International Art Biennale Cox's Bazar

International Art Biennale Cox's Bazar International Art Biennial Cox's Bazar is an international bi-annual art exposition based in Cox's Bazar Bangladesh.* M. A.

International Art Biennial Cox's Bazar is a bi-annual art exposition based in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. In the first edition 54 artists of diverse medium from home and abroad joined the IABC 2015. Schedule IABC 2015
10-13 September 11am -8pm


Thursday 10 September 2015
Exhibition hall and galleries will be open from 10 am.

4.30 PM Opening Ceremony

Welcome Speech by Amirul Rajiv, Curator,
Intern

ational Art Biennale Cox’s Bazar.

04.40 PM Opening Speech by Salimullah Khan on
“The Work of Art in the Age of Colonialism”

5.20 PM Speech by Guests:
Md. Ali Hossain, Deputy Commissioner of Cox’s Bazar
Mostaq Ahmed, Professor & Writer
Salimullah Khan, Academic & Critic
Dilara Begum Jolly, Eminent Artist
Tayeba Begum Lipi, Eminent Artist & Trustee, Britto Arts Trust

6.40 PM Musical performance by Ahmed Hasan Sunny
& Sourov Sarkar. Friday 11 September 2015

10.00AM Children’s Painting Event with IABC 2015 Artists.
03.00 PM Origami Exhibition outcome of the Hyelyoung Lee & Sangmi Shin.
05.00 PM Jolpori Puppet Studio presentation with a workshop outcome with school children
06.30 PM Songs by Mehedi Hasan Nil

Saturday 12 September 2015
03.30 PM Speech by Pavel Partha on the Culture, Diversity & Ecology of the Sea.
04.30 PM Performance by Joydeb Roaja
05.30 PM Performance by Ashim Halder Sagor
06.30 PM Performance by Jewel A Rob

Sunday 13 September 2015
03.30 PM The Inner Strength
A Documentary on S. Sultan by Tareque Masud
Tareque Masud Memorial Trust 2014.

04.30PM Closing Speech “Sultan and his Thoughts on Decolonization of Art”
speech by Syed Nizar Alam.

05.30 PM Performance by Kabir Ahmed Masum Chisty
Fire Spinning by Kiamoul Haque Sam & Team



Exhibitions
10-13 September 11am -8pm
Cox’s Bazar Institute & Public Library

Mustafa Zaman
Razib Datta
Nirvair Singh Rai
Sharafat Pasha
Ah Sundarban
Kaisar Ahamed
Kiamoul Haque Sam

Experimental New Media
10-13 September 11am -8pm
Cox’s Bazar Institute & Public Library

Shimul Saha

Video Art
10-13 September 11am -8pm
Cox’s Bazar Institute & Public Library

Afsana Sharmin Zhuma
Palash Bhattacharjee
Yasmin Jahan Nupur
Zihan Karim

Sculpture
10-13 September 11am -8pm
Cox’s Bazar Institute & Public Library

Apu Dhar
Abinash Chakma
Jahar Sinha
Kiamoul Haque Sam
Samanta Shermin

Music
10-13 September 11am -8pm
Cox’s Bazar Institute & Public Library

Ahmed Hasan Sunny
Mehedi Hasan Nil

Lecture
10-13 September 11am -8pm
Cox’s Bazar Institute & Public Library

Salimullah Khan
Pavel Partha
Syed Nizar Alam

Oriental Art
10-13 September 11am -8pm
Cox’s Bazar Institute & Public Library

Amit Nandi
Malay Bala
Zahangir Alom

Photography
10-13 September 11am -8pm
Cox’s Bazar Institute & Public Library

Ah Sundarban (Collective Photography Exhibition on Sundarban)
B. SujaN
Hyelyoung Lee
Joybrata Sarkar
Kaisar Ahamed
Mumit Mahbub
Nirvair Singh Rai
Orchid Changma
Pon Changma
Razib Datta
Sangmi Shin
Syeed Sumon

Painting/ Drawing/ Calligraphy/ Paper Collage
10-13 September 11am -8pm
Cox’s Bazar Institute & Public Library

Afsar Hira
Bipasha Hayat
Calli Ae (JeongAe Bae)
Gopal Saha
Harun Ur Rashid Tutul
Kiamoul Haque Sam
Mominul Islam
Ripon Saha
Saem Hossen
Sangit Barua
Waley Jaff
Childrens painting event is association with IABC 2015 Artists 11 September. Installation
10-13 September 11am -8pm
Cox’s Bazar Institute & Public Library

Kabir Ahmed Masum Chisty
Jublee Dewan Suchoyon Paul
Sangit Barua
Waley Jaff


Print Making
10-13 September 11am -8pm
Cox’s Bazar Institute & Public Library

Ash*t Mitra

Workshop
10-13 September 11am -8pm
Cox’s Bazar Institute & Public Library

7 September-10 September
Workshop on puppetry by Jolpori Puppet Studio with Cox’s Bazar School Children
Exhibition 11 September

6 September- 9 September
Origami workshop by Korean Artists with Cox’s Bazar School Children
Exhibition 11 September

22/08/2026
18/08/2026

দেশের সকল ঐতিহাসিক মূহুর্তে অংশগ্রহনের মধ্য দিয়ে বাংলাদেশের আলোকচিত্রশিল্পকে মর্যাদাপূর্ণ অবস্থানে পৌঁছাতে বহু গুণী এবং নিবেদিতপ্রাণ আলোকচিত্র শিল্পীদের রয়েছে সংগ্রামী অবদান।

আজ বিশ্ব আলোকচিত্র দিবসে বেগার্ট ইনস্টিটিউট অব ফটোগ্রাফির পক্ষ থেকে তাঁদের সকলকে জানাই আন্তরিক ভালোবাসা এবং বিনম্র শ্রদ্ধা।

12/08/2026

S.M. Sultan grew up in the villages of Bengal, trained briefly at the Calcutta School of Arts, and spent much of his life wandering across the subcontinent, making a precarious living through his art.

His early work ranged from Bengal and Kashmir landscapes to studies of human figures and scenes of famine, refugees and poverty. An early account of his work described his restless search for a style of his own—and the growing maturity visible in his paintings.

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31/05/2026

“Monpura'70 is a harking back to the famine of 1943, as much as an encounter with the immensity of death, once again in the shadow of liberation struggle. So was Nabanna at the start of 1970. The Palestinian experience sits in the middle as a radical return to art's encounter with displacement, a battle itself perhaps, with the demand of artistic form in the shadow of dehumanisation.”

From the famine-stricken streets of Calcutta to the birth of Bangladesh, Zainul Abedin's art chronicled hunger, displacement, resistance, and the dreams of freedom. This article revisits the Silpacharya not merely as a national icon, but as a global artist of decolonisation whose work helps us understand how history was lived, imagined, and remembered across the twentieth century.

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