EXHIBITIONS ABROAD

MANDALA LAB, BILBAO

June 1–17, 2022

A traveling version of the Mandala Lab appeared in the Parque de Doña Casilda de Iturrizar, Bilbao, Spain, and was a highlight of the inaugural Wellbeing Summit for Social Change (June 1–3). This modular installation brought the lab’s five interactive experiences beyond the walls of the Rubin Museum to the public for free.

TALES OF MUTED SPIRITS –DISPERSED THREADS – TWISTED SHANGRI-LA

59th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia April 23–November 27, 2022

With lead support from the Rubin Museum, the first-ever Nepal Pavilion debuted at the 59th International Art Exhibition, featuring the work of artist Tsherin Sherpa and curated by artists Sheelasha Rajbhandari and Hit Man Gurung. For the inaugural exhibition, Sherpa collaborated with artists across the country to draw on materials from a shared history and incorporate accounts encoded in oral cultures, woven languages, and quotidian rituals to implicate an intersectional and intertwined past that problematizes contradictory conceptualizations of Nepal as well as the broader Himalayan region.