Sajan Mani (born 1982 in Kunnoth, India) is a Berlin-based

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artist and

Berlin Art Prize The ''Berliner Kunstpreis'' (Berlin Art Prize), officially Großer Berliner Kunstpreis, is a prize for the arts by the City of Berlin. It was first awarded in 1948 in several fields of art. Since 1971, it has been awarded by the Academy of Arts ( ...

2021 winner. He has exhibited at various international venues, including the Vancouver Biennale, the Kampala Art Biennale the

Dhaka Art Summit Dhaka Art Summit is an art summit held in Dhaka, Bangladesh and is organised by Samdani Art Foundation, a non- profit art infrastructure development organisation founded by Nadia Samdani. and Rajeeb Samdani in 2011. About The summit displays ...

and the Kolkata International Art Festival, on issues of various lives of marginalized people of India and post-colonial

Dalit Dalit (from sa, दलित, dalita meaning "broken/scattered"), also previously known as untouchable, is the lowest stratum of the Caste system in India, castes in India. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold Varna (Hinduism), varna syste ...

lives. He is working with drawing,

performance art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

and

video installations Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art, making use of all aspects of the surrounding environment to affect the audience. Tracing its origins to the birth of video art in the 1970s, it has ...

Education

Sajan graduated in English Literature from

Kannur University Kannur University is a multi-campus public university established in 1996 to provide development of higher education in Kasaragod, Kannur, Wayanad districts of Kerala, India. It serves the region of North Malabar. It was established after the ...

in 2004. Later, he graduated in fine arts from

Karnataka State Open University Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) is a distance learning university founded in 1996, located in Mysore in the Indian state of Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. ...

in 2011. He later earned a master's degree in Spatial Strategies in 2019 from

Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, also known as Berlin-Weissensee Art Academy, School of Art and Design Berlin-Weissensee (german: Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee) is a non-profit, public art school in Berlin-Weißensee, Berlin, Germany ...

Biography

He was an editorial board member for the

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of the

Kochi-Muziris Biennale The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an international exhibition of contemporary art held in the city of Kochi in Kerala, India. It is the largest art exhibition in the country and the biggest contemporary art festival in Asia. The Kochi-Muziris Bienna ...

. He Performed at the Vancouver Biennale, Kampala Art Biennale,

, Kolkata International Performance Art Festival, Sensorium-Sunaparanta Art Festival, Goa and Musrara Mix Festival. Sajan got critically acclaimed for the solo exhibition 'Alphabet of Touch>

Important works

* Citizen Ship Burn It Down! * Liquidity Ar * Secular Meat * Caste-pital * Politically Incorrect Bodies * Specters of Communism * Art will Never Die, but COW? * Alphabet of Touch>

Gallery

File:Sajan mani.jpg, Secular Meat Senparanta Art Center, Goa File:Goa performance sajan.jpg, Secular Meat

References

1982 births Living people Indian performance artists Indian contemporary artists {{DEFAULTSORT:Mani, Sajan