The Lahore Biennale Foundation has announced its third edition (LB03) and revealed the artist lineup.
Entitled Of Mountains and Seas, the Biennale will run from 5 October to 8 November 2024 across the city of Lahore, with various venues including UNESCO World Heritage sites set to host artworks, such as Lahore Fort in the Walled City, with the renowned Shalimar Gardens participating as a venue for the Biennale for the first time. The Lahore Museum, Pak Tea House, Bradlaugh Hall and the YMCA building and Nasir Bagh will also serve as exhibition locales.
The curator of LB03, John Tain, has gathered over sixty artists from more than thirty countries to showcase a wide range of site-specific artworks, immersive installations and over 40 new commissions. With the intention of highlighting problems arising from the degradation of the environment, the artists shift the focus through their work to other resources, such as indigenous heritage. to look towards future sustainable solutions. The participating artists will navigate this ecological theme from the point of view of Pakistan, extending out to the wider Global South, to bring to the forefront the urgent need to address ecological disasters such as floods, pollution, and even social inequality affecting these areas.
John Tain notes, “By positioning Lahore as a strategic location for global efforts to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis, LB03 signals the need to shift agency for environmental discourse to the very societies that will be most affected”.
The Biennale will end with a Climate Congress, supported by the Getty Foundation, which will unite researchers and artists from over 42 countries and a large number of institutions to discuss the role of art and the humanities in the Global South in the climate crisis.
Artist list:
Hamra Abbas
Bani Abidi
Ravi Agarwal
Zahoor ul Akhlaq
Nurjahan Akhlaq
Nilofar Akmut
Basil Al-Rawi
Sheherezade Alam
Elyas Alavi
Farida Batool
Carolina Caycedo
Imran Channa
Heman Chong
Chow & Lin
DAVRA
Discostan
Köken Ergun and Fetra Danu
Cristina Flores Pescorán
Gidree Bawlee, Salma Jamal, Moushum & Kamruzzaman Shadhin
Simryn Gill & Stolon Press
Dryden Goodwin
Feroza Hakeem
Arshia Haq
Ehsan ul Haq & Iqra Tanveer Inland
Saodat Ismailova
Raheem Jaan
Mella Jaarsma
Zihan Karim
Ali Kazim
Karim Khan
Fiza Khatri
Yasmeen Lari
Lo Lai Lai Natalie
Abuzar Madhu
Salahuddin Mian
Zarina Muhammad
Hira Nabi & Nida Rehman
Leeroy New
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
Niamat Nigar
Abraham Onoriode Oghobase
Fauzan Omar
Daniel Otero Torres
Sopheap Pich
Tariq Alexander Qaiser
Imran Qureshi
Fazal Rizvi
Usman Saeed
Tomás Saraceno
Sin Wai Kin
Anshu Singh
Phaptawan Suwannakudt
Jennifer Tee
Subash Thebe Limbu
Udeido Collective
Womanifesto
Wong Kit Yi
Birender Yadav
Haegue Yang
Trevor Yeung
Zheng Bo
The Lahore Biennale (LB03) runs from 5 October to 8 November 2024
