Barefoot Gallery in Colombo

Location: 704 Galle Road, Colombo 00300, Sri Lanka
Telephone : + 94 (0) 11 2505559
Fax : + 94 (0) 11 2580114

Barefoot Gallery in Colombo is one of the most popular galleries in the city. If you are an art-lover or even an aesthetic, then do visit this place that conserves the beauty of art, nourishes and promotes it for being transmitted across centuries through humans. You should also visit this gallery to explore the cultural heritage of Colombo in Sri Lanka that has not only produced world-acclaimed works but also made efforts to uphold it through displays to the world coming to its doors. History says that Barbara Sansoni founded this gallery in the 1960's. Initially Barefoot Gallery was called the Colombo Gallery, which functioned from a building the designs of which were conceived by a Danish architect, Ulrick Plesner.

If you visit Barefoot Gallery in Colombo at present, you will spot it in a house of the colonial times. Located off the Galle Road, Barefoot Gallery in Colombo is set amidst a garden filled with frangipani filled. You will find the connoisseurs of art, painters and artists flocking to Barefoot Gallery in Colombo to experience some of the rarest and unique exhibitions acclaimed across the world. These exhibitions are organized in Barefoot Gallery in Colombo regularly in so that the famous painters or artists like Robert Sedgley and Preethi Hapuwatte can showcase their works of art, unique either in form or in content.

Some of the spectacular Artists and their exhibitions in Barefoot Gallery in Colombo

  -   Preethi Hapuwatte
  -   Thierry Arensma , an exhibition and book of photographs
  -   Alex Stewart
  -   Nelun Harasgama
  -   Mysteries and Miracles, paintings by Josephine Balakrishnan
  -   Ranjan Aluwihare - Watercolour forms
  -   Dr. Sarath Chandrajeewa
  -   Sybil Keyt and Neville Weereratne
  -   Robert Sedgley
  -   Laki Senanayake
  -   Koralegedara Pushpakumara