Kathmandu

Kat is a curator, urban disruptor and creator of public art interventions that focus on positive change. Kat creatively leads the global arts initiative Micro Galleries, is writer and curator for women-identifying initiative, Urban Nasty, is an Advisor for French-based global arts initiative United Sketch Freedom, and was named as one of Australia’s 100 Women of Influence for Culture. She has recently returned from the prestigious The Arctic Circle Residency where she continued her research and activations on climate disruption art and the role of artists in this vital issue.

Zena likes to think her art form is in removing the jargon and fluff around marketing, turning it into an easy to understand, practical tool that anyone can use. She has also been to known to throw impromptu performances during business meetings, especially when they are boring. Zena is Micro Galleries Marketing Strategic Lead for the Global Team.

Sarah is an Australian-based urban artist who creates colourful, emotive, layered work. Inspired by the female form, typography and colour. Sarah mixes these elements to create vibrant murals, over-sized canvas artworks and urban paste-ups.

Adam Kuby is a visual artist creating site responsive public art that activates public spaces, engages environmental issues, and connects to local communities.

I create art and projects which hopefully connects people and makes them think. That could be a free art gallery I opened in NY for 10 months, or teaching printmaking to blind people and children affected by the recent earthquake in Mexico City. I am more interested in provocative than pretty art.

Alan Olejniczak is a San Francisco-based playwright and opera librettist, is on the board of Theatre Bay Area Board, a member of the Dramatist Guild and Opera America. This is his second year as a Micro-Galleries Collective Artist.

Doodle Artist from the heart of Kathmandu city, greatly inspired by Newar and Japanese culture, who dreams of making his livelihood out of doodling.

I am visual artist and working as a freelancer. My focus is painting. I am always fascinated by experimental art work on social-cultural issues.

Installation artist “engineering” street signs. An creator raising awareness about public littering through labelling neighbourhoods with street signs.

Artist and Designer who brings colour and joy to the public

Creating colourful compositions based out of plant lore and personal stories.

I’m a gleaner…I search and extract unsung views from our urban environment and use them as the subject of my photographic explorations.

My works are influenced by fine art and street art. Currently I’m exploring the concept of colours.

A 29 year old collage artist/designer from Cleveland, OH now residing in Los Angeles, CA taking his art from the galleries to the streets using wheat paste as a new medium to reach an untapped audience in his reach.

An animator by profession, who loves to tell stories and experiment.

Based in Kathmandu. Black and white works. Dots and lines.

Art collective from Austria, using mixed media to create something awesome.

I am a multi-disiplinary artist who’s work is rooted in place, with a focus on the urban environment.

Inspired by fashion, dreams, the occult, history/culture, nature, mythology, sex/the human body, sci-fi/horror and geography; expressed through illustration, video, performance, installation/sculpture and music, or all of the above.

I make installations, performances and text-based art. I’m interested in the hidden structures and unwritten rules of our everyday world.

Erlend is a sound artist and sound curator. He likes to work with sound in combination with art and space. He has a fascination with sounds, music, the interpretation of those and the impact on society and culture. Beside collecting and exploring music he hosts a (more or less) regular radio show in Graz, Austria.

A painter and sculptor working out of Langa Township in South Africa. His work represents the impact and results of how people can behave when handed a bad situation in life, and explores how we can perhaps try and change this. It is his hope that when people see his work, it will change how they perceive the people committing such acts and notice things about their life you might not have seen before.

Visual Artist using photography and video installation. Works explore people managing their environment and the environment managing them.

Ika Vantiani is a self-taught artist that mostly talk about women, media and consumption on her works. She tend to start working with what’s from within and around her being. Collage is her main medium whereas she finds it down to earth yet has the power in taking her to the places she has never been. Being an artist is the way she celebrates herself and her life everyday.

James Khati is a mixed media artist working and exploring every possible expressive medium.

Artist and activist in exile, he is living and working in Paris since 2009. He gives educational lectures in the colleges and universities since 2010. Kianoush’s editorial cartoons appears regularly in Courrier International French magazine and other national and International media in France and other countries. He chose “Cartooning: The Art of Danger” for his TEDx talk in 2014, months before the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. He has been curating and directing International cartoon expos since 2011 in Europe [France, Sweden, Germany etc. ], and is the founder President of the United Sketches International Association supporting freedom of expression and Cartoonists in Exile.

Kim Efia Aya: a creative exploring who she is in relation to the world around her through radical, free self-expression.

I’m interested in exploring and experimenting various art forms and my work is mostly about self-experimentation and self-realisation.

Intrepid Documentary Photographer of humans doing their thing.

People fascinate me. I often keep quiet and observe connections and subcultures with a sense of curiosity of what their story might be: the lives of the underground. I love to catch those moments that tell a story through my camera in a way that avoids the mainstream ‘norm’ of every day life. My work generally has a message about acceptance and raising awareness.

I am an artist, photographer and activist, working in various media, particularly photography and social media tools, to play my relationship with the environment and communities, and to encourage marginalised communities to develop a voice for self-expression through art-making, social awareness and change in USA, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Nepal.. I have been actively working in collaboration with the French artist JR since 2013.

Delicacy and femininity are the most present marks in Mari’s work. The Brazilian artist’s works shows an intimate relationship with nature and  flows the sensibility and organic features of her drawings. is with MG Kathmandu thanks to Viva Con Agua.

I am a freelance multimedia visual artist. I work in a wide range of mediums and tend to focus on topics to do with identity.

Teacher of creativity, communication and self-discovery through Mail Art using various mediums, primarily collage. Collage is her medium, and the postal system is how she shares it.An active member of the International Union of Mail Artists, which connects her with people throughout the world.

Miss.Printed is a Norwegian-based artist who is filling the gap between Collage, Photography and street art. Her passion is “Locative Collage”. She leads The Collage Garden – an open call project where artists from all over the world work together to transform concrete walls across the globe into beautiful paper gardens.

Journeying, Experimenting, Searching, Life, Death, Connections, Paint, Digital, Murals, Lost, Kowaii, Unconventional Beauty, Personal Discoveries, Faces, Feelings, Shock, POV.

Nikesh Shrestha is a promising photographer fromNepal.He has been working on the series “Stories of Grandmothers”

Noah works to transform the familiar into the fantastic and shed light on the hidden stories around us.

Ollla at Work develops interventions in the public space, enabling the participants to engage with social issues through simple actions.

I work using a variety of media and techniques including stencil, printing, wheatpaste, freehand – whatever helps achieve the delivery of my vision and response to the site.

I digitally sketch on the images to represent possibilities. I studied architecture and am currently a masters student.

Linus from Moos aka. Rips1 is a Lucerne artist and illustrator whose  works include murals, paintings and digital works. He’s inspired through traveling and enjoys leaving his artworks wherever he gets to. is with MG Kathmandu thanks to Viva Con Agua.

Urban Artist and Curator from Vienna, Austria who lives and works in London,UK. Specialises in different kinds of street art, and founder of the Bambsy Project.

Passionate designer with problem-solving skills, who loves to communicate visually.

I am a contemporary photographer who is passionate about conveying moods and emotions. I merge them with their environment, focusing on the art and beauty of Kathmandu.

Shraddha Shrestha aka Macha, illustrator and muralist working mainly with characters inspired by Nepalese culture and modern day pop culture.

Digital artist searching avenues to enhance the community/world through the medium of art.

My name is Aakashman (Skyman) and I’m 17 years old. I recently started getting into street art and filming as I find it the best way to express myself. To boost my first experiences in street art I worked for a project called Sticklit.

Stephanie Rond is a street artist whose colourful feminist artwork can be seen on walls around the world, both inside and out.

Tim’s work deals with different relationships which exist between people and the places they inhabit. It does so by celebrating and questioning things which are taken for granted or overlooked. Tim works with slab built ceramic sculpture and mixed media drawing in a Pop art inspired style. His art seeks to create fun playful reactions as a way to engage people in often serious topics such as social, political or environmental issues.

TONA is a Hamburg-based stencil artist who is spreading his art throughout the globe. Belonging to the old-school street art movemen,t he has been doing art in public spaces since 1999. TONA is with MG Kathmandu thanks to Viva Con Agua.

Brightsiders is a creative collaboration between Joel Fergie (The Zookeeper) Jordan Bruce (Jay Beez) and Jordache Castillejos dedicated to bringing a glass half full approach to their work.

I capture shape, colour, and expression from what I see, and create it into a new character. Faces, animals, graphics, bright colours, and strange shapes always catch my attention.

Vivien Poly is a French photographer and urban artist based in Indonesia. He travels around the world to portray people and wheat-paste them in urban spaces.

Yajyu Manandhar is a conceptual artist based in Kathmandu. He uses found materials to question various existing binaries of urban landscape and human connection.

A member of the arts collective, Penahitam where members learn to draw and
share skills with each other; regardless of tribe, race, religion, gender or class ). Berteman, Berkarya, Berbagi dan Bersenang-senang: art is our weapon.

Saya adalah seorang yang menekuni dunia rajut sejak duduk di bangku Sekolah Dasar, dan saya yakin apa yang saya tekuni ini adalah bagian dari hidup saya yang akan membawa saya pada kemungkinan kemungkinan baru dan gila

I knit, paper-cut, shadow puppet and dance. I believe my work opens me up to new possibilities – if it doesn’t make me insane!