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Artist— Pakistan Pavilion- 61st Venice Biennale 2026 @labiennale

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📣 Upcoming talk:
Faiza Butt at the Aga Khan Centre, London

The Pakistan Society invites you and your guest to an illustrated talk by the distinguished artist Faiza Butt on her major solo exhibition ‘Punj.AB: A Sublime Terrain’, representing Pakistan at the 61st Venice Biennale 2026.

‘Punj.AB: A Sublime Terrain’ marks Pakistan’s second National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, one of the world’s most significant international platforms for contemporary art.

Event Details

📆 Thursday, 8 October 2026
Arrival from 5.30 pm
Talk from 6.00–8.00 pm

📍Aga Khan Centre
10 Handyside Street
London N1C 4DN

Nearest station:
King’s Cross St Pancras

Light refreshments will be served.

RSVP Essential: pakistanpavilion2026@gmail.com
Book using the link in our bio

#faizabutt #pakistansociety @thepaksocuk @pakistan_pavilion_2026 @faizaaugust7 taken in Aga Khan Centre by @faizaaugust7

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Please join me for an in depth talk about the Pakistan Pavilion, at the 61st Venice Biennale, at the Aga khan centre. #pakistanpavilion2026#labiennaledivenezia#agakhancentre#contemporaryartfromsouthasia#faizabutt by @faizaaugust7

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Aina Gallery’s fantastic new space opens with the show ‘other stories’ in the Chelsea district of NY. The grand opening show features key artists from the South Asian region. Don’t miss the show #ainagallery#AinagalleryNewyork#contemporaryartfromsouthasia#southasianmodernism#FaizaButt by @faizaaugust7

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Take a look inside Faiza Butt’s “Punj•ab – A Sublime Terrain” at the 2026 Venice Biennial, curated by Beatriz Cifuentes Feliciano

📍Ex Farmacia Solveni, Fondamenta Priuli, Dorsoduro 993-994 by @faizaaugust7

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Faiza Butt and Shirin Neshat together in Venice, where both artists are part of this year’s Biennale.

Two distinct practices, brought together by shared questions of identity, memory, place and belonging.

Faiza Butt
Punj•ab – A Sublime Terrain
Curated by Beatriz Cifuentes Feliciano

📍Ex Farmacia Solveni, Fondamenta Priuli, Dorsoduro 993-994

Shirin Neshat
Do U Dare!
Curated by Ilaria Bernardi and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi

📍 Palazzo Marin, San Marco / Fondamenta Narisi, 2541,

#VeniceBiennale #BiennaleArte2026 #FaizaButt #ShirinNeshat taken in La Biennale di Venezia by @faizaaugust7

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In the latest: The New York Times Style Magazine feature on Pakistani artists of the diaspora, Faiza Butt’s work stands out for the way it turns questions of belonging into something intensely visual and personal.

With a focus on her participation in the Venice Biennial, the article discuses the intricate, densely layered compositions of the artist that focus on migration, memory, and contemporary life, challenging the idea that identity has to belong neatly to one place.

As the article places her alongside a wider generation of Pakistani artists living and working across borders, Butt’s practice feels especially resonant: diasporic, but never detached; rooted, but constantly evolving.

Read the article through the link in our bio. by @faizaaugust7

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Faiza Butt (b. 1973) is a Pakistani contemporary artist trained at NCA Lahore and the Slade School of Art, London. Her meticulously crafted works merge miniature painting techniques with photographic imagery, exploring gender, identity, media representation and cultural stereotypes. Through her intricate dot-based practice, she transforms images of masculinity, violence and the Muslim identity into visually striking, layered narratives. Her celebrated Pehlwan series further examines hyper-masculinity and the politics of the male gaze. by @faizaaugust7

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Samar F Zia engages in a conversation with Faiza Butt on The Venice Biennale which opened on 09th May 2026 and will continue till 22 Nov 2026 displayed at Ex Farmacia Solveni, Dorsoduro 993-994, Venice.

“In light of this upcoming exhibition, sometime in April, I sat down to have a conversation with Faiza Butt. Although a lot of information was confidential at the time, I learnt that the state backed pavilion of Pakistan was to explore the crafts and indigenous cultures of Punjab, Butt yielded that she took into account historic Punjab, elucidating that borders and boundaries are fluid, they shift over time but the culture persists, morphs and expands to respond to the needs of the populace on the ground” @samarfzia_art

Slide 2: Private View of Punjab: A Sublime Terrain
Slide 3: ‘In memory of a new age’ series, Hand woven wool and cotton, 2026
365 x 275cm each
Slide 4: The artist, in front of her work at the Pakistan Pavillion 2026
Slide 5: Dream Relic, Hand Spun Cotton, organic dyes and thread, Collaboration with Haveli Craft, Shergarh, Punjab, 2026, 365 x 275 cm

To read the full article, please visit our website. Link in bio.

#tkcdiscursive #thekarachicollective #venicebiennale taken in Venice, Italy by @faizaaugust7

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Faiza Butt’s presentation at the Venice bienalle includes “Shadow Relics” a series of sculptural works that reference Sikh and British colonial military honours, drawing on the visual language of medallions, regalia and ornament that recurs throughout the tapestry series. They reflect the medals awarded to Sikh soldiers of the British army who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars.
Their forms highlight a hybridity in which local motifs
—such as elephants—coexist with European imagery,
including dragons, wreaths and Christian iconography.
The title Shadow Relics points to these jewels as traces
of histories that persist beyond their original context,
carrying the weight of memory and empire.
Shadow Relics was created in collaboration with Mohammed Hassan, a Lahore based Gem Dealer who provided technical support and specialist materials for the project. taken in La Biennale di Venezia by @faizaaugust7

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It’s all in the details 🪡

Take a closer look at the intricate details of Faiza Butt’s tapestries, each stitch tells a story.

Punj•AB — A Sublime Terrain by Faiza Butt, curated by Beatriz Cifuentes Feliciano at the 2026 Venice Biennale, by @faizaaugust7

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A new article by Dawn on Pakistan’s pavilion (Punj•AB — A Sublime Terrain by Faiza Butt, curated by Beatriz Cifuentes Feliciano) at the 2026 Venice Biennale, focuses on the context of the artwork and the process behind it.

The article explores how Butt uses monumental textiles, embroidery and layered imagery to reimagine Punjab as a landscape shaped by memory, migration, rivers and centuries of cultural exchange.

The article also highlights the collaborative nature of the project, created with artisans from Havelicrafts, blurring the boundaries between contemporary art and traditional craft. It’s an insightful look at the ideas, processes and cultural narratives behind one of Pakistan’s most significant presentations on the international art stage. taken in La Biennale di Venezia by @faizaaugust7

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Memory of a New Age 10, 2026 produced at the US Group facility in Izmir Town, this jacquard-woven tapestry was conceived by Butt and developed in collaboration with the factory. It represents an industrial counterpart to the handmade works in the exhibition. Drawing on the Arab period of Punjab’s history, it depicts the Shah Gardez Shrine in Multan. Woven in denim, the work foregrounds indigo as both material and chromatic reference. Its deep blue recalls the ceramic tilework of Multan’s shrines, linking industrial textile production to architectural and devotional traditions.

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Faiza Butt
Memory of a New Age 10, 2026
Pakistan Jacquard-woven indigo denim with laser imaging
365 x 275 cm

Punj-AB: A Sublime Terrain by Faiza Butt
Curated by Beatriz Cifuentes Feliciano taken in La Biennale di Venezia by @faizaaugust7

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