Samdani Art Foundation

Samdani Art Foundation
FounderNadia Samdani and Rajeeb Samdani
Websitesamdani.com.bd

The Samdani Art Foundation is a private art foundation founded in 2011 in Dhaka, Bangladesh that aims to increase artistic engagement between the art and architecture of Bangladesh and the rest of the world.[1] It is best known for producing the bi-annual Dhaka Art Summit, which is the highest daily visited contemporary art exhibition in the world, welcoming over 477,000 visitors in its fifth edition in February 2020.[2] It completed its sixth edition in 2023. The foundation produces education programmes and exhibitions across the year in collaboration with Bangladeshi and international institutions and is one of the most active art institutions in South Asia.[3][4][5]

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  2. ^ "Mulling Over Art: Bangladesh's Dhaka Art Summit, growing platform for former colonial subjects". The Mast.
  3. ^ Alom, Zahangir (24 May 2019). "Fabric (ated) Fractures: A seminal art show in Dubai". The Daily Star.
  4. ^ "Artist Project Support". Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Archived from the original on 2016-12-26.
  5. ^ "Speak, Lokal". Kunsthalle Zurich. Archived from the original on 2022-01-25.