SHOWCASE

/ ARTIST / 2024

BKKIF Artist  
ARTIST: adrita khan
COUNTRY: Bangladesh
CONTACT: https://www.instagram.com/adrita_khan/
Adrita Mahin Khan is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, creative producer, and cultural organizer from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Investigating who gets to define culture, and who gets left out, her practice spans visual art, space design, type, brand, and community production. Her practice is also investigative — mapping who exists in a creative scene, what they are making, and what conditions allow or prevent that work from being seen. Four years of building inside Dhaka's underground has given her an intimate knowledge of how these conditions operate, and what it takes to shift them. Working at the intersection of the culture she grew up in and underground creative culture, she builds platforms, spaces, and gatherings that challenge the class and institutional gatekeeping that decides which art is serious, which music deserves a stage, and whose craft is worth attention.
Her visual work draws from the culture she grew up in. Bengal's architecture, myths, folk art, and traditions, filtered through the chaos and texture of urban Dhaka. Women are always the central subject: not as symbol or decoration, but as the gravitational force around which her surreal utopias are built. She moves fluidly between mediums, merging technology with analog art forms, constructing worlds that are vivid, kaleidoscopic, and rooted in a lived cultural imagination.

FLYING EMPRESS

Surreal expression of other worldly female embodies colonising the earth.

DECEMBER ACID

A Dhaka winter sky, where mosquitos become moth like.

HEART WAVES

Introduced with love the liquids of a heart surfing and crashing.

EARTH POP

Woman stuck in a glass container shaped like earth.

MEYE

A self portrait of lust for water.

OSHORIRI

where creativity and real life merges makes a stone like body.

DOOB

A self portrait of an artists slump, DOOB means submerged in water but as a local slang it means to dip or to hide one self from the world.

FALGUNI

patterns of spring and eyes.

GOLAPI

MOMTAZ

MOMTAZ, depiction of an illustrious woman in power.