Bio
Pak Khawateen Painting Club, founded by Saba Khan in 2019, (translated from the Urdu as Pure Pakistani Women’s Painting Club) was formed by invitation to create a new commission at the Lahore Biennale 02 (2020) by Hoor Al Qasimi. It is a trajectory of the Murree Museum Artist Residency, a yearly artist-run initiative that invites practitioners to examine postcolonial conditions and the decay of the British-Raj era hill-station Murree, a microcosm of municipal, bureaucratic and ecological issues. The painting club investigates powerful megastructures that lead to problems at a transnational level.

Its core concerns revolve around water bodies, hydro architecture, municipal, bureaucratic, and ecological conflicts. The Painting Club investigates powerful mega structures that result in the displacement of indigenous populations, ecological imbalance and environmental devastation. The unequal division of resources and the inundation of histories, hydrological engineering.

Club participants from 2019 to 2022:
Malika Abbas, Saulat Ajmal, Amna Hashmi, Saba Khan, Natasha Malik, Zohreen Murtaza, Emaan Shaikh.
Emaan Shaikh, Malika Abbas, Lumens Studios UK, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.



Founder
Saba Khan Bio:

1k.saba@gmail.com
www.sabakhan.com

Saba’s multimedia works shapes around the language of memorial, monuments, water projects and expeditions. From miniature dioramas of a bureaucrat's boring office, flashing LED of retro sci-fi machines seen at power stations to indigo textile banners honouring peasant revolts, she balances grandeur, artifice and satire in order to explore the cracks in the structures.

Saba Khan founded Murree Museum Artist Residency (2014 – 2020) and a satirical artist collective Pak Khawateen Painting Club (PKPC, 2019) triggered from the commission of Lahore Biennale 02. Shows/residencies include: Delfina Foundation (2023), Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023), Onassis AiR (2022), Jameel Art Centre (2022), Paul Mellon Centre (2021), Lahore Biennial (2020), “ONE” at COMO Lahore (2019), “Zinda-dil-a’an-e-Lahore–Billboard Project” (2020) an initiative of Lahore Biennale Foundation, Karachi Biennale (2018), New York Times (2018),. Grants: 421 (2022), Foundation for the Arts Initiative (2018), Sharjah Art Foundation (2020), Graham Foundation (2020), British Council (2020, 2021, 2022). Her work is the collections of Sharjah Art Foundation (PKPC), Ford Foundation and has been published in the New York Times, Stir World and Asia Art Pacific.