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Beyond the Walls: How Galleries Develop Artistic Careers
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Crafting Narratives and Community in South Asia | Hema Shironi and Munem Wasif in Conversation
Shared Visions : How Institutions and Artists Work Together
Artist Lecture Chandraguptha Thenuwara
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‘Shared Ground: South Asia in Conversation’ unfolds as a meeting of practices that approach South Asia not as a fixed idea, but as lived, material, and relational. Bringing together painting, drawing, textile, and installation, the exhibition traces how matter carries memory—of labour, belief, rupture, care, and repair.
Presented by TAKE on Art magazine in collaboration with KALĀ South Asia, the exhibition places Colombo within an active regional circuit shaped by ongoing acts of making. Rather than offering resolution, Shared Ground invites attention and proximity—an ongoing conversation grounded in shared presence.
📍 Udayshanth and Angelika Fernando Foundation, Level 3, 138 Galle Road, Colombo 3
🗓 18 January – 15 February
⏰10 AM – 6 PM
Participating artists:
@ahmedrasel_photo — Ahmed Rasel (Bangladesh)
@island.cultures — Eagan Badeeu (Maldives)
@farhat3893242 — Farhat Ali (Pakistan)
@ifiri — Firi Rahman (Sri Lanka)
@gopatrivedi — Gopa Trivedi (India)
@hamra_abbas — Khadim Ali Vibha
@kishwarkiani — Kishwar Kiani (Pakistan)
@h11235 — Kiran Maharjan (Nepal)
@namgayrockets — Phurba Namgay (Bhutan)
@tashi313 — Tashi Lama (Nepal)
@vibhagalhotra — Vibha Galhotra (India)
@mariegnanaraj — Marie Gnanaraja (Sri Lanka)
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@mayankmansinghkaul @pradeepthalawatta @puja_vaish @pujangandhi72 @richikbhatia
We are pleased to announce that Cité Internationales des Arts, in collaboration with Institut Français, has selected Lojithan Ram for the artist-in-residence program to research and develop a creative project in Paris 🇫🇷 for a period of three months.
The Cité internationale des arts, the world’s largest arts residence, has been bringing together more than 300 artists of all origins and generations in the heart of Paris since 1965, giving them the opportunity to carry out a creative or research project in all disciplines.
This residency is supported by the collaborative efforts of KALĀ South Asia, French Embassy in Sri Lanka and the Maldives (@franceincolombo) and l’Institut Français (@if_officiel)
Congratulations Lojithan!
KALĀ | TAKE on ART
Shared Ground : South Asia in Conversation
Open daily from 10AM-6PM
This exhibition brings together practices that speak across the differences of memory, place, and lived experience, finding shared ground without flattening complexity.
We invite you to enter, wander, and listen closely.
@takeonart
@saskiafernandogallery
@authenticitiessrilanka
@dreamteamstudio_events
@barefootgallery
@dailymirrorlk
@daily_ft
@lankadeepa
@sundaytimes
@hi_online_lk
@ilotcolombo
@hnbsrilanka
@peterharrisdoornberg1712
@latitude_28
@modiglianigallery
@sisiliprojectsconsortium
@ifilm_srilanka
@bhavz15
@dilpreet_bhullar_026
@dutt.tanya
@ahmedrasel_photo
@island.cultures
@farhat3893242
@ifiri
@gopatrivedi
@hamra_abbas
@rennaisancegirl
@anne_indira
@artistkailash
@khadim96
@h11235
@kishwarkiani
@mariegnanaraj
@mayankmansinghkaul
@namgayrockets
@pradeepthalawatta
@puja_vaish
@pujangandhi72
@richikbhatia
@tashi313
@vibhagalhotra
Opening Tomorrow.
Sign up on Link in bio. Limited seats left for opening weekend events.
@takeonart
@saskiafernandogallery
@authenticitiessrilanka
@dreamteamstudio_events
@barefootgallery
@dailymirrorlk
@daily_ft
@lankadeepa
@sundaytimes
@hi_online_lk
@ilotcolombo
@hnbsrilanka
@peterharrisdoornberg1712
@latitude_28
@modiglianigallery
@sisiliprojectsconsortium
@ifilm_srilanka
@bhavz15
@dilpreet_bhullar_026
@dutt.tanya
@ahmedrasel_photo
@island.cultures
@farhat3893242
@ifiri
@gopatrivedi
@hamra_abbas
@rennaisancegirl
@anne_indira
@artistkailash
@khadim96
@h11235
@kishwarkiani
@mariegnanaraj
@mayankmansinghkaul
@namgayrockets
@pradeepthalawatta
@puja_vaish
@pujangandhi72
@richikbhatia
@tashi313
@vibhagalhotra
KALĀ | TAKE on Art 2026
PANEL 2 | CARRIERS OF CREATIVE FORCE
18 January 2026 | 3.30 PM
What gives material its power to endure, travel, and transform?
This panel brings together perspectives from textiles, collecting, and public art to explore how materiality, memory, and place shape contemporary creative force in South Asia and its diasporas.
Carriers of Creative Force reflects on objects as vessels — holding histories, identities, and transnational exchanges — and examines how creativity moves between makers, collectors, communities, and public space to activate shared cultural meaning.
Panelists: Vibha Galhotra (@vibhagalhotra), Mayank Mansingh Kaul (@mayankmansinghkaul), Kailash K Shrestha (@artistkailash), Indira Kithsiri (@anne_indira), Firi Rahman (@ifiri)
Moderated by Pujan Gandhi (@pujangandhi72)
Registrations open
(Link in bio)
@takeonart
@saskiafernandogallery
@authenticitiessrilanka
@dreamteamstudio_events
@barefootgallery
@dailymirrorlk
@daily_ft
@lankadeepa
@sundaytimes
@hi_online_lk
@ilotcolombo
@hnbsrilanka
@peterharrisdoornberg1712
@latitude_28
@modiglianigallery
@sisiliprojectsconsortium
@ifilm_srilanka
@bhavz15
@dilpreet_bhullar_026
@dutt.tanya
@ahmedrasel_photo
@island.cultures
@farhat3893242
@ifiri
@gopatrivedi
@hamra_abbas
@rennaisancegirl
@anne_indira
@artistkailash
@khadim96
@h11235
@kishwarkiani
@mariegnanaraj
@mayankmansinghkaul
@namgayrockets
@pradeepthalawatta
@puja_vaish
@pujangandhi72
@richikbhatia
@tashi313
@vibhagalhotra
