The LBF Virtual Museum is a platform that investigates the cultural heritage of Pakistan and the legacies of creative practice that have emerged from it, with ‘place’ being a significant contextual frame. The museum will produce knowledge that will be rooted in the local domain and function as an online repository of data and research generated by itself and the project at large.
The Lahore Biennale Foundation is seeking young, local researchers/artists/historians to collect research based photo essays for the component ‘Legacy of Storytelling and Contemporary Literature in Pakistan and the Diaspora’ of the LBF Virtual Museum. The LBF Virtual Museum will have multiple components. This particular segment will reflect on the legacy and evolution of storytelling in Pakistan, and all its varying forms. The oral tradition of Dastangoi, the role of literature in imaging the identity of the nation, the development of postcolonial literature, and the cultural politics of language and its effect on literature. This project will trace the history of Pakistani literature, its aesthetics, and symbolic repertoires with a focus on the cultural milieus that produced these literary texts. . ... More
The Lahore Biennale Foundation and Sarmad Sultan Khoosat are calling all film buffs, cinephiles, fans and lovers of Pakistani cinema to share their favourite frames from Pakistani films and what those scenes mean to them. Pakistani cinema has been through multiple evolutions and has millions of fans that have journeyed with it through its many phases. It has had an undeniable impact on those who grew up watching it, and most everyone has different memories associated with it. By reflecting on local cinema and the memories associated with it, cinema aficionados should select three frames from a Pakistani film and send in a meaningful word associated with each frame that conveys their emotions about their chosen frames. The chosen word/s ... More
Memory - Legacy - Migration The Lahore Biennale Foundation (LBF) in collaboration with the British Council presented a three, day site specific art exhibition featuring work by artist Farida Batool and curated by Tanvir Hasan. This exhibition is situated in one of the city’s historic buildings—the Dyal Singh Mansions, on Mall Road — a building that has stood silently and watched the city and its people change.
The Lahore Biennale Foundation and Sarmad Sultan Khoosat are seeking young Pakistani filmmakers to research and reinterpret the soundscapes and imagery of Pakistani Cinema, as part of the cinema component of the Foundation’s Virtual Museum Project. This component will investigate the evolution of Pakistani cinema: the development of its aesthetics and music, the stories it tells and those that it doesn’t, its relationship with the sociopolitical landscape of the country, as well the public’s perception and influence on films. Selected filmmakers shall be given certain themes/ keywords to guide their exploration and research through the 7 and a half decades of Pakistani cinema. The final montage resulting from this research shall be uploaded to the LBF Virtual Museum.
The LBF Virtual Museum is a platform that investigates the cultural heritage of Pakistan and the legacies of creative practice that have emerged from it, with ‘place’ being a significant contextual frame. The museum will produce knowledge that will be rooted in the local domain and function as an online repository of data and research generated by itself and the project at large.
Sangat Lahore is paying tribute to the extraordinary women and men by putting up distinctive blue enamel plaques in their memory, at places where they lived or worked.
The Youth Forum initiative of the Lahore Biennale Foundation (LBF) actively engages with younger audiences that include in-school and out-of-school children, through public and private sector schools from across Lahore. The Youth Forum is a free educational resource and community-building program that aims for inclusion beyond socio-economic boundaries. LBF works with different institutional partners. The objectives of Youth Forum are to encourage creativity and develop critical thinking skills, as students experience art beyond their screens and textbooks. Students interact with maps, architecture, and exhibition design, and develop experiential and imaginative learning.
The LBF Research Fellowship - 2015 was awarded to the UAE-based writer and researcher Saira Ansari to document the archives of the pioneering modernist artist, Zubeida Agha (1922-1997). The Fellowship was developed in collaboration with Asia Art Archive based in Hong Kong, and the archive is available on the AAA platform here.
The 200 page Guidebook provides extensive information on the sites, artists, and themes of the Lahore Biennale 02: between the sun and the moon. Works exploring human entanglement with nature revisit traditional understandings of self and their cosmological underpinnings. The latter derives, in part, from astronomy, a discipline that made important strides amidst cultural and intellectual exchange between South and West Asia. For centuries, inhabitants of these regions oriented themselves with reference to the sun, the moon, the constellations. between the sun and the moon 12 How might we reflect on our place within the cosmos today, at this conjuncture ... More
The Afforestation Lahore Group is designed to encourage a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach amongst the fields of art and philanthropy in Pakistan which focuses on supporting research and development – by building relationships with private, government, institutional and corporate partners, both at domestic and international levels. Climate change presents a tangible threat and given its severity it is imperative to have all stakeholders united on one single platform. It is hoped that with this initiative ... More
The Lahore Biennale Foundation and Dr. Razia Iram Sadik are seeking young, local artists to feature in their project investigating ‘Post Modern and Contemporary Movements in Visual Arts and Other Creative Forms’. This project will explore how art is not only made in the city but also with the city, by shadowing the creative processes of the selected local artists across Lahore. Through this documentary approach the project will trace artists’ relationship with their surroundings–materials available and used, locations frequented, sites of inspiration and research, and their thinking process as they navigate these elements. The outcome of documenting artists at ... More
A discussion with Zoya Siddiqui and Farwa Hassan. At the first ever artSPEAK event, emerging artists Zoya Siddiqui and Farwa Hassan were invited to share their experience as the recipients of the Theertha Performance Platform Award, and to expand upon how their practice related to performance art. The talk took place at Gallery 39K on June 8, 2015. Zoya Siddiqui, a visual artist, is a recent Beaconhouse National University graduate based in Lahore. Farwa Hassan graduated from the Beaconhouse National University in 2014 and has showcased her works in Lahore and Islamabad. Zoya Siddiqui, a visual artist, is a recent Beaconhouse National University ... More
Announced in Summer 2018, the LBF Research Grant was intended for an individual or collective whose research focuses on movements and shifts in modern and contemporary art practice in Pakistan or its diaspora.
The 170 page Guidebook provides extensive information on the sites, artists, and themes of the Lahore Biennale 01. In order to address the dynamics of “public engagement” in the arts, LB01 will test the parameters of “art” and “public,” and contextualize this relation within the specificities of Lahore and in a global context. For this purpose, the LB01 will develop art in public spaces and public programs along with opportunities for critical thinking and practice in its Academic Forum. The frameworks of engagement will be varied; and will include tapping into Lahore’s public consciousness or collective memory, conversing with existing ... More
The 2018 Award recognizes the life and work of Pakistan’s eminent artist and social activist Lala Rukh (1948-2017)