Spring 2022 cultural collaborations

Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation (DBF) is pleased to announce its support toward cultural projects focused on South Asian and MEASA art practitioners, curators and thinkers, with spring 2022 collaborative projects with Alserkal Arts Foundation, Dubai (UAE), Asia Society India Centre, Mumbai (India) and SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (Germany).

Through its support of exhibitions’ public programmes, as well as artist awards in recognition of exceptional practice, DBF remains committed to the enhancement and promotion of artistic development, art production and discourse from across South Asia. Collaborating with important international institutional and non-profit entities during March and April 2022, DBF explores new collaborative models of art and knowledge production through diverse programming and expertise activation.

On March 5, 2022, DBF enables Coming to Know, a one-day public programme accompanying the exhibition A Slightly Curving Place, presented by Alserkal Arts Foundation in collaboration with the Department of Classics, Princeton University. Organised by Nida Ghouse and Brooke Holmes, the programme explores the question “What does it mean to listen to the past, together?”, extending from the exhibition’s response to the manifold listening practices of self-taught acoustic archaeologist Umashankar Manthravadi. Participants include Moushumi Bhowmik, Padmini Chettur, Hugo Esquinca, Nida Ghouse, Brooke Holmes, Umashankar Manthravadi, v ness, and Tanvi Solanki.

On March 6, 2022, DBF supports PNEUMA: IS LANGUAGE ENOUGH?—a public INVOCATIONS programme accompanying the exhibition THE WIND IN YOUR BODY IS JUST VISITING, YOUR BREATH WILL SOON BE THUNDER, artist Pallavi Paul’s first solo exhibition in Berlin, newly commissioned by SAVVY Contemporary and shown in the framework of Berlinale’s Forum Expanded 2022.  The INVOCATIONS’ aim is to expand the discourse on the intertwined strands from history, language, philosophy, medicine and meditation practices evoked in the exhibition to present the entanglement of breath with the world of its making. Curated by Natasha Ginwala, Hajra Haider Karrar, Laura Kloeckner, Abhishek Kloeckner, with the Artistic Direction of Elena Agudio, the programme includes Kaushik Bhaumik, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Gautam Bhatia, Omar Kasmani, Arjuna Neuman, Pallavi Paul, Mohammad Raees, Nisha Ramayya, Nasima Selim, Raed Yassin, and more.

On April 12, 2022, as benefactor of the DBF Asia Art Future Award (International), DBF celebrates this year’s Awardee Jasmine Nilani Joseph, at the virtual sixth edition of the Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India, organised by Asia Society India Centre. The Award recognises ground-breaking contemporary visual artists or collectives that have, through their innovative work, gone beyond conventions of media and discipline to build an exceptional body of work in recent years, enabling a deeper understanding of their region and cultural landscape to South Asian audiences and beyond. This year, the spotlight falls on Sri Lankan artist Jasmine Nilani Joseph, who DBF is proud to honor.

About Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation (DBF)
Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation (DBF) is a private foundation set up by art patron and philanthropist Durjoy Rahman in 2018 to support and promote artistic development and art practices from across South Asia and beyond. It supports artists in creating new artworks and engages art practitioners in relevant exhibitions, awards, publications, and residencies, often in collaboration with key international cultural institutions.