The Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation/Kochi-Muziris Biennale Award is a new exhibition and lecture series that unites the three institutions: the Hayward Gallery, Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation and Kochi Biennale Foundation.
The DBF-KMB award recognises a South Asian artist in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, offering a first institutional solo exhibition in the UK, at the Hayward Gallery’s HENI Project Space. The first laureate will be selected from the Kochi-Muziris Biennale’s fifth edition which opens on 12 December 2022.
‘We are thrilled to be partnering with the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation and the Kochi Biennale Foundation on this Award and Lecture Series,’ Hayward director Ralph Rugoff said in a statement. ‘This new initiative is another step in realising our ambition to make Hayward Gallery’s HENI Project Space one of London’s most vital portals for showing innovative and relevant art from across the globe.’
Meanwhile the Hayward will also host the public programme ‘The Durjoy Bangladesh Lecture series’ cocurated with the Kochi Biennale Foundation, a talks series featuring artists and curators from South Asia.
