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COUNTDOWN 2026
1 - Minute Film Night 7 Feb 2026 Barefoot Gallery Colombo, in collaboration with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka, is pleased to invite submissions for the second iteration of COUNTDOWN - a screening of one-minute films made by artists and creative practitioners experimenting with the format of video art and the moving image.
Submissions open until 26th January
Click here to read the rules and guidelines for submission.
Submit your 1 - Minute Film here.
Selected films will be screened on 7 February 2026 at the Barefoot Gallery Colombo.
Contact us at +94 77 025 5470 or artgallery@barefoot.lk for any queries.
කවුන්ට්ඩවුන්: මිනිත්තුවක චිත්රපට රාත්රිය
ශ්රී ලංකා නූතන හා සමකාලීන කලා කෞතුකාගාරය සමඟ සහයෝගීව කොළඹ බෙයාෆුට් ගැලරිය, චලන රූප සහ වීඩියෝ කලාව යන ආකෘති අත්හදා බලන කලාකරුවන් සහ නිර්මාණශීලී වෘත්තිකයන්ගේ මිනිත්තුවක චිත්රපට තිරගත කරන ‘කවුන්ට්ඩවුන්’ හි දෙවන වටය සඳහා, නිර්මාණ යොමුකිරීමට ඔබට ආරාධනා කරයි.
නිර්මාණ භාරගැනීම ජනවාරි 26 තෙක් විවෘතයි
නිර්මාණ සඳහා වූ කොන්දේසි සහ මාර්ගෝපදේශ සඳහා මෙය ක්ලික් කරන්න.
තෝරාගත් චිත්රපට කොළඹ බෙයාෆුට් ගැලරියහිදී 2026 පෙබරවාරි 26 දින තිරගත වෙනු ඇත.
විමසීම් සඳහා +94 77 025 5470 හෝ artgallery@barefoot.lk හරහා අප සමඟ සම්බන්ධ වෙන්න.
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பார்புட் கேலரி கொழும்பு மற்றும் நவீன மற்றும் சமகாலக்கலைக்கான இலங்கை அருங்காட்சியகம் இணைந்து கணிப்பின் இரண்டாம் வருட தொகுப்பை வழங்க தயாராகவுள்ளனர். கலைஞர்கள் உருவாக்கியுள்ள ஒரு நிமிட காணொளி மற்றும் அசையும் படம் போன்றவற்றை சமர்ப்பிக்க அழைப்பு விடுக்கின்றனர்.
சமர்பிப்பு திகதி - ஜனவரி 26
இங்கே கிளிக் செய்து நியதிகள் மற்றும் சமர்ப்பண கோட்பாடுகளை வாசியுங்கள்.
தெரிவு செய்யப்பட்ட படங்கள் 2026 பெப்ரவரி 7 பார்புட் கேலரி கொழும்பில் திரையிடப்படும்.
மேலதிக தகவல்களுக்கு +94 77 025 5470 அல்லது artgallery@barefoot.lk தொடர்பு கொள்ளுங்கள். Read more -
Neighbours dancing in my garden
Prasad Hettiarachchi 5 - 28 Feb 2026 Barefoot Gallery Colombo is delighted to welcome back Prasad Hettiarachchi, as he continues his inquiry into Sri Lanka’s rapidly changing landscape in his latest solo exhibition, Neighbours Dancing in my Garden.
Centred around ongoing developments across the island, his practice examines the exchange that takes place between those acquiring these lands and those who are displaced as a direct result of it. Read more -
RHYTHYM ALLIANCES
Colomboscope 21 - 31 Jan 2026 Rhythm Alliances is an exercise of attunement to the varied dispositions of rhythm—energizing, contrasting, haunting, recurring, turbulent, and imagined. Far more than a static exhibition, it is a celebration of energies and experimental forms. Since experiencing rhythm-making is also an invitation for time-travel, the acts in this edition assemble a communal score of creation, resistance, and alliance-building. Involving over 50 artists and collectives, musicians, choreographers, filmmakers and cultural organizers, the festival programme will continue its pluriversal journey across freely accessible venues in Colombo.
The ninth edition of Colomboscope draws on a range of vocabularies embodying rhythms of remembrance, dissent, and renewal. From the noise of a global order where hyperconsumption and war are rife, how may sonic counter-currents transmit the ingredients of struggles today, make paradoxical realities audible, echo in the lifeways of migrant belonging, and resonate shared dreaming? Across live experiences and exhibited works we will also explore the role of listening in producing relationships of reciprocity and engage with the ways in which acoustic leakages and vocal atmospheres compose new public territories that refute borderlines, data harvesting, and oppressive systems. Read more -
NOSTOS
Group Exhibition 18 Dec 2025 - 10 Jan 2026 At Barefoot Gallery, we acknowledge the source of our profound cultural knowledge - the artists, our heroes in both celebratory and turbulent times.
Artistic journeys are filled with challenges - both creative and emotional. In a world where we face thousands of images per day and wonder whether or not these images are AI-generated, how can individual artists speak their truth amidst the visual noise? How can we work together to bring their messages to settle within our collective consciousness?
NOSTOS features 9 exceptional Sri Lankan artists from multiple generations, whose careers have taken them in many directions, at times around the globe. Their artwork speaks to myriad subjects all grounded in Sri Lankan identity - history, politics, the natural world, village life, the mental gymnastics of daily life, all manifested through colour and a mix of media, in order to reflect our contemporary times.
Dominic Sansoni and Barefoot Gallery welcomes Bandu Manamperi, Chaminda Gamage, Chamila Gamage, Channa Ekanayake, K Pushpakumara, Saman Liyanage, Sanath Herath, S H Sarath and Tissa de Alwis to share tales of their journeys, so we might carry their courage into the New Year. Read more
