KALĀ x UVAP
KALĀ COMMUNE, the South Asian Residency, in collaboration with the University of Visual and Performing Arts (UVPA) Colombo, celebrates the institution’s 75th anniversary. Aligned with KALĀ’s goal of engaging with the South Asian arts community and fostering the local arts ecosystem, KALĀ COMMUNE, a South Asian residency program inviting regional practitioners to Sri Lanka will also take place at the University of Visual and Performing Arts. The residency will conclude with the first open studio at the university alongside the KALĀ COMMUNE Open Studio Exhibition. The Open Studio Exhibition will feature Artists-in-Residence; Ahmed Rasel (Bangladesh), Chandra Bhattacharjee (India), Pankaj Panwar (India), Ahmed Javed (Pakistan), Seema Sharma Shah (Nepal), Rinoshan Susiman (Sri Lanka) and Hema Shironi (Sri Lanka).
Seven artists from across the region collaborate with Sri Lanka’s oldest art institution during this residency. Participants will engage in open studios, workshops, and projects, fostering cultural immersion and the exchange of artistic practices.
Pivot Glide Echo
PIVOT GLIDE ECHO continues from its first iteration, evolving into an aspiration to trace different strands in artistic imagination that shape Sri Lankan art history. In 2024, it unfolded as an intergenerational dialogue across eight decades with Lionel Wendt serving as a catalyst. Guided by a similar ethos, this edition expands on an engagement with experimental image-making, while situating the history of visual art in the cultural and socio-political moment of its creation. With the University of Visual and Performing Arts (UVPA), Colombo at its epicenter, the exhibition examines the practice of its luminaries, featuring artworks by Ena de Silva, H.A. Karunaratne, David Paynter, Pala Pothupitiya, Tissa Ranasinghe, Jagath Ravindra, Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan, Chandraguptha Thenuwara, Tilak Samarawickrema, Priyantha Udagedara, Dominic Sansoni, Laki Senanayake, and Jagath Weerasinghe.
The second edition of PIVOT GLIDE ECHO is supported by The Rukmini Tissanayagam Trust.
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