On Friday, the Dhaka Art Summit (DAS), Bangladesh's largest exhibition venue for art and architecture, will open (February 3). The sixth iteration of this event will have a Bengali theme for the first time, titled "Bonna (flood)". The festival will include more than 160 musicians from both domestic and foreign countries. This year's event, which will take place from February 3 to 11, will emphasise talks on various generations, gender relations, and climate change.
On February 1st, a press conference was held at Shilpakala Academy's Jatiya Chitrashala Auditorium to commemorate this year's Art Summit. The media was briefed on the events of the art summit by Nadia Samdani MBE and Mr. Rajeeb Samdani of the Samdani Art Foundation.
The National Art Gallery building of Shilpakala Academy will host the Dhaka Art Summit display. Around the show, the entire courtyard has already been beautifully adorned. During the nine-day event, prominent art critics and art collectors from both home and abroad will participate in workshops, performance seminars, and a variety of exhibitions.
In riverine Bangladesh, 'Bonna (flood)' is more than just a word for calamity; so, young girls are named 'Bonna' (flood). This time, "Bonna' (flood)" will be presented in a different way at the Dhaka Art Summit: with questions that challenge standard binary thinking about necessity and non-necessity, catastrophe recovery and rebuilding, children and adults, women and men, and so on. The shows of the participating artists will illustrate the full significance of this link. The Samdani Art Award show will also include the works of 12 Bangladeshi artists whose works will address social, economic, and environmental issues. Salman F. Rahman, the honourable prime minister's private sector and investment adviser, has agreed to attend the inauguration of the sixth Dhaka Art Summit on February 3. KM Khalid, Honourable State Minister for Culture, Liaquat Ali Lucky, Director General of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Nadia Samdani MBE, Director of Dhaka Art Summit and President of Samdani Art Foundation, Rajeeb Samdani, Trustee of Dhaka Art Summit and Samdani Art Foundation, Mohammad Saker Shamim, Managing Director & CEO of Golden Harvest Agro Industries Limited, and others will attend the opening day.
From 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., the Dhaka Art Summit will be available to the public, with proper security and amenities. Incoming tourists, on the other hand, will not be permitted to carry handbags larger than (8 inches * 6 inches). Any gadget that causes a disruption to the event will also be prohibited. Aside from that, no drink or food may be brought inside the arena.
Among the artists taking part in the sixth edition of the Art Summit are Sumaiya Vali, Antony Gromley, Asfika Rahman, Vinodbihari Mukherjee, Bhasha Chakraborty, Chitraprasad, Daniel Boyd, Damasus Hacha, Faisal Zaman, Ganesh Paini, Ghazaleh Avarzamani, Habik Chuhen, Habiba Nowroz, Jamal Ahmed, Jaydev Roja, Jani Rusika, Kabir Ahmed Masum Chishti, Kamruzzaman Swadhan, Lala Rukh, Lapdiang Saiyem, Marina Perez Simao, Nabil Ahmed, Nazmun Nahar Kaya, Paul Taburet, Rupali Gupta and Prasad Shetty, Purnima Akhtar, Rafiqun Nabi, Safiuddin Ahmed, Sahej Rahal, Tanya Goyal, Veronica Hapchenko, Yasmin Jahan Nupur. , Rizvi Hasan, Ganesh Pine and others.
In 2012, the Dhaka Art Summit began its journey. Five times since then, the exhibition has been finished successfully. The Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy hosts an art summit every two years, organised by the Samdani Art Foundation. The mission of this art foundation is to forge a close connection with Bangladeshi and South Asian art and to promote national artists abroad.
The Samdani Art Foundation (SAF), a private arts trust located in Bangladesh, was established in 2011 by collectors Nadia and Rajeeb Samdani to promote the country's contemporary artists and architects. The Samdani Art Foundation, run by curator and artist director Diana Campbell Betancourt, strives to introduce the public to contemporary art in Bangladesh and promote its artists on a global scale. Samdani Art Foundation organizes scholarships, residencies, educational events, and exhibitions among other things to elevate the creativity of Bangladeshi artists. It has collaborated with Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Bangladesh on various occasions to make this a success.
