ASEF Culture360 | Connecting Asia and Europe through arts and culture


Get in-depth perspectives through commissioned articles, interviews and reports on current topics for Asia-Europe cultural relations.


By Ghulam Shabir Arain

28 Mar 2023

Fostering Creativity and Innovation: The Role of Cultural Policy in Pakistan's Cultural Sector

Pakistan’s cultural heritage is a wealthy inventory of ancient monuments, literary masterpieces, and traditional crafts. However, despite its rich cultural heritage, Pakistan's cultural sector has faced many challenges, especially during …

By Sumaira Malik

05 Jan 2023

The future of Asian Folk regional music and its feasibility for Digitization

Digital technologies are now re-shaping popular culture around the world but as a developing country Pakistan is still far behind in terms of digital reach and infrastructure.

By Winnie Lim

13 Dec 2021

<de>confine 2021 | Interview with Media Art South Asia

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<de>confine 2021, was a South Asian Digital Arts Festival that ran from the 10th to 30th of November 2021 across South Asia and online. Curated by Media Art South Asia, <de>confine …

By Masuma Halai Khwaja

09 Nov 2021

The Seminal Art of Aisha Khalid

Formally trained in the Indo-Persian miniature traditions from the National College of Arts Lahore and having completed her post-graduation from the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Aisha Khalid is one of Pakistan’s …

By Veeranganakumari Solanki

14 Jan 2021

Funding the Arts in the time of pandemic

This article by Veerangana Solanki looks at various art funding models that emerged in three South Asian ASEM countries – Bangladesh, India, Pakistan – to support artists and art practices …

By Masuma Halai Khwaja

19 Feb 2018

Reel On Hai | A Public Outreach Project of the Karachi Biennale 2017

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With a population of over 24 million, Karachi is home to a very ethnically diverse population. It has grown in size from a small coastal settlement to a mega city …

Urbanities: Exploring Art and Public Space in Pakistan

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Throughout 2016, a fertile collaboration between the Goethe-Institut Pakistan and the Lahore Biennale Foundation –among other partners- promoted a multidimensional project focused on the exploration of urban and public space …

By Claire Wilson

27 Sep 2016

Poets translating poets | A space for meaningful exchange

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Poets Translating Poets is a project of the Goethe-Institut/Max Muller Bhavan Mumbai that brings together poets from Germany, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to translate each other’s poems in …

By Valentina Riccardi

26 Sep 2016

7 Case studies on Arts Management in South Asia | New publication launched

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ASEF culture360 is proud to launch a new research titled "Arts Management: challenges and learning from 7 cultural organisations in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan".

Interview with Adeela Suleman | VASL Artists’ Collective | Karachi, Pakistan

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[caption id="attachment_56313" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Zhou Bin, Vasl International Artists’ Workshop, 2012[/caption]   Adeela Suleman is a Visual Artist, Head of the Fine Art Department at Indus Valley School, and Coordinator …

By Kerrine Goh

24 Dec 2013

The Dawn of a New Age &#124; Cinema in Pakistan

[caption id="attachment_9515" align="alignleft" width="290"] International Cast of 'Josh'[/caption] Contributed by Shayan Shakeel In 2012, a little known filmmaker from Pakistan won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short and …

By Atteqa

20 Dec 2012

Building curatorial knowledge in Pakistan

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The Curatorial Knowledge Forum held on 17 November 2012 in Karachi, Pakistan, was part of a two-week residency programme - the Asia-Europe Curatorial Knowledge Workshop.

By Kerrine Goh

22 Mar 2012

A New Hope

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A country that is having to make important decisions on how to fight the terrorist threat, relations with its neighbour, its healthcare system, even its Cricket affairs, Pakistan is at …

By Kerrine Goh

04 Feb 2011

Addicted to Love?

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At the Café 9 on Zamzama Boulevard, a couple sits across from each other while the server flips TV stations to find something appropriate for the setting. As he flips …

By Siddharth

18 Feb 2010

Riding the radio wave: community radio in South Asia

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India’s first cable community radio station, Namma Dhwani (meaning ‘Our Voice’) has made a small but substantial impact on the everyday lives of the villagers.