Dhaka Art Summit

Dhaka Art Summit is an art summit held in Dhaka, Bangladesh and is organised by Samdani Art Foundation, a non- profit art infrastructure development organisation founded by Nadia Samdani[1][2][3] and 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 200 20,000
2nd Dhaka Art Summit 2014 7–9 February 2014 Diana Campbell Betancourt 250 70,000
3rd Dhaka Art Summit 2016 5–8 February 2016 Diana Campbell Betancourt 300 138,000

2012

The 1st edition of the Summit was held in collaboration with Shilpakala Academy and Bangladesh National Museum[5][6][7][8][9] and showcased the works of 249 artists and 19 galleries.[10][11] The 1st edition of the Summit focused only on the local artists and galleries. The Summit was visited over 40,000 visitors.[12] The Summit also organised a few session of talks which was participated by a group of international and local art brutes.[13]

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.[14][15]

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 and 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.[16][17][18]

2014

The 2nd edition of Dhaka Art Summit took place in collaboration with Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy from 7 to 9 February 2014.[19] From its 2nd edition onwards,[20] the Summit decided to focus on South Asia. DAS 2014 featured 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[21] that celebrated artists from across South Asia. The summit featured a citywide public art project, performances, screening of experimental films, speaker's panel and participation of 15 Bangladeshi and 17 South Asia focused galleries.[22][23]

The Samdani Art Award was also presented to a young Bangladeshi artist Ayesha Sultana, during the Dhaka Art Summit, the winner was selected by an international jury panel which was chaired by Aaron Cezar (Director, Delfina Foundation) and included 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 received a three-month residency at the Delfina Foundation in the United Kingdom.[24][25][26]

2016

The 3rd edition of Dhaka Art Summit was held from 5 to 8 February 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, was first unveiled at the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial, 2015 in Brisbane.[27] The solo projects celebrated pluralism and looked 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.

This time in addition to new commissions and curated group exhibitions, DAS included talks, critical writing ensembles, performances, film programme, book launches and the Summit's first historical exhibition, Rewind. The Samdani Art Award finalists exhibition curated by Daniel Baumann (Director, Kunsthalle Zurich) ; The Missing One curated by Nada Raza (Research Curator, Tate Research Centre) ; Architecture in Bangladesh curated by Aurelién Lemonier (Curator of Centre Pompidou); The Performance Pavilion Shifting Sands Shifting Hands, curated by Nikhil Chopra, Madhavi Gore and Jana Prepeluh; Not as far as it seems, a series of conversations and sound pieces curated by Safina Radio Project; a Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri (Assistant Curator of South Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) ; as well as Critical Writing Ensemble, panel discussions and children workshop conducted by VAST Bhutan.

The winner of this year's Samdani Art Award is yound Bangladeshi Photographer Rasel Chowdhury.[28] The jury panel consisted of Catherine David (Deputy Director, Centre Pompidou, Paris), Aaron Seeto (Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art, QAGOMA, Brisbane), Cosmin Costinas (Director, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong), and Beatrix Ruf (Director, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam), chaired by Aaron Cezar (Director of Delfina Foundation, UK). The award show was curated by Daniel Baumann, who is the Director of the Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland.[29] The winning artist received a three-month residency at the Delfina Foundation in the United Kingdom.[30]

2018

February 2018

References

  1. ↑ Nadia on the upcoming Dhaka Art Summit Dhaka Mirror 23 August 2013
  2. ↑ Nadia on the upcoming Dhaka Art Summit dhakacourier 29 August 2013
  3. ↑ Nadia on the Upcoming Dhaka Art Summit HighBeam Research
  4. ↑ Bangladesh’s First Art Summit Ends on a High Blouin Art Info, 23 April 2012
  5. ↑ Bangladesh Strives to be the New "India" of Art Wall street Journal India, 10 April 2012
  6. ↑ Dhaka to host its first Annual Art Summit The Sunday Guardian
  7. ↑ Bangladesh's first art summit (and a hope to be the new India) Flash Art Online
  8. ↑ [ Dhaka Art Summit Kicks off] The Daily Star, 13 April 2012
  9. ↑ India Art Fair organisers to help set up Dhaka Art Fair IBN Live, 9 April 2012
  10. ↑ Early Strokes The Indian Express, 22 April 2012
  11. ↑ South Asia becomes new global art hub Hindustan Times
  12. ↑ The Art Market: Spring in the air Financial Times UK
  13. ↑ Dhaka to Host Bangladesh's First Art Summit Boulin Art Info
  14. ↑ Bangladeshi artists win Dhaka Art Summit 2012 awards for exposing social ills Art Radar Asia, 25 April 2012
  15. ↑ Samdani Art Awards Announced The Daily Star 17 April 2012
  16. ↑ Post Event Highlights From Dhaka Art Summit Invent Discover Fashion and Art Forecast, 20 April 2012
  17. ↑ Dhaka Art Summit Matters of Art, 20 April 2012
  18. ↑ Nadia Samdani, Founder of the Dhaka Art Summit, on the Samdani Artist Awards Blouin Art Info, 26 May 2012
  19. ↑ http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/art-destination-dhaka/
  20. ↑ The Second Edition of Dhaka Art Summit Daily Sun 9 July 2013
  21. ↑ Au Bangladesh un festival d'art contemporain comme un miracle Le Monde 10 February 2014
  22. ↑ "Dhaka Art Summit from February 7". The Independent. Dhaka. 10 July 2013. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013.
  23. ↑ Best from Bangladesh Daily Pioneer 9 July 2013
  24. ↑ Dhaka Art Summit announces its 2nd edition Cutting edge art The Daily Star 9 July 2013
  25. ↑ "Dhaka Art Summit: 2nd edition to highlight South Asian countries". New Age. Dhaka. 9 July 2013. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
  26. ↑ Samdani Art Award
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