Education:

2019 M.A. Spatial Strategies, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Germany

2011 B.F.A. Applied Art, Karnataka State Open University, Mysore, India

2004 B.A. English Literature and Journalism, Kannur University, Kerala, India

Recent Projects:

2024

’Mediation on Ignorance’ (participatory performance part of Political Yoga), Art Dubai Com 2024

"CONTACT ZONES“ collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics and the Museum Angewandte Kunst. Curated by  Eike Walkenhorst, Frankfurt, Germany

EXPEDITION MANI – REVERBERATIONS, As part of the exhibition series Speaking to Ancestors Curated by Pauline Doutreluingne and Keumhwa Kim, NOME Gallery, Berlin, 2024  (Solo)

2023

Dear museum, we are standing in front of your doorsteps to listen to our ancestors (solo) , Galerie Melike Bilir, Hamburg, Germany

New Performance Turku Biennale, Turku, Finland

2022 

Dismantling Aesthetics of Inhibition: Representing Difference, Gallery OED, Kochi, India curated by Y. S. Alone

Performance Festival: The Non-fungible Body?, OK Center for Contemporary Art Linz, Austria (Linz and Metaverse space of Musuem)

EARTH 200 CE, Verge Gallery, University of Sydney, Australia

2021

CONSTITUTIONS, Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Canada

Travelling without a Ticket, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany

ലോകമേ തറവാട്  | Lokame Tharavadu (The World is One Family), Kochi Biennale Foundation, Alapapuzha, Kerala, India

ANGST, KEINE ANGST / 畏⽆所畏 / FEAR, NO FEAR, Times Art Center Berlin, Germany

Moving Into Sunlight: Decolonial Gestures, Embodied Archives, xart splitta, Berlin

2020

‘Alphabet of Touch: Overstretched Bodies and Muted Howls for Songs’, Solo exhibition, Nome Gallery, Berlin, Germany

‘Tyger von Otherspur’, Group exhibition, Hebbel Am Uffer, Berlin, Germany

‘Tyger out, Tyger in’, SOMA Art Space, Berlin, Germany

‘Hour’, Bergen International Performance Festival, Bergen, Norway

‘Involving Immersion’, Kunsthalle Košice, Slovakia

2019–20

‘Political Yoga’, Artistic research project, State of Berlin, Germany

2019

‘Art will never die, but cow?’, India Art Fair, New Delhi, India

2018

‘Out of Turn’, performance and video, Asia Art Archive for Serendipity Festival, Goa, India

Exhibitions:

2024

Multiple Legs of a Historically Wing-Chopped Bird, Solo show, Shrine Empire, New Delhi (Upcoming)

A Bold Step Sideways, curated by Girish Shahane, Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Bikaner House, New Delhi

‘Odalala,’ curated by Vishal Kumaraswamy, Arts House, Australia

2023

I Grant You My Freedom, Shrine Empire, India

2018

Srinagar Biennale-Basel, Online and Basel, Switzerland

2017

‘Specters of Communism: A Festival of the Revolutionary Century’, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

‘Re-Imagine India’, Delfina Foundation, New Art Exchange with Arts Council England, London, United Kingdom

‘The Vanity Fair & the Commonwealth of Mathilde Blühdorn’’, Clark House Initiative and Exile Gallery, Mumbai, India

Musrara Mix Festival, Performance installation, Jerusalem, Israel

‘Alternative für Weißensee’, Performance, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany

‘E-rase M E-go’, Performance installation, DOCK11, Berlin, Germany

‘‘Liquidity Ar’, Performance, Kampala Art Biennale, Kampala, Uganda

2016

Curatorial assistant at Kolkata International Performance Arts Festival, Kolkata, India

‘Sensorium’, Edition Love, Sunaparanta-Goa Center for the Arts, Goa, India

Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2015

Art Night Thursday, Chatterjee & Lal Gallery, Mumbai, India

‘OPEN2, OPEN4, OPEN 6’, The Heritage Hotel: Art Spaces, Goa, India

Kolkata International Performance Art Festival, Kolkata, India

2014

Vancouver Biennale 2014-15, Vancouver, Canada

‘From India and Brazil to Vancouver’, Group exhibition, Make Design Studio, Vancouver, Canada

Live Art Lab, Performance Art Festival, Bangalore, India

Illicit Bodies Art Festival, Bangalore, India

Kolkata International Performance Art Festival, Kolkata, India

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships:

2024

The Villa Romana Prize

2022

Breakthrough Artist of the Year, HELLO India Art Awards, IN

Mentorship Award (Cultural & Artistic Responses to Environmental Change), The Prince Claus Fund & Goethe-Institut, NL

Arbeitsstipendium, STIFTUNG KUNSTFONDS, Bonn, DE

IMPACT funding, Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin, DE

2021

Berlin Art Prize, Academy of Arts, Berlin, DE

Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Stuttgart, DE

2019–20 

’Political Yoga’, The Berlin Project Fund for Cultural Education, State of Berlin, DE

20/21 STIFTUNG KUNSTFONDS SONDERFÖRDER PROGRAMM, Scholarship for Visual Artists, STIFTUNG KUNSTFONDS, Bonn, DE

2019

Nominated for LAP Visual Arts Fellowship Montalvo Arts Center, California, USA

2017

Mart Stam Stipendium Scholarship, Berlin, DE

Shortlisted for DAAD-Preis Award and The Weißensee Academy of Art, Berlin, DE

Residencies:

2022

The INHABIT Artist in Residence Program, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, DE

2020

Braunschweig Projects Fine Art Grant, The Braunschweig University of Art,

Braunschweig, DE

2019

Cultural journal Ord&Bild, special India-Europe edition Residency,

Strömstad, SE

2015

‘Here There & Everywhere’, Residency, New Art Exchange Nottingham and Delfina Foundation, London, UK

Collaborations:

2018 ‘Blueprint: A film by Moira Zoitl & Sajan Mani’, Performance and video installation, Salzburg, Austria and Berlin, DE

2016 ‘IT IS LIKELY THE HOUSE WILL BE DISMANTLED PIECE BY PIECE WITH A LARGE CRANE AND A SCAFFOLD TO SUPPORT THE REMAINING STRUCTURE’, Workshop and residency, HH Art Spaces Goa and Japan Foundation, IN

2012 ‘Dog’, Performance  in collaboration with Syed Taufik Riaz, Bangalore, IN

2012 ‘The Tea Pavilion – Dictionary in Public’, Assistant, Artist project by Dorothee Albrecht, Kochi Muziris Biennale, IN

Teaching and Publications:

2019-2020  Lecturer, The Weißensee Academy of Art, Berlin, Germany

2017-2019 Tutor, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany

2015 Kala Magazine, New Art Exchange Nottingham Blog

2014 Short Guide, Kochi-Muziris Biennale

2014 Master Takes, Tehelka Magazine

2012 Exhibition Catalogue, Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Other Collaborations:

2018-present Member of Professional Association of Berlin Artists

2017-present Member of Association Performance Art Berlin and Month of Performance Art Berlin

2013 Co-organizer and co-curator of Kolkata International Performance Art Festival

Talks and Presentations:

2023 Artist Talk: Dear Museum, We are standing in front of your doorsteps to listen to our ancestors, Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK), Hamburg, Germany

2023 Goethe-Institut, Helsinki, Finland2023 Goethe-Institut, Helsinki, Finland

2023 Coming Together: Artist and curator talks,NPT Biennale, Turku Arts  Academy, Turku, Finland

2023 Angewandte Festival, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria

2023 Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi, India

2023 RLV College of Music and Fine Arts, Kerala, India

2023 Govt. College of Fine Arts Thrissur, Kerala, India

2022 University of Sydney, Australia

2022 Concordia University, Canada

2019 CODA Oslo International Dance Festival, Norway