Category: Exhibitions

  • Her Expression-A Tribute to Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen

    From Unveil to Untangle
    Unveil invited us to rediscover, untangle invites us to act.  UNTANGEL- slowly shifting from rediscovering, understanding, questioning to responsibility.  This is a call to action by untangling the chaos we have collectively created physically and spiritually. This year as part of the Lungta Festival, Her Expression opens the second phase Untangle: From Rediscovery to Social Responsibility.

    Every voice has the power to create change. A painting, an installation, a song, a conversation, or even the choices we make every day, are pieces of the community’s story.  Often times, it takes courage to take a step to bring an idea to life.  Art is the most innate nature in every one, and that is what makes every creation unique.  Art allows us to slow down, learn to see things with a wide lens and certainly we can change.

    Her Expression celebrates the heART of women tapping into their limitless potential. Held annually under the patronage of Her Majesty, the exhibition honors a legacy of grace, wisdom, and leadership that continues to shape the lives of Bhutanese women.
    It is Her Majesty’s unwavering support for the arts that gives this platform its strength and purpose.

    Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen graced the inauguration of the Her Expression Vol. IX on 4 June featuring 73 women artist and 104 artworks from girls and women from different background across Bhutan and internationally.

    This is more than a show of artworks. It’s a gathering. Women painters, sculptors, photographers, performers, hobbyist, singers and first-time creators come together to share what they see, feel, and question. Confidence falters without exposure, and opportunities are a rarity. Her Expression aspires to shift that balance, to be a deliberate, welcoming ground for experimentation, learning, and a shared experience.

    The month-long festival has offered the people an exciting world of art to experience joy.  With colors of flowers, umbrellas, artworks, music and weekend activities, it has created an open space for families to spend meaningful moments. More than a festival, Her Expression has transformed an art centre, a public road and a garden into a shared creative open space. Together, inviting each on to join together to create an experience of reflections- on one’s spiritual practice, sustainability, values, commitments while engaging with the different elements of the festival.

    The weekend activities with 10 stalls hosted by women artists and a CSO- Nazhoen Lamtoen with exciting engaging activities for everyone from printing your own lungta, book marks, origami, crochet, face painting to supporting a child.  Walking along the park offering a selection of food vendors and music to ease the day and into the night. The Her Expression festival has engaged with the natural environment to enjoy and appreciate the value art brings in the community’s well-being

    As is often heard from the visitors, it is like a slice of heaven.  The ability to untangle every moment reminds us that change in any form does not begin with grand gestures. It sure can begin by recognizing, then reflecting and then taking action. Our Lungta is the aspiration we send out and Untangle is asking us if our words, thoughts and actions are in alignment.

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  • Boundless Strokes

    Karma Jurmi 

    A solo exhibition

    Karma Jurmi did not really see himself as an artist, and neither did he see calligraphy as an art or his work with bronze and metal.The warmth and company from the art community and other artists supported his effort to grow as an artist. Thus, came the Lungta Art Festival and the call for a solo exhibition. That led to the birth of Boundless Stokes, the first solo exhibition for Karma Jurmi and the first Calligraphy exhibition. With the theme of the festival “Lungta” Karma untangles his own journey as an artist.

    Boundless Strokes is an expression of courage, presence and surrender by Karma Jurmi, a calligraphy artist. The exhibition is also an act of release, as for years, Karma’s calligraphy found its space only in school banners, posters and number plates. Thus, for Karma, Boundless strokes are breaking  structures and turning it into an artistic inquiry.

    The first  artwork you will encounter as you enter is the skull of a yak with a prayer. This is an act of respect to the animal for his or her service and a prayer for the one who has passed on. Likewise, the Boundless Strokes offers a practice every Bhutanese or a Buddhist starts their day with. With a stroke of a brush, the words of the Buddha are carefully written on the traditional daphne paper. The combination brings stories of nostalgia from childhood and seamlessly blends into moments of individual experience and practices. It is a visual language element relatable to one’s daily life.

    For the general Bhutanese, the Bhutanese calligraphy is strongly associated with formal work, karma’s work of art creates a space to “just be.” The stroke is a rhythm with the ink and the brush. The rhythm is a blend of structure, light, free and pace.

    The process is that of patience and the result is practicing patience. The artist eloquently brought strokes to life with reminders of impermanence, gratitude, kindness and perfectly ending with Tashi Gay Par Sho – May All Flourish.

    The canvas itself resonates with nature with the traditional paper as the major canvas for his artworks. As a reminder of impermanence, karma used animal hyde as a canvas, a moment that creates uneasiness yet a powerful message.

    Karma with his boundless strokes the twelve animals of the zodiac signs emerge, and this is his gratitude to the visitors and for their lungta to soar.

    BBS Coverage https://www.bbs.bt/241717/

  • Asha Kama’s Lungta@Potolo

    A Solo Exhibition

    April 7th, 2026

    You arrive at the artist village at Potolo Asha’s play ground for artist Kama Wangdi’s solo exhibition.  This is also the first ever solo  exhibition the village has ever seen.

    This exhibition unveils when you enter, you are part of the exhibition. And to understand this, you have to be here—in Potolo.

    Unlike any other exhibition, this is a living exhibition—built from salvaged wood, fragments of old homes, leftover paint and anything or everything Asha would have thought would be useful.  Nothing is wasted. Nothing is excessive – Only what is necessary.

    You feel and see the memories, stories and the emotions the exhibition exudes.

    Lungta at Potolo offers “unveil” in living – living in the present, to live with what already exists. To be surrounded by growth of fruits, vegetables and flowers, and mesmerized by the vision of the artist. The exhibition has rooted curiosity and wonder in the residents of the community.  When the residents are in the field, the art village scene is completely different; with paints, more flowers than grains, with biodegradable prayer flags hoisted on bamboos, with truckloads of old wood and metal being delivered. 

    Truly, an art village, beyond the community, the helpers and carpenters on the land are more curious.  Curious helpers follow Asha for instructions and directions because they have never built what they are building at the moment. The carpenters wonder why Asha would dig out the grass and place it on a completely well done window or structure.  Slowly his helpers and carpenters are becoming artists, attempting to make wooden horses, and trying new creations, and also building homes for birds.

    This is not just an art exhibition.

    It is a process.
    A reflection on life.
    Contentment before your eyes.

    With every step, the art village opens another space, under the tree, tucked away like a treasure.

    An offering of small moments of wonder.

    Link to the Press Coverage

    𝐋𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐚 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 (𝐋𝐀𝐅𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔) 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐊𝐚𝐛𝐣𝐢𝐬𝐚, 𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐡𝐚

    VAST Bhutan has opened ‘Lungta @ Potolo’, a solo exhibition at Potolo Artists Village in Kabjisa, Punakha.

    Welcome to Lungta@Potolo
    A story of horses, heros and kindness
    Explaining “Unlocking the Lungta”
    All set for the Lungta Lucky Draw with the community, more than 90 residents enjoyed the exhibition, fun and dinner.
    Pick a lucky number
    In conversation
    Narrating the lungta within
    Chorten Nyinpo monks spend a day at Potolo for the exhibition.
    The Artist
    How to Lungta Saa consciously
    The alternative – pick bio-degdrable
    The majority of the village visited the exhibition, and all received a tour by the Artist
    Craft Your Lungta with the Chorten Nyingpo monks
    Asha narrates the story of the Boy and the Tree