Connected Horizons
Connected Horizons is an international group exhibition bringing together artists from Nepal, Korea, Argentina, the United Kingdom, and Finland/Ireland. Through this gathering, the exhibition explores ideas of connection, dialogue, and shared creative possibilities across cultures and geographies.
Building upon the foundation of the 2023 exhibition Harmony, which reflected on the symbolic relationship between “mountain and ocean,” this new edition further expands the conversation beyond two landscapes. Whereas the earlier exhibition emphasized a poetic contrast, Connected Horizons proposes a shift in perspective. Here, these landscapes no longer stand apart; instead, they open toward one another, forming a shared horizon — a space of encounter and exchange.
Moreover, the exhibition presents works in sculpture, installation, video, and experimental media. Through these diverse artistic practices, the participating artists explore how distance can gradually transform into dialogue and how individual perspectives can coexist within a collective space.
Rather than comparing cultural differences, Connected Horizons focuses on collaboration, mutual respect, and creative interaction. In doing so, it highlights the importance of ongoing international exchange and emphasizes the role of art in building understanding across borders.
Ultimately, the exhibition suggests that a horizon is not an endpoint, but a beginning — a starting line for new ideas, relationships, and shared visions created together.
Featuring Artists
Aishworya Shakya
Ceramic Artist | Nepal
Aishworya Shakya is a visual artist. She discovered a deep connection with ceramic art during her Fine Arts studies and began using ceramics as her primary medium of expression. She believes in simplifying existence, romanticising peace and finding comfort in healing. Most of her experiences of being at moments are rather intangible. She tries to translate her non-physical reality and its rhythms through her freeform designs and contemplative patterns in ceramics. While her works take shape, they create a curious relationship and assume a sense of beauty that resonates inwards.
Changsun Koh
Visual Artist | Korea
Changsun Koh is an artist whose work examines the role of the artist within evolving contemporary culture, with a focus on digital technologies. His practice explores how artists respond to cultural and environmental changes, emphasizing digital media, social engagement, and the audience’s viewing experience. In recent years, Koh has developed a strong interest in curating and participating in exhibitions across multiple countries. Since 2019, he has produced exhibitions throughout Europe and Asia, including Korea, using movement and displacement as both a method and framework for his artistic practice.
Constanza Bitthoff
Contemporary Dancer | Argentina
Constanza Bitthoff is an Argentine contemporary dancer, choreographer, and performance artist trained at the National School of Art (ENA) in Cuba. Her work blends Cuban modern dance, physical theatre, and Orisha-inspired archetypes, exploring movement, ritual, and embodied research. She has performed and presented work across Latin America, Europe, and Asia, and collaborates with visual artists to create site-responsive performances in galleries, theatres, and public spaces.
Bitthoff’s notable solo works include Plomo (El Galpón Theatre, Argentina), Sucede (Chroma Theatre, Barcelona), Nómade (Gallery Mcube, Nepal), The Thread Project (with Manish Lal Shrestha, Gallery Mcube), Between Kimono Wings (Teknival Festival, Japan), and Between Cloud and Rain (Art Festival Hexxydaxxyboxx, India).
Jaewon Kim
Contemporary Artist
Jaewon Kim (b. 1991, Bucheon, South Korea) is a contemporary artist whose work investigates the formation and transformation of human emotion and identity through portraiture. He earned a BFA in Media Art from Kaywon University of Art & Design and furthered his studies at Seoul School of Visual Arts and Seoul Digital University. After gaining professional experience at a prop-making company, he began exhibiting in 2022 with Just Still Life and subsequently participated in group exhibitions following Misstaken, joining the art collective GUTA.
Kim’s practice emphasizes process over outcome, exploring repetition, time, and subtle, often overlooked states. Through meticulous face drawings, he creates contemplative spaces that encourage reflection rather than fixed interpretation. He is currently preparing to continue his studies in the United States while maintaining an active artistic practice.
KangJang Won
Performance Artist | Korea
KangJang Won returned to Korea in 2009 after completing a B.A. and M.A. in Visual Arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy. Since 2010, he has been teaching at Kaywon University of Art & Design. His multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, video, performance, and public art. Kang actively participates in exhibitions in Korea and Europe, continually exploring opportunities to expand his work across diverse geographical and cultural contexts.
Kira O’Reilly
Multi Media Artist | Irealand
Kira O’Reilly (b. 1967) is an Irish artist based between Finland and Ireland. Her practice uses multiple media including performance art, installation, sculpture, biotechnical practices and writing which to consider speculative reconfigurations around The Body. She makes, writes, teaches, mentors and collaborates with humans of various types and technologies and non-humans of numerous divergences.
Since graduating from the University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 1998 in Fine Art, she has exhibited widely throughout Europe and internationally, also presenting at conferences and symposia on performance and live art, science, art and technology, most recently at the fourth edition of Bangkok Art Biennale where she presented The Menopausal Gym at National Gallery of Thailand.
KyungJoo Kim
Visual Artist | Korea
KyungJoo Kim is a Seoul-based artist, researcher, and educator whose work explores the embodied perception of urban space through walking, color, and memory. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and a Doctor of Fine Arts from Sookmyung Women’s University. Working across painting, drawing, and installation, Kim translates sensory traces of light, movement, and time into layered visual structures.
Her practice combines theoretical inquiry with material experimentation, engaging with concepts of spatial experience, cultural memory, and perceptual translation. Projects such as Walking Color and Luminous Space examine how color functions not as mere decoration but as testimony—an afterimage of lived encounters within the city. By integrating research with artistic practice, Kim continues to develop a painterly language that reflects bodily movement, relational space, and the evolving character of contemporary urban environments.
Lee TaeYong
Media Artist | Korea
Lee TaeYong is a media artist whose practice focuses on kinetic installations and interactive media. Using VR, 360-degree video, and physical interaction, he explores perception through slow transformations and subtle sensory shifts, intervening in the gaps and assumptions of rational systems.
Manish Lal Shrestha
Multi-Disciplinary Visual Artist / Curator | Nepal
Manish Lal Shrestha is a leading multi-disciplinary visual artist and curator based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Working across performance, installation, painting, and conceptual art, he is a key figure in Nepal’s postmodern movement. A graduate of Sir J. J. School of Fine Art, Mumbai (2001), his practice explores material experimentation and Kathmandu’s urban landscape. Shrestha has held 20 solo exhibitions and participated in major international art events, including the Kathmandu Triennale (2017), Busan Biennale (2019), Today Art Museum, Beijing (2019), and Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now at the Rubin Museum, New York (2024) and Wrightwood 659, Chicago (2025). He has received the National Fine Arts Award (2011) and the Australian Himalayan Art Award (2018).
As Founder Director and Curator of Gallery Mcube, he leads the AIR_MCUBE International Artist Residency and curatorial initiatives, fostering Nepal’s contemporary art scene and its global presence.
Minjoo Kim
Contemporary Artist | Korea
Minjoo Kim is a contemporary artist who blends traditional Korean materials and landscape iconography with elements of modern life. Her work creates imagined worlds where classical landscapes are deconstructed and reassembled, allowing multiple times and spaces to coexist. Familiar scenes transform through subtle visual shifts a fisherman merges with a fish, modern architecture appears within ancient landscapes, and human presence becomes inseparable from nature. Through these hybrid images, Kim explores the boundaries between past and present, reality and imagination. Her paintings focus on transitional states, embracing ambiguity and overlapping narrative fragments to invite viewers into a quiet, playful reflection on perception, memory, and the possibilities of the imagination.
Muna Bhadel
Contemporary Artist | Nepal
Muna Bhadel is a contemporary Nepali visual and performance artist based in Kathmandu, originally from Bhaktapur. She holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Central Department of Fine Arts, Tribhuvan University. Working primarily in painting and performance, her practice explores memory, emotion, gender, aging, and everyday life, often drawing from personal narratives and literary influences. Bhadel frequently focuses on intergenerational experiences, particularly women’s lived realities, blending figures with traditional Nepali and South Asian visual motifs to create dialogues between past and present. She has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, residencies, and festivals, and has received awards including the Sita Shree Pant Smriti Award and the Australian Himalayan Foundation Art Award.
Nilesh Shakya
Sculptor | Nepal
Nilesh Shakya is a sculptor based in Lalitpur, Nepal, who occasionally works in photography. Trained in traditional wax sculpture, he has expanded his practice to clay, wood, plaster, stone, cement, and paper. Shakya holds an MFA in Sculpture from Tribhuvan University and is particularly interested in exploring environmental and socio-cultural themes.
He has participated in numerous exhibitions, including the National Art Exhibition (2076–77 BS), Himalayan Art Festival (2019), Consonance 2020 at Classic Gallery, Revived Emotion at Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Center, Bangkok (2020), Maulik (2022), Young Artist Show at Gallery Mcube (2023), and the Kathmandu Art Biennale (2024). He was also selected for the CRACK International Art Camp in Bangladesh (2023).
Richard Crooks
Sculptor / Collagist | UK
Richard Crooks is a UK-based sculptor, collagist, and educator whose work explores cultural memory and residency-driven practice. His mixed-media collage Between the Dhunge Below and Above was selected for the Trinity Buoy Working Drawing Award, touring the UK into 2026. He has exhibited internationally, including Being There: Impressions in Harmony at Gallery Mcube (2024), Where the Lotus Grows at the British Council, Dhaka (2023), the Royal West of England Academy Open (2019, 2023), and the Asian Biennale, Dhaka (2022).
His work is held in collections including the British Council, Bangladesh (Dhaka Spread), and Chippenham Museum (Kat’ Towers Reprise). Richard holds an MA in Sculpture from Wimbledon School of Art and an MA in Ceramics (AHRB bursary), following a First-Class degree in Sculpture from Bath Academy of Art. He has led workshops and educational programs internationally, including with Kathmandu University, the Thames Festival/British Council in Bangladesh, and charities such as Slamoutloud. He is a jurist for the Bath Society of Artists and a fellow of the Salzburg Global Forum.
Seung-chul Hong
Sculptor / Curator | Korea
Seung-chul Hong majored in sculpture at Kaywon University of Art and Design and earned his master’s degree from Hongik University. He has worked as a curator at the Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, operated Gallery Puzz in Heyri Art Village, and participated as a planner and curator in numerous art fairs. He is currently a professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Kaywon University of Art and Design and serves as a curator at Kuma Museum of Art.
Somi Lee
Multidisciplinary artist | Korea
Somi Lee is a multidisciplinary artist working across video and performance, drawing, digital print, installation, and sculpture, exploring reflections on life and human existence. She earned a BFA in Sculpture from Seoul National University College of Fine Arts (1986) and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany (1987–1992). Since 1993, she has been a full-time professor at Kaywon University of Art & Design, continuing her practice alongside art education. Lee has presented ten solo exhibitions, beginning with Hello Everyone (1993), and has participated in over 90 group exhibitions in Korea and internationally.
Sujan Dangol
Community Artist
Sujan Dangol is a community artist and art producer based in Kathmandu. He earned his MFA from Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Fine Arts, and teaches as a faculty member at Kathmandu University, Center for Art and Design. In 2013, he received the Australian Himalayan Foundation Award.
Dangol’s work engages viewers on multiple layers, encouraging reflection on cultural roots and the recovery of erased traditional practices, heritage, and social norms.
