Dhaka Art Summit, an initiative of the Samdani Art Foundation, will run from February 5 to 8, 2016, in collaboration with the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
The world’s largest platform for South Asian art brings together artists, curators, scholars, museums representatives and numerous visitors from Bangladesh and across the world to discover institutional-quality artworks in a non-profit atmosphere, while this edition’s curatorial team includes representatives from renowned museums, such as the Tete Modern in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Guggenheim in New York.
The announcement came out yesterday in a press conference at the auditorium of National Art Gallery where Nadia Samdani, the director of Dhaka Art Summit, Liaquat Ali Lucky, the director general of BSA, Gousul Alam Shaon, a member of the summit organising committee and Muniruzzaman, curator of Bangladeshi contemporary art exhibitions, were present.
Expanding to a four-day-long event, the biennale will include new programmes for architecture, experimental writing and historic archives in the 2016 edition.
Diana Campbell Betancourt, the artistic director of the foundation, will curate the solo projects, public art projects and the talks programmes like the previous editions, while Nadia Raza from Tete Modern will explore the influence of sci-fi and retro-futurism in South Asia art.
Like the previous edition, the Samdani Art Foundation has collaborated with the Delfina Foundation (UK) to award an outstanding young Bangladeshi artist the opportunity to attend a three-month residency at the Delfina Foundation in London as part of the bi-annual Samdani Art Award.
