations – a hybrid seminar on water.*
In collaboration with London Borough of Richmond UK and São Paulo.
A collaborative event between the Karachi Biennale Trust, Richmond Arts and Ideas Festival and Rafael Vilela supporting the Guarani YVYRUPA Commission, Brazil, initiating a year-long programme, Imagining the Forest: Cross-Cultural Conversations.
This conversation is inspired by
Riverine Resilience
Artwork Curated by Waheeda Baloch for KB24
Discussion moderated by Nusrat Khawaja
This is a hybrid event with onsite and online participants
Please email globaloutreach@karachibiennale.org.pk to register for the onsite event in Karachi at NED city campus and online access on zoom.
Taking rivers as the source of life and livelihoods, this hybrid webinar brings artists and experts connected with three major rivers – the Tiete in Brazil, the Indus in Pakistan and the Thames in UK – on a conversational platform to exchange knowledge and experience in a modern setting with a diverse audience of students, thinkers and professionals .
The webinar is being hosted by the Karachi Biennale 2024, which is themed around the idea of food security under the title RIZQ/RISK. Water, and its connection with the complexities of food production and distribution, is specifically highlighted through four major exhibits taking place at the site of the webinar by the following artists:
Anna Konik
Lundahl and Seitl
Qadir Jhatial
Sadqain Riaz
Supported by the British Council
NED University (City Campus)
Five Venues
Registrations required
Sambara Art Gallery & Frere Hall
Interactive Performative work by Lundahl & Seitl
NED University (city campus)
Five Venues
Registrations required
Sambara Art Gallery & Frere Hall
Five Venues
Registrations required
Sambara Art Gallery & Frere Hall
PAWPE pop-up reading roo. Supported by The Little Book Company
Mehvash Amin and Muneeza Shamsie will speak on their exciting publications
*Details of participants available on website after 18th October.
Bagh Ibne Qasim, Clifton
Five Venues
Zine Workshop: Food and Memory in Karachi
Conducted by Shabbir Mohammed and Luluwa Lokhandwala
Frere Hall – near the library
The Image Starved: the aesthetical and ethical challenges posed by the 1943 Bengal Famine the Bengal Famine has been termed by contemporary historians a ‘forgotten Holocaust’. The talk will underline how artists and filmmakers represent the politics of food and its impact on large populations during colonization.
Speaker: Emilia Terracciano, Professor,University of Manchester.
Sambara Art Gallery Auditorium
Multi-lingual Mushaira on the KB24 theme Rizq l Risk
(Poetry in Balochi, Brushiski, English, Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi and Urdu accompanied with translation).
Participating poets: Afzal Ahmed Syed, Ali Jan, Attiya Dawood, Azra Abbas, Imran Mushtar Nafees, Injila Hamesh, Makham Khatak, Sadia Baloch, Sadiq Murri, Sidra Sahar Imran, Samita Ahmed, Dr Tanvir Anjum, Tauqir Chughtai and Wajih Warsi.
Sambara Art Gallery Auditorium
Five Venues
Bagh Ibne Qasim
Mahigeeroan ka Aangan
This is a baithak and a musical event organized and curated by Fatima Majeed, inviting musicians, performers, and people from the fisher folk community in Ibrahim Hyderi.
Frere Hall – near the library
‘Food for Thought, Thought for Change’: Rasheed Araeen’s Practice of Transformation. This talk considers the vital role that food has played in Araeen’s seventy year-long art practice.
Speaker: Dr Kylie Gilchrist, writer, researcher, and Visiting Lecturer in Art History at the faculty of Arts and Science, Aga Khan University.
Sambara Art Gallery Auditorium
Presentations on Gender, History, Preservation that underpin a digital handbook compiled by four passionate researchers – Hira Azmat and Mahnoor Jalal in Lahore, and Tazeen Hussain and Veera Rustomji in Karachi – as part of the Editing Women in the Archives project.
Sambara Art Gallery Auditorium
Workshop on Archiving led by Dr Madeline Clements.*
This will provide an opportunity to students, researchers, media, creative practitioners, and educators – to join in the conversation, share their findings and reflections, and think creatively about the meaning and importance of archiving in our culture today.
*The research on endangered archives is a PAWPE (Pakistan Association of Women Publishers and Editors) project in partnership with Aleph Review, Karachi Biennale Trust, and Teesside University. The project is generously funded by Teesside University UK
Sambara Art Gallery Auditorium
Five Venues
Registrations required
Sambara Art Gallery & Bagh Ibne Qasim
Five Venues
Registrations required
Sambara Art Gallery & Bagh Ibne Qasim
Five Venues
Registrations required
Sambara Art Gallery & Bagh Ibne Qasim
Reading Text Critically: A discourse session with art critic Amra Ali*
The session will be an engaging and informal dialogue, during which the participants are encouraged to voice their views and concerns regarding the reading and writing of art in the context of Pakistan. Amra Ali will navigate the session by reading short texts by her, followed by a discussion on different approaches to art writing.
*Limited seats; registration preferred (email: kb24invites@gmail.com)
Bagh Ibne Qasim
Five Venues
Registrations required
Sambara Art Gallery & Bagh Ibne Qasim
Five Venues
Registrations required
Sambara Art Gallery & Bagh Ibne Qasim
Special two-day workshop – 8th and 9th November
GEMAH Art and Wellness workshop Lead coach Dr. Ange Weinrabe from GEM Sydney along with other local guests and artists will conduct the workshop.*
Participants need to commit to both days of the workshop .
Register here for a chance to change your life
GEMAH-KB – GEM Connect
Register here
(Contact globaloutreach@karachibiennale.org.pk for more information)
*Registrations for young creatives between the ages of 18 and 25, will open on 15th October
NJV School, M. A Jinnah
Khanay Mei Kya Hai
Fatima and Ahmer will share their experiences of food tours of the mangroves, that they started two years ago to bring attention to the Indus delta, the seascape & changes that are taking place there.
Frere Hall – near the library
Five Venues
Frere Hall
PAWPE pop-up reading room
An evening with young poets
**In collaboration with ink’d & The Crows
*Details available from 18th October onwards on website
Bagh Ibne Qasim
Five Venues