- Talks
- Papers
- Workshops
participated in
Karachi Biennale: Connecting Art, the City and its People
Seminar on Representing Culture: Curatorial Approaches Challenging the Norms
Venue: NAPA, Karachi
2025
TALK INVITE
TALK INVITE
Challenging the Necrosis: Climate and Culture through Critical Practice
Inaugural Seminar of Imagining Life Program organized by Climate Action Center
Venue: NAPA, Karachi
2025
PANEL DISCUSSION
R TO L: IMRAN NAFIS Mushtar, SAIRA DANSIH ZUBeri, SAMEETA AHMED, NIILOFUR FARRUKH
Panel Discussion
Speaker: Niilofur Farrukh
AUDIENCE
Fluid Relationships: Creative Interpretations of Literary Text by Artist
Organized by writers and readers cafe
Venue: Josh Malihabadi Library, Arts Council Pakistan, Karachi
2025
Digital poster
Public Art: A Space of Possibility
Organized by Gate 27
Venue: Sabanci University, Ayvalik Campus, Ayvalik, Turkey
2025
Speaker: Niilofur Farrukh
Audience included artists and scholars
Digital INVITE
Creating a Biennale for a Fractured City
Venue: Biligi University, Istanbul, Turkey
2025
Speaker: niilofur farrukh
audience
In conversation with Fazal Mousavi
Venue: Josh Malihabadi Library, Arts Council Karachi
2025
Creating a Biennale for a Fractured City
Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
2025
Harnessing Transformative Energies
Organized by Mosaic Festival
Venue: Mississauga Art Gallery, Canada
2024
Architecture and Postcolonial Attitudes
NED Women Conference
Venue: NED University Main Campus, Karachi
2024
INVITE NAME TAG
Harnessing Transformative Energies
AKU Talk Series 6 sense forum
Venue: AKUH Auditorium, Karachi
2022
aUDIENCE
INVITE
Speaker: Niilofur Farrukh
Art Lahore
Art Lahore 22
Venue: Punjab University, Main Campus Lahore
2022
Speaker: Niilofur Farrukh
Venue
invite
13th Karachi Literature Festival
Venue: Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi
2022
12th Karachi Literature Festival
Venue: Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi
2021
Art in Your Mohalla: A Dialogue for a Megapolis of Harmony for the Future
11th Karachi Literature Festival
Venue: Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi
2020
Panel discussion
r to l: sheherbano husain, Niilofur farrukh, taimur suri
R to L: Tariq Alexander Qaisar, Aquila Ismail, Niilofur Farrukh (moderator), Romilla Karim, Sohail Zuberi
r to l: Tariq Alexander Qaisar, aquila ismail, Romila kareem, NIILOFUR Farrukh, SOHAIL ZUBERI
At the writers lounge with fellow participants
10th Karachi Literature Festival
Venue: Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi
2019
Symposium in Collaboration with Colombo Art Biennale
Venue: Colombo, Sri Lanka
2019
In the auditorium and outside with the speakers
Islamabad Literature Festival
Venue: Margalla Hotel, Islamabad
2019
Istanbul-Art Exhibition And Book Fair
Venue: Istanbul, Turkey
2018
gallery tour
audience
Speaker: Niilofur Farrukh
9th Karachi Literature Festival
Venue: Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi
2018
The Biennale Phenomenon,
Venue: Habib University Campus, Karachi
2016
A Space for Re-imagining: Public Art in the Local and Global Context
Venue: T2F, Karachi
2016
audience
Speaker: Niilofur Farrukh
7th Karachi Literature Festival
Venue: Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi
2016
Sadiquain Kucha-e-Khayam Main
Decoding the pain-scape
Venue: IBA, City Campus
2015
Panelist
exhibition view
Book Launch: The Rest is Silence: Zahoor ul Akhlaq: Art and Society in Pakistan
5th Karachi Literature Festival
Venue: Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi
2014
Art and Emerging Democracies
Second Kathmandu International Art Festival
Venue: Kathmandu, Nepal
2014
program schedule
Art from Asia (Panel Discussion)
AICA Congress
Venue: Seoul, Korea
2014
Congress tour
panelist
The Pointed Pen: Art of the Politics Cartoon
5th Karachi Literature Festival
Venue: Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi
2014
Book Launch: Of Martyrs and Marigold
4th Karachi Literature Festival
Venue: Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi
2013
Karachi and Art of Defiance
Second Karachi Conference
Venue: Arts Council, Karachi
2013
presentation
Panel discussion
Poster
Underlining the Awkward Truth
Seminar on Freedom of Expression
Venue: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2012
Critical Dialogue and the Art Market, West Asia/ East Asia Series,
Terrace talks
Venue: Art Dubai, UAE
2012
presentation
Is Art History Relevant?
3rd Karachi Literature Festival
Venue: Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi
2012
Problematizing the Narrative of Extremism
Venue: University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2011
The Narrative of Resistance
AICA Congress
Venue: Asuncion Paraguay
2011
Presentation at AICA Congress in Paraguay
paraguay with tania burguera
No Honour in Killing: Art makes visible buried truth
Australian National University
Venue: Canberra, Australia
2011
The Narrative of Resistance
Venue: University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo , Brazil
2011
Speaker: niilofur farrukh
audience
ArtCloud and WordCloud
2nd Karachi Literature Festival
Venue: Carlton Hotel, Karachi
2011
Conceptualizing the Concrete
IAPEX 2009 Architects Conference
Venue: EXPO Centre, Karachi
2009
Confronting Contradictions: Visual Expression in a Young Democracy
Fifth Tashkent Biennale,
Venue: Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2009
International Seminar
International Seminar
Fractured Creativities: New Vistas in 21st Century Art
First International Conference on Art
Venue: Institute of Art and Design, University of Sindh, Jamshoro
2008
Journeys with Clay: Contemporary Ceramics in Pakistan
International Ceramics Symposium
Venue: Izmir, Turkey
2008
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: the inspiring successes of women in the visual art in Pakistan Seminar on Women’s
Day organized by Women Peace Committee
Venue: Hotel Holiday Inn, Karachi
2008
Between Intention and Reception
Seminar on Art Criticism in Pakistan, IVSAA, Karachi
2008
CATALOGUE COVER
Building New Audiences
Venue: Punjab University
2008
Niilofur with Prof Mussarat Hassan (Left to Niilofur)
Pushing Boundaries
Seagull Foundation
Venue: Kolkata, India
2007
Poster
Expressions of Interconnectedness
12th Asian Art Biennale
Venue: Dhaka, Bangladesh
2006
An Agenda of Conscience
Symposium: Art Criticism in the Marginal Contexts’, organized by AICA International
Venue: Addis Ababa, Ethopia
2006
Reclaiming the Context: Six Decades of Art in Pakistan
Venue: South Asian Gallery of Art, Toronto, Canada.
2006
dawn gallery
Pakistani Painting and South Asian Art
Annual National Seminar organized by Artists Association of Punjab
Venue: Al Hamra Cultural Complex, Lahore
2005
The Art Critic: Postcolonial Democracy and the Age of Globalization
The Rationalization of Art Criticism: Its Possibilities and Global Positioning, AICA World Congress, Taiwan
2004
catalogue cover
Contemporary Art Practice in Pakistan
Venue: Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
2003
Contemporary Art in Pakistan
Venue: Norsk Form, Oslo, Norway
2002
Visual Art in Pakistan
Venue: Sindh Archives Complex, Karachi
2002
Contemporary Art Practices in Pakistan
Venue: First Vasl Artists Residency, Gadani, Pakistan
2001
catalogue cover
Curatorial Practices in Pakistan
All India Art School Moot
Venue: Triveni Arts Complex, N Delhi
2001
Indigenous Claycraft Techniques in Pakistan
Seminar on Archeology, Department of History
Venue: University of Karachi.
2000
The Influence of Traditional Claycraft on Contemporary Ceramics in Pakistan
All India Ceramic Exhibition
Venue: Habitat Centre, N Delhi
2000
Surface Decoration Techniques in Traditional Pottery
ASNA workshop
Venue: Arts Council, Karachi
1999
Pakistani Art and the Contribution of Women Artists
Talk organized by Art and the Islamic Arts at Pakistan High Commission
Venue: London, UK.
1999
Women Artists of Pakistan
Pakistan National Council of the Arts, Islamabad, Pakistan
1998
National and Cultural Identity in Visual Art
International Seminar hosted by Goethe Institut
Venue: Sheraton Hotel, Karachi
1996
Conceptualized | Organised
The Walls Within Precarity and the Freedom of Artistic Expression
Hybrid symposium organized by AICA Turkey & AICA Pakistan
It explored how art professionals can use tools and resources to confront censorship and overcome self-censorship, and defend freedom of expression.
2025
E-Poster
KB24 Discursive Weekend
Venue: Sambara Art Gallery Auditorium, Karachi
2024
Multi-lingual Mushaira
Four Presentations on endangered archives
keynote talks
Critical Knowledge Lab KB22 Discursive
KB22 Panel Discussions
Venue: NJV School Library, Karachi
2022
Panel on Ali imam
R to L: Niilofur Farrukh, Tabinda Chinoy, Mrs Shahnaz Ali Imam, Noorjehan Bilgirami, Meher Afroz, Moeen Faruqi, Aftan Tapal
KB22 Keynote Talks
Venue: NJV School
2022
Keynote Speaker: Deepali Diwan
Ruptured Histories 2-day Hybrid Seminar
Venue: Institute of Business Administration, City Campus, Karachi
2022
Speaker: Maliha Noorani
Speaker: Kadir Attia
Speaker: Salman Asif
Concluding session
KB19 Keynote Talks
Venue: Institute of Business Administration, City Campus, Karachi
2019
R to L: Mariah Lookman and Sasha Kagan
R to L: Asma Mehmood and Zain Mustafa
Critical Knowledge Lab KB19 Discursive Programming
KB19 Round Table
Venue: Alliance Française, Karachi
2019
Speaker: Seema Nusrat
Concluding Remarks by Niilofur
Critical Knowledge Lab KB17 Round Table
KB17 Discursive Programming
Venue: Alliance Française, Karachi
2017
Panel Discussion
Round Table
KB17 Panel Discussions
Venue: Multiple
2017
In Conversation with Meher Afroz
Unpacking Multiple Identities within Gender Based Art Through Critical Writing from South Asia.
Regional Seminar organized by AICA International and UNESCO.
Venue: Goethe Institut, Colombo
2013
Audience
On podium Deborah Frizzell
Q/A SESSION
Panel discussion with local art critics
Speakers at the seminar
‘The Anxious Century, Discourses Waiting To Be Born’.
Regional seminar on art criticism, organized by NuktaArt and Goethe Institut, Karachi
Venue: Goethe Institut, Karachi
2008
Light and Lightness:
International seminar on ceramics organized as a part of Third Asna Clay Triennia
Venue: Ahmed Perwaz Gallery, Arts Council, Karachi
2006
Mapping the Change
International Seminar on Art Criticism hosted by AICA Pakistan
Venue: AKU Auditorium
2004
R to L: Naz Ikramullah, Prof. Ijazul Hasan, Anderina De Matties, Quddus Mirza, Kamila Shamsie, Prof. Gulzar Haider
Volunteer Team of the Seminar with Henry Meyric Hughes, President AICA International
R to L: Asif Noorani, Prof Patrisi, Dilara Vagabora, Dr Leon Roy Wainwright, Raja Chengaiz, Nafisa Shah, Riffat Alvi, Prof Abul Mansur, Prof Nagori
Nino Ciccarone Director Alliance Francaise and Niilofur Farrukh
R to L: Sangeeta Thapa, Al Noor Mitha, Rasheed Araeen, Pooja Soud, Dr Leon Roy Wainwright, Zia ul Karim
R to L: Alka Pande, Kamil Khan Mumtaz, Ronald D’Souza, Owaise Hasin, Samina Shah
Front row, R to L: Prof Gulzar Haider, Dr Mohd Ali Siddiqui, Rasheed Araeen, Jalaluddin Ahmed, Dr Azra Ahmed
Review
Review
Review
Review
Journeys with Clay
International seminar on ceramics organized as a part of Second ASNA Clay Triennial
Venue: Ahmed Perwaz Gallery, Arts Council, Karachi
2003
Tradition without Apology, Reconciling Multiple Identities in Pakistani Art
Organized on the occasion of the Takhti Exhibition
Venue: Ahmed Perwaz Gallery, Arts Council, Karachi
2001
audience
nahid raza on the podium
audience
workshops
Curatorial Practices in Pakistan for artists and art students
Venue: The National Art Gallery, PNCA (Pakistan National Council of the Arts), Islamabad.
2009
Curatorial Practices in Pakistan for artists and art students
Art Curriculum in the School for Art Teachers
Venue: Teachers Resource Centre, Karachi
2003-2007 (annually)
Art and Cultural Journalism for Art Reporters
Venue: PNCA Regional Office, Karachi
2002
Art and Cultural Journalism for Reporters
Venue: PNCA Main Office, Islamabad
2000