19th Asian Art Biennale postponed till Feb 2022

Entertainment Desk :
The 19th edition of the month-long Asian Art Biennale has been postponed once again due to the ongoing global pandemic. Known as one of the grandest art extravaganzas in the world, the 19th edition will now be welcoming the art enthusiasts from home and beyond at the National Art Gallery of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) from February 1, 2022, till March 31, 2022. The curtain for the 19th biennale was scheduled to be lifted on November 1 and the time for the exhibition was extended till December 31st, this year. Previously, the festival was
shifted on March 1, 2021, from the initial timeline, December 1 to 31, 2020. The international festival was then rescheduled last year due to the increasing havoc of Covid-19. According to the BSA authority, this special
edition of the biennale exhibition will be dedicated to the Birth Centenary of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Golden Jubilee of
the independence of Bangladesh.
The 19th edition of Asian Art Biennale is expecting to welcome artists from 100 countries to join this special art extravaganza. The two-month-long exhibition will display two and three-dimensional artworks such as painting, prints, photography, sculpture, installation, new media
art etc. A two-day seminar has been rescheduled to be organized on February 2nd and 3rd, 2022 at the auditorium of the National Art Gallery. The topic of the seminar
is ‘Home and Displacement.’