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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

SUNDAY, OCT 27th

10:00am – 07:00pm (weekend timings)

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues

MONDAY, OCT 28th

10:00am- 6:00pm

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues

10:30am- 12:30pm

School Guided Tour

Registrations required

Sambara Art Gallery & Frere Hall

10:30am- 5:30pm

Performance

Interactive Performative work by Lundahl & Seitl

(Timing details available after 15th October on website)

NED University (city campus)

03:30pm onwards

Activation

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

TUESDAY, OCT 29th

10:00am- 06:00pm

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues

10:30am- 12:30pm

School guided tour

Registrations required

Sambara Art Gallery & Frere Hall

10:30am- 05:30pm

Performance

Interactive Performative work by Lundahl & Seitl

  • Slot 1: 12pm onwards
  • Slot 2: 1pm onwards
  • Slot 3: 4pm onwards

NED University (city campus)

10:30am- 12:00pm

Performance

Performance by Enora Lalet and  Monika Emmanuelle Kazi.*

*Details available after 18th October on website

Sambara Art Gallery

06:00pm

Seminar

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)

WEDNESDAY, OCT 30th

10:00am- 06:00pm

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues

10:30am- 12:30pm

School guided tour

Registrations required

Sambara Art Gallery & Frere Hall

10:30am- 05:30pm

Performance

Interactive Performative work by Lundahl & Seitl

  • Slot 1: 12pm onwards
  • Slot 2: 1pm onwards
  • Slot 3: 4pm onwards

NED University (city campus)

THURSDAY, OCT 31st

10:00am- 06:00pm

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues

10:30am- 12:30pm

School guided tour

Registrations required

Sambara Art Gallery & Frere Hall

FRIDAY, NOV 1st

10:00am- 07:00pm (weekend timings)

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues

10:30am- 12:30pm

School guided tour

Registrations required

Sambara Art Gallery & Frere Hall

03:00pm onwards

Activation

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

SATURDAY, NOV 2nd

10:00am- 07:00pm (weekend timings)

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues

04:00pm- 06:00pm

Interactive session at ‘The Table’

Zine Workshop: Food and Memory in Karachi
Conducted by Shabbir Mohammed and Luluwa Lokhandwala
Frere Hall – near the library

Discursive weekend
Day One

04:00pm – 05:00pm

Talk

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

06:00pm – 07:30pm

Performance

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

07:30pm

Refreshments

*Registration preferred (email: kb24invites@gmail.com)

SUNDAY, NOV 3rd

10:00am- 07:00pm (weekend timings)

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues

11:00am- 12:00pm

Guided tour by art critic and author Rumana Hussain

Bagh Ibne Qasim

04:00pm- 07:00pm

Interactive session at ‘The Table’

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

Discursive weekend
Day Two

11:00am – 12:30pm

Talk

 ‘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

12:30pm – 01:30pm

Refreshments and Gallery Tour

02:00pm – 03:30pm

Presentations

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

03:30pm – 05:00pm

Workshop

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

**Registration preferred (email: kb24invites@gmail.com)

MONDAY, NOV 4th

10:00am- 06:00pm

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues

10:30am- 12:30pm

School guided tour

Registrations required

Sambara Art Gallery & Bagh Ibne Qasim

TUESDAY, NOV 5th

10:00am- 06:00pm

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues

10:30am- 12:30pm

School guided tour

Registrations required

Sambara Art Gallery & Bagh Ibne Qasim

WEDNESDAY, NOV 6th

10:00am- 06:00pm

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues

10:30am- 12:30pm

School guided tour

Registrations required

Sambara Art Gallery & Bagh Ibne Qasim

03:00pm- 04:30pm

Discursive Session

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

THURSDAY, NOV 7th

10:00am- 06:00pm

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues

10:30am- 12:30pm

School guided tour

Registrations required

Sambara Art Gallery & Bagh Ibne Qasim

FRIDAY, NOV 8th

10:00am- 07:00pm (weekend timings)

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues

10:30am- 12:30pm

School guided tour

Registrations required

Sambara Art Gallery & Bagh Ibne Qasim

09:30am- 04:30pm

Workshop

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.*

  • You will learn tools which can help you to manage your emotions from Dr. Ange Weinrabe in person from Sydney, Australia and her local team of workshop mentors
  • You will hear a talk from Dr Tom Cochrane. Tom’s main areas of expertise are the philosophy of mind (particularly emotions) and philosophy of art/aesthetics (particularly music)
  • You will hear about support options from local experts like Faris Mughal, a clinical psychologist in Karachi
  • You will connect with like minded young adults and mentors involved in creative practises.
  • You will be guided by established artists to make a collaborative art piece for the community

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

03:00pm- 05:00pm

Interactive session at ‘The Table’

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

SATURDAY, NOV 9th

10:00am- 07:00pm (weekend timings)

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues

11:00am- 12:00pm

Guided tour by art critic Nimra Khan

Frere Hall

03:00pm onwards

Activation

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

SUNDAY, NOV 10th

10:00am- 07:00pm (weekend timings)

Exhibitions & events open to the public

Five Venues