Projects
The programme gathers international artists in order to foster mutual understanding and cooperation and open a dialogue between professionals from different corners of the world with those of the South Asian artistic scene. Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation has successfully executed a number of projects, with several more in progress. Below, we provide detailed information on some projects.
What is hardship food? I had no idea. The thought of what people eat during natural calamities, war, displacement and such, never came to my mind. It is something we do not think about unless we start to live in destitution.
Sipping tea and chatting for as long as time permits is a tradition as timeless as it is cherished. Tea is deeply entwined into our culture, an inescapable yet universally loved ritual.
Rare and unseen photographs of the 1971 liberation war by Raghu Rai Co-published by Raghu Rai Foundation & Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation.
Majhi International Art Residency Programme is a yearly itinerant project, staging trans-cultural close encounters around a diverse chosen theme each year, involving international artists from around the globe.
Find Amol K Patil’s The Politics of Skin and Movement presented at and by the Hayward Gallery in collaboration with Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation and the Kochi Biennale Foundation.
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.
A Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation project, in association with Art Dubai. Featuring the work of Bangladeshi artist Kamruzzaman Shadhin & Rohingya craft persons from Kutupalong Refugee camp. Presented as part of Art Dubai 2021’s collateral programme of exhibitions, at Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai, March 12-April 12, 2021.
The picturesque story of community generated land-art in Thakurgaon
In circa 2020 during Covid Pandemic some like minded creative thinkers hatched the idea of releasing the HOPE from the Pandora box and watch its Future .
The High Commission of Canada in collaboration with DurjoyBangladesh, IOM Bangladesh, IUCN Asia, and UNHCR in Bangladesh are pleased to launch “No Place Like Home” a Rohingya art exhibit consisting of “Elephant in the Room” by Kamruzzaman Shadhin and select pieces created by Rohingya living in the Refugees Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
