Taragaon's January Event Bulletin

Happy New Year!

It’s been a wonderful 2025 but we’re raring to go for 2026! From new exhibitions, artist talks, and workshop showcases, we can’t wait for you to enjoy the start of the new year with us!

Ongoing Exhibition: Archiving for the Future

• January 3: Taragaon Talks: Animated Realities with Polina Piddubna, 4 p.m. onwards

• January 15: Exhibition Opening: Artist in Studio #9, 4 p.m. onwards

• January 16: Taragaon Talks: A Dialogue between Artistic Practice and Political Ecology with Josep Piñol, 3 p.m. onwards

• January 17: Shabdakiri Saajh: Poetry & Gazal recitation, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m

• January 31: Taragaon Talks: A Conversation on Waste to Art with Saurab Koirala, Shreemila Shrestha & Yajyu Manandhar, 4 p.m. onwards

Visit Taragaon to take a step back into the past and enjoy our ongoing exhibition: Archiving for The Future. With glimpses of Bhaktapur, Mustang, Bungmati and the lives of people in various places of Nepal, you get to see the tales of old. Curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki and Sujan Chitrakar, join us as we explore Nepal all over again.

On 3rd of January, 2026, Berlin-based filmmaker Polina Piddubna will openly share her powerful story of creating art since her teenage years and navigating the international art world. She will talk about how her experiences coming from a war-affected country have influenced her work, as well as the joys and challenges she has experienced along the way.

Creations of participants’ creations from Stop Motion Workshop on 27th & 28th December, 2025 along with Polina’s animation films will be screened during the Talk.

The film-screening will also be followed by a short Q/A.

Free entry!

Shabdakiri: an open literature platform promoting poetry, hosts a poetry and gazal recitation evening on the first Saturday of every Nepali month at 3 pm.

Free entry!

Register here for Shabdakiri Saajh

Evitada: The Avoided Artwork is a contemporary art project by Spanish conceptual artist Josep Piñol that turns the decision to forgo producing a large-scale installation into a critical gesture in response to the logic of carbon markets. Through performance, documentation, and storytelling, this “non-work” questions how economic, symbolic, and climatic value is assigned both to what is done and to what is deliberately not done.

The talk proposes a dialogue between artistic practice and political ecology, highlighting the limits of greenwashing and raising questions about responsibility, offsetting, and narrative within the climate crisis—reconsidering what counts as climate action.

Josep Piñol (Tivenys, 1994) is a conceptual and performance artist whose work operates in the fissure between the art field and the institutions that legitimize it. Through mimicry and displacement, he intervenes from within to dismantle and reconfigure its languages, treating discomfort as a site of truth. Moving from scenographic installations, his practice has evolved from the documentary to the speculative, and from the biographical to structural critique. In EVITADA, he notarized his definitive renunciation of a monumental work: a certificate later acquired by a collector, which challenges the carbon-offset market. Since 2022 he has worked from his warehouse-studio in Tivenys and lives between Madrid, Barcelona, and the Ebro Delta. More info: https://www.joseppinol.com/bio-en

Free entry!

Artist in Studio #9, Saurab Koirala, will be having his first solo exhibition following his residency at Taragaon Next, where he will showcase creatures that you find at Taragaon and around Kathmandu, all made from waste materials collected in Kathmandu Valley.

Free entry on opening day!

Ending Artist in Studio #9, Saurab Koirala’s exhibition, a conversation between Saurab Koirala, Shreemila Shrestha and Yajyu Manandhar on creating art from waste materials. The conversation will center around reusing waste materials by turning them into artwork, the Waste to Art competition and how to explore new mediums while being ecologically conscious.

Free entry!