Sajan Mani

Sajan Mani
Born
Sajan Mani

1981 (age 44–45)
Kunnoth, Kannur
CitizenshipIndian
OccupationsArtist, Contemporary Artist, Performance Artist
Known forContemporary Art, Performance Art

Sajan Mani (born 1981 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] He was also selected as one of the artists of the Bergen Assembly (2025).[16] Sajan received critical acclaim[17] for the solo exhibition Alphabet of Touch > < Overseas Stretched Bodies and Muted Howls for Songs, exhibited at the Nome Gallery in Berlin.[18]

Awards and Honours

Important works

  • Citizen Ship Burn It Down![19][20]
  • Liquidity Ar[21]
  • Secular Meat[22]
  • Caste-pital
  • Politically Incorrect Bodies[23]
  • Specters of Communism[24]
  • Art will Never Die, but COW?
  • Alphabet of Touch> <Over Stretched Bodies and Muted Houses for Songs[25]
  • Secular Meat Senparanta Art Center, Goa
  • Secular Meat

References

  1. ^ "Art for the public - The Hindu". The Hindu. 2020-12-12. Archived from the original on 2020-12-12. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Annett Gröschner erhält den Großen Kunstpreis Berlin 2021". www.adk.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-24.
  4. ^ "Residency Sajan Mani in the studio - Vancouver Biennale". Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  5. ^ "Sajan Mani". Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  6. ^ "Rabbit to chicken, earthen glasses to mirrors: all for art". Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ Now, Right. "Sajan Mani – Tyger von otherspur – tanzschreiber". Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  10. ^ "Avant-Garde Aesthetes: Jagdip Jagpal's Artists To Watch Out For". 2018-08-15. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  11. ^ "People | Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin". Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  12. ^ Follow, Sajan Mani. "അമൂർത്തതയുടെ അപനിർമ്മാണം അഥവാ ആരിയൽ ഹസ്സൻ" (in Malayalam). Archived from the original on 2021-01-23. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  13. ^ Follow, Sajan Mani. "ഇത് ജനങ്ങളുടെ ബിനാലെ" (in Malayalam). Archived from the original on 2021-01-21. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  14. ^ "മലയാളി / മനുഷ്യൻ/ രഘുനാഥ്". 2013-10-07. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  15. ^ "Creature discomfort". Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  16. ^ "Sajan Mani – Bergen Assembly 2025". Bergen Assembly 2025. Retrieved 2025-09-10.
  17. ^ Bhuyan, Avantika (2020-09-18). "Sajan Mani's Dalit protest art". Mint. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  18. ^ "Nome ! Alphabet of Touch >< Overstretched Bodies and Muted Howls for Songs". nomegallery.com. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  19. ^ "Citizen Ship Burn It Down! - Vancouver Biennale". Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  20. ^ "Citizen Ship Burn It Down!". 2014-09-16. Archived from the original on 2021-01-23. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  21. ^ "Creative energies". The Week. Archived from the original on 2021-01-21. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  22. ^ Fernando, Radhika Iyengar,Benita (2019-01-26). "India Art Fair: Shouts and murmurs". Retrieved 2020-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  23. ^ "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.
  24. ^ ""Specters of Communism. A Festival on the Revolutionary Century" - Announcements - e-flux". Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  25. ^ "Nome | Alphabet of Touch >< Overstretched Bodies and Muted Howls for Songs". Retrieved 2020-12-12.


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