Bangladeshi art showcased at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum

Bangladeshi art is set to receive international recognition through a new partnership between Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and the Samdani Art Foundation.
The Ashmolean Museum said the partnership would highlight contemporary Bangladeshi art and artists. It described the initiative as the first “sustained initiative” supporting Bangladeshi artists at a major museum anywhere in the world.

As part of the programme, a Bangladeshi artist will be invited to Oxford each year. The museum will also develop a dedicated collection of contemporary Bangladeshi art.
 

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Photographer Munem Wasif is the first artist to take part in the visiting artist programme. He arrived in Oxford from Dhaka earlier this month.
Wasif said much of his previous work had explored Bengal’s colonial history. He added that his visit to the Ashmolean would allow him to examine the history more closely through its collections and archives and explore connections with his work in photography, prints and textiles.

Mallica Kumbera Landrus, curator of Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian art at the museum, said the partnership would allow the Ashmolean to expand its South Asian collections through contemporary Bangladeshi art and artists.

Founded in 2011, the Samdani Art Foundation works with artists, architects, curators and writers to promote Bangladeshi culture.

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