Collaborations and Partners

For the initial research and data collection; the VM Art Gallery was instrumental in making KAD possible. The archive of newspapers covering art activities in the country maintained at the Art Resource Centre of the VM Art Gallery were amongst the key sources for data collection used during the KAD Summer Internship Program during 2016 and 2017. The gallery also hosted these interns as they researched contemporary artists and their practices.

The V.M Art Gallery; a project of Rangoonwala Trust has actively been supporting Pakistani arts including contemporary arts, since its inception in 1987. The gallery is recognized as a dynamic space for showcasing contemporary art in Pakistan. It has also institutionalized the task of preserving art collections and the task of actively engaging in the development and progression of the local art scene.

Riffat Alvi who was the first and now former Director of VM Art Gallery who oversaw the running of the gallery for over three decades. Alvi is the person behind the archive of all art-based activities reported in the print media housed in the Art Resource Centre at VM Art Gallery. She compiled an extensive collection of archive materials over the years of the Pakistani art landscape collecting newspaper and magazine, articles and clippings. As well as exhibition brochures and invitation cards of all exhibitions at the VM Art Gallery as well as around the city and other parts of the country. Riffat is an internationally renowned artist and ceramist, having travelled and exhibited extensively in Pakistan and abroad.