Now on view
‘Total Landscaping’
12 September 2024–29 May 2025
‘Total Landscaping’ explores the broad, dramatic, and stirring ways in which land has been transformed in Sri Lanka. The exhibition brings together 29 contemporary artists whose works go beyond traditional illustrations of landscapes. Instead, their works register the different ways in which perceptions of land have been constructed and contested.
‘Total Landscaping’ unfolds as a sequence of changing displays that elicit
an all-out renegotiation of our relationships to land.
Rotation 1
12 September–1 December 2024
Anomaa Rajakaruna
Arulraj Ulaganathan
Barbara Sansoni
Chandraguptha Thenuwara
Danushka Marasinghe
Dominic Sansoni
Hanusha Somasundaram
Jagath Weerasinghe
Jasmine Nilani Joseph
Jesper Nordahl
Pradeep Thalawatta
Sebastian Posingis
Stephen Champion
Suntharam Anojan
Thavarasa Thajendran
Thisath Thoradeniya
Rotation 2
15 December 2024–2 March 2025
Abdul Halik Azeez
Chandraguptha Thenuwara
Danushka Marasinghe
Dominic Sansoni
Jasmine Nilani Joseph
Koralegedara Pushpakumara
Pala Pothupitiya
Pradeep Thalawatta
T. Shanaathanan
Rotation 3
15 March–29 May 2025
Bandu Manamperi
Danushka Marasinghe
Deshan Tennekoon
Isuri Dayaratne
Laki Senanayake
M. Vijitharan
Muhanned Cader
Ruvin de Silva
Sakina Aliakbar
Suntharam Anojan
Tashiya de Mel
Curated by Sandev Handy and Thinal Sajeewa
Exhibition Design by Jonathan Edward assisted by Raeesah Samsudeen and Shamod Dilshan
Exhibition Identity by Nia Thandapani
Exhibition Production by Malshani Delgahapitiya
Editorial by Kaumadi Jayaweera
Translations by Ambikai Forman, Kaumadi Alawathugoda, Miriam Naveendran, Pirintha Kulasingam, Raeesha Ikram, Ravihari Ravendrakumar, Saambavi Sivaji, and Shiyalni Janarthanan
We would like to thank all the artists, lenders, funders, and our Founding Patrons for the generous support in making this exhibition possible.
Additional thanks and gratitude to:
Akesh Fernando
Anoja Seneviratne
Bilesha Fernando
Crescat Management, Maintenance, and Security
Dinesha Pinnagoda
Dinuk Senanayake
Dominic Sansoni
Jagath Weerasinghe
Kalpa Munasinghe
Kamal Sanjeewa
Neeta Suvarna
Nishantha Hettiarachchi
P. G. D. Dilrukshi
Priyantha Wickramaratna
Rohana Bandara Herath
Rasika Silva
Shathis Perera
Soniya Rajendran
Sujeewa De Silva
The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka is a non-profit organisation that receives annual financial support for all its activities.
The museum gratefully recognises the immense support of the following donors for working with us to build a museum of modern and contemporary art in Sri Lanka.
Major Benefactor
John Keells Foundation
Founding Patrons 2025
The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka is a non-profit organisation that receives annual financial support from a group of Founding Patrons. We proudly recognise and thank the following Founding Patrons for working with us to build a museum of modern and contemporary art in Sri Lanka.
Shivanthi Atukorale and Ravin Basnayake
The Fitch Family
Abbas and Alnaas Esufally
Koenraad Pringiers
Anila and Romesh Bandaranaike
Shanila Alles
Samantha de Silva
Ajit and Chandani Gunewardene
Sharmila and Akram Cassim
Amitha, Arshia, and Shasthi Silva
Sheamalee Wickramasingha and Mahen Weerasekera
Angeline Ondaatjie
Suresh Dominic
Christoph Feyen
Kumar and Ranmali Mirchandani
‘Total Landscaping’ exhibition is generously supported by
SEDR Sri Lanka
Main Exhibition Sponsor
Advent Projects Private Limited
Additional support provided by
Fairfirst Insurance
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Lego International (Pvt) Ltd.
NEO Graphics
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Yes FM
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