01 / CURRENT
STUDENT SHOWCASE · MIXED MEDIA
First Draft: City Memory
An original fictional student-exhibition concept inspired by Lahore’s experimental art-school energy. No real NCA student work is represented or attributed.
22 AUG — 18 OCTWhat we
put in motion.
Seven exhibitions and cultural projects moving between image, material, sound, text and the city.
06
SEASON
SEASON
02 / COMMISSION
TEXTILE · FIELD RECORDING
Soft Structures
Hira Nabi turns cloth, recorded labour and projected light into a changing installation.
04 SEP — 02 NOV03 / LIVING ARCHIVE
CITY
AS
ARCHIVE
AS
ARCHIVE
LAHORE · PUBLIC COLLECTION
Posters, photographs, voices.
A growing secular archive of streets, cinemas, colleges, buses, markets and everyday city life.
ONGOING04 / SCREENING ROOM
FILM · VIDEO ESSAY · DOCUMENTARY
After the Last Show
New moving-image work on Pakistan’s disappearing neighbourhood cinemas and changing screen culture.
11 OCT — 30 NOV05 / DESIGN RESEARCH
TYPEINK1950—NOWPRINT
GRAPHIC DESIGN · PRINT · TYPE
Printed in Pakistan
Book covers, matchboxes, film posters, packaging and independent publishing from 1950 to now.
05 NOV — 17 JAN06 / SOUND PROJECT
FIELD SOUND · INDIE MUSIC · RADIO
City Frequencies
A listening room built from railway platforms, workshops, rain, traffic and Lahore’s independent musicians.
EVERY FRIDAY07 / YOUNG CURATORS
EMERGING PRACTICE · OPEN CALL
New Ground
Ten early-career artists and writers test unfinished ideas in public, supported by mentors and peer critique.
12 DEC — 08 FEBBring us an idea
that needs room.
Our 2027 open call welcomes artists, filmmakers, writers, designers, researchers and independent cultural collectives across Pakistan.
Request the open-call pack