Contemporary artist
Sajan Mani (born 1982 in Kunnoth, India ) is a Berlin-based contemporary artist[ 1] [ 2] and Berlin Art Prize 2021[ 3] winner. He has exhibited at various international venues, including the Vancouver Biennale ,[ 4] the Kampala Art Biennale[ 5] the Dhaka Art Summit and the Kolkata International Art Festival,[ 6] on issues of various lives of marginalized people of India[ 7] and post-colonial Dalit lives.[ 8] [ 9] He is working with drawing, performance art [ 10] and video installations .
Education
Sajan graduated in English Literature from Kannur University in 2004. Later, he graduated in fine arts from Karnataka State Open University in 2011. He later earned a master's degree in Spatial Strategies[ 11] in 2019 from Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin .
Biography
He was an editorial board member for the first edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale .[ 12] [ 13] [ 14] He Performed at the Vancouver Biennale , Kampala Art Biennale, Dhaka Art Summit , Kolkata International Performance Art Festival, Sensorium-Sunaparanta Art Festival, Goa and Musrara Mix Festival.[ 15] Sajan got critically acclaimed[ 16] for the solo exhibition 'Alphabet of Touch> <Overseas Stretched Bodies and Muted Howls for Songs' exhibited at the Nome Gallery in Berlin.[ 17]
Important works
Citizen Ship Burn It Down![ 18] [ 19]
Liquidity Ar[ 20]
Secular Meat[ 21]
Caste-pital
Politically Incorrect Bodies[ 22]
Specters of Communism[ 23]
Art will Never Die, but COW?
Alphabet of Touch> <Over Stretched Bodies and Muted Houses for Songs[ 24]
Gallery
References
^ "Art for the public - The Hindu" . The Hindu . 2020-12-12. Archived from the original on 2020-12-12. Retrieved 2020-12-12 .
^ "Through his performance pieces, Sajan Mani pushes his body to its limits to relive the pain of the Dalit life - The Hindu" . The Hindu . 2020-12-12. Archived from the original on 2020-12-12. Retrieved 2020-12-12 .
^ "Annett Gröschner erhält den Großen Kunstpreis Berlin 2021" . www.adk.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-24 .
^ "Residency Sajan Mani in the studio - Vancouver Biennale" . Retrieved 2020-12-13 .
^ "Sajan Mani" . Retrieved 2020-12-13 .
^ "Rabbit to chicken, earthen glasses to mirrors: all for art" . Retrieved 2020-12-12 .
^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche, The hard life of India's Dalits on display in Berlin art gallery | DW | 12.10.2020 , retrieved 2020-12-13
^ "Dalit bodies, by Manu's law, didn't have the right to hear a text: Artist Sajan Mani" . 2020-10-29. Retrieved 2020-12-12 .
^ Now, Right. "Sajan Mani – Tyger von otherspur – tanzschreiber" . Retrieved 2021-01-18 .
^ "Avant-Garde Aesthetes: Jagdip Jagpal's Artists To Watch Out For" . 2018-08-15. Retrieved 2020-12-12 .
^ "People | Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin" . Retrieved 2020-12-13 .
^ Follow, Sajan Mani. "അമൂർത്തതയുടെ അപനിർമ്മാണം അഥവാ ആരിയൽ ഹസ്സൻ" (in Malayalam). Retrieved 2020-12-12 .
^ Follow, Sajan Mani. "ഇത് ജനങ്ങളുടെ ബിനാലെ" (in Malayalam). Retrieved 2020-12-12 .
^ "മലയാളി / മനുഷ്യൻ/ രഘുനാഥ്" . 2013-10-07. Retrieved 2020-12-12 .
^ "Creature discomfort" . Retrieved 2020-12-13 .
^ Bhuyan, Avantika (2020-09-18). "Sajan Mani's Dalit protest art" . mint . Retrieved 2021-01-16 .
^ "Nome | Alphabet of Touch >< Overstretched Bodies and Muted Howls for Songs" . nomegallery.com . Retrieved 2021-01-16 .
^ "Citizen Ship Burn It Down! - Vancouver Biennale" . Retrieved 2020-12-12 .
^ "Citizen Ship Burn It Down!" . 2014-09-16. Retrieved 2020-12-13 .
^ "Creative energies" . The Week . Retrieved 2020-12-13 .
^ Fernando, Radhika Iyengar,Benita (2019-01-26). "India Art Fair: Shouts and murmurs" . Retrieved 2020-12-12 . {{cite web }}
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^ "India Art Fair: In capital form? - The Hindu" . The Hindu . 2020-12-12. Archived from the original on 2020-12-12. Retrieved 2020-12-12 .
^ " "Specters of Communism. A Festival on the Revolutionary Century" - Announcements - e-flux" . Retrieved 2020-12-12 .
^ "Nome | Alphabet of Touch >< Overstretched Bodies and Muted Howls for Songs" . Retrieved 2020-12-12 .