Monali Meher 1969
Lives in Amsterdam (NL). Works in Amsterdam (NL).
Represented by:
Lumen Travo Galerie
Monali Meher her artistic performances, installations, objects, photographs and videos witness her quest for defining the body as a trouble spot of time and space’s connections or mutual extensions. Beyond this quest, Monali Meher draws an ontological thought, time influencing human essence and evolution. It's a necessity for her to use her body, voice and emotions in the space with the immediacy of environmental, social and political aspects. Her performances are atmospheric, sometimes ritualistic and frequently involve props of various natures. They show the cyclical circles of destruction and renewal, as well as formal and conceptual ideas within the framework of personal references that inform the fragile divide between her life and art.
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Mixed-media artist Monali Meher (works and lives between the Netherlands and India) started her career by introspecting cultural shifts through a series of performances in which body and gender play an important role. For example, in 2006 she presented at the Tate Modern in London her performance called Between the Familiar/ Unfamiliar, the Home and Heart, Beats a Golden Kiss. Monali Meher has been largely participating to international events like, recently, the Live Art Festival in Glasgow (Scotland), the International Performance Festival in Beijing (China), or the Biennale of Sinop (Turkey). For her solo show at Lumen Travo gallery, Monali Meher takes a turn and proposes a thought about the notion of time, as underlined in the title ‘Departed, Assembled, Wrapped, Captured: Time’. Through a selection of recent and past artworks, the artist points out her exploration into the physicality of time, the way she embodies it, catches it, makes it being visible, manipulates its past and present energy.
In 2000 Meher was in residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. She has partecipated in several international exhibitions in Glasgow, Dubai, Venice and Istanbul.
Recent shows include "Upcycling" at Sinop biennale, Turkey (2022); "Hidden Structures" Anderlecht, Belgium (2021); "Living, Forgiving, Remembering", Kunsthall 3 14, Bergen, Norway (2021); "Ben Cobra", Cobra Museum, The Netherlands(2020); "Falling Star" CJK, Mariakerke, Ghent, Belgium (2019); “Roots and Threads, Borders and Pieces” at Lumen Travo Gallery (2017).
In 2013 Meher received the Golden Chimera Award for innovation and creativity.
In 2000 Meher was in residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. She has partecipated in several international exhibitions in Glasgow, Dubai, Venice and Istanbul.
Recent shows include "Upcycling" at Sinop biennale, Turkey (2022); "Hidden Structures" Anderlecht, Belgium (2021); "Living, Forgiving, Remembering", Kunsthall 3 14, Bergen, Norway (2021); "Ben Cobra", Cobra Museum, The Netherlands(2020); "Falling Star" CJK, Mariakerke, Ghent, Belgium (2019); “Roots and Threads, Borders and Pieces” at Lumen Travo Gallery (2017).
In 2013 Meher received the Golden Chimera Award for innovation and creativity.
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SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2007 Finalist “Black magic Woman Award 2007”, CBK, Zuid Oost, Amsterdam
2004 Khoj International Residency, Funded by Hivos, New Delhi, India.
2001 Funded by Nuffic, Huygens grant, Amsterdam.
2000 Accepted for the work period in Rijksakademie Van
Beeldende Kunsten and funded by Dutch Ministry foreign & Affairs (BUZA/DCOIC) in Amsterdam.
1998 ‘UNESCO--ASCHBERG’ Residency in Vienna, By Federal Chancellery for the Arts and Science.
1997 Fine arts Award,’ Inlaks Foundation’, New Delhi.
SOLO SHOWS
2022
The Beginning of A New Beginning, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019
Falling Star, (works 2004 – 2019), CJK, Mariakerke, Ghent, Belgium
2017
Roots and Threads, Boarders and Pieces, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016
Spirit House, Museum Van Alle Tijden, Beugen, Brabant, The Netherlands
2013
Meat Markets and Spirit Houses, Lumen Travo gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009
Departed, Assembled, Wrapped, Captured: Time, Project 88, Mumbai, India
Measures & Weight, Live Funds, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008
Departed, Assembled, Wrapped, Captured: Time, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005
Reverse, Rewind, Replay, Goliath Visual Space, New York.
Untitled, Artkitchen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004
Ceremony, Artkitchen gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1999
Theatre of Memory, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1998
Reflect: A Personal Window Display, Jehangir Art Gallery & Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai, India,
Gallery Jüttner, Vienna, Austria
Untitled, F.I.A. (Foundation for Indian Artists), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996
Bio-Morphosis, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1993
Untitled, Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Silent Land, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Upcycling, Sinopale 8, online Sinop biennale, Sinop, Turkey
2021
Hidden Structures, Street-view Anderlecht, Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium
VAICA 2, Fields of Vision, online video art presented by Dr. Bhau Daji Lad museum & Comet Media
Foundation, Mumbai, India
Love Thy Neighbor, Asia Triennial Manchester 2021, Manchester Poetry Library, Manchester, UK
Art Rotterdam 2021, Gallery Lumen Travo, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Imaginary Travels, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Living, Forgiving, Remembering, Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, Norway
Public space installation, shop/Cafe windows Ledebergplein, Ghent, Belgium
ART GHENT, group show, Ghent, Belgium
2020
Collector’s Item, Contemporary Art Collection of Sanders, Centraal Museum Utrecht, The
Netherlands
15th Anniversary Online Live Action, videos group show, LA15, Sweden
Living, Forgiving, Remembering, De Kerk, Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands.
Ben Cobra, curated by Aziz Bekkaoui, Cobra Museum Amstelveen, The Netherlands
ZOMERSALON 2020, Kunsthal Gent, Ghent, Belgium,
Solitary Confinement’, online group show, Desk for contemporary art, Oudenaarde, Belgium
2019
VAICA, video art by Indian contemporary artists, G5A foundation, Mumbai, India, India
Paper, drawings group show, Street-view Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Connecting Threads: Textiles in Contemporary Practice, curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta & Puja
Vaish, BDL Museum (Bhau Dajji Lad Museum) Mumbai, India
The Proposal, Biennale of ideas, Cultuurcentrum De Steiger, Menen, Belgium
Art Rotterdam, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017
Amsterdam Art Fair, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dialogues, by Lumen Travo, Gallery, Manifesta Office, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amsterdam TRAIL, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016
What we have overlooked, Museum Arnhem collection-show, Gallery Framer’s Framed, Amsterdam,
NL
Biennale Arte Dolomiti, Ex Caserma Monte Rite – Cibiana di Cadore, Italy.
Amsterdam TRAIL, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Traditions, Transmissions & Contemporary Society, OFF biennale, Medina, DAK’ART 2016, IFAA,
KAANI & Yataal Art, Dakar, Senegal.
AS ONE, NEON+MAI (Marina Abramovic Institute), video Riceville/ Whiteville part of the film
program
IMMATERIAL, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
+51°13'00.0"N +4°23'40.4"E_CONVERSATIONS, Antwerp, Belgium
RCA SECRET DUBAI, Art Dubai 2016 Donation show, Dubai.
Culture of Colors, AkzoNobel Essential Art Space & collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015
Kunst op de koffie, site-specific installations in private houses of Spijkerskwartier, Arnhem, The
Netherlands
Spiegeloog/Mirrored Eye, curated by Mirjam Westen, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands
LAND, curated by Amit Mukhopadhyay, Shantiniketan, Kolkata, India
STILLS, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
India Art Fair, MK Search Art, New Delhi, India.
Der Fremde in Mir, SMAHK, Stedelijk Museum Assen, The Netherlands
2014
Sparsha: Ritual and contemporary, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Undisclosed Territory #8, Studio Plesungan, Indonesia.
Aerial Views, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Threads, curated by Mirjam Westen, Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands.
India Art Fair, MK Search Art, New Delhi, India.
2014
Sparsha: Ritual and contemporary, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Undisclosed Territory #8, Studio Plesungan, Indonesia.
Aerial Views, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Threads, curated by Mirjam Westen, Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands.
India Art Fair, MK Search Art, New Delhi, India.
2013
Art the Hague, show Indian Session curated by Liesbeth Willems (curator KRC Collection) in collaboration with Monali Meher, Den Hague, The Netherlands
Expansion, Art and Documentary, 10th Anniversary of ECA (European cultural Association), Siemens Art gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
We like art, Westergasfabriek, with Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam.
The Material Point: Reconsidering the Medium in the (Post) modern Moment, curated by Katheen Wyma, OED Gallery, Kochi, Kerala, India.
Souvenir, curated by Lucie Fontaine, Galerie Perrotin, Paris.
Auspiciously Red Installation, Casa delle Culture, ICASTICA 2013, (Glocal women) 1st Arezzo Art Biennial, Italy
Nieuwe Lente (A New Spring), curated by AZIZ, Corrosia Almere, NL
Hail, Contemporary Indian Artists, curated by Madhu V. MNF Museum, Kerala, India.
2012
Re-Picturing the Feminine: New and Hybrid Realities in the Artworld, A survey of Indian and Australian Contemporary
Female Artists, curated by Marnie Dean, Gallery OED, Cochin, India.
Contemporary Renaissance curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki, Casa Masaccio Museum, San Giovanni Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy.
Il Siero Della Verita, MK Search Art Gallery, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy.
Unbound, video art India, curated by A. Kulkarni, Belgrade art fair, Serbia
Skin and Spirit, Group show, Siemens Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey.
[UN]PAIRED, Stichting Kulter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
pREpellers, curated by Kavitha Balakrishnan Art Chennai, Gallery Art and Soul, Chennai, India.
2011
Who is afraid of oriental girls, Delta Lloyd (Espace Enny), Amsterdam.
ComPeung- Revisited, Chiang Mai City arts and cultural Centre, Thailand.
Connect, Rijksakademie Alumni, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prague Biennale 5th, Art in general, Crossroads: India Escalate, curated by Kanchi Mehta, Prague, CZ.
Who is afraid of oriental girls, Gallery Espace Enny, Laag Keppel, The Netherlands.
Video Wednesday II, Gallery Espace, curated by Gayatri Sinha, New Delhi
Hong Kong Art Fair (ArtHK11), Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam.
Art Chennai, Project 88, at Taj Coromandel, Chennai, India.
Art Rotterdam, Lumen Travo gallery, Cruise Terminal, Rotterdam.
2010
Body Language, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
Frictive Familiarities, curated by Diana Kaur & Farah Siddiqui, Videos by south Asian diaspora, Art Kino, Stockholm.
Art Amsterdam, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Logged, drawing show, curated by Amit Mukhopadhyay, Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd, Kolkata, India.
Ballard Estate, curated by Gitanjali Dang, Religare Art gallery, New Delhi, India
2009
What the Body Remembers, Asian Video Art, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Bhavan Centre, London.
rebelle, Art and Feminism 1969-2009”, curated by Mirjam Westen, mmka, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands.
Calvin Me, curated by AZIZ, CBK Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
De Stomme Van Portici, hoet bekaert gallery, Ghent, Belgium.
The other Indian story, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, NCPA, Mumbai.
Art Rotterdam, Lumen Travo gallery, Cruise Terminal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Video Wednesday, Gallery Espace, curated by Johny ML, New Delhi, India
2008
My wrapped home: My Tehvar, (Writing home about home) Karachi, Pakistan.
Restoring Our Temples, (New order of Things) Sinop Biennale II, Turkey.
360 degrees, Project De Zone, Stichting Nutuur, Arnhem forest, The Netherlands
Discomfort at performance, Siemens Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
Art Rotterdam, Lumen Travo gallery, Cruise Terminal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2007
BMW Award, Boerenmeijes, curated by Maaike Gouwenberg CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Anonymous Body, curated by Dirk Jan Jager, Menier Gallery, London, UK.
Travelogue, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Serenity, curated by Mark van Hees, Gallery Dis, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Icons, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Who is your friends/the soap operas, video show, curated by Declan Rooney, Soap Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan.
Group show, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006
Too much freedom, freewaves, 10th Biennial, new media festival, CA, USA
Rites, Rights, Rewrites, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Rutgers University, Mason Gross Galleries, NJ
Mensen Familie, SKOL, Kunstmanifestatie, Uithof Universiteit, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Nederlands Een, curated by Tiong Ang, Museum Gouda, The Netherlands.
Revisited, Outline Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005
Love & Death, Schiele exhibition, IPG, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rites, Rights, Rewrites, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Duke University, NC, USA.
2004
LA Freewaves, video art India/Pakistan, LA, USA
Another Passage to India, Théâtre Saint-Gervais, Musée d’ Ethnographie, Genève, Switzerland
Flash Right Turn Left, curated by Dirk Jan Jager, ARTWALK, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Human Interest, (Body, Mind, Soul), Outline, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Rites/Rights/Rewrites, video show, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Hartell Gallery,
Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.
Broedplaats Visite, SFA, Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003
De Inrichting, curated by Dirk Jan Jager, Willibrord, Heiloo, The Netherlands.
Space For Artists, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Verborgen Kindertekeningen, Het Raadhuis, Aalsmeer, The Netherlands
Kunst Rai with gallery Artkitchen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002
Handle with Care, Art Kitchen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
No I.D., Dutch & Indian Artists show, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay, India.
Art Asia Pacific, Multi Media Art Festival, Beijing, China.
SOLD, Christies Auction, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Straat Opera, Video Installation, Stubnitz Ship, N.D.S.M. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fake Or Real, Kunstruimte NP 40, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amsterdamse Visite, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
River Deep, Mountain High, Glazen Huis, Amstelpark, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2001
Open Studio, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Labyrinths, ASIART, Asian Contemporary Art- Biennale d' Art Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy.
Camouflage, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Nehru Centre, London, UK.
Bollywood has arrived, curated by Els Rijnders, P.T.A. (Passengers' Terminal) Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2000
May for India & you, Festival in Tulln, Performance/ Interactive Installations, Tulln, Austria.
Gehakt Masala, Performance, Installations, Outline Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1999
Smell the Art, Perishable Installation at N.G.M.A. (National Gallery of Modern Art) Mumbai, India.
Group show, Fine Art Company, Mumbai, India.
Protected Reflections, Installation based on performance, N.G.M.A, National gallery Of Modern Art, Mumbai
Christie’s Auction, Women for Wise, N.G.M.A. National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India.
Wallpaper, Lakeeren art Gallery (Kala Ghoda Festival), Mumbai, India.
1998
Next Wave Festival (Distance), Biennale, Australia.
1997
50 years of Independence, Bombay Art Society, Jehangir Art gallery, Mumbai, India.
50 years of Art in Mumbai, 1947-1997 Part II, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India.
1996
Awards, Residencies, Funded Projects
2021
Arctic Action VI, International performance art festival, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, funded by Embassy of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands
2019
INSPIREREN-INSPIRATIEON, project residency award, Funded by Provincie Oost Vlaanderen Transitiereglement Gent-Glas, Ghent, Belgium
2017
International presentation grant by Mondriaan Funds, performance, bound/unbound, Patan Museum, LASANAA,
Siddhartha art foundation, Kathmandu Triennale, Kathmandu, Nepal
2016
International presentation grant by Mondriaan Funds & NYC Culture, performance, Visiting Brooklyn Bridge, project
Ritual Traces by SAWCC (South Asian women’s creative collective), New York.
2013
Golden Chimera Award, ICASTICA 2013, 1st Arezzo Art Biennial, Italy.
2012
Contemporary Renaissance, Residency Casa Masaccio Arte contemporanea and MK Search Art, San Giovanni Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy
2011
The Bridge Is Open, Public Space Project, installation under Willem’s bridge, Haarlemmerpoort, Amsterdam, funded by Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Fonds BKVB, Co-operated by DIVV, DOCK Stadsdeel West.
ComPeung, Artists’ Residency, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2010
Nominated for FRITSCHY AWARD, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
2009
Travel grant Mondriaan Funds, performance In Determination, Art Dubai
LIVE Fonds, Funds BKVB, Project Measures & Weights, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008
VASL International Residency, Triangle Arts Trust Network, Artists’ in Diaspora, Karachi, Pakistan.
2007
Finalist Black magic Woman Award 2007, CBK, Zuid Oost, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004
Khoj International Residency, Funded by Hivos, New Delhi, India
2001
Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Funded by Nuffic, Huygens grant, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000
Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, funded by Dutch Ministry foreign & Affairs (BUZA/DCOIC) Amsterdam.
1998
UNESCO- ASCHBERG, International Artists Residency, Federal Chancellery for Arts and Science, Vienna, Austria.
1997
Fine arts Award, Inlaks Foundation’, New Delhi, India
1993
Residency at Kanoria Centre for the Arts, Ahmedabad, India.
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2007 Collaboration with ZID Theatre, Amsterdam, for multimedia contemporary
Dance, “Milkwhite”, (Videography, Production, Editing, Installation)
2006- Quilt/ Deken, Community Art Project, with Artwalk Stichting funded by
2007 Amsterdam fonds voor de kunst, SVP Kunst, Stadsdeel Westerpark.
Quilts on permanent installation in Raadszaal, Stadsdeel Westerpark.
2004 “Tea Ceremony”, project by Monali Meher & Mayumi Nakazaki in collaboration with AZC, Bos en Lommer, in Babylon club, SFA, Amsterdam.
“Tea Ceremony”, on ‘Open Day’ of AZC, Bos en Lommer in collaboration. Meher & Nakazaki.
WORKSHOPS & CAMPS
2007 Invited to give a performance workshop at IPAH (International performance association Hildesheim), summer camp in Berlin, Germany
2004 “Cleaning The House”, Marina Abramovic, NMAC Foundation, Montemedio, Spain.
2003 Performance workshop, CEIA, with Moniek Toebosch, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2001 Orientation, Disorientation, Skoki, Poland.
2001 Workshop, "Performer & Mediated Image”, Monte Video, Amsterdam, organized by Amsterdam- Maastrich Summer University.
Participated in Performance workshop with Marina Abramovic, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.
2000 Assistant for the drawing class in International Summer Academy, Fortress, Salzburg.
1999 Conducted Mural Workshop at Kamala Raheja School of Architecture, Bombay.
1997 Vegetable Dye Workshop by Mr.Toofan Rafai at Birla Academy for Art & Culture, Bombay.
1996 Stage Design for dance performance, 50 years of Independance Festival, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Bombay.
1993 Worked in Kanoria Centre For The Arts, Ahmedabad.
1991 Art & Crafts counsellor Camp Farwell,Vermont,U.S.A.
PARTICIPATION
2006 De 7de Hemel, Fashion show by AZIZ/ performance, Utrecht
2003 "De Toren Van Babel" By Robert Steijn & Lidy Six, Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam.
2002 "Hollandse Nieuwe" Festival, Cosmic theatre, A'dam.
2002 "DINNER"(Cuchina Mobile), Work by Judith Witteman, W 139, Amsterdam.
"De Toren Van Babel", By Robert Steijn & Lidy Six, "Melkweg", Amsterdam.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 ‘Another publication’, Piet Zwart Institute, cover page
‘Cleaning the house’, NMAC Foundation, page 58
2006 Metropoplis M, Art Magazine, Holland No. 3 June/July, Nederlands een, Christel Vesters, Page 82, 83.
2005 MIP, International Performance Manifestation, CEIA, Belo-Horizonte, Brazil, Book, Pages, 138, 139, 144, 145, 182, 183.
“Love & Death”, Egon Schiele catalogue, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
2004 “Do it yourself” (Projects 2001-02), Outline, Amsterdam, Book, Page 16, 17, 18.
“Shifting Map”, RAIN initiative network, Rijksakademie, A’dam, Book, Page 45.
2003 “de inrichting”, Holland, Contemporary art & Psychiatry, Catalogue, Page 42, 43.
“Student Body”, (Marina Abramovic), Book, Page 276 to 281.
2002 MAAP, Beijing, Catalogue, Page 76, 77.
Third Text (57), Camouflage, (The visible in the invisible), Zeigam Azizov, Page 96, 97, 98.
PANEL DISCUSSIONS & TALKS
2007 Talk at ECHO.BASE (Artistic workspace), Antwerp
Culture and development, Akkoord van Schokland,
Club 11, Amsterdam
“Performance Art and Other Histories”, NRLA (National Review on live art), Glasgow
2006 Talk, Sinoppale, First Sinop biennale, Turkey.
2005 Roundtable discussion at BKOR, Art projects in Public spaces, Amsterdam
Talk HIVOS, Rotterdam
2002 “The Contemporary New Language within Indian Art”, NRLA (National Review of Live Art), Glasgow
2007 Finalist “Black magic Woman Award 2007”, CBK, Zuid Oost, Amsterdam
2004 Khoj International Residency, Funded by Hivos, New Delhi, India.
2001 Funded by Nuffic, Huygens grant, Amsterdam.
2000 Accepted for the work period in Rijksakademie Van
Beeldende Kunsten and funded by Dutch Ministry foreign & Affairs (BUZA/DCOIC) in Amsterdam.
1998 ‘UNESCO--ASCHBERG’ Residency in Vienna, By Federal Chancellery for the Arts and Science.
1997 Fine arts Award,’ Inlaks Foundation’, New Delhi.
SOLO SHOWS
2022
The Beginning of A New Beginning, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019
Falling Star, (works 2004 – 2019), CJK, Mariakerke, Ghent, Belgium
2017
Roots and Threads, Boarders and Pieces, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016
Spirit House, Museum Van Alle Tijden, Beugen, Brabant, The Netherlands
2013
Meat Markets and Spirit Houses, Lumen Travo gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009
Departed, Assembled, Wrapped, Captured: Time, Project 88, Mumbai, India
Measures & Weight, Live Funds, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008
Departed, Assembled, Wrapped, Captured: Time, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005
Reverse, Rewind, Replay, Goliath Visual Space, New York.
Untitled, Artkitchen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004
Ceremony, Artkitchen gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1999
Theatre of Memory, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1998
Reflect: A Personal Window Display, Jehangir Art Gallery & Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai, India,
Gallery Jüttner, Vienna, Austria
Untitled, F.I.A. (Foundation for Indian Artists), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996
Bio-Morphosis, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1993
Untitled, Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Silent Land, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Upcycling, Sinopale 8, online Sinop biennale, Sinop, Turkey
2021
Hidden Structures, Street-view Anderlecht, Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium
VAICA 2, Fields of Vision, online video art presented by Dr. Bhau Daji Lad museum & Comet Media
Foundation, Mumbai, India
Love Thy Neighbor, Asia Triennial Manchester 2021, Manchester Poetry Library, Manchester, UK
Art Rotterdam 2021, Gallery Lumen Travo, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Imaginary Travels, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Living, Forgiving, Remembering, Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, Norway
Public space installation, shop/Cafe windows Ledebergplein, Ghent, Belgium
ART GHENT, group show, Ghent, Belgium
2020
Collector’s Item, Contemporary Art Collection of Sanders, Centraal Museum Utrecht, The
Netherlands
15th Anniversary Online Live Action, videos group show, LA15, Sweden
Living, Forgiving, Remembering, De Kerk, Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands.
Ben Cobra, curated by Aziz Bekkaoui, Cobra Museum Amstelveen, The Netherlands
ZOMERSALON 2020, Kunsthal Gent, Ghent, Belgium,
Solitary Confinement’, online group show, Desk for contemporary art, Oudenaarde, Belgium
2019
VAICA, video art by Indian contemporary artists, G5A foundation, Mumbai, India, India
Paper, drawings group show, Street-view Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Connecting Threads: Textiles in Contemporary Practice, curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta & Puja
Vaish, BDL Museum (Bhau Dajji Lad Museum) Mumbai, India
The Proposal, Biennale of ideas, Cultuurcentrum De Steiger, Menen, Belgium
Art Rotterdam, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017
Amsterdam Art Fair, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dialogues, by Lumen Travo, Gallery, Manifesta Office, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amsterdam TRAIL, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016
What we have overlooked, Museum Arnhem collection-show, Gallery Framer’s Framed, Amsterdam,
NL
Biennale Arte Dolomiti, Ex Caserma Monte Rite – Cibiana di Cadore, Italy.
Amsterdam TRAIL, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Traditions, Transmissions & Contemporary Society, OFF biennale, Medina, DAK’ART 2016, IFAA,
KAANI & Yataal Art, Dakar, Senegal.
AS ONE, NEON+MAI (Marina Abramovic Institute), video Riceville/ Whiteville part of the film
program
IMMATERIAL, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
+51°13'00.0"N +4°23'40.4"E_CONVERSATIONS, Antwerp, Belgium
RCA SECRET DUBAI, Art Dubai 2016 Donation show, Dubai.
Culture of Colors, AkzoNobel Essential Art Space & collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015
Kunst op de koffie, site-specific installations in private houses of Spijkerskwartier, Arnhem, The
Netherlands
Spiegeloog/Mirrored Eye, curated by Mirjam Westen, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands
LAND, curated by Amit Mukhopadhyay, Shantiniketan, Kolkata, India
STILLS, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
India Art Fair, MK Search Art, New Delhi, India.
Der Fremde in Mir, SMAHK, Stedelijk Museum Assen, The Netherlands
2014
Sparsha: Ritual and contemporary, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Undisclosed Territory #8, Studio Plesungan, Indonesia.
Aerial Views, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Threads, curated by Mirjam Westen, Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands.
India Art Fair, MK Search Art, New Delhi, India.
2014
Sparsha: Ritual and contemporary, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Undisclosed Territory #8, Studio Plesungan, Indonesia.
Aerial Views, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Threads, curated by Mirjam Westen, Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands.
India Art Fair, MK Search Art, New Delhi, India.
2013
Art the Hague, show Indian Session curated by Liesbeth Willems (curator KRC Collection) in collaboration with Monali Meher, Den Hague, The Netherlands
Expansion, Art and Documentary, 10th Anniversary of ECA (European cultural Association), Siemens Art gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
We like art, Westergasfabriek, with Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam.
The Material Point: Reconsidering the Medium in the (Post) modern Moment, curated by Katheen Wyma, OED Gallery, Kochi, Kerala, India.
Souvenir, curated by Lucie Fontaine, Galerie Perrotin, Paris.
Auspiciously Red Installation, Casa delle Culture, ICASTICA 2013, (Glocal women) 1st Arezzo Art Biennial, Italy
Nieuwe Lente (A New Spring), curated by AZIZ, Corrosia Almere, NL
Hail, Contemporary Indian Artists, curated by Madhu V. MNF Museum, Kerala, India.
2012
Re-Picturing the Feminine: New and Hybrid Realities in the Artworld, A survey of Indian and Australian Contemporary
Female Artists, curated by Marnie Dean, Gallery OED, Cochin, India.
Contemporary Renaissance curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki, Casa Masaccio Museum, San Giovanni Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy.
Il Siero Della Verita, MK Search Art Gallery, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy.
Unbound, video art India, curated by A. Kulkarni, Belgrade art fair, Serbia
Skin and Spirit, Group show, Siemens Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey.
[UN]PAIRED, Stichting Kulter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
pREpellers, curated by Kavitha Balakrishnan Art Chennai, Gallery Art and Soul, Chennai, India.
2011
Who is afraid of oriental girls, Delta Lloyd (Espace Enny), Amsterdam.
ComPeung- Revisited, Chiang Mai City arts and cultural Centre, Thailand.
Connect, Rijksakademie Alumni, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prague Biennale 5th, Art in general, Crossroads: India Escalate, curated by Kanchi Mehta, Prague, CZ.
Who is afraid of oriental girls, Gallery Espace Enny, Laag Keppel, The Netherlands.
Video Wednesday II, Gallery Espace, curated by Gayatri Sinha, New Delhi
Hong Kong Art Fair (ArtHK11), Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam.
Art Chennai, Project 88, at Taj Coromandel, Chennai, India.
Art Rotterdam, Lumen Travo gallery, Cruise Terminal, Rotterdam.
2010
Body Language, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
Frictive Familiarities, curated by Diana Kaur & Farah Siddiqui, Videos by south Asian diaspora, Art Kino, Stockholm.
Art Amsterdam, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Logged, drawing show, curated by Amit Mukhopadhyay, Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd, Kolkata, India.
Ballard Estate, curated by Gitanjali Dang, Religare Art gallery, New Delhi, India
2009
What the Body Remembers, Asian Video Art, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Bhavan Centre, London.
rebelle, Art and Feminism 1969-2009”, curated by Mirjam Westen, mmka, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands.
Calvin Me, curated by AZIZ, CBK Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
De Stomme Van Portici, hoet bekaert gallery, Ghent, Belgium.
The other Indian story, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, NCPA, Mumbai.
Art Rotterdam, Lumen Travo gallery, Cruise Terminal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Video Wednesday, Gallery Espace, curated by Johny ML, New Delhi, India
2008
My wrapped home: My Tehvar, (Writing home about home) Karachi, Pakistan.
Restoring Our Temples, (New order of Things) Sinop Biennale II, Turkey.
360 degrees, Project De Zone, Stichting Nutuur, Arnhem forest, The Netherlands
Discomfort at performance, Siemens Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
Art Rotterdam, Lumen Travo gallery, Cruise Terminal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2007
BMW Award, Boerenmeijes, curated by Maaike Gouwenberg CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Anonymous Body, curated by Dirk Jan Jager, Menier Gallery, London, UK.
Travelogue, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Serenity, curated by Mark van Hees, Gallery Dis, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Icons, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Who is your friends/the soap operas, video show, curated by Declan Rooney, Soap Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan.
Group show, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006
Too much freedom, freewaves, 10th Biennial, new media festival, CA, USA
Rites, Rights, Rewrites, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Rutgers University, Mason Gross Galleries, NJ
Mensen Familie, SKOL, Kunstmanifestatie, Uithof Universiteit, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Nederlands Een, curated by Tiong Ang, Museum Gouda, The Netherlands.
Revisited, Outline Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005
Love & Death, Schiele exhibition, IPG, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rites, Rights, Rewrites, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Duke University, NC, USA.
2004
LA Freewaves, video art India/Pakistan, LA, USA
Another Passage to India, Théâtre Saint-Gervais, Musée d’ Ethnographie, Genève, Switzerland
Flash Right Turn Left, curated by Dirk Jan Jager, ARTWALK, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Human Interest, (Body, Mind, Soul), Outline, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Rites/Rights/Rewrites, video show, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Hartell Gallery,
Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.
Broedplaats Visite, SFA, Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003
De Inrichting, curated by Dirk Jan Jager, Willibrord, Heiloo, The Netherlands.
Space For Artists, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Verborgen Kindertekeningen, Het Raadhuis, Aalsmeer, The Netherlands
Kunst Rai with gallery Artkitchen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002
Handle with Care, Art Kitchen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
No I.D., Dutch & Indian Artists show, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay, India.
Art Asia Pacific, Multi Media Art Festival, Beijing, China.
SOLD, Christies Auction, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Straat Opera, Video Installation, Stubnitz Ship, N.D.S.M. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fake Or Real, Kunstruimte NP 40, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amsterdamse Visite, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
River Deep, Mountain High, Glazen Huis, Amstelpark, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2001
Open Studio, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Labyrinths, ASIART, Asian Contemporary Art- Biennale d' Art Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy.
Camouflage, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Nehru Centre, London, UK.
Bollywood has arrived, curated by Els Rijnders, P.T.A. (Passengers' Terminal) Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2000
May for India & you, Festival in Tulln, Performance/ Interactive Installations, Tulln, Austria.
Gehakt Masala, Performance, Installations, Outline Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1999
Smell the Art, Perishable Installation at N.G.M.A. (National Gallery of Modern Art) Mumbai, India.
Group show, Fine Art Company, Mumbai, India.
Protected Reflections, Installation based on performance, N.G.M.A, National gallery Of Modern Art, Mumbai
Christie’s Auction, Women for Wise, N.G.M.A. National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India.
Wallpaper, Lakeeren art Gallery (Kala Ghoda Festival), Mumbai, India.
1998
Next Wave Festival (Distance), Biennale, Australia.
1997
50 years of Independence, Bombay Art Society, Jehangir Art gallery, Mumbai, India.
50 years of Art in Mumbai, 1947-1997 Part II, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India.
1996
Awards, Residencies, Funded Projects
2021
Arctic Action VI, International performance art festival, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, funded by Embassy of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands
2019
INSPIREREN-INSPIRATIEON, project residency award, Funded by Provincie Oost Vlaanderen Transitiereglement Gent-Glas, Ghent, Belgium
2017
International presentation grant by Mondriaan Funds, performance, bound/unbound, Patan Museum, LASANAA,
Siddhartha art foundation, Kathmandu Triennale, Kathmandu, Nepal
2016
International presentation grant by Mondriaan Funds & NYC Culture, performance, Visiting Brooklyn Bridge, project
Ritual Traces by SAWCC (South Asian women’s creative collective), New York.
2013
Golden Chimera Award, ICASTICA 2013, 1st Arezzo Art Biennial, Italy.
2012
Contemporary Renaissance, Residency Casa Masaccio Arte contemporanea and MK Search Art, San Giovanni Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy
2011
The Bridge Is Open, Public Space Project, installation under Willem’s bridge, Haarlemmerpoort, Amsterdam, funded by Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Fonds BKVB, Co-operated by DIVV, DOCK Stadsdeel West.
ComPeung, Artists’ Residency, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2010
Nominated for FRITSCHY AWARD, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
2009
Travel grant Mondriaan Funds, performance In Determination, Art Dubai
LIVE Fonds, Funds BKVB, Project Measures & Weights, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008
VASL International Residency, Triangle Arts Trust Network, Artists’ in Diaspora, Karachi, Pakistan.
2007
Finalist Black magic Woman Award 2007, CBK, Zuid Oost, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004
Khoj International Residency, Funded by Hivos, New Delhi, India
2001
Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Funded by Nuffic, Huygens grant, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000
Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, funded by Dutch Ministry foreign & Affairs (BUZA/DCOIC) Amsterdam.
1998
UNESCO- ASCHBERG, International Artists Residency, Federal Chancellery for Arts and Science, Vienna, Austria.
1997
Fine arts Award, Inlaks Foundation’, New Delhi, India
1993
Residency at Kanoria Centre for the Arts, Ahmedabad, India.
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2007 Collaboration with ZID Theatre, Amsterdam, for multimedia contemporary
Dance, “Milkwhite”, (Videography, Production, Editing, Installation)
2006- Quilt/ Deken, Community Art Project, with Artwalk Stichting funded by
2007 Amsterdam fonds voor de kunst, SVP Kunst, Stadsdeel Westerpark.
Quilts on permanent installation in Raadszaal, Stadsdeel Westerpark.
2004 “Tea Ceremony”, project by Monali Meher & Mayumi Nakazaki in collaboration with AZC, Bos en Lommer, in Babylon club, SFA, Amsterdam.
“Tea Ceremony”, on ‘Open Day’ of AZC, Bos en Lommer in collaboration. Meher & Nakazaki.
WORKSHOPS & CAMPS
2007 Invited to give a performance workshop at IPAH (International performance association Hildesheim), summer camp in Berlin, Germany
2004 “Cleaning The House”, Marina Abramovic, NMAC Foundation, Montemedio, Spain.
2003 Performance workshop, CEIA, with Moniek Toebosch, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2001 Orientation, Disorientation, Skoki, Poland.
2001 Workshop, "Performer & Mediated Image”, Monte Video, Amsterdam, organized by Amsterdam- Maastrich Summer University.
Participated in Performance workshop with Marina Abramovic, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.
2000 Assistant for the drawing class in International Summer Academy, Fortress, Salzburg.
1999 Conducted Mural Workshop at Kamala Raheja School of Architecture, Bombay.
1997 Vegetable Dye Workshop by Mr.Toofan Rafai at Birla Academy for Art & Culture, Bombay.
1996 Stage Design for dance performance, 50 years of Independance Festival, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Bombay.
1993 Worked in Kanoria Centre For The Arts, Ahmedabad.
1991 Art & Crafts counsellor Camp Farwell,Vermont,U.S.A.
PARTICIPATION
2006 De 7de Hemel, Fashion show by AZIZ/ performance, Utrecht
2003 "De Toren Van Babel" By Robert Steijn & Lidy Six, Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam.
2002 "Hollandse Nieuwe" Festival, Cosmic theatre, A'dam.
2002 "DINNER"(Cuchina Mobile), Work by Judith Witteman, W 139, Amsterdam.
"De Toren Van Babel", By Robert Steijn & Lidy Six, "Melkweg", Amsterdam.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 ‘Another publication’, Piet Zwart Institute, cover page
‘Cleaning the house’, NMAC Foundation, page 58
2006 Metropoplis M, Art Magazine, Holland No. 3 June/July, Nederlands een, Christel Vesters, Page 82, 83.
2005 MIP, International Performance Manifestation, CEIA, Belo-Horizonte, Brazil, Book, Pages, 138, 139, 144, 145, 182, 183.
“Love & Death”, Egon Schiele catalogue, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
2004 “Do it yourself” (Projects 2001-02), Outline, Amsterdam, Book, Page 16, 17, 18.
“Shifting Map”, RAIN initiative network, Rijksakademie, A’dam, Book, Page 45.
2003 “de inrichting”, Holland, Contemporary art & Psychiatry, Catalogue, Page 42, 43.
“Student Body”, (Marina Abramovic), Book, Page 276 to 281.
2002 MAAP, Beijing, Catalogue, Page 76, 77.
Third Text (57), Camouflage, (The visible in the invisible), Zeigam Azizov, Page 96, 97, 98.
PANEL DISCUSSIONS & TALKS
2007 Talk at ECHO.BASE (Artistic workspace), Antwerp
Culture and development, Akkoord van Schokland,
Club 11, Amsterdam
“Performance Art and Other Histories”, NRLA (National Review on live art), Glasgow
2006 Talk, Sinoppale, First Sinop biennale, Turkey.
2005 Roundtable discussion at BKOR, Art projects in Public spaces, Amsterdam
Talk HIVOS, Rotterdam
2002 “The Contemporary New Language within Indian Art”, NRLA (National Review of Live Art), Glasgow
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