Garden of Ten Seasons

SAVVY Contemporary

Berlin | Germany

Jun 11, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022

SAVVY Contemporary is honored to host the exhibition GARDEN OF TEN SEASONS 鈥� curated by Cosmin Costina葯, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, and Hit Man Gurung 鈥� in order to rake, water, and nurture these questions and seedlings that have composed Kathmandu Triennale 2077 which was held in Nepal鈥檚 capital earlier this year, as well as its precursor Garden of Six Seasons held in 2020 at Para Site in Hong Kong.

The project departs from questions debated in Nepal and around the world, related to discourses on decolonisation, pluralism of worldviews and systems 鈥� leaving behind any form of totalising claims, either by monocultural nation states or by Eurocentric canons and vocabularies. Nepal has undergone historic and dramatic changes after 2006, including the shift from a monarchy to a federal republic, with progressive debates and tensions around the basis of re-establishing the nation, as well as the devastating earthquake of 2015. These moments of reckoning amidst the uncertainties of our time have placed the country and its over a hundred ethnic, cultural, social, and caste groups, including Indigenous communities and categories with a long history of marginalisation, in a pioneering position for imagining ways of living together in the world.

Furthermore, conversations surrounding contemporary art, its genealogy, institutional and power structures, and the appropriate platforms for horizontal conversations with cultural practices of different lineage have also not only informed the Nepali art scene in the past decades but many other contexts around the world and have brought to the fore important questions about local culture and identity as well as the politics of global circulation of ideas and art forms.