Career
Recently, Rajeeb and Nadia Samdani joined Tate"s International Council. He started his career as a commodity broker with Stemcor. Over the years, his company, Golden Harvest expanded its business into Information Technology, Commodities, logistics, food processing, agriculture, dairy, aviation, insurance and real estate.
Golden Harvest has expanded business into Logistics Industry with its Japanese partner Nippon Express, the largest logistic company in Asia and the 7th largest logistic company in the world.
The Samdanis have organised the Dhaka Art Summit, every two years which is a non-profit event and is solely funded by Samdani Art Foundation. The foundation has commissioned several projects by established South Asian artists like Rashid Rana, Shilpa Gupta, Jitish Kallat, Mithu Senator, et cetera, for public viewing including Dhaka"s first ever public art project by Raqs Media Collective.
Through the Samdani Art Foundation, he funded the Kunsthalle Basel"s first exhibition of a South Asian Artist, Naeem Mohaiemen. They also support Bangladeshi artists to produce works for exhibitions such as the Kochi Muziris Biennale.
The Samdani Art foundation is a donor for the 56th International Biennale di Venezia, supporting the projects of artists Naeem Mohaiemen and Raqs Media Collective in the main Biennale exhibition: All the World’s Futures.
