Karachi Trader 2019 - Vasl
Celebrating 25 years of Vasl Artists’ Association
Welcome to August issue !I am pleased to share that this month's issue is dedicated to the Vasl Artists Association. For twenty-five year [...]
Vasl: The Catalyst
The romantic idea of an artist has been of a loner. Detached from family, fellows, friends, contemporaries, and the world at large – with all its [...]
For nearly a century, our collective visual imagination of Mohenjo-daro has been anchored in the formidable architectural remains unveiled by early 20th-century excavations. However, recent breakthroughs under the multi-season Documentation and Conservation Program (2025–2026) have fundamentally shifted our understanding of this World Heritage [...]
It’s not every day that you walk into an art gallery located in the city’s most affluent locality and cultural precinct, and there you witness a sculpture of a donkey; something you least expect art to be. While conversing with the artist and gallery visitors, several referred to the donkey as a horse an [...]
Adeela Suleman: A Force in Art
Contemporary art negotiates the relationship between the physicality of material and the immaterial presence of human memory. In the work of Adeela Suleman, this dialectic becomes a tool for brut [...]
Culinary practices and food depict the culture, traditions, and lifestyle of the people of any region. These practices evolved as every generation added something new to its ancestors' culinary practices and dietary habits. From consuming leaves and hunting animals during ancient times to today’s elaborate cuisines, food has undergone numerous [...]
There is something intriguing about a building that no longer holds the lives it was built to contain. Its walls may remain standing, its windows may still open towards the outside world, yet the people, conversations and memories that once gave it meaning have disappeared. What remains is an architecture of absence. Nausheen Saeed’s Elsewhere [...]
How does one review the retrospective of an artist whose presence extends so far beyond the works hanging on the walls? There are paintings and photographs, fragments of paper, political histories and personal archives; there is the artist, the teacher, the activist, the daughter, and somewhere between all of them, Salima Hashmi. To encounter [...]
Syed Sadequain at Frieze Masters 2026: A Celebration of Artistic Brilliance
Grosvenor Gallery returns to Frieze Masters this October with a special Spotlight presentation dedicated to Syed Sadequain, one of South Asia [...]
Adeela Suleman’s My Kingdom for a Horse! Opens at Canvas Gallery
Adeela Suleman’s solo exhibition, My Kingdom for a Horse!, opens at Canvas Gallery, Karachi, on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, from 4pm to 7pm. The ex [...]
Adeela Suleman Presents The Rising Crescendo of the Band Baja
Grosvenor Gallery, in collaboration with Canvas Gallery, Karachi, will present The Rising Crescendo of the Band Baja, a new body of work by Pakis [...]
Raising Flags Across Cēsis, Ladakh and Vienna
This summer, raising flags, a project by museum in progress, travelled across three very different settings: the Cēsis Art Festival in Latvia, Ladakh [...]