Dhaka Art Summit

Dhaka Art Summit
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Dhaka Art Summit is an art summit held in Dhaka, Bangladesh and is organized by Samdani Art Foundation, a non- profit art infrastructure development organization founded by Nadia Samdani[1][2][3] & Rajeeb Samdani in 2011. The summit displays artworks such as paintings, photography, sculptures, installations, digital art, video art, etc.[4]

Title Date Director Artists Visitors
1st Dhaka Art Summit 2012 12–15 April 2012 Diana Campbell Betancourt 200 20,000
2nd Dhaka Art Summit 2014 7–9 February 2014 Diana Campbell Betancourt 250 20,000
3rd Dhaka Art Summit 2016 5–8 February 2016 Diana Campbell Betancourt 300 20,000

Dhaka Art Summit 2018

To be announced...

Dhaka Art Summit 2016

A sampling of South Asia's most avant-garde arts went on display last week as the Bangladeshi capital played host to the third Dhaka Art Summit (DAS), which is billed as the biggest event for contemporary arts in South Asia.

The 3rd edition of Dhaka Art Summit was held from February 5–8, 2016 in Dhaka. Seventeen Solo Projects, curated by Samdani Art Foundation Artistic Director Diana Campbell Betancourt, included thirteen newly commissioned works and three works reconfigured within the Bangladeshi context, reflecting the productive nature of DAS. The first DAS project commissioned by the Samdani Art Foundation, VIP Project (Dhaka) by Po Po, will first be unveiled at the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane. The solo projects will celebrate pluralism and look at the fluid continuum of birth and experience in becoming an individual, book-ended by Lynda Benglis and Tino Sehgal and with Shumon Ahmed, Tun Win Aung and Wah Nu, Simryn Gill, Waqas Khan, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Prabhavati Meppayil, Haroon Mirza, Amanullah Mojadidi, Sandeep Mukherjee, Po Po, Dayanita Singh, Ayesha Sultana and Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Munem Wasif and Mustafa Zaman.

Dhaka Art Summit 2014

The 2nd edition of Dhaka Art Summit took place in collaboration with Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy from 7 – 9 February 2014.[5] From its 2nd edition onwards,[6] the Summit intends to focus on South Asia. DAS 2014 will feature a wide range of programmes including five curatorial exhibitions by international and Bangladeshi curators, 14 solo art projects curated by the artistic director of the Samdani Foundation Diana Campbell Betancourt [7] feature celebrated artists from across South Asia, a city wide Public Art Project, Performances, Screening of experimental films, Speaker's Panel and the participation of 15 Bangladeshi and 17 South Asia focused galleries.[8][9]

The Samdani Art Foundation will also be awarding the Samdani Art Award during the Dhaka Art Summit, the winner will be decided by an international jury panel which will be chaired by Aaron Cezar (Director, Delfina Foundation) and will further include, Adriano Pedrosa (Independent curator), Jessica Morgan (Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art, Tate Modern), Sandhini Poddar (Associate. Curator, Guggenheim Museum) and Pooja Sood (Director, KHOJ India). The winning artist will receive a three-month residency at the Delfina Foundation in the United Kingdom[10][11][12]

Dhaka Art Summit 2012

The 1st edition of Dhaka Art Summit was held from 12–15 April 2012 at Shilpakala Academy.[13][14] The 1st edition of the Summit was held in collaboration with Shilpakala Academy and Bangladesh National Museum[15][16][17] and showcased the works of 249 artists and 19 galleries.[18][19] The 1st edition of the Summit focused only on the local artists and galleries. The Summit was visited over 40,000 visitors.[20] The Summit also organized a few session of talks which was participated by a group of international and local art brutes.[21]

Samdani Art Foundation also awarded the Samdani Artist Development Award to Khaled Hasan and Samdani Young Talent Award to Musrat Reazi at the Closing ceremony of Dhaka Art Summit.[22][23]

The award was judged by a panel of international judges that consisted of Kyla McDonald; Assistant Curator from Tate Modern Museum, Deepak Ananth, a professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in France, Elaine W Ng; Editor & Publisher of Art Asia Pacific Magazine, Bose Krishnamachari; founder of Kochi Biennale, renowned Artist Ravinder Reddy from India and Paris-based renowned Bangladeshi artist Shahabuddin Ahmed (artist).[24][25][26]

References

  1. ↑ Nadia on the upcoming Dhaka Art Summit Dhaka Mirror August 23, 2013
  2. ↑ Nadia on the upcoming Dhaka Art Summit dhakacourier August 29th, 2013
  3. ↑ Nadia on the Upcoming Dhaka Art Summit HighBeam Research
  4. ↑ Bangladesh’s First Art Summit Ends on a High Blouin Art Info, April 23, 2012
  5. ↑ http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/art-destination-dhaka/
  6. ↑ The Second Edition of Dhaka Art Summit Daily Sun July 9, 2013
  7. ↑ Au Bangladesh un festival d'art contemporain comme un miracle Le Monde February 10, 2014
  8. ↑ Dhaka Art Summit from February 7 The Independent July 10, 2013
  9. ↑ Best from Bangladesh Daily Pioneer July 9, 2013
  10. ↑ Dhaka Art Summit announces its 2nd edition Cutting edge art The Daily Star July 9, 2013
  11. ↑ DHAKA ART SUMMIT 2nd edition to highlight South Asian countries New Age July 9, 2013
  12. ↑ Samdani Art Award
  13. ↑ Bangladesh Strives to be the New "India" of Art Wall street Journal India, April 10, 2012
  14. ↑ Dhaka to host its first Annual Art Summit The Sunday Guardian
  15. ↑ Bangladesh's first art summit (and a hope to be the new India) Flash Art Online
  16. ↑ [ Dhaka Art Summit Kicks off] The Daily Star, April 13, 2012
  17. ↑ India Art Fair organisers to help set up Dhaka Art Fair IBN Live, April 9, 2012
  18. ↑ Early Strokes The Indian Express, April 22, 2012
  19. ↑ South Asia becomes new global art hub Hindustan Times
  20. ↑ The Art Market: Spring in the air Financial Times UK
  21. ↑ Dhaka to Host Bangladesh's First Art Summit Boulin Art Info
  22. ↑ Bangladeshi artists win Dhaka Art Summit 2012 awards for exposing social ills Art Radar Asia, April 25, 2012
  23. ↑ Samdani Art Awards Announced The Daily Star April 17, 2012
  24. ↑ Post Event Highlights From Dhaka Art Summit Invent Discover Fashion and Art Forecast, April 20, 2012
  25. ↑ Dhaka Art Summit Matters of Art, April 20, 2012
  26. ↑ Nadia Samdani, Founder of the Dhaka Art Summit, on the Samdani Artist Awards Blouin Art Info, May 26, 2012

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