To Lunuganga லுணுகங்கையிற்காக ලූණුගඟ වෙත
April 2023 – August 2024
Season 1:
May – August 2023
Yala / Sirupokam / Southwest Monsoon 2023
Programme announced in June 2023
Season 2:
September 2023 – April 2024
Maha / Perumpokam / Northeast Monsoon / 2023 – 2024
Programme announced July 2023
Season 3:
May – August 2024
Yala / Sirupokam / Southwest Monsoon / 2024
Programme announced in April 2024
When the Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa set up the Geoffrey Bawa Trust 40 years ago in 1982, its mission was focussed on fostering ecological and environmental sciences, art, and architecture—a visionary choice of intertwined disciplines. Perhaps as an architect who worked on a garden his whole life, this foresight was inevitable.
That garden, Lunuganga, celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2023. Felicitating this occasion, the Geoffrey Bawa Trust explored the inseparability of art and ecology in a long-format programme titled To Lunuganga. The programme is organised across three seasons, considering the overarching and increasingly unpredictable temporalities at Lunuganga, and its relationship to the Earth’s crust, to the biosphere, and the cosmos.
Season 1: May – August 2023
Yala / Sirupokam / Southwest Monsoon 2023
Season 2: September 2023 – April 2024
Maha / Perumpokam / Northeast Monsoon / 2023 – 2024
Season 3: May – August 2024
Yala / Sirupokam / Southwest Monsoon / 2024
Collaborating with a range of individuals and institutions from Sri Lanka and overseas, participants of the programme included:
Chathuri Nissansala (Sri Lanka), Clara Kraft Isono (UK), Ena de Silva Foundation (Sri Lanka), Firi Rahman (Sri Lanka), Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne (Sri Lanka), Hélène Binet (UK), Instituto Burle Marx (Brazil), Ravibandhu Vidyapathy (Sri Lanka), Reena Saini Kallat (India), Salome Nanayakkara (Sri Lanka), Sarath Kotagama (Sri Lanka), Setareh Noorani (Netherlands), Shenuka Corea (Sri Lanka), Sumayya Vally (South Africa), University of Sri Jayawardenepura (Sri Lanka), University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka)
A full list of collaborators can be found here.
Four essential themes underscored the programme: nature and the natural, empathy through ecology, access beyond language and garden as lens. The Trust’s curatorial team explored multivocal projects dedicated to the garden across generations and geographies.
View the programme here.