Rajeeb Samdani
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Rajeeb Samdani | |
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| Born | 28 March 1974 Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Spouse | Nadia Samdani |
Rajeeb Samdani (born 28 March 1974) is a Bangladeshi industrialist and art collector. He is currently the managing director of Golden Harvest Group,[1][2] a leading Bangladeshi conglomerate,[3] and the founder and trustee of Samdani Art Foundation which produces the Dhaka Art Summit.[4][5] He is the founding committee member and co-chair of the Tate Museum, United Kingdom, South Asian Acquisition Committee.[6] He is a member of Tate's International Council and founding members of Harvard University Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute's Arts Advisory Council, USA.[7] They are also members of Alserkal Avenue Programming Committee, Dubai and advisory council members of Art Dubai.[8][9]
Career
He started his career as a commodity broker with Stemcor. Over the years, his company, Golden Harvest, expanded its business into information technology, commodities, logistics, food processing, agriculture, dairy, aviation, insurance, banking, infrastructure development and real estate.[10][11][12][13][14]
Golden Harvest has expanded business into logistics industry with its Japanese partner Nippon Express, the largest logistic company in Asia and the fourth largest logistic company in the world.[15][16][17] In partnership with Jubilant FoodWorks Limited, Golden Harvest has launched the franchise of Domino's Pizza in Bangladesh in 2019.[18] Golden Harvest has signed a joint venture agreement with International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, in 2019 to set up country's first cold chain network.[19]
Rajeeb Samdani is a trustee and secretary general of the Bangladesh Human Rights Foundation, founder of the Alvina Samdani Trust & Taher Ahmed Choudhury Charitable Hospital. Along with his wife Nadia Samdani, Rajeeb Samdani collects artworks from all over the world and has over 2000 modern and contemporary art.[20]
Art foundation
Samdani Art Foundation was established in 2011 by Rajeeb Samdani and his wife Nadia Samdani.[21] The foundation is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh and supports country's contemporary art and architecture.[22] The Samdani Art Foundation is a donor for the 56th International Biennale di Venezia, supporting the projects of artists Naeem Mohaiemen and Raqs Media Collective in the main Biennale exhibition:All the World's Futures.[23][24][25] Through the Samdani Art Foundation, he funded the Kunsthalle Basel's first exhibition of a South Asian artist, Naeem Mohaiemen in 2014.[26] Bangladeshi-British artist Rana Begum's first major institutional solo exhibition at Parasol Unit, London was also supported through Samdani Art Foundation in 2016.[27] They also support Bangladeshi artists to produce works for exhibitions. Some of the supported exhibitions are the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2014, Shanghai Biennale 2016, Speak Lokal, Kunsthalle, Zurich, etc.[28][29][30] The foundation supports emerging artists and architects with the biannual Samdani Art and Samdani Architecture awards.[31][32][33] Another program of the foundation, The Samdani Artist-Led Initiatives Forum launched on 13 April 2017 supports the work of Bangladesh's independently established and self-funded art collectives and initiatives.[34]
The Samdanis have organised the Dhaka Art Summit, a non-profit event funded by Samdani Art Foundation from 2012.[35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] Dhaka Art Summit takes place in every two years at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in collaboration with the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, People's Republic of Bangladesh and considered to be the largest South Asian art event.[43][44][45] The 5th edition of the Dhaka Art Summit took place from 7 to 15 February 2020 with footfall of 477,000 visitors.[46]
Their new initiative is the Srihatta—Samdani Art Centre and Sculpture Park, which is the forthcoming permanent art space established under the Samdani Art Foundation.[47] Srihatta will be the first permanent dedicated space for the Foundation's programming and exhibition activities. The centre is designed by Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury, who won the Agha Khan Award in 2016. This is also the country's first sculpture park and dedicated art space for international modern and contemporary art.[48]
Awards and recognition
Rajeeb Samdani is well known for his local and international art collection.[49][50][51][52][53] Artworks from their collection have travelled to major exhibitions, such as documenta 14 (2017); Shanghai Biennale (2017); Office for Contemporary Art, Norway (2016); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015); Kunstsammlung Nordhrhein, Düsseldorf (2016); Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2014); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2014).[54][55][56]
Samdani and his wife were the first and only South Asians to receive the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage award in 2017 and were recognized on the Top 200 Collectors list by Artnews from 2015 to 2019, the Power 100 list in 2015-2020 by Art Review and The World's Top 100 Art Collectors 2016 by ArtNet News.[57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65]
He was invited to speak at leading institutions including the Royal Ontario Museum of Art, UC Berkeley, Harvard University and the Private Museums Summit.[66][67][68][69]
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- ^ http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/2015/12/sai-forms-arts-advisory-council/ . Harvard University South Asian Arts Council 9 December 2015
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- ^ Dispatch: Dhaka Art Summit art agenda 27 February 2014
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- ^ Dhaka (Art Summit): The cultural capital of South AsiaDhaka Tribune, 1 February 2018
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