Hong Kong-based collector, philanthropist, and gallerist Amna Naqvi sees herself as an enabler and a storyteller. Through the AAN Foundation, which she co-founded, Naqvi creates platforms for contemporary artists from Pakistan to launch ambitious projects in Asia and globally. Join us for a private reception and take part in an intimate conversation about Naqvi’s unique view of collecting and its impact. Following the reception, enjoy reserved seating at Naqvi’s public lecture.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
READ MOREA survey of contemporary art from the Asia Pacific region, Time of Others features works of artists responding to social, historical and geopolitical concerns at this present juncture of living in a more interconnected world today, where notions of boundary, difference and Otherness have also become more complex.
Works from the AAN Collection are part of Faiza Butt’s mid-career retrospective, Paracosm, at the Nottingham Art Exchange.
Shahzia Sikander’s video installation Parallax which was created and shown at The Sharjah Biennale in 2013 is being exhibited at the The Aidekman, Art Gallery, Tufts University Museum, Boston
Shahzia Sikander
Parallax, 2013
Three-channel color animation with sound, 15 min and 30 sec Music by Du Yun Music by Du Yun
© Shahzia Sikander. Courtesy of Sikander Studio
Opening Exhibition of the AAN Collection on the Google Cultural Institute, Pakistan, including the works of the Modernist Zahoor-ul-Akhlaque and the contemporary artworks of Shahzia Sikander, Imran Qureshi, Rashid Rana, Aisha Khalid, Naiza Khan & Faiza Butt.
Moment/Momentum – Contemporary Art From Pakistan
This exhibition focuses on the works of Zahoor-Ul-Akhlaque and the Contemporary Artists who followed his lead. Especially since this is the first curated exhibition and would be a glimpse into this collection and the contemporary artworks that sit within its core and embody the ‘Aan’ or the ‘moment’.
Google Cultural Institute Pakistan was launched in August 2015. The AAN Collection was honored and proud to be a partner of this launch in Pakistan. AAN Collection was a part of this launch along with the Lahore Museum, Mohatta Palace Museum, Walled City Authority Lahore, the Fakir Khana Museum.
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Shahzia Sikander’s video installation Parallax which was created and shown at The Sharjah Biennale in 2013 is being exhibited at the The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Shahzia Sikander
Parallax, 2013
Three-channel color animation with sound, 15 min and 30 sec Music by Du Yun
Music by Du Yun
© Shahzia Sikander. Courtesy of Sikander Studio
Works from the AAN Collection are part of Faiza Butt’s mid-career retrospective, Paracosm, at the Nottingham Art Exchange.
Video installation in the AAN collection, Lines and Confrontation by Saira Wasim, is being shown at the Iranian Pavilion ’s exhibition, The Great Game.
A survey of contemporary art from the Asia Pacific region, Time of Others features works of artists responding to social, historical and geopolitical concerns at this present juncture of living in a more interconnected world today, where notions of boundary, difference and Otherness have also become more complex.
Six Works from the AAN Collection by artists Imran Qureshi and Aisha Khalid were part of this especially curated inaugural show at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto.
Created for pleasure, spiritual reflection, and aesthetic contemplation, gardens have held many meanings. Beyond their beauty, they represent the human impulse to organize, contain, and collect the natural world. Without cultivation a garden would cease to exist. Similarly, without cultivation of the mind and the soul, it is believed a society cannot progress. “To dwell is to garden,” wrote the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, reminding us of the central role of culture as part of our existence. The Garden of Ideas brings together the work of six internationally acclaimed Pakistani artists whose creations play with, question, and interrogate the timeless theme of the garden – Source: The Aga Khan Museum
Moderate Enlightenment, detailed portraits of friends and family in contemporary dress are set in sumptuously gilded landscapes, replete with the meticulous detail found in folios commissioned by the Mughal emperors. For Qureshi, there is an exquisite tension between the stringent parameters of this ancient practice and the modernity of his sitters—one that speaks, in part, to the frictions of a world in which novelty and orthodoxy collide.
Moderate Enlightenment, 2009
Goache & Gold Leaf on Hand Prepared Paper
11 X 8 Inches
A number of works from the AAN Collection were part of Rashid Rana’s mid-career retrospective, Labyrinth of Reflections at the Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi.
Designed on the lines of a labyrinth, the exhibit is spread on the ground and first floor of the palace and offers an interesting mix of pop culture references and socio-political commentary. Simply put, it will entice you and it will shock you.
A graduate of the National College of Arts, with a master’s degree from the Massachusetts College of Arts in Boston, Rana is currently heading the fine arts department at the Beaconhouse National University. A detailed note issued by the gallery for describing his work read: “His work poses questions about urban existence, identity, paradoxical truths and traces the changing facets and effects of globalization and also provides a gripping reminder that the images and stimulations that surround us in modern urban culture are deceptively different than what they may seem.” – Source : The Dawn
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery showcases the power and breadth of new art from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh in its ground-breaking winter season all-gallery exhibition Sub-Topical Heat: New art from South Asia. Sub-Topical Heat is the most extensive and in-depth exhibition of art from South Asia presented to date in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The AAN Collection loaned the works of Imran Qureshi for this exhibition.
This artwork is a seminal artwork by Imran Qureshi and was among the Finalists of the Signature Art Prize 2011 at the Singapore Art Museum. These works were created before Imran Qureshi’s Courtyard Installation which won the Jury Prize at the Sharjah Biennial 2012.
Imran Qureshi
You Who Are My Love and My Life’s Enemy Too II, 2011
Goauche on Wasli, 94 X 48 Inches X 3 Triptych
Desperately Seeking Paradise, a seminal work by Rashid Rana which is in the AAN Collection was shown in Viewing Points and View Points was featured at the Asian Art Biennial in Taiching, Taiwan.