Tag: #contemporary art
Articles tagged with #contemporary art
Firing her imagination
An emerging Nepali artist plays with fire to unlock the creative potential of clay sculptures
From the outside looking in
A mixed media exhibition are windows on a tangible, architectural archive of Patan
Between the sacred and everyday
A new exhibition on Bhaktapur is a meditation on heritage, belief, and identity
Reimagined roots
Eight female artists probe the interaction of cultural identity and personal evolution
Communicating existence through art
Visitors at exhibition ponder: Who am I? Why am I? What am I? Where am I going after this?
Lain Singh Bandgel lives on
The works of Nepal’s foremost artist are up for grabs for a limited time at an auction in London
Five Decades of Lok Chitrakar
The art of making the invisible visible through paubha
The wheel of time and thought
Krishna Bhakta Dangol, "What makes us fight", Acrylic on terracotta. All Photos: MONIKA DEUPALA.There is a widely circulated image of King…
Redefining art at Kathmandu Triennale 2077
After being put off by the pandemic, Nepal’s largest art festival is finally being held from 11 February - 31 March in venues across Kathmandu…
Dipesh Nepali’s dark light
A painting that transports the artist and viewer to life’s dark period, and deliverance from it
Art for a cause
The art festival was inagurated by noted Nepali actor Rajesh Hamal (second from right). Also pictured, general manager of Turkish Airlines…
The house of Kalapremi
All photos: MONIKA DEUPALAIn the centre of the room of the ground floor at Siddhartha Art Gallery, tattooed ceramic female figures stretch…
N A R Ì by Mukti Singh Thapa
A skilful but blunt depiction of Nepali society on canvas
Riding on the waves of colours
Photos: TULIKAAInside Dhokaima Cafe’s Van Gogh room, Aakash Pradhan’s photo collages are like splashes of colour on black walls of a dark…
Continuum
Pic: GG Machaan / facebookArtist Sunita Rana’s imaginary locations transfer the viewer to a dream world: ethereal light shines through trees…
Nepali calligrapher at large
Photo: Sworup RanjitBoston-based Nepali artist Sneha Shrestha once laid out an installation on the floor so that people could walk all over it.…
Turbulent times
All photos: SEWA BHATTARAIIshan Pariyar did not intend for his exhibition at Siddhartha Art Gallery to coincide with the raging protests down…
Lost in Transition
Though the medium is oil on canvas, Mann Gurung employs only sepia tones in his paintings, evoking the era of old photographs. Indeed, his…
Nepali Art going places
Largest ever international exhibition of contemporary Nepali art opens at Weltmuseum Wien
The pain of love and separation
Ragini Upadhyay calls her artwork an ‘artistic diary’, reflect her life events and yearnings. Her current exhibition Love Revisited at Le Sherpa…
Kathmandu through silk screen
Photo: Sewa BhattaraiInnocent children smile from the back of a rickshaw. Crumbling buildings are supported by long timber beams. Prabod…
Nepal Art Now in Vienna
Paintings of the Nepal Art Now Exhibition are in pre-display at Nepal Art Council for the next two weeks before being taken to Welt Museum in…
Two new galleries in town
Located in a corner behind the big bell in Boudha, Gallery LA (Let’s Art) just completed its first year, representing Kathmandu’s rising trend…
Internal and external expressions
Siddhartha Art Gallery's current exhibition hosts two completely different kinds of expressions: one is introspective and seeks to express…