The fifth edition of Dhaka Art Summit, the biggest exhibition of South Asian art works and paintings, will start on February 7 in the capital. The nine-day summit will showcase solo art exhibition, public art project, curated exhibition, seminar, symposium, solo and group lectures, experimental film exhibitions, live art performances, puppet shows, print-making workshops.
There will be a series of exhibition about artistic documentaries also during the summit. Curator of Dhaka Art Summit Biswajit Goswami disclosed the information at a press conference organised to inform the details of the summit at National Art Gallery's auditorium on Tuesday. Highlighting various aspects of the exhibition, he said rising and promising artists alongside eminent ones from home and abroad will participate in the summit.
The Summit Art Foundation has been organising the international summit since 2012 to provide a rare opportunity to see art works of the artists from all over the world under one roof. The Dhaka Art Summit has been successfully organised four times since the last 2012. State Minister for Culture KM Khalid will inaugurate the nine-day summit at the national art gallery auditorium of Shilpakala Academy on Friday.
State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak will be present as the special guest. Liaquat Ali Lucky, Director General of the Academy, Dhaka Art Summit Organizing Committee Chairman Farooq Sobhan and Nadia Samdani, Director of the Samdani Art Foundation will be present among others.
At the press conference, co-founders of the Samadani Art Foundation Rajib Samdani and Nadia Samdani highlighted the details of the summit. Secretary of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Badrul Alam Bhuiyan was present at that time. The main venue of the fifth edition of the Dhaka Art Summit is the one lakh twenty thousand square feet National art gallery building of the Shilpakala Academy, and a sculptural garden outside the building.
On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a special exhibition has been arranged on the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. 'Lighting the Fire of Freedom Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman' on the first floor of the Academy.
The exhibition is being held under the overall supervision of the Center for Research and Information (CRI) with support of the Department of Information and Communication Technology and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. There will be a huge collection of historical photographs of Bangabandhu.
Besides Bangladesh, there will be 500 painters - sculptors, curators, art critics, art professionals, art collectors, architects and media personalities from 44 countries.
Among the artists, critics and discussant who are participating in the summit are - Dilara Begum Jolie, Rokeya Sultana, Selima Quader Chowdhury, Lewis Henderson, Biswajit Goswami, Ariful Kabir, Yasmin Jahan Nupur, Hector Jamorah, Saleh Hasan, Tony Koks, Rashid Choudhury, Shenai Javeri, Therese Chowdhury Khan, Morgan Quantance, Ayo Akinved, Rehana Zaman, AC Eshun, Dr. Arnab Biswas, Sajedul Haque, Anna Pai, Anika Ayane, Fayham Ibn Sharif, Alfred Santana, Shane Anderson, Farhan Karim, Saim Sune, Nurur Rahman Khan, Jaydev Roja, Anjalika Sagar, Rania Stefan, Kana Rana, Kou, Ran. Shayla Sharmin, Mahmudul Hasan Dulal, Iftikhar Dadi, Samina Iqbal, Ming Tiampo, Rafael Grissey, Boba Torre, Luta-Ta Kaba Indri, Shimuranja, Salman Nawati, Kad Du Yarraux, Hadil Ashley, Mohammed Herb, Elizabeth Pravinil, John Tyne, Chong-dal Bow, Lotte Hayek, Elizabeth Georges, Sanders, among others.
