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{{Short description|Contemporary artist}}
{{Undisclosed paid|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Sajan Mani
| image = Sajan Mani.jpg
| native_name = സാജൻ മണി
| native_name_lang = [[Malayalam]]
| birth_name = Sajan Mani
| birth_date= 1982
| birth_place = [[Iritty|Kunnoth, Kannur]]
| citizenship = [[India|Indian]]
| occupation = Artist, [[Contemporary Artist]], [[Performance Artist]]
| known_for = [[Contemporary Art]], [[Performance Art]]
}}

'''Sajan Mani''' (സാജൻ മണി born 1982 in [[Iritty|Kunnoth, India]]) is a Berlin-based [[Contemporary art|contemporary]] artist<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/art/art-for-the-public/article5100753.ece|title=Art for the public - The Hindu|access-date=2020-12-12|date=2020-12-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212104330/https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/art/art-for-the-public/article5100753.ece|archive-date=2020-12-12}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/body-of-evidence-the-art-of-sajan-mani/article32979693.ece|title=Through his performance pieces, Sajan Mani pushes his body to its limits to relive the pain of the Dalit life - The Hindu|access-date=2020-12-12|date=2020-12-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212142911/https://www.thehindu.com/society/body-of-evidence-the-art-of-sajan-mani/article32979693.ece|archive-date=2020-12-12}}</ref> and [[Berlin Art Prize]] 2021<ref>{{Cite web|title=Annett Gröschner erhält den Großen Kunstpreis Berlin 2021|url=https://www.adk.de/de/news/index.htm?we_objectID=61994|access-date=2021-01-24|website=www.adk.de|language=de}}</ref> winner. He has exhibited at various international venues, including the [[Vancouver Biennale]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vancouverbiennale.com/sajan-mani-at-a-performance/|title=Residency Sajan Mani in the studio - Vancouver Biennale|access-date=2020-12-13|language=en-US}}</ref> the Kampala Art Biennale<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kampalabiennale.org/sajan-mani/|title=Sajan Mani|access-date=2020-12-13|language=en-US}}</ref> the [[Dhaka Art Summit]] and the Kolkata International Art Festival,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/rabbit-to-chicken-earthen-glasses-to-mirrors-all-for-art/cid/1288898|title=Rabbit to chicken, earthen glasses to mirrors: all for art|access-date=2020-12-12}}</ref> on issues of various lives of marginalized people of India<ref>{{Citation|last=Welle (www.dw.com)|first=Deutsche|title=The hard life of India's Dalits on display in Berlin art gallery {{!}} DW {{!}} 12.10.2020|url=https://www.dw.com/en/india-dalits-life-on-display-in-berlin/av-55241167|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-12-13}}</ref> and post-colonial [[Dalit]] lives.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/dalit-bodies-by-manus-law-didnt-have-the-right-to-hear-a-text-artist-sajan-mani-6908511/|title=Dalit bodies, by Manu's law, didn't have the right to hear a text: Artist Sajan Mani|access-date=2020-12-12|date=2020-10-29|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Now|first=Right|title=Sajan Mani – Tyger von otherspur – tanzschreiber|url=https://tanzschreiber.de/en/sajan-mani-tyger-von-otherspur/|access-date=2021-01-18|language=en-GB}}</ref> He is working with drawing, [[performance art]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vervemagazine.in/people/avant-garde-aesthetes-jagdip-jagpals-artists-to-watch-out-for|title=Avant-Garde Aesthetes: Jagdip Jagpal's Artists To Watch Out For|access-date=2020-12-12|date=2018-08-15|language=en-US}}</ref> and [[video installation|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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kh-berlin.de/en/people/show/sajan-mani-3690.html|title=People {{!}} Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin|access-date=2020-12-13}}</ref> in 2019 from [[Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin]].

== Biography ==
He was a editorial board member for the [[Kochi-Muziris Biennale#First_Kochi-Muziris_Biennale|first edition]] of the [[Kochi-Muziris Biennale]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://malayal.am/node/15754|title=അമൂർത്തതയുടെ അപനിർമ്മാണം അഥവാ ആരിയൽ ഹസ്സൻ|access-date=2020-12-12|last=Follow|first=Sajan Mani|language=ml}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://malayal.am/node/22598|title=ഇത് ജനങ്ങളുടെ ബിനാലെ|access-date=2020-12-12|last=Follow|first=Sajan Mani|language=ml}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mumbaikaakka.com/?p=2306|title=മലയാളി / മനുഷ്യൻ/ രഘുനാഥ്|access-date=2020-12-12|date=2013-10-07|language=en-US}}</ref>[[Kochi-Muziris Biennale|.]] He Performed at the [[Vancouver Biennale]], Kampala Art Biennale, [[Dhaka Art Summit]], Kolkata International Performance Art Festival, [[Sunaparanta,_Goa_Centre_for_the_Arts|Sensorium-Sunaparanta]] Art Festival, Goa and Musrara Mix Festival.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/in-jerusalem/creature-discomfort-494545|title=Creature discomfort|access-date=2020-12-13|language=en-US}}</ref> Sajan got critically acclaimed<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bhuyan|first=Avantika|date=2020-09-18|title=Sajan Mani's Dalit protest art|url=https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/sajan-mani-s-dalit-protest-art-11600403240951.html|access-date=2021-01-16|website=mint|language=en}}</ref> for the solo exhibition 'Alphabet of Touch> <Overseas Stretched Bodies and Muted Howls for Songs' exhibited at the Nome Gallery in Berlin.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nome {{!}} Alphabet of Touch >< Overstretched Bodies and Muted Howls for Songs|url=https://nomegallery.com/exhibitions/alphabet-of-touch-overstretched-bodies-and-muted-howls-for-songs/|access-date=2021-01-16|website=nomegallery.com}}</ref>

== Important works ==

* Citizen Ship Burn It Down!<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|url=http://www.vancouverbiennale.com/artworks/citizen-ship-burn-it-down/|title=Citizen Ship Burn It Down! - Vancouver Biennale|access-date=2020-12-12|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.insidevancouver.ca/2014/09/16/citizen-ship-burn-it-down/|title=Citizen Ship Burn It Down!|access-date=2020-12-13|date=2014-09-16}}</ref>
* Liquidity Ar<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theweek.in/theweek/cover/2018/12/29/creative-energies.html|title=Creative energies|access-date=2020-12-13|language=en}}</ref>
* Secular Meat<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/india-art-fair-shouts-and-murmurs-1548412877181.html|title=India Art Fair: Shouts and murmurs|access-date=2020-12-12|last=Fernando|first=Radhika Iyengar,Benita|date=2019-01-26|language=en}}</ref>
* Caste-pital
* Politically Incorrect Bodies<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/india-art-fair-in-capital-form/article26089876.ece|title=India Art Fair: In capital form? - The Hindu|access-date=2020-12-12|date=2020-12-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212104929/https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/india-art-fair-in-capital-form/article26089876.ece|archive-date=2020-12-12}}</ref>
* Specters of Communism<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/94195/specters-of-communism-a-festival-on-the-revolutionary-century/|title="Specters of Communism. A Festival on the Revolutionary Century" - Announcements - e-flux|access-date=2020-12-12|language=en}}</ref>
* Art will Never Die, but COW?
* Alphabet of Touch> <Over Stretched Bodies and Muted Houses for Songs<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nomegallery.com/exhibitions/alphabet-of-touch-overstretched-bodies-and-muted-howls-for-songs/|title=Nome {{!}} Alphabet of Touch >< Overstretched Bodies and Muted Howls for Songs|access-date=2020-12-12}}</ref>

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Sajan mani.jpg|Secular Meat Senparanta Art Center, Goa
File:Goa performance sajan.jpg|Secular Meat
</gallery>

== References ==

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[[Category:1982 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian performance artists]]
[[Category:Indian contemporary artists]]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mani, Sajan}}

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