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Ebad had been part of the team of the first Gramercy Art Fair. While coordinating projects authored by Celebrating Enterprise and delivered by a diverse multi-agency partnership led by City University,
London, Ebad worked with London-wide Latin American Artist
communities and ensured their involvement in the creation of a common
platform (http://www.lacaauk.com/) for all Latin American artist
living and working in London and curated two exhibitions, with émigré
artists, preceding Carnaval del Pueblo, in 2006.
Ebad, worked as the curator at the Gallery Au Jardin des Arts,
Barbizon; he had been the founding artistic director and chief curator
of Samdani Art Foundation and curated numerous exhibitions under their
auspice, including The Country of Rising Sadness-1 and 2-on the same
day, at two separate venues- which were both opened by Jessica Morgan,
Daskalopoulos Curator, and Frances Morris , Head of Collections ,
International Art,Tate Modern Museum; one of Ebad’s exhibition
catalog—Samdani Art Book 1–was launched as an art book at the
Bangladesh Pavilion, in the Venice Biennial, 2011.
Ebad curated Bangladesh at the 14th, 15th,16th and 17th edition of
OPEN, International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations in
Venice, Lido and in the San Servolo Island.
Since 2009, Ebad had been the executive editor of Depart, an art
magazine; Ebad was appointed the executive editor of Jamini, the
oldest and the widest circulated, English language art magazine of
Bangladesh. Ebad worked as the chief curator of Bengal Art Lounge and,
the International Programme Development Manager of Bengal Foundation.
Ebad represented Bangladesh at the SAARC (South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation) Writer and Artist’s Conference-2005, in New
Delhi.
Ebad’s writing is published in numerous international magazines and
journals.
His latest essay on Bangladeshi art is published in Jan/Feb,
2013, issue of FlashArt.
Most recent exhibitions
14. 11. 2014 - 16. 3. 2015
Torture Talkies Trilogy, in DOX--Centre for Contemporary Arts, Prague, Czech Republic, as part of an Exhibition : Modes of Democracy (http://www.dox.cz/en/exhibitions/modes-of-democracy).
Head curator: Jaroslav Anděl.
Curators for the Italian, Czech and South American sections are respectively: Haimo Perkmann, Michal and Zdena Koleček, Daniel Latorre and Todd Lester.
This exhibition is organized within the framework of the 30th Council of Europe Art Exhibition: The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945, which was initiated by The German Historical Museum, Berlin (Deutsches Historisches Museum) in collaboration with other European partners. The whole project is supported by the European Commission’s "Culture Programme" (2007 – 2013).
Partners of The Desire for Freedom project: Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin / Collegium Hungaricum Berlin / Muzeum Sztuki Wspólczesnej MOCAK, Krakow / Palazzo Reale, Milan / Eesti Kunstimuuseum - Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn / Umjetnicka galerija BiH, Sarajevo / DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague / Μακεδονικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης (Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art), Thessaloniki2014 URPFLANZEN ARIA, performance and sculpture/ Performance und Skulptur, Goethe Dialogs, Goethe Institute Barcelona, curated by/ kuratiert von Robert Punkenhofer.
09.01.2015
Pornograhia, in Vienna Art Academy
(Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien), Vienna, Austria.
https://www.akbild.ac.at/Portal/institute/kunst-und-kulturwissenschaften/vortrage-events/2015/pornographia
7. 11. 2015
The Citizens of the Wombs, in BUENOS AIRES MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTS (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires), Argentine, as part of the program: Cinema Could be Other ( El Cine Es Otra Cosa).
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18. 9. 2015
Foreigners' Out, in a special programme in the K3 Film Festival, Villach, Austria .
http://www.k3festival.com/en/spechteln
12. 11. 2015 – 27. 03. 2016:
Torture Talkies Trilogy, in FESTUNG FRANZENSFESTE-- South Tyrol, Italy.
http://www.kultur.bz.it/index.php?root=cal&mode=event&evtID=60277
http://www.forte-fortezza.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Übungen-zur-Demokratie_Arbeitsblätter.pdf
23. 11. 2013
Atrocity Exhibition and Pornographia (Work in Progress) exhibition/ performance, in Vienna Art Week, Freud Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria.
30. 11. 2013:
Atrocity Exhibition, in Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
07. 12. 2013
Proposition, and outlining of Dhaka Art Summit, the first non-commercial alternative art fair of south Asia, at Dhaka Club, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in the framework of the conference/ Lecture Performance; panel included among others, Jessica Morgan, aThe Daskalopoulos Curator, Tate Modern.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
1999 Galerie am Prater, Berlin; Studio Bildende Kunst, Berlin; Galerie Himmelreich, Magdeburg ; Villa Oppenheim, Berlin. Galerie F92, Berlin
2011 Galerie de l'Alliance Française Dhaka, Bangladesh; Galerie Zunge, Berlin
