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 [...]
At a time when contemporary art can often feel hesitant to take a clear political position, Decolonial Dots, curated by Ammar Aziz at ZQ Gallery, deliberately does the opposite. The exhibition emerges from a desire to create a space rooted openly in anti-colonial and anti-imperialist thought, at a time when imperial aggression, occupation, dis [...]
There is perhaps no subject in art more familiar than the human figure, and yet it continues to resist exhaustion. Simone de Beauvoir, in her groundbreaking work ‘The Second Sex ’, wrote that the body is the instrument of our hold on the world. This is why the world appears different to us depending on how it is grasped by every individual and [...]
A Memory Catcher Visited My Town is a solo exhibition by artist Zahabia Khozema that took place at Vasl Gallery. The show grows out of the memories of a boy who grew up in an industrial town in central Punjab, Pakistan. As the town slowly disappears under the weight of capitalist expansion, economic hardship and climate change, Khozema's paint [...]
Between Distance and Reinvention: Gaby Sahhar on Art, Identity and Belonging
French-Palestinian artist Gaby Sahhar moves between painting, film and installation, using each medium to explore questions of migration, queerne [...]
Art & Bali set to take place in September
Art & Bali returns for its second edition this September, bringing together an expansive mix of galleries, museums, artist-led spaces, collec [...]
Samira Abbassy: Between Loss and Transformation
In Of Loss and Redemption, Samira Abbassy turns inward, using the body as a terrain through which to examine identity, memory, grief and transfor [...]
A Tribute to Akram Spaul
On 13 June, a panel discussion at the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, brought together artists, friends, former teachers, and colleagues [...]