The summit, being described as one of the biggest by the Bangladesh media and art writers in the country, is a public-private partnership between a non-profit group, the Samdani Art Foundation, and the Bangladesh National Museum and the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, the organizers said.
The four-day summit will bring together the works of over 200 established and emerging artists from Bangladesh and includes several exhibitions, talks and seminars, and social events.
The Dhaka Art Summit has been created as a platform for the development of artists in Bangladesh, and to create awareness about contemporary art of Bangladesh in the international art world.
The organizers said "the summit will offer galleries and independent artists without gallery representation an opportunity to showcase their work, free of cost, to the general public and influential museums, curators, galleries, collectors and press from across the world".
The Dhaka Art Summit will include three major public exhibitions curated by Bangladeshi artists and curators of international repute including the Britto Arts Trust, an independent artists' group which had set up Bangladesh's first national pavilion at the 53rd Venice Art Biennale in 2009.
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