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EXHIBITION: SUBVERTING THE GAZE

Farazeh Syed’s recent exhibition takes visual documentation of South Asian women by British colonialists and upends their ways of

01.03.2026 20

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EXHIBITION: THE MELANCHOLY OF DESTRUCTION

Munawar Ali Syed’s latest body of work reflects on our fraught relationship with nature and the uncertain destiny of modern cities

22.02.2026 40

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THE LAST OF THE MOHANNAS

Once a pristine freshwater lake, home to the thriving Mohanna fishing community and their houseboats, Manchhar Lake is now polluted and toxic due to...

15.02.2026 100

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EXHIBITION: FRAGILE LANDSCAPES

Sarah Ahmad’s work engages with the transformation of landscapes, materials, memory and the self

01.02.2026 7

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EXHIBITION: READING BETWEEN THE LINES

Rabeya Jalil’s playful artworks critique the rigid binaries that often dictate taste in the art world

28.12.2025 30

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EXHIBITION: SCRATCHING BENEATH THE SURFACE

Instead of dramatic reinvention, Adeel Uz Zafar’s latest body of work is more interested in holding up a mirror to our expectation

07.12.2025 10

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EXHIBITION: EMOTIONAL TERRAINS

Nazia Ejaz’s latest solo exhibition does not simply revisit her earlier artistic vocabulary — it deepens it

09.11.2025 10

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EXHIBITION: LYARI’S FRIDA KAHLO

The self-portraits that Zarnaab Baloch paints are not an exercise in vanity — they are explorations of pain, endurance and self

02.11.2025 10

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EXHIBITION: PRESENCE AND ERASURE

Drawing on his roots as a cinema hoarding painter, Javaid Mughal brings visibility and dignity to those who labour on the margins

19.10.2025 7

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EXHIBITION: DELUGE DIARIES

A timely exhibition sees artists confronting recurring flooding across Pakistan, not just as natural disasters but as lived crises

05.10.2025 9

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EXHIBITION: ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION

A fascinating exhibition in Karachi had 17 artists engaging in artistic dialogue with the works of older established artists

06.09.2025 10

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EXHIBITION: THE WEIGHT OF BEING

Humour, tenderness and defiant beauty converge at a deeply personal art exhibition in Karachi

05.08.2025 8

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EXHIBITION: THE WEIGHT OF BEING

Humour, tenderness and defiant beauty converge at a deeply personal art exhibition in Karachi

03.08.2025 10

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EXHIBITION: THE ART OF ACCOUNTABILITY

The powerful social commentary that permeates much of Adeela Suleman’s art was once again on display at her latest exhibition,

04.05.2025 10

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EXHIBITION: GHOSTS OF GOA

Jovita Alvares’s artworks excavate and trace the spectral presence of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa and its entangled legacy

30.03.2025 10

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EXHIBITION: MYTH, MEMORY AND LIGHT

Six artists explore themes of loss, transformation and spiritual illumination at a recent exhibition in Karachi

09.03.2025 10

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EXHIBITION: THE CLAY CONTINUUM

Age-old techniques are fused with modern sensibilities to striking effect at an exhibition that pays tribute to the everlasting

12.01.2025 10

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EXHIBITION: THE CLAY CONTINUUM

Age-old techniques are fused with modern sensibilities to striking effect at an exhibition that pays tribute to the everlasting

12.01.2025 3

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EXHIBITION: THE CREASE OF TIME

If the History Would be Folded, Where Would You Put the Crease? from Fatima Zahra Hassan’s World’s End Series II stopped me in my tracks. The...

05.01.2025 9

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FICTION: WOMAN ON THE VERGE

A Woman on a Suitcase By Shazaf Fatima Haider Liberty Publishing ISBN: 978-627-7626-38-9 205pp. Shazaf Fatima Haider’s A Woman on a Suitcase is an...

29.12.2024 6

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