Majhi International Art Residency Program begins in Berlin

Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation (DBF) is hosting the second edition of the Majhi International Art Residency Program. The curator of the second edition is Zippora Elders, currently based in Amsterdam and Berlin. While the first edition of the event was held in Venice last year, the second edition will take place from August 24 to September 12, 2020, in Berlin.

The Majhi International Art Residency Program is created by DBF to be a 10-year project with annual editions. In line with DBF's mission, the project intends to value and acknowledge artists from Asia and the global South, as well as to promote cultural exchanges between the East and the West.

"In spite of the current circumstances, it was important to us to materialise the International Majhi Art Residency Programin Berlin. In bringing together artists from South Asia and Europe, we do not just promote their individual works abroad but also create a vivid dialogue between the East and West. The Majhi project shows that art can resist the difficulties brought on by the pandemic," says Durjoy Rahman, Founder, DBF.

The residency revolves around the question, "how to shape a society of care?"

"Together, ideas on our future and kinship will be discussed in the context of having multiple homes and knowledge systems, while pursuing a practice from Europe," shares the curator, Zippora Elders. "The public programme shows a variety of artistic attitudes, yet a shared conversation on diasporas, resonance and dissonance, global climate and local time."