03 Feb URONTO at the Dhaka Art Summit 2020

The Dhaka Art Summit (DAS) is an international, non-commercial research and exhibition platform for art and architecture related to South Asia. With a core focus on Bangladesh, DAS re-examines how we think about these forms of art in both a regional and an international context. In this 5th edition in 2020, the summit bring in more than 500 practitioners, thinkers, artist and researcher together.

URONTO Artist Community is going to be a part of the Dhaka Art Summit 2020 as part of the Collective Movement under the main theme of the Summit, which is Seismic Movement. URONTO is preparing a unique VR experience for all at the South Plaza at the “Collective bodies” display corner in Shilpakala Academy.

Co–curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt and Kathryn Weir (Director,, MADR E Museum, Naples)) assisted by Kehkasha Sabah with Adam Ondak,, Lucia Zubalova, Ruxmini Reckvana Q Choudhury, and Teresa Albor, Expressions of community and connections that precede the neoliberal individual and the nation state are at the heart of The Collective Body , an exhibition that brings together more than thirty collaborative art initiatives. Almost half of these are from Bangladesh, where the thriving contemporary art ecology is largely carried by artist-led interdisciplinary initiatives that have developed festivals, art spaces, schools and collaborative networks to support their practice in the absence of centrally funded institutions or sources of economic support.

The exhibition will go on from 7-15 February 2020.