Contemporary Art in Nepal
Contemporary art festival Kathmandu Triennale 2077 will be held later this year
Kathmandu/IBNS: Kathmandu Triennale 2077, Nepal’s premier international platform for global contemporary arts, has announced the new dates for the fourth edition of the festival to be held later this year.
Organised by Siddhartha Arts Foundation (SAF), Kathmandu Triennale will now take place from October 27 – November 27, 2021.
It was earlier scheduled for December 2020 but postponed owing to the pandemic situation.
According to the organiser, as an acknowledgement to the Triennale’s deep rooting in the art and viewpoints of Nepal, as well as of the multiple temporal displacements the Covid-19 pandemic has brought, the Triennale has decided to mark its next edition as Kathmandu Triennale 2077 – the current year of the Nepali calendar.
Artistic Director Cosmin Costinas (Executive Director and Curator of Para Site, Hong Kong) said, “We are primarily searching for appropriate ways to acknowledge and display the multiplicity of art histories and languages, as well as their reflection of plural ways of dreaming, representing, measuring, and mapping the world, in its medical, social, technological, and cosmic dimensions.”
Co curators Sheelasha Rajbhandari and Hit Man Gurung said, “Issues connected to migration and displacement, individual and collective trauma and healing, the body, sexuality, and feminist praxis will also be at the core of the Triennale, with a strong anchoring in conversations that have informed the Nepali political and public sphere following its re-establishment as a multi-ethnic republic almost two decades ago.”
Accounting for the multilevel impact of the ongoing pandemic upon Nepal and the rest of the world, the curatorial team said that it will unavoidably inform the perspective on all these topics, both in the exhibition and the educational and public programmes, adapted to the new realities and unfolding across various culturally and historically significant venues in Kathmandu.
Siddhartha Arts Foundation announced that they have formed a partnership with the Nepal Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation, to jointly organise and present Kathmandu Triennale 2077.
The festival was begun by SAF Founder and Director Sangeeta Thapa in 2009.
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