Elevation (Chiltan), Suleman Aqeel Khilji (2025-2026) (EMPIRE LINES x White Cube Paris)

Contemporary artist Suleman Aqeel Khilji recollects the landscapes of Balochistan, a mountainous region spanning present-stay Pakistan and Iran, and the influence of Urdu language and literatures on his painting practice, through Elevation (Chiltan) (2025-2026).

Inside the White Cube: Suleman Aqeel Khilji: Transmission is at White Cube Paris until 25 July 2026.

Suleman Aqeel Khilji’s painting Untitled (London Zoo) (2025) is on view as part of Close Encounters: Figuration, Painting and Landscape in the Arts Council Collection, at Christie’s in London until 23 June 2026.

For more about artists Ali Kazim, Hamra Abbas, and Imran Qureshi, and the National College of Arts (NCA Lahore), hear curator Hammad Nasar on Did You Come Here To Find History?, Nusra Latif Qureshi (2009): pod.link/1533637675/episode/f6e05083a7ee933e33f15628b5f0f209

And read into the exhibition, Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now, at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes and The Box in Plymouth, in gowithYamo: gowithyamo.com/blog/small-and-mighty-south-asian-miniature-painting-and-britain-1600-to-now-at-mk-gallery

Hear artist Nalini Malani in the EMPIRE LINES episodes:

From The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998, with Shanay Jhaveri and Anita Dube, at the Barbican in London in 2024:

My Reality is Different (2022), at the Holburne Museum in Bath: pod.link/1533637675/episode/74b0d8cf8b99c15ab9c2d3a97733c8ed

And with curator Priyesh Mistry, on The Experiment with the Bird in the Air Pump, Joseph Wright of Derby (1768) and Nalini Malani (2022) at the National Gallery in London: pod.link/1533637675/episode/f62cca1703b42347ce0ade0129cedd9b

You can also read this article in gowithYamo: gowithyamo.com/blog/nalini-malani-my-reality-is-different-review

Read about War rugs: Afghanistan's knotted history at the British Museum in London, in The Markaz Review: themarkaz.org/afghanistans-histories-of-conflict-resistance-desires/

And from White Cube Paris, hear artist Sylvia Snowden in the EMPIRE LINES episode on M Street (1978-1997): pod.link/1533637675/episode/8e803c218bc4238d8ffceb5877f4a541

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ZED LOVE, Libita Sibungu (2026) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange)

In this special episode, contemporary artist Libita Sibungu joins EMPIRE LINES live, to explore the layers, energies, and geologies that connect people to place, and African diasporic, mixed and multi...

30 Heinä 58min

A Cutting: Songs of the Water, Kaajal Modi (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at If Trees Could Talk 2026, Eden Project)

Find out more about Kaajal Modi’s collaborative work with audio, oral storytelling, and cultural preservation, through ⁠⁠Arts of Noticing⁠⁠, an independent symposium in Leeds, as part of If Trees Coul...

16 Heinä 3min

The Deployment of Art: The Imperial War Museum’s Artistic Records Committee, 1968-1982, Clare Carolin (2026) (EMPIRE LINES Live at King’s College London)

In this special episode, author and contemporary art historian Clare Carolin joins EMPIRE LINES live, to discuss the British government’s deployment of art as an instrument of war in the North of Irel...

2 Heinä 52min

The Venice Lagoon, a legal person, Giovanni Pellegrini (2025) (EMPIRE LINES x Ocean Space, Venice Biennale 2026)

Researcher, artist, and curator Pietro Consolandi traces the ‘wetland turn’ in art, ecology, and environmental justice, via Giovanni Pellegrini’s 2025 documentary film, The Venice Lagoon, a legal pers...

4 Kesä 21min

Nobody Told Me Rivers Dream, Superflux (2025) (EMPIRE LINES x Klima Biennale Wien 2026)

Festival director Sithara Pathirana considers climate justice and public space in Europe, tracing the rights of the river Danube through Austria, Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, via the Kli...

7 Touko 17min

The Erasure of Palestine, Ahmad Al-Bazz (2026) (EMPIRE LINES x MuseumsEtc, Ibraaz)

Journalist, photographer, and filmmaker Ahmad Al-Bazz captures the depopulation and destruction of Palestinian villages and towns, and the continuation of colonial histories into the present, through ...

23 Huhti 24min

Human Being and Animals, Karel Appel (1949) (EMPIRE LINES x Galerie Max Hetzler)

Curator Franz W. Kaiser considers the avant-garde paintings of Karel Appel, in relation to the historic CoBrA Movement and contemporary ecologies, via Human Being and Animals (1949).Karel Appel: Varia...

9 Huhti 15min