Kathmandu, June 8, 2025 — Today marks the opening of Amalgam 2025 at Siddhartha Art Gallery, a landmark annual group exhibition featuring the works of 61 Nepali artists, each contributing to a powerful collective chorus of contemporary expression.
This year’s edition of Amalgam 2025 unfolds as a visual dialogue—layered, intuitive, and diverse—where thought meets form and tradition converses with experimentation. The gallery becomes a shared space for inquiry, reflection, and creative tension.
Sangeeta Thapa, The Founder of Siddhartha Art Gallery during the opening of Amalgam 2025.
Among the featured artists, Kailash K Shrestha and Krisha Tamrakar stand out with compelling contributions that resonate deeply within the fabric of this show.
Kailash K Shrestha, by contrast, delivers a work grounded in socio-political inquiry. Through bold imagery and layered symbolism, his piece challenges viewers to confront inherited narratives and question the architecture of control and memory.
Viewers engazing with artist kailash K Shrestha’s artwork.
Krisha Tamrakar, whose works explore the quiet tension between need and denial, as familiar objects—bags, jars, sandals—are delicately encased and made unreachable. By transforming symbols of daily life into distant relics, she reflects on how we impose invisible boundaries, turning what was once essential into something untouchable. Her practice invites reflection on fragility, control, and the subtle ways we lose access—to things, to people, to ourselves.
Artist Krisha Tamrakar with her artworks.
Together, their voices embody the spectrum of contemporary Nepali experience—each distinct, yet in conversation.
Amalgam 2025 runs until 8 July 2025, offering visitors an evolving, multi-dimensional exploration of Nepali art today.
Kailash K shrestha and Bibhakar Shakya
Bibhakar Shakya, Manish Lal Shrestha and Krisha Tamrakar
This is not just an exhibition.
It’s an invitation to witness, to feel, to respond.
Let it stir you. Don’t let it pass you by.
📍 Siddhartha Art Gallery, Baber Mahal Revisited, Kathmandu
🗓 Exhibition Dates: 8 June – 8 July 2025
🔗 Follow @artgallerysiddhartha for updates
