Programmes

Online talk featuring ‘Urdu Worlds’ curator Hammad Nasar, artist Ali Kazim, and curator and writer Sarah Burney, moderated by Sasha Altaf.

Book launch marking UAE release of ‘Alphabet Book | Urdu Qaida’, with Ali Kazim, Hammad Nasar and Anita Dawood, moderated by Saira Ansari.

Family workshop presented in partnership with Wisdom Warehouse, inspired by ‘Urdu Worlds’.

Online reading circle on ‘The Conference of the Birds’ by Farid ud-Din Attar, in collaboration with novelist Sonali Prasad.

Panel discussion on the evolution of photography in the UAE, featuring curator Nasser Abdullah and visual artist Adele Bea Cipste, moderated by Sueraya Shaheen, Co-founder and Photo Editor of the non-profit photography journal Tribe.

Artists and Curator Talk with Fatspatrol (Fathima Mohiuddin), Khaled Esguerra, Salma Dib and Sara Alahbabi, moderated by Curator Priyanka Mehra.

Exhibition walkthrough of ‘Lines of Flight’, led by Shilpa Gupta in conversation with Sabih Ahmed, Curator of the exhibition and Projects Advisor at Ishara

Ayesha Sultana’s first comprehensive solo exhibition in the GCC is an exploration of the delicate balance between the vulnerability and strength of our planet today.

A children’s workshop inspired by ‘Ayesha Sultana: Fragility and Resilience’.

Online Artist Talks delve into the works of Chiara Camoni, Rashmi Kaleka, Emily Avery Yoshiko Crow, Mahaveer Swamy and Mrinalini Mukherjee, with insights into the processes, contexts and experiences that animate their artistic practices.

Ishara Art Foundation presents Artist Talks by Gauri Gill, Shefalee Jain and Mariam Suhail with their first public presentations in the UAE.

UAE premiere of Hunkaro by the award-winning theatre director and playwright Mohit Takalkar, as part of the second season of Perform Sharjah.

An interactive storytelling session with multi-disciplinary artist, Shereen Saif. The programme is a companion to the exhibition ‘Only Life, Myriad Places: Sudarshan Shetty’.

Artist talk by UK based artist-composer, Haroon Mirza moderated by art critic and editor, Jyoti Dhar. The event is a companion to the exhibition ‘Notations on Time’ curated by Sandhini Poddar and Sabih Ahmed.

Curatorial and artistic presentations accompanying the exhibition ‘Notations on Time’.

Date: March 4, 2023Time: 7 PM Venue: Art Dubai, Madinat Jumeirah After Reaching Boiling PointBy Amol K. Patil and Parul Sinha in collaboration with Yalgaar Sanskrutik Manch Ishara Art Foundation is pleased to collaborate with Art Dubai on the Artist Commission for 2023. The Artist Commission is a non-profit initiative..

Public Talk by photographer, curator and publisher Anshika Varma on her initiative Offset Projects and their first publication, the Guftgu book.

A workshop organised in collaboration with GPP on reading, writing and finding alternative ways of seeing lens and book based media conducted by Anshika Varma.

A book launch and artist talk by Navjot Altaf marking the release of her two-volume publication ‘Navjot At Work’ and ‘Artist’s Notes’.

A three-part workshop organised in collaboration with Jameel Arts Centre as a companion to the exhibition ‘Proposals for a Memorial for Partition’ curated by Murtaza Vali.

A workshop that offers an inside view into different careers in the field of modern and contemporary art

A public talk by renowned feminist writer, publisher and activist Urvashi Butalia revisiting her seminal book ‘The Other Side of Silence’, organised in collaboration with Jameel Arts Centre.

A Reading Room at the seventh edition of Colomboscope: Language is Migrant organised in collaboration with Ishara Art Foundation

A two-day online symposium featuring the next generation of practitioners shaping contemporary art in South Asia, organised in partnership with India Art Fair and supported by Shiv Nadar University

A presentation by Shahzad Bashir, scholar of Islamic Humanities, followed by a discussion with Slavs and Tatars on the history of Hurufism and its generative qualities that have inspired people over the centuries