Events Diary

It’s the season for the arts as Colomboscope returns from January 21 to 31. Titled
‘Rhythm Alliances’, the festival brings together live performances, curated walks,
listening sessions, artist encounters, film screenings, and hands-on workshops , unfolding
across Colombo at venues ranging from the Barefoot Gallery, Colpetty Town House,
Radicle Gallery, Rio Complex, and Soul Studio
All exhibitions and most events are free and open to the public, with selected
programmes requiring prior registration due to limited capacity. The full programme for
the festival is available at www.colomboscope.lk/rhythm-alliances

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TAKE on Art × KALĀ present a month-long focus on South Asian art. KALA’s return
this January is positioned as a cross-border contemporary arts platform, bringing together
leading artists, curators, scholars, and cultural practitioners from across South Asia in
exhibitions, live performances, workshops, walk-throughs, and conversations that
explore memory, materiality, reconciliation, and contemporary artistic practice across
South Asia.
The exhibition ‘Shared Ground: South Asia in Conversation’ at 138, Galle Road, features
established and mid-career artists whose practices are deeply rooted in socio-political,
post-colonial, ecological and material research. The artists are: Ahmed Rasel
(Bangladesh), Eagan Badeeu (Maldives), Farhat Ali (Pakistan), Firi Rahman (Sri Lanka),
Gopa Trivedi (India), Khadim Ali (Afghanistan), Kiran Maharjan (Nepal), Kishwar Kiani
(Pakistan), Phurba Namgay (Bhutan), Tashi Lama (Nepal), Vibha Galhotra (India), and
Marie Gnanaraj (Sri Lanka).
The exhibition will continue until February 18.
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ARTRA Trail 2026, taking place at the Lionel Wendt Gallery in Colombo (January 16-
22) and across Galle Fort (January 23-25) presents the exhibition, ‘Silenced’ curated by
Azara Jaleel. Featuring the works of 15 contemporary artists including Menika van der
Poorten, Marco Manamperi, Gayan Prageeth, Sujeewa Kumari, Layla Gonaduwa, Kesara
Ratnavibhushana, Sanjeewa Kumara, Hathi Mohamed, and Malki Jayakody, the works
respond to the issue of erasure taking in Sri Lanka’s socio-political changes from the
1980s to the 2020s.