tate appoints samdani to acquisitions committee

Rajeeb Samdani, founder and trustee of the Samdani Art Foundation, has been named a founding member of Tate Museum’s South Asian Acquisitions Committee (SAAC). The Committee, chaired by Lekha Poddar, president of the Devi Art Foundation in India, is dedicated to the purchase of modern and contemporary artworks from India and its neighbouring countries.
The Samdani Art Foundation was founded by Rajeeb and Nadia Samdani to promote Bangladesh’s contemporary artists in an international arena. They organised the Dhaka Art Summit in April 2012, which will be returning again this year, to provide a platform for talented young artists to exhibit their work. The Foundation plans to involve international galleries and artists to exhibit their work alongside Bangladesh’s own in the future. In addition, the Samdani Art Foundation also presents the Samdani Art Award, one of the largest and most prestigious art prizes in Bangladesh, to support emerging local artists.
Founded in 1987, Tate is a network of four museums that house the United Kingdom’s national collection of British art and international modern and contemporary art. Representatives from Tate Modern visited Bangladesh in December 2011 and were invited by the Samdani Art Foundation to attend the Dhaka Art Summit in April 2012. Rajeeb Samdani’s appointment to their Acquisitions committee will surely bring art from Bangladesh and the Indian Subcontinent into the global art scene.

Rajeeb Samdani, founder and trustee of the Samdani Art Foundation, has been named a founding member of Tate Museum’s South Asian Acquisitions Committee (SAAC). The Committee, chaired by Lekha Poddar, president of the Devi Art Foundation in India, is dedicated to the purchase of modern and contemporary artworks from India and its neighbouring countries.The Samdani…