Zahra Khan
Zahra Khan is a curator of contemporary South Asian art. She is Creative Director of Foundation Art Divvy through which she led and curated the first official Pavilion of Pakistan at the Venice Biennale 2019, Manora Field Notes.
Foundation Art Divvy produced Aisha Khalid & Imran Qureshi: Two Wings to Fly, Not One, National Art Gallery, Islamabad (2017); and collaterals to the Lahore Biennale in 2018 and 2020, at the Fakir Khana Museum and Plaza Theatre. Its latest venture has been the Divvy Film Festival, celebrating independent Pakistani and South Asian cinema as well as Art Divvy Conversations, a series of insta-live interviews with artists across South Asia. She is now working towards Divvy Knowledge Center – a venture focusing on knowledge building and innovation.
She is lead curator at Satrang Art Gallery, Islamabad and has worked at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York after which she worked at Sotheby’s, London and Blain|Southern, London. She has guest curated exhibitions for Koel Gallery, Karachi and the Upside Space – an online platform focusing on NFT sales.
Zahra is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and received a Master’s in the History of Art and Archaeology from SOAS, London.
SATURDAY Saturday 2nd March
میلے اور میل ملاپ Festivals As Spaces For Change For Women
Location: Hall 1
In recent years, we have seen a boom in festivals in the larger cities of Pakistan. Many of these festivals are curated by powerhouse ladies with immense knowledge to share. They have built platforms and continue to raise voices that need amplified and liven up the city's cultural landscape. Differing in festivities, demographics, and topics, these festivals have become a celebrated mainstay of our cultural calendar. How do these festivals come to be, what drives the curators, and how can audiences help sustain these festivals in the long run? This also looks at how women curate for the female demographic building in sections that will engage with all the (familial) paraphernalia that women travel with in Pakistan especially. How curating for families gets built into the conversation as that how women might move freely in these spaces.
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