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 [...]
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 [...]
Beyond the Veil of Grief is a small, thoughtful exhibition, part of Vasl Artists' Association's 25th anniversary programming. Four artists — Babar Sheikh, Gulsoom Musa, Manizhe Ali, and Moona Fazal — work across film, video, and painting, joined by the shared theme of mourning. The show describes grief as a threshold, ritual as a path to renew [...]
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 [...]
Hasnain Ali Noonari Begins His Six-Month Residency at Vasl
Karachi-based artist Hasnain Ali Noonari has just started a six-month residency at Vasl Artists' Association, and right now, he is using it to sl [...]