Born in Karachi, Pakistan. Lives and works in Berlin since 2022. Currently she is a participant of Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt* 2024.
EDUCATION
2015 | Bauhaus-Universität, M.F.A in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Weimar |
2010 | University of Karachi, Visual Studies Department, B.F.A, Karachi |
SELECTED ARTIST RESIDENCIES/ EXCHANGE
2022 | Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, ZHdK, Zurich |
2021-2022 | Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems |
2020 | 12.0 Contemporary, Islamabad |
2019 | Lacuna Lab Berlin |
2019 | Pause Kreativ, Karlsruhe |
2019 | Murree Museum Residency, Murree |
ARTIST TALKS/ LECTURE PERFORMANCES /INTERVIEWS
2020 | INTERVIEW with Veronica Jonsson for Art Connect Online Magazine, Berlin |
2020 | ARTIST TALK, hosted by Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi |
2020 | ARTIST TALK, What is your Mantiq, Mantiq of the Mantis, Lahore |
2020 | ARTIST TALK, Instagram live with Sabah Khan |
2019 | ARTIST TALK, Scope Sessions #85 - Noor us Sabah Saeed / Linda Havenstein SomoS Gallery, Berlin |
2019 | ARTIST TALK, Uqbar Project Space, Berlin |
2018 | LECTURE PERFORMANCE/ ARTIST TALK, Raze to the Ground/ Politics of Playgrounds, discussion moderated by Shahan Raajhani at Sanat Gallery, Karachi |
2016 | LECTURE PERFORMANCE/ ARTIST TALK, Utopia School at Byens Lys, Christiania, Copenhagen |
2015 | TALKS – Imaginary Bauhaus Museum, Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin |
2015 | LECTURE PERFORMANCE, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 | THE EUROPEAN DREAM, Two person show, Made in Balmoral, Bad Ems |
2020 | FROM THE HILLS TO THE SEA II, POURING CONCRETE CURING MOUNTAINS, RESIDENCY SHOW New works and launch of artist’s books, AAN GANDHARA ART GALLERY KARACHI |
2019 | UNMAKING HISTORY, The Research and Publication Centre (RPC), Lahore |
2019 | A VITAL PIECE OF INFORMATION – Fragments of a Greater Context, Uqbar Project Space, Berlin |
2019 | POURING CONCRETE CURING MOUNTAINS, Resource Center Murree, Murree |
2018 | River in an Ocean - the collateral event, Lahore Biennale 01, Lahore |
2018 | LABORATORY OF PERFORMANCE [Bogota/ Karachi] Poéticas Corporales de Mujeres en Bogotá: Experiencias Artísticas en el Espacio Público" [Body Poetics of Women in Bogotá: Artistic Experiences in Public Space] In collaboration with the artist Gialev Velez (Bogota) conducted by Waja Foundation, Bogotá |
2018 | UTOPIA SCHOOL POP UP EXHIBITION, Flux Factory, NYC |
GRANTS/ SCHOLARSHIPS
2021-22 | 9 Months Scholarship Award, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems |
2020 | Cash Prize, Winning Project, CORRESPONDENCE, Art Connect Berlin |
2019 | Travel Grant, Künstlerkontakte Programm, IFA, Stuttgart |
2018-19 | Lahore Biennale Research Grant, Lahore Biennale Foundation, Lahore |
2015-16 | Kreativfond, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar |
2014 | SARAJEVO 2014/1914 Student Exchange Program,a project by the MFA-program, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, funded by DAAD |
2010 | Annual Scholarship for Final Year Thesis, V.M Art Gallery, Rangoonwala Trust, Karachi |
2010 | Travel grant for World Youth Congress Istanbul, Rangoonwala Trust, Karachi |
2009 | Karachi University Alumni Scholarship, Karachi |
SELECTED CATALOGUES/ NEWSPAPERS
2022 | Die Kunst Des Reisens/The Art of Traveling, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Print |
2020 | Murree Museum Residency, Pouring Concrete Curing Mountains, Print |
2020 | International Public Art Festival, I AM KARACHI, E-catalogue |
2019 | |
2019 | |
2018 |
SELECTED SOCIAL PROJECTS
2016 | One Week of Residential Forum Civil Society Welcoming Refugees in Europe, Berlin, Germany |
2015 | Klimacamp (climate camp) im Rheinland, Germnay 2014 TAF! Photographic Action Workshop, Cough4Coal Campaign, Organized by Tool for Action at New Yorckim BethanienSüdflügel, Berlin |
2014 | Art Activism Workshop, Carbon Bubble, Berlin, Germany Organized by 350.org and Tool for Action at New Yorck im Bethanien-Südflügel, Berlin |
2013 | Global Power Shift (One week of Intensive workshops on Climate Change and Creative Activism), Istanbul, Turkey, Organized by 350. Org at İTÜ Ayazağa Campus 34469 Maslak – İSTANBUL |
2012 | South Asian Youth Conference, Islamabad, Pakistan Organized by Blue Ribbon movement (India) and HILA (Pakistan) at National University of Sciences and Technology. NUST Campus, H-12, Islamabad |
2012 | RangDayKarachi-an artist-led peace initiative, Karachi |
2010 | World Youth Congress (two weeks of residential conference) Organized by Peace Child International at Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey |
Born in Karachi, Pakistan. Lives and works in Berlin since 2022. Currently she is a participant of Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt* 2024.
EDUCATION
2015 | Bauhaus-Universität, M.F.A in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Weimar |
2010 | University of Karachi, Visual Studies Department, B.F.A, Karachi |
SELECTED ARTIST RESIDENCIES/ EXCHANGE
2022 | Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, ZHdK, Zurich |
2021-2022 | Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems |
2020 | 12.0 Contemporary, Islamabad |
2019 | Lacuna Lab Berlin |
2019 | Pause Kreativ, Karlsruhe |
2019 | Murree Museum Residency, Murree |
ARTIST TALKS/ LECTURE PERFORMANCES /INTERVIEWS
2020 | INTERVIEW with Veronica Jonsson for Art Connect Online Magazine, Berlin |
2020 | ARTIST TALK, hosted by Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi |
2020 | ARTIST TALK, What is your Mantiq, Mantiq of the Mantis, Lahore |
2020 | ARTIST TALK, Instagram live with Sabah Khan |
2019 | ARTIST TALK, Scope Sessions #85 - Noor us Sabah Saeed / Linda Havenstein SomoS Gallery, Berlin |
2019 | ARTIST TALK, Uqbar Project Space, Berlin |
2018 | LECTURE PERFORMANCE/ ARTIST TALK, Raze to the Ground/ Politics of Playgrounds, discussion moderated by Shahan Raajhani at Sanat Gallery, Karachi |
2016 | LECTURE PERFORMANCE/ ARTIST TALK, Utopia School at Byens Lys, Christiania, Copenhagen |
2015 | TALKS – Imaginary Bauhaus Museum, Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin |
2015 | LECTURE PERFORMANCE, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 | THE EUROPEAN DREAM, Two person show, Made in Balmoral, Bad Ems |
2020 | FROM THE HILLS TO THE SEA II, POURING CONCRETE CURING MOUNTAINS, RESIDENCY SHOW New works and launch of artist’s books, AAN GANDHARA ART GALLERY KARACHI |
2019 | UNMAKING HISTORY, The Research and Publication Centre (RPC), Lahore |
2019 | A VITAL PIECE OF INFORMATION – Fragments of a Greater Context, Uqbar Project Space, Berlin |
2019 | POURING CONCRETE CURING MOUNTAINS, Resource Center Murree, Murree |
2018 | River in an Ocean - the collateral event, Lahore Biennale 01, Lahore |
2018 | LABORATORY OF PERFORMANCE [Bogota/ Karachi] Poéticas Corporales de Mujeres en Bogotá: Experiencias Artísticas en el Espacio Público" [Body Poetics of Women in Bogotá: Artistic Experiences in Public Space] In collaboration with the artist Gialev Velez (Bogota) conducted by Waja Foundation, Bogotá |
2018 | UTOPIA SCHOOL POP UP EXHIBITION, Flux Factory, NYC |
GRANTS/ SCHOLARSHIPS
2021-22 | 9 Months Scholarship Award, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems |
2020 | Cash Prize, Winning Project, CORRESPONDENCE, Art Connect Berlin |
2019 | Travel Grant, Künstlerkontakte Programm, IFA, Stuttgart |
2018-19 | Lahore Biennale Research Grant, Lahore Biennale Foundation, Lahore |
2015-16 | Kreativfond, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar |
2014 | SARAJEVO 2014/1914 Student Exchange Program,a project by the MFA-program, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, funded by DAAD |
2010 | Annual Scholarship for Final Year Thesis, V.M Art Gallery, Rangoonwala Trust, Karachi |
2010 | Travel grant for World Youth Congress Istanbul, Rangoonwala Trust, Karachi |
2009 | Karachi University Alumni Scholarship, Karachi |
SELECTED CATALOGUES/ NEWSPAPERS
2022 | Die Kunst Des Reisens/The Art of Traveling, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Print |
2020 | Murree Museum Residency, Pouring Concrete Curing Mountains, Print |
2020 | International Public Art Festival, I AM KARACHI, E-catalogue |
2019 | |
2019 | |
2018 |
SELECTED SOCIAL PROJECTS
2016 | One Week of Residential Forum Civil Society Welcoming Refugees in Europe, Berlin, Germany |
2015 | Klimacamp (climate camp) im Rheinland, Germnay 2014 TAF! Photographic Action Workshop, Cough4Coal Campaign, Organized by Tool for Action at New Yorckim BethanienSüdflügel, Berlin |
2014 | Art Activism Workshop, Carbon Bubble, Berlin, Germany Organized by 350.org and Tool for Action at New Yorck im Bethanien-Südflügel, Berlin |
2013 | Global Power Shift (One week of Intensive workshops on Climate Change and Creative Activism), Istanbul, Turkey, Organized by 350. Org at İTÜ Ayazağa Campus 34469 Maslak – İSTANBUL |
2012 | South Asian Youth Conference, Islamabad, Pakistan Organized by Blue Ribbon movement (India) and HILA (Pakistan) at National University of Sciences and Technology. NUST Campus, H-12, Islamabad |
2012 | RangDayKarachi-an artist-led peace initiative, Karachi |
2010 | World Youth Congress (two weeks of residential conference) Organized by Peace Child International at Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey |