Reetu Sattar

Reetu Sattar is a performance-based artist and filmmaker based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her artistic practice is
guided by somatic intelligence while reflecting on human perception and the imperceptible, colonial
historiography, environmental refugees, and the unequal grounds of labour cycles from Bangladesh. She
creates durational and intermedia assemblages combining performance, text, installation, photography, and
filmmaking that revise conventional theatre practices.
Born in Dhaka, Reetu lives and works there. She trained in experimental theatre and film at The Royal Danish
Theatre in Copenhagen. She holds a post-graduate degree in Visual Arts from Jan Van Eyck Academy in the
Netherlands.

Her recent exhibitions include the Sharjah Art Biennial, Serendipity Arts Festival, Istanbul Biennial, British
Textile Biennial, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Liverpool Biennial, and Dhaka Art Summit. She has also
exhibited at venues such as the British Film Institute in London, Alserkal Avenue and Ishara Art Foundation in
Dubai, Artspace in Sydney, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and NTU CCA Singapore. Her performances have been
staged internationally in London, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Birmingham, Bangkok, Kolkata, and Goa.
Reetu’s first film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2019, and her second film,
Shabnam, debuted at IFFR in 2023.