Becoming an art curator in Nepal: An old job, a new term, and an evergreen need for betterment

In 2006, Sangeeta Thapa, the founder and director of Siddhartha Art Gallery , received a letter from an art gallery in Pakistan. There, she was proposed as the art curator of an exhibition that was opening soon.

“That was the first time when I heard the word curator and I asked what it was,” Thapa remembers, “When they explained the job to me, I realised that I had been doing it since I opened the gallery (in 1987) and I agreed.”