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In an effort to expand South Asian art’s global reach, as well as transform local attitudes towards contemporary art and film, Foundation Art Divvy provides a platform at an institutional level, locally and internationally to art from South Asia. It supports and develops large-scale exhibitions of contemporary South Asian art in public spaces.

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ARTISTS


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Imran Qureshi

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Naiza Khan

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Mehreen Jabbar

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Sarmad Khoosat

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INSTAGRAM

We are delighted to speaking with Sabih Ahmed for We are delighted to speaking with Sabih Ahmed for this week’s Art Divvy Conversation on @artdivvy’s instagram-live on Thursday 5 December 2024 at 5:30 PM PKT / 12:30 PM UK / 7:30 AM EST / 4:30 PM UAE - https://www.instagram.com/artdivvy/.  Sabih Ahmed is the Director of the Ishara Art Foundation in Dubai. His curatorial work and research move between exhibitions, archives, pedagogy and theory. At Ishara, he has led the strategic direction and expansion of the foundation, organised major solo exhibitions of artists such as Jitish Kallat and Sudarshan Shetty; curated solo and group exhibitions that include ‘Navjot Altaf: Pattern’ and ‘Notations on Time’ co-curated with Sandhini Poddar; and initiating artist-led curations by Sohrab Hura and Gauri Gill. 
Prior to Ishara, Ahmed was a Senior Researcher and Projects Manager at the Asia Art Archive from 2009-2019, where he was involved in establishing their office in New Delhi. His independent curations and artist collaborations include being on the collegium of ‘Five Million Incidents’ conceived by Raqs Media Collective and organised by the Goethe Institut, Delhi & Kolkata (2019), ‘The Superhero Sighting Society’ in collaboration with Taus Makhacheva at Kadist and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019), and the 11th Shanghai Biennale ‘Why Not Ask Again?’ curated by Raqs Media Collective in Shanghai (2016). 
He serves on the Advisory Board of the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation in Delhi and his writings have been featured in a number of publications and journals. He is the co-author of ‘Mass Traffic’ with Lantian Xie, published by Kunsthalle Bern and Mousse Publishing, 2023.  @isharaartfoundation @zahrafkhan #artdivvyconversations #contemporaryart #artfromsouthasia
Divvy Dilm Festival Islamabad Thursday 21 & Frida Divvy Dilm Festival Islamabad 
Thursday 21 & Friday 22 November !
At the open air amphitheater, PNCA
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Change of Date - pls note Divvy Film Festival is n Change of Date - pls note Divvy Film Festival is now on Thursday 21 & Friday 22 November  Foundation Art Divvy and Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) are delighted to present “Divvy Film Festival Islamabad.”  Please join us for our program of films on Thursday 21 & Friday 22 November 2024 at the Outdoor Amphitheater, PNCA, 5:30 - 10:30 pm. 
Note: the Festival is outdoors. Don’t forget to dress warmly!  Presented by Foundation Art Divvy, Divvy Film Festival is an annual festival of independent Pakistani cinema which takes place across Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and now London.🇵🇰📽  #divvyfilmfestival #filmfrompakistan
Divvy Film Festival Lahore: Ecologies and Indigeno Divvy Film Festival Lahore: Ecologies and Indigenous Traditions, took place on 4 & 5 November 2024. Thrilled to have brought another year of beautifully crafted, important and fun films to our screens and audiences. And to have explored climate issues, ecologies, and cultural traditions and norms via our first thematic film festival.  Thank you to our filmmakers and our brilliant audience who joined us. We will see you again shortly in Islamabad!  #divvyfilmfestival #filmfrompakistan #artfrompakistan
Divvy Film Festival Lahore: Ecologies and Indigeno Divvy Film Festival Lahore: Ecologies and Indigenous Traditions. Thrilled to have brought another year of beautifully crafted, important and fun films to our screens and audiences. And to have explored climate issues, ecologies, and cultural traditions and norms via our first thematic film festival.  Thank you to our filmmakers and our brilliant audience who joined us. We will see you again shortly in Islamabad!  #divvyfilmfestival #filmfrompakistan #artfrompakistan
Join us Today!! Monday 4 - Tuesday 5 November 202 Join us Today!! 
Monday 4 - Tuesday 5 November 2024 at Alhamra Arts Council, 6:00 - 10:30 pm.  Presented by Foundation Art Divvy, Divvy Film Festival is an annual festival of independent Pakistani cinema which takes place across Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and now London.🇵🇰  #divvyfilmfestival #filmfrompakistan
Foundation Art Divvy and Alhamra Arts Council are Foundation Art Divvy and Alhamra Arts Council are delighted to present “Divvy Film Festival Lahore: Ecologies and Indigenous Traditions,” a collateral to the Lahore Biennale 03.  Join us Today!! 
Monday 4 - Tuesday 5 November 2024 at Alhamra Arts Council, 6:00 - 10:30 pm.  Presented by Foundation Art Divvy, Divvy Film Festival is an annual festival of independent Pakistani cinema which takes place across Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and now London.🇵🇰  #divvyfilmfestival #filmfrompakistan
Foundation Art Divvy and Alhamra Arts Council are Foundation Art Divvy and Alhamra Arts Council are delighted to present “Divvy Film Festival Lahore: Ecologies and Indigenous Traditions,” a collateral to the Lahore Biennale 03.  Please join us for our program of films during the closing week of LB03 on Monday 4 - Tuesday 5 November 2024 at Alhamra Arts Council, 5:45 - 10:30 pm.  Presented by Foundation Art Divvy, Divvy Film Festival is an annual festival of independent Pakistani cinema which takes place across Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and now London.🇵🇰📽  #divvyfilmfestival #filmfrompakistan
Wonderful to be reunited with this beautiful and i Wonderful to be reunited with this beautiful and important work by Naiza Khan: “Sticky Rice and Other Stories”  commissioned by Foundation Art Divvy for Manora Field Notes, the inaugural Pavilion of Pakistan at the Venice Biennale, 2019  now in the collection of the Art Mills Museum, Qatar and part of the brilliant show Manzar - curated by Caroline Hancock, Aurélien Lemonier, and Zarmeene Shah and on view at the Qatar National Museum until 31 Jan 2025.  Images
1, 2 - “Sticky Rice and Other Stories” installed at the Qatar National Museum of Art as part of Manzar
 3,4 - “Sticky Rice and Other Stories” at Manora Field Notes - Pavilion of Pakistan at the Venice Biennale 2019.
Foundation Art Divvy and Alhamra Arts Council are Foundation Art Divvy and Alhamra Arts Council are delighted to present “Divvy Film Festival Lahore: Ecologies and Indigenous Traditions,” a collateral to the Lahore Biennale 03.  Please join us for our program of films during the closing week of LB03 on Monday 4 - Tuesday 5 November 2024 at Alhamra Arts Council, 6:00 - 10:30 pm.  Presented by Foundation Art Divvy, Divvy Film Festival is an annual festival of independent Pakistani cinema which takes place across Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and now London.🇵🇰📽  We will release the schedule of films soon!  #divvyfilmfestival #filmfrompakistan
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PUBLICATIONS


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Cultivating Wastelands

2

I, too, am a part of this history

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Manora Field Notes

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The Perfect Gentlemen

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You Selfish Dreamer

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Two Wings to Fly, Not One

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