Durjoy Rahman with Bose Krishnamachari, president of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and Ralph Rugoff, director of the Hayward Gallery, at the launch for the DBF-KMB Award and Lecture Series, Venice, April 2022, photographed by Clelia Cadamuro
With the opening of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale on Monday 12th December, LUX speaks to the founders of the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation/Kochi-Muziris Biennale Award, which has been created in collaboration with the Hayward Gallery, London.
The inaugural recipient of the multi-year award will be chosen shortly after the opening of the fifth Kochi-Muziris Biennale, held in Kochi, Kerala, India, in December 2022. Aligning with Rahman?s ethos, the award will be bestowed based on merit to an emerging South Asian artist participating in the Biennale. Spring Song, 2016 ongoing, by Munem Wasif
?Recipients will have their first UK solo exhibition at the Hayward Gallery?s HENI Project Space in the Southbank Centre. Such an honour will no doubt transform the trajectory of their careers,? says a clearly pleased Rahman. ?Seeing a South Asian artist, irrespective of their religion or country of origin, occupy such a prestigious space in London ? the former centre of colonial Britain ? is a powerful example of decolonisation, progress and tolerance.?
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Speaking exclusively to LUX, Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff adds his own thoughts on the initiative: ?With the DBF-KMB Award, Durjoy Rahman will be expanding the i...