Amrit Karki: sā Ladakh Biennale

The Rubin is an art partner at the 2026 sā Ladakh Biennale, supporting a residency and the creation of a new work by Nepalese artist Amrit Karki. Amrit Karki (b. 1990) is one of 24 artists participating in the 2026 sā Ladakh Biennale, a regenerative art biennale unfolding over 3,000 meters above sea level, focusing on themes of climate, culture, and community. Amrit, the first artist from Nepal to participate, will develop new work to be presented at the biennale following a monthlong residency in Ladakh in July. Both a visual and performing artist, Amrit lives and works in Pokhara, Nepal, and has achieved international recognition for his thought-provoking and often durational works that interrogate the bridge between the ephemeral and the eternal and the formulation of the formless. In 2024 he created a five-day performance, What You Have Given Me, I Set Free Forever, at the Nepal Art Council gallery, commissioned by the Rubin as part of the exhibition Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now and made possible through the Marina Abramović Institute. The 2026 sā Ladakh Biennale, themed Signals from Another Star, brings together artists from Ladakh and around the world to foster meaningful exchange between local knowledge systems and global contemporary practices. The biennale foregrounds regeneration, learning, and ethical engagement, inviting artists and audiences to attune themselves to the frequencies of land, memory, climate, and lived experience.