Based in Dhaka, Ayesha Sultana received a BFA in Visual Arts (2007) and a Post-graduate Diploma in Art Education (2008) from Beaconhouse National University in Lahore. Her participation in recent solo and group exhibitions include Immateriality in Residue, Experimenter, Kolkata; Approaching Abstraction, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai; 1mile2 Dhaka, Dhaka (2015); Blue Velvet, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome; Ethereal, Leila Heller Gallery, New York; Outside the Field of View, Ex

Belinder Dhanoa is a writer, novelist and Visiting Professor at the Literary Arts programme of Ambedkar University Delhi. #Dhaka2016

Beth Citron is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Rubin Museum in New York. She is the organiser of the exhibition "Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Try To Altar Everything," opening at the Rubin Museum in March 2016, and is working with Soundwalk Collective on a new commission for the Museum to premiere in November 2016. In 2014 she organised "Francesco Clemente: Inspired by India" and "Witness at a Crossroads: Photographer Marc Riboud in Asia." She also organised th

Dhaka Electronica Scene is a thriving collaborative network of music producers, graphic designers, and visual artists along with writers and promoters working in a collective effort to shape up a brand new music culture from Dhaka and beyond. Managed and curated by Khan Mohammad Faisal, the DES network will be stepping into its 5th year in January 2016. #Dhaka2016

Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi have collaborated in their art practice for two decades. Their work investigates the salience of popular media in the construction of memory, borders and identity in contemporary globalization, and the potential of creative resilience in urban informalities. Their projects are frequently realized in large-scale installations and have been exhibited at the 24th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil; Third Asia-Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia; Live

Katya García-Antón has been Director of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway since February 2014. Katya García-Antón obtained an MA in 19th and 20th century Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Arts London. Thereafter she worked at The Courtauld Institute of Art, BBC World Service (Latin American Broadcasts), Museo Nacional Reina Sofía Madrid, ICA London, IKON Birmingham and as Director of Centre d’Art Contemporain (CAC) Genève. She is responsible for more than 70 ex

Maria Balshaw is Director of the Whitworth, part of The University of Manchester, and the Manchester City Galleries. As Director of these two major institutions, holding internationally important collections of fine and decorative art of more than 80,000 objects, she is responsible for the artistic and strategic vision for each gallery. An academic by training she has worked as a Director within the cultural sector for the past 10 years. Alongside her role as Director of Ma

Marzia Farhana was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh 1985. Farhana is a visual artist based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She started her art education in Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka. Throughout the years, besides her traditional art practices in the faculty, she developed her own practices in different media including paintings, installations and video works. She explored and investigated her interpretations of art by discussing, collaborating and interchanging ideas and activ

The Raqs Media Collective enjoys playing a plurality of roles, often appearing as artists, occasionally as curators, sometimes as philosophical agent provocateurs. They make contemporary art, have made films, curated exhibitions, edited books, staged events, collaborated with architects, computer programmers, writers and theatre directors and have founded processes that have left deep impacts on contemporary culture in India. Raqs (pron. rux) follows its self declared imperat

Munem Wasif’s stark black & white photography investigates complex social and political issues with a traditional, humanistic language, by getting close to the people, physically and psychologically, dealing with multiple questions and contradictions. Expressionistic in style and long-term in method, Wasif often experiments beyond the tradition, tests the possibilities of fiction, by borrowing a familiar documentary language. His interest is often on the concept of ‘documents