Carving out a new pathway for seamless cultural exchanges between South Asia, the UK and Europe, while simultaneously supporting South Asian artists at a crucial juncture of their professional development, the new DBF-KMB Award brings together London’s Hayward Gallery, the Durjoy-Bangladesh Foundation and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale Foundation. In an endeavour that speaks volumes of what can be achieved through cross-cultural collaborations, Hayward Gallery will also host a public exhibition and lecture programme every alternate year and between biennales titled The Durjoy Bangladesh Lecture Series—co-curated with the Kochi Biennale—to draw on the Biennale’s rich legacy of of leading artist-curators and also creative practitioners leading the discourse in South Asian regions.
The new DBF/KMB Award commemorates its first South Asian recipient at London’s Hayward Gallery
Find Amol K Patil’s The Politics of Skin and Movement presented at and by the Hayward Gallery in collaboration with Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation and the Kochi Biennale Foundation.
Alisha Lad, Architectural Digest, November 14, 2023
Amol K Patil, 'The Politics of Skin and Movement', Installation View, Kochi, 2022. Courtesy of the Kochi Biennale Foundation and Joseph Rahul
The very first recipient of this award—to be a South Asian artist who has not had an institutional solo show in UK before and selected by a DBF-KMB Award selection committee which includes members of the Hayward Gallery’s curatorial team and its director, Ralph Rugoff, as well as representatives from the DBF and the Kochi Biennale Foundation—is Mumbai and Amsterdam-based visual artist Amol K Patil. His installation, The Politics of Skin and Movement, finds expression again after the 5th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale as it comes to life with new iterations in his first institutional solo in the UK.
