Curated by Cosmin Costinas
DHAKA ART SUMMIT 2018

A beast, a god and a line is woven by connections and circulations of ideas across a geography with Bengal at its core. Commonly called Asia-Pacific, it could also be defined by several other definitions, which the exhibition will explore and untangle. Overlapping and sometimes conflicting or barely discernible beneath the strident layers of contemporaneity and the modern waves of destruction, these worlds are still the pillars of a region that is going through a process of replacing its colonial cartographic coordinates, a process this exhibition proudly serves.

After a year’s discussion, the objective of this Biennale has settled as “Every Skyscraper is Built from the Ground”, which describes the process of art development during the history and emphasizes its base. The objective also metaphorizes that everything develops from nothing, symbolizes that image art are ubiquitous and influenced all trades and professions, and manifests the Biennale‘s ambition to enter into the public full-fledged. 
Biennale curated by Bisi Silva, Cui Cancan and Wang Qingsong

The African Artists for Development endowment fund has organized an exhibition, open to the pub- lic, at the Théâtre National de Chaillot, November 4-24, 2015, prior to COP21. This initiative is a world first in more ways than one. For the first time in the history of contemporary art, 54 world-renowned artists, one for each coun- try on the great African continent, will present a work inspired by a single theme: “The Illuminated Africa.”