The Bengal Arts Programme works to support the practice and understanding of the arts in Bangladesh, providing a platform for artists, curators and researchers to develop and showcase their works, as well as to share and exchange ideas.

Bengal Open Studio is a space for reflection and experimentation where artists and curators can test out new ideas and exhibition formats.

Bengal Practice Studio is a space for artists to continue pursuing their practice with an array of specialised equipment at their disposal.

Evolution of the Arts Programme

Bengal Arts Programme’s Education wing is designed to expand the periphery of mainstream pedagogy, by seeking to blur and overlap ideas of traditional and contemporary art practices.

Since the inception of the Foundation, the Bengal Arts Programme has worked with some of the most distinguished artists from Bangladesh and abroad.

Bengal Arts Programme offers modest grants and awards in different categories to facilitate research and art practice.

The Bengal Arts Programme has, over the years, organised a number of important exhibitions of different scale and scope, ranging from surveys of contemporary Bangladeshi creation to retrospectives of regional modern art.

The Bengal Arts Programme works to reach out to avenues for collaboration and exchange, with the aim to deepen understanding, enhance sensitivity and develop a humane approach.

Abul Khair’s (Chair, Bengal Foundation) own acquisition, together with the Foundation’s collection, has over the years, created an art repository of many thousands of works by modern painters of the region. It is considered to be the largest and most significant repository in Bangladesh.

Bengal Arts Programme’s publications offer readers a selection of ideas, philosophies and artistic practices through conversation series, artist monographs, and exhibition catalogues.

The S M Sultan-Bengal Art College is a registered establishment under the College Code of the National University. It offers a degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA).