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Year 2025 marks the 150 Years of Excellence of the National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore, Pakistan since its inception as the Mayo School of Art (MSA) in 1875.
The first edition of The NCA Triennale, 2025: Kasb-e-Kamal Kun is scheduled to begin in October 2025.
Open Call for Workshops on diverse topics evolving from the overarching concept of The NCA Triennale 2025 - Kasb-e-Kamal Kun; Keh Aziz-e-Jahan Shavi (seek excellence in the work of the hand so you may be admired by the world).
For visual artists, designers, architects, musicians, film, television, and theatre professionals, and traditional art and craft practitioners.
Further details and Application Guidelines for Workshop available here.
For queries and further information, please contact
Curatorial Statement,
Kasb-e-Kamal Kun
Between the
anywhen of time and the anywhere of place
a missing piece is to be drawn.
Poetry lacks definition, so –
the hand crafts its own poetry
leaving its verse behind
in a minutia of traces.
I am no more cognitive – and
my hand is path, trajectory, flight,
a settled motion,
precision of the tool.
Hinging onto another, I am the fragment that
fulfils the existence of the matrix of the rest.
I am the missing piece.
Prof. Dr. Murtaza Jafri
Vice Chancellor