Total Landscaping

12 September 202429 March 2025

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‘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 their 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 2024

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

advent

Additional support provided by

Fairfirst Insurance
Foto Design
Lego International (Pvt) Ltd.
NEO Graphics
.

Radio Partner

Yes FM

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