Route 128 is an emerging arts platform dedicated to staging thoughtfully curated exhibitions, critical conversations, and interdisciplinary engagements. Housed in a repurposed ancestral home in New DOHS, Mohakhali, Dhaka, the gallery offers an intimate and contemplative setting—designed to offer close, meaningful encounters with works of art.
Goal
Our programming is rooted in the belief that art is both a reflective and generative force. Spanning media-based and multidisciplinary formats, our exhibitions will seek to enrich the contemporary art ecology by providing a space for experimentation and conceptual inquiry. We are particularly committed to exploring practices that engage with evolving modes of expression both derivative and deviant within the broader cultural narratives.
Projections
As we develop our vision, Route 128 aims to serve as a conduit between local and international art scenes through future artist residencies, cross-cultural collaborations, and critical publications. With each initiative, we hope to not only support artists in presenting impactful work but also cultivate a robust, inclusive community of creatives, collectors, and thinkers.
We invite our patrons, partners, and peers to accompany us on this journey—one that positions art as an ineffable language through which the unsaid becomes visible, and the future imaginably real.
Founders
Sharmillie Rahman
Sharmillie Rahman is a writer, translator, and curator whose foray into the art world began with her involvement in Depart, an English-language art quarterly published in Dhaka. Between 2013 and 2017, she contributed essays, reviews, and translations that engaged deeply with contemporary art and criticism in South Asia. This intellectually rigorous period ran parallel to her academic career as a teacher of English Literature, a background that continues to inform her curatorial voice.
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Sharmillie Rahman is a writer, translator, and curator whose foray into the art world began with her involvement in Depart, an English-language art quarterly published in Dhaka. Between 2013 and 2017, she contributed essays, reviews, and translations that engaged deeply with contemporary art and criticism in South Asia. This intellectually rigorous period ran parallel to her academic career as a teacher of English Literature, a background that continues to inform her curatorial voice.