Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Bengal Art Lounge produces, curates and documents exhibitions of Bangladeshi artists, with a focus on new forms of expression and innovation. The gallery cultivates a reputation for promoting artists whose work presses beyond accepted boundaries of genre, medium and subject. Bengal Art Lounge is supported by Bengal Foundation (a private, not-for-profit, trust for the ar
ts www.bengalfoundation.org) and was established in 2011 - the very year that the same Foundation supported the first ever Bangladeshi pavilion in the Venice Biennale. The gallery takes especial care in documenting the exhibitions it organises, and regularly commissions essays and research to locate the artists it works with in the broader context of regional and international art scenes. A commercial gallery, Bengal Art Lounge is committed to establishing the support of buyers, collectors and commissioners for new art and artists from Bangladesh. In addition to seeing the appreciation of local collectors and commissioners as integral the success of the artistic community, the gallery also actively promotes Bangladeshi art internationally. Over the years, Bengal Art Lounge has organized exhibitions by artists such as Ronni Ahmmed, Mahbubur Rahman, Dilara Begum Jolly, Wakilur Rahman, Dhali Al Mamoon and many others.
