Shrine Empire Gallery

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take me to the water
A Future Deferred

Exhibitions and screenings

2023
India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, Delhi, India.
Apparatus At Play, Shrine Empire, Delhi, India.

2022
New Natures: A Terrible Beauty is Born, Gallery MMB, Mumbai. Kathmandu Triennale.
The Promise of Grass, Mardin Biennial.
The Garden of Ten Seasons, SAVVY CONTEMPORARY, Berlin.
Stealing Earth, Cité Internationale des arts, Paris.
An ocean in every drop, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai.
In These Folds, Serendipity Arts festival, Goa.

2021
[Off] Limits, Shunno, Chobi Mela, Dhaka
Drifting with the Summer Tides, South Asian Visual Arts Centre, Canada Phantasmapolis, Asian Art Biennale, Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung Photography Cinema, Hong Kong International Photo Festival.
Rethinking Nature, Museo Madre, Naples.
Asia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA, Brisbane.
Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Delhi, India.

2020
Dhaka Art Summit.
A language of forms – Records of Time Tracing, Exhibit 320, New Delhi.
India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi.

2019
Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation.
Works of Consciousness, Art Heritage, New Delhi.
Ellipsis: Between Word and Image, Jawaharlal Kala Kendra, Jaipur
Demons in a Line, Prometeogallery, Milan.
As it rises into the Air: Listening in Practice, Gallery MMB, Mumbai
Artpro, International Video Art Festival, Dhaka.

2018
Engaged Arts in Nepal: Connecting Nature and Culture, Taragaon Museum, Kathmandu.
Starting from the Desert – Ecologies on the Edge, Yinchuan Biennale
The Edge, Bikaner House, New Delhi.
Photo.Kathmandu, Kathmandu.

2017
Kathmandu Triennale.
Scope | PIX: Nepal Issue, Gallery MMB, Mumbai.
Young Subcontinent, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa.

2016
Scope | PIX: Nepal Issue, The Gallery, New Delhi.
The ARKIPEL: social/capital, International documentary and experimental film festival, Jakarta.
My friends I lost to imagination, Siddhartha Art Gallery, Kathmandu (solo).
Scope | PIX: Nepal Issue, Taragaon Museum, Kathmandu.
Underground: films of an experimental and futurist nature, Afronaut (A), Pittsburgh, PA.
New Wave in Nepali Photography, Photo Kathmandu.

2015
The porcupine in the room, Delfina Foundation, London
Land in Focus, International Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

Presentations & Residencies

2022
Cité Internationale des arts, Paris (Winner of PAIR award by Prameya Art Foundation).

2019
Tranzit.Ro, Bucharest.
CONA foundation, Mumbai.

2018
Para.Site, Hong Kong.
Common Ground: Location and Memory in Arts Practices, Goethe-Institut, Mumbai.

2017
HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht.

2013
photo.circle.forty.eight, Photo.Circle, Kathmandu.

2012
Sandarbh Artist’s Workshop, Jaipur.

Karan Shrestha’s practice incorporates drawings, sculpture, photography, text, film, and video that speak to the complex, entangled relations of Nepal’s recent history. Shrestha presents projects that are a synthesis of an archive of the terrain, political histories, transient memories, and a speculative world that suspends reality, probing all the while at the fraught rhetoric of progress that is constantly pitted as the only way forward.

Shrestha has shown work at the Kathmandu Triennale; Savvy Contemporary, Berlin; Mardin Biennale; Museo Madre, Naples; 10thAsia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane; Dhaka Art Summit; Yinchuan Biennale; 8th Asian Art Biennale, Serendipity Arts Festival, Jameel Arts Centre among others. He was recently the winner of Prameya Art Foundation’s Pair Award which culminated in a residency at Cite Internationale Des Arts in Paris in collaboration with Institute Francais.

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apparatus at play – | Karan Shrestha

India Art Fair 2023 – | Group Show

Delhi Contemporary Art Week – 2021 – | Group Show

India Art Fair 2020 – | Group Show

The Edge Curated By Yashodhara Dalmia – | Group Show