Art Mill Museum Presents MANZAR: Art and Architecture from Pakistan 1940s to Today

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The future Art Mill Museum is organising a major exhibition on art and architecture from Pakistan from the 1940s to the present day. Originated in Arabic, the word 'Manzar' (منظر) in Urdu can be translated to mean a scene, a view, a landscape or a perspective, highlighting the extraordinary vitality of the diverse art scenes in Pakistan and its diasporas.

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Exhibition Organised By

A selection of approximately 200 paintings, drawings, photographs, videos, sculptures, installations, tapestries and miniatures present multifaceted modernities and contemporary practices. Tracing divergent narratives, perspectives, histories and presents, this multidisciplinary exhibition focuses on the deep engagement of artists and architects in continuity and discontinuity, and in the transference of knowledge, resilience and continued ecological concerns.

Spanning over eight decades, this groundbreaking exhibition traces how artists and architects have forged diverse personal and political languages, in dialogue or disjunction with regional styles and international art and world histories. The interconnections with scenes, individuals and communities in the subcontinent and on a global scale are testament to the strength of art withstanding imposed and desired divisions or movements. The land that is geographically defined as present-day Pakistan is an ancient one, even while the country is young.

New commissioned artworks, performances and talks are part of a vibrant public programme.

Selected Images

Artists and Architects

Hamra ABBAS
Zainul ABEDIN
Bani ABIDI
Meher AFROZ
Zubeida AGHA
Mohammed Abdul AHED
Anna Molka AHMED
Roohi AHMED
Madiha AIJAZ
Zahoor ul AKHLAQ
David ALESWORTH
Habib Fida ALI
Khadim ALI
Shakir ALI
Rasheed ARAEEN
Samya ARIF

Sophia BALAGAMWALA
Murtaja BASEER
Farida BATOOL
Huma BHABHA
Noorjehan BILGRAMI
Ustad Allah BAKHSH

Henri CARTIER-BRESSON
Yaminay CHAUDHRI
Ruby CHISHTI
Abdur Rahman CHUGHTAI

Nayyar Ali DADA
Iftikhar DADI and Elizabeth DADI
Colin DAVID
Constantinos A. DOXIADIS

Michel ECOCHARD

Iqbal GEOFFREY
Amin GULGEE
Ismail GULGEE

Arif HASAN
Salima HASHMI
Lucien HERVÉ
Aisha Abid HUSSAIN
M. F. HUSAIN

Ali IMAM
Muzharul ISLAM

Shalalae JAMIL
Ayesha JATOI
Ayaz JOKHIO
Mahbub JOKHIO

Louis KAHN
Aaejay KARDAR
Durriya KAZI
Ali KAZIM
Aisha KHALID
Naiza KHAN
Saba KHAN

KARACHI LAJAMIA (Shahana Rajani & Zahra Malkani)
Yasmeen LARI / Heritage Foundation of Pakistan
Mariah LOOKMAN

Arif MAHMOOD
Basir MAHMOOD
Marvi MAHZAR
Imran MIR

Medhi Ali MIRZA
Quddus MIRZA
Kamil Khan MUMTAZ
Murad Khan MUMTAZ
Asma MUNDRAWALA
Huma MULJI

Richard NEUTRA
Seema NUSRAT

Ahmed PARVEZ

Tazeen QAYYUM
Ayessha QURAISHI
Imran QURESHI

Rashid RANA
Fazal RIZVI
Lala RUKH

SADEQUAIN
Anwar SAEED
Shahid SAJJAD
Sadia SALIM
Seher SHAH
Saira SHEIKH
Anwar Jalal SHEMZA
Shahzia SIKANDER
F. N. SOUZA
Edward Durell STONE
Adeela SULEMAN
Abdullah M. I. SYED
Risham SYED

Mohammad Ali TALPUR
Salman TOOR

Omer WASIM

ZARINA

Curated by Caroline Hancock, Art Mill Museum Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; Aurélien Lemonier, Art Mill Museum Curator of Architecture, Design and Gardens; and Zarmeene Shah, independent curator, writer and Director of Graduate Studies at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (IVS) in Karachi; with Art Mill Museum Senior Exhibition Project Manager Aebhric Coleman. The exhibition is designed by architect Raza Ali Dada (Nayyar Ali Dada & Associates, Lahore).

A catalogue, designed by Kiran Ahmad, expands on the research with essays by important art and architecture historians, educators, artists and architects from Pakistan.

Explore the Catalogue