KALĀ + | Screenings
April 4, 2024 In keeping with the platform’s intention to build collaborations with practitioners, representatives and institutions across the island and the South Asian region, The series KALĀ+ featured talks, workshops and screenings both at the Lionel Wendt Art Centre and with leading representatives, institutions and individuals from the Sri Lankan art ecosystem. These events […]
KALĀ + | Youth Program
April 4, 2024 In keeping with the platform’s intention to build collaborations with practitioners, representatives and institutions across the island and the South Asian region, The series KALĀ+ featured talks, workshops and screenings both at the Lionel Wendt Art Centre and with leading representatives, institutions and individuals from the Sri Lankan art ecosystem. These events […]
KALA+ | Artist Led Workshops
April 4, 2024 In keeping with the platform’s intention to build collaborations with practitioners, representatives and institutions across the island and the South Asian region, KALĀ+ will feature talks, workshops and screenings both at the Lionel Wendt Art Centre and with leading representatives, institutions and individuals from the Sri Lankan art ecosystem. These events have […]
KALĀ | Artist Tables
April 4, 2024 In keeping with the platform’s intention to build collaborations with practitioners, representatives and institutions across the island and the South Asian region, The series KALĀ+ featured talks, workshops and screenings both at the Lionel Wendt Art Centre and with leading representatives, institutions and individuals from the Sri Lankan art ecosystem. These events […]
ArtReview | A History of Experimental Photography in Sri Lanka
April 3, 2024 Pivot Glide Echo at Lionel Wendt Art Centre, Colombo unravels an open and multiethnic vision of the island’s identity Artist, critic, curator, collector, pianist and patron Lionel Wendt pioneered experimental photography in early-twentieth-century Sri Lanka, founding the island’s modernist art movement, the 43 Group, a year before his death in 1944. Wendt […]
STIRworld | KALĀ: ‘Pivot, Glide, and Echo’ with Lionel Wendt and his legacy
February 29, 2024 Curated by Maryam Begum, ‘KALA’ in Colombo celebrates the art from the Sri Lankan region and wider South Asia aiming to foster a more inclusive art community. The landscape of arts and culture in Sri Lanka is facing a boost after three years of difficulties caused by the pandemic and a political […]
The Sunday Times | Image making re-imagined, interpreted and challenged
February 4, 2024 Stepping into Pivot Glide Echo – the inaugural exhibition of KALA – the new platform for showcasing South Asian modern and contemporary art both from the local and diasporic perspectives you are transported into a world of image-making. Image making re-imagined, interpreted, and challenged. KALA is now on at the Lionel Wendt […]
FT Daily | ‘Pivot Glide Echo’; a display of South Asian ‘KALA’ at Lionel Wendt
February 2, 2024 Speaking on the curatorial process of the exhibition, Begum explained, “Since we are working with the Lionel Wendt Art Centre and his work as the catalyst, we started with the archive of his work which was made accessible to us through the Wendt Trust. Going through it, we focused on whatever we […]
Explore Sri Lanka | KALĀ: Celebrating Art Meaningfully
February 1, 2024 It is a much-needed art renaissance for our times. And the month-long line-up of programs isn’t disappointing. KALĀ embarks on its inaugural journey as an ambitious collaborative project with the Lionel Wendt Art Center. A project with a long-term vision, KALĀ is the newest educational and artistic platform for showcasing modern and […]
KALĀ x ASAP: Word and Image – Contemporary Art Practices and the Written Word
February 12, 2024 Word and Image: Contemporary Art Practices and the Written Word, conducted by artists Fazal Rizvi and Anshika Varma, assisted artists in the South Asian region to establsih an understanding on the relationship between text and image, based on experiences from their own practice. who want to harness the power of language in […]