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Exhibitions Archive: 2005
Swedish- Sri Lankan Artists Residency Exhibition: With the collaboration of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm and the Swedish Institute, Theertha organized a Swedish - Sri Lankan Artists Residency Program between December 2004 and January 2005. Three Swedish artists (Jacob Dhalgren, Filippa Airas and Jesper Nordahl) and three Sri Lankan artists (Pala Pothupitiya, Anoli Perera and Nilanthi Weerasekera) participated and resulting exhibition was held at the Harold Peiris Gallery, Colombo between the 3rd and 9th of January 2005. The Swedish Sri Lankan Artists Residency Program and exhibition was sponsored by Swedish Institute and Theertha.
Contemporary Sri Lankan Art: Works by 10 Artists: As a further development of the Swedish- Sri Lankan artists’ collaboration, an exhibition of contemporary Sri Lankan art consisting of artworks by ten artists was held at the Millesgarden Museum gallery in Sweden from 9th April to 25th May 2005. It was a project undertaken with the partnership of Millesgarden, a museum dedicated to artist Carl Milles’ work in Lidingo, Sweden. The exhibition was curated by the museum’s chief curator William Wareing.
South Asian Women Artists Residency program Exhibition: The South Asian Women Artists Residency program was an event that brought women artists together from different cultural, geographical and artistic backgrounds. The residency was held from 16th May to 9th June 2005 at the Theertha Art Guest House. Its also part of the ongoing cultural exchange and regional cooperation within south Asia. Prabhavathi Meppayil from India, Sakunthala Galanga and Neranjala Gunasinghe from Sri Lankan participated in the residency. The exhibition was held at the end of the residency at the Finomenal Space Gallery from 10th June to 23rd June 2005. The South Asian Women Artists Residency program was sponsored by Hivos and Ford Foundation (through Triangle Art Trust).
Theertha International Art Residency 2005: International Art Residency Program 2005 invited four local and international artists whose work experience includes sculpting. The four artists participating in the residency program were Stephen Mckenzie (Sweden), Joy Deb Roaja (Bangladesh), Torin Chandrasekara (Sri Lanka), and Nishantha Rukmal Hettiarachchi (Sri Lanka). The work produced during the 24 days of the residency gave us an insight into the energy invested by them and their experimental, innovatively playful and serious absorption in their work. The exhibition was held at the Goethe Institute on 28th September 2005. The Art Residency Program was sponsored by Hivos, Ford Foundation (through Triangle Art Trust) and the Goethe Institut , Colombo.
Sri Lankan Art: 20th Centaury: Through most of its programs Theertha has brought awareness of art to the regional and economically difficult communities. Since 2005 Theertha has intensified this awareness building and added another emphasis which is to develop art audiences across borders of ethnic, cultural, religious and geographical boarders. A large exhibition on ‘20th century Sri Lankan Art’ was put together on 49 panels, digitally printed giving the history of Sri Lanka art narrating visually and textually in Sinhala. The exhibition started touring Sri Lanka from 2005 September ( Dehiattakandiya, Aludeniya, Gampaha, Colombo), which will tour for 2 years. A Tamil version of the exhibition was put together which toured the eastern province (Ampara, Akkaraipattu and Sammanthurai) in February 2005. In each place an audience of around 4000 –5000 consisting of art students, school children, art teachers and the general public has viewed the exhibition.
Theerha staff
exhibitions: Majority of the staff working at the
Theertha office and the Theertha core group are practicing artists. In
the past Theertha has noticed that most of these artists’ creative
output being effected as Theertha work seem to take priority.
Although Theertha only works on 3 days to give rest of the days to do
their creative work, artists tend to ignore this to meet
deadline. While Theertha appreciates their commitment to
Theertha, a rule has been enforced now to make sure the Theertha
artists be active in their art practices. That is “every artist who
works for Theertha have to hold an exhibition or do a new art project
within 14 months time”. Following exhibitions were held during
2005.
• K. Pushpakumara held the first exhibition under this scheme in February 2005 at the Fenomenal Space Gallery.
• Jagath Weerasinghe has scheduled an exhibition ‘Celestel Underware’ to be exhibited in June 2005.