MONALI MEHER
Monali Meher
Pune, India, 1969
Lives and works in Ghent, Belgium
Awards, Residencies, Funded Projects
2024
Voucher International Grant by Mondriaan Funds, performance, Freeing the Land, VIVAAR Venezia, Venice.
2023
NN ART AWARD 2023, Art Rotterdam 2023, The Netherlands.
2022
Het Atelier, Artists Residency, Bruges, Belgium.
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.
Solo Shows
2024
Walking Root Route, gallery VHC (Vida Heydari Contemporary), Pune, India
Mindscapes & Hidden Places, Het Atelier, Bruges, Belgium
2023
Umbartha, gallery VHC (Vida Heydari Contemporary), Pune, India
2022
The Beginning of a New Beginning, gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Unknown Landscape, Het Atelier, Bruges, Belgium
2019
Falling Star, (works 2004 – 2019), CJK, Mariakerke, Ghent, Belgium
2017
Roots and Threads, Boarders and Pieces, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016
Spirit House, Museum Van Alle Tijden, Beugen, Brabant, The Netherlands
2013
Meat Markets and Spirit Houses, gallery Lumen Travo, 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
Performances
2024
STOP GENOCIDE & Unending River (Interactive performance), LA 19, Live Art Gothenburg, Sweden
WAKE UP, Interactive performance, Visaraloka, Indonesia Bertutur 2024, Tony Raka gallery, Ubud, Bali
Freeing the Land, Interactive performance, VIVAAR VENEZIA 2024, public space Riva Dei Giardini, Venice, Italy
Old Fashioned, Interactive performance project in public space of Arentshof, part of the group exhibition, ‘Rebel Garden’, Musea Brugge, Bruges, Belgium
2023
Old Fashioned, Interactive installation/ project in public space, with ‘Ledeberg Beleeft’, and the support of the city Ghent, co-operated by city Museum STAM, Ledebergplein, Ledeberg (Ghent) Belgium
Gilded, International performance festival Trouble #12, It’s about time, THOR, La maison des art, Brussels
Old Fashioned, Interactive installation/ performance, gallery VHC, (Vida Heydari Contemporary) Pune, India
2022
Gilded, gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
In Search of a Lost Monastery, site- specific performance, Het Atelier, Bruges, Belgium
2021
mUSe, Installation and performance, Kunstnersenter Spitsbergen, Arctic Action VI, International performance art festival, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
Old Fashioned, installation and collaborative performance, Zomersalon ‘21, Kunsthal Gent, Ghent, Belgium
My Foot, Art Ghent, Museum SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Love Letters, Live Streaming, Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
2020
Old Fashioned, group exhibition, Living Forgiving Remembering, De Kerk, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands
2019
Visiting Sutton Pool, site- specific performance, at conference, Walking’s New Movements,
University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Lumbago, Gent Soiree weekend at P/ROPS, Ghent, Belgium
Curve, Carve, Cultus, Maart kunstroute Waregem, Zaal 29, Stedelijke kunstacademie Waregem, Belgium.
2017
Golden Bend, Manifesta in-house series, Manifesta HQ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
bound/unbound, Patan Museum, LASANAA, Siddhartha art foundation, funded by Mondriaan funds, Kathmandu Triennale, Kathmandu, Nepal
2016
Red & Twisted, bEIJING LIVE 1, Danish cultural center, 798 districts, Beijing, China
One Drop of Blood, Museum Arnhem collection show, ‘What we have overlooked’, Gallery Framer’s Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Visiting Brooklyn Bridge, Ritual Traces by SAWCC (South Asian women’s creative collective), Funded by Mondriaan Funds & NYC Culture, New York.
Illuminare la roccia da 1910 per 1918, Biennale Arte Dolomiti, Ex- Caserma Monte Rite, Cibiana di Cadore, Italy.
2015
Balance, Collaborative performance with group of people, Ledebergplein, Gent, Belgium
LIVE/LIFE Interactive performances & Installations in public space curated by Monali Meher,
Ledebergplein, Gent, Belgium.
Visiting Renos, anders sein, Kulturforum Alte Post, Neuss, Germany.
2014
Balance III, Guangzhou Live 5, International performance Art, China.
Reverse/ Rewind/ Replay: Ten Acts from the Past, Sparsha, Ritual and contemporary, group exhibition, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Balance II, ACTUS III, Académie des Beaux-Arts saint Gilles, Brussels, Belgium
Terra, Future Identities, Venice International experimental cinema and performance art festival,
Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice, Italy.
Facing Vooruit, University UFO & Sustainability 2014, Ghent, Belgium.
2013
Forward/ Backward/ Rise/ Fall, 3rd Thessaloniki Performance Festival, part of 4th Thessaloniki Biennale
Old Intersections-Make it New, Greece.
Visiting Marmara, Istanbul Modern museum and IPA (International performance platform) Istanbul, Turkey
In Determination, ICASTICA 2013, Urban center (Glocal women), 1st Arezzo Art Biennial, Arezzo, Italy
(with theater academy students, Arezzo)
Love Salon, with AZIZ (Fashion designer) creation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2012
A Dialogue with water, iLAS 2012, Live action 7 Gothenburg, Sweden.
Morose, Buddha Garden, Express Mall Avenue, Art Chennai, India
Mass, Kala Ghoda Festival, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, India.
2011
Silent Act, December 18th Global art action, International Migrants day, Museumplein, Amsterdam, NL
Mass, Guangzhou Live 11, International performance Art festival, Guangzhou, China.
Golden Quadrilateral, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy.
Morose, Infr’ Action Sète, Festival international d’Art Performance, Sète France.
2010
Fake performance scene of tragic end in the old church, Museum- Nacht, (Between Heaven and
the Heart), Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Steaming, Art Amsterdam, Gallery Art Kitchen & gallery Luman Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
In Determination, NRLA 2010 (National Review on Live Art) Glasgow, Scotland
2009
In Determination II, Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, India.
Two headed with Fish Posture, group exhibition, rebelle, Art and Feminism 1969-2009, mmka,
Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands.
Untitled, ‘Calvin Me’, group show, CBK Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Old Fashioned, (Me/Folly, mobile, Holger Nickisch), Aachen, Germany
Old Fashioned, Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, NCPA, Mumbai, India
In Determination, Supported by Mondriaan Foundation, Art Dubai.
Terra, Festival FEM, Gresol, Cultural Centre La Merce, Girona, Spain
Worshiping Three Tall Gods on a Round Table, University Girona, Girona, Spain
2008
My Tehvar, Writing home about home, IVS Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.
Mapping the city, Weaving the spine, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Cultuurmijl: Performance Lab, SKOR,
Gemeente Enschede, The Netherlands.
You are in my territory, Khoj Live, International performance manifestation, Palette art Gallery, New Delhi, IN
Remix, (Discomfort at performance), Siemens Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Remix, Something Raw, Performance evening, W139, Amsterdam.
DREAM, Lab-Orint event, ECHOBASE, Antwerp, Belgium
2007
Riceville II, Black magic woman award, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Reverse, Rewind, Replay: 7 acts from the past, NRLA, Live Art Glasgow, Scotland
2006
Old Fashioned, Dadao International Performance Festival, Funded by Dutch embassy Beijing, China.
Between the Familiar/ Unfamiliar, the Home & Heart, Beats a Golden Kiss, Saturday Live Mumbai,
Tate Modern, London, UK
Three Departures, Sinopale, 1st Sinop Biennale, Mobility fund by ECF, (STEP BEYOND) Sinop, Turkey.
Golden paithani on Chaise longue extended to vreemd/ bekend with Gouden kuss, group show,
Nederlands Een, Museum Gouda, Gouda, The Netherlands
Riceville/ Whiteville, SKOL Uithof University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2005
Reverse, Rewind, Replay: Five acts from the past, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, New York.
Blunt, Historical cellars, Made in Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Untitled, De stad als theater, Performance Lab, Zwolle, The Netherlands
Untitled, Artkitchen gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rosalgia, Gifted Generation, IPG, Hebbel Theatre, (Hau eins) Berlin, Germany
With or without emotional hang ups, Live web, Duke University, NC, USA.
2004
But I was never a bride, Khoj Residency, New Delhi, India.
South Extension, collaborative performance with Marco Pollo Rolla, Khoj Residency, New Delhi, India.
Under Pressure, IPG group, Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany.
Anti Aggressive, Anti Noxious, Anti Toxic, Anti Immoral, Anti contemporary art festival, Kuopio, Finland.
Recipe/ Chemistry of bmsoiodnuydl, with 7 artists, group show, Human Interest, Outline, Amsterdam, NL
u o a e m, IPG group, NMAC Foundation, Montemedio, Cádiz, Spain.
Discussion, Collaboration, Meher & Nkanga, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
An Auspicious One, Artkitchen gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003
Ritual, interactive installation for school children, Keunstwerk, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Exorcism, (Ritual), Collaborative, Keunstwerk, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Practising Nostalgia & Old Fashioned, CEIA, Performance Manifestation, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Old Fashioned, Het Raadhuis, Aalsmeer, The Netherlands
Old Fashioned, Kunst-Rai, Gallery Artkitchen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002
In My Accent, Arti ET Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
New Territories, International Festival Of live Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
2001
Camouflage, Performance, Nehru Centre, London, UK
It’s done but Is It Dead? curated by Monali Meher, Funded By Amsterdam Fonds & Prins Bernard,
Outline Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Anonymous Space, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000
Interactive Performances, Open Studio, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Next Door Reality: Kijkdoos, Interactive Installation, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL Singer, Karaoke Bar, The Wave, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bruststuke Looser, collaborative, International Summer academy, Fortress, Salzburg, Austria.
Non-Repeating Loop, Durational performance, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
Untitled, Collaborative, voice/ techno, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Untitled, Drops (sweets) & skin of pigs (Intestine), Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
Untitled, Interactive Performance with Henna, Gehakt Masala, Outline Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Untitled, May for India & you, Tulln, Austria.
1999
Untitled, costume & self-made postcards, Fine Art Company, Mumbai, India
Protected Reflection, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1998
Nothing is permanent, solo show, Reflect: A personal window display, Jehangir art gallery, Mumbai, India
Group Exhibitions
2025
India Art Fair, gallery VHC, NSIC exhibition grounds, Okhla, New Delhi, India
Over(p)lay, gallery VHC (Vida Heydari contemporary), at STIR Chattarpur farms, New Delhi, India
2024
Terra Incognita, site-specific installation, sculpture park walk, Art Mumbai, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai, India
Art Mumbai, gallery VHC, Mumbai art fair Mahalaxmi, Racecourse, Mumbai, India
He/Hem, VHC gallery (Vida Heydari contemporary), Pune, India
Freeing the Land, Holograms of the live performance, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia & Forte Maghera, VIVAAR VENEZIA 2024, Venice, Italy
Dreamscapes and other places, works on paper, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2023
NICC x 25, NICC celebrating 25 years’ of standing up for artists rights, Museum S.M.A.K. Ghent, Belgium
Common Ground, VHC gallery (Vida Heydari Contemporary), Pune, India
Global Dialogues: Understanding Otherness, Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Art Island Amsterdam 2023, Gallery Lumen Travo, Fort Island IJmuiden, The Netherlands
De Vierkante Kilometer, Ledeberg- Tegel K19, museum STAM, Gent, Belgium
Art Rotterdam 2023, Gallery Lumen Travo, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2022
Silent Land, gallery Lumen Travo, 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
ART GHENT, group show, Brabantdam, 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
YANGO Biennale, Biennale d’art Contemporain de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Congo.
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
100 years of Cinema, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai, India.
Collaborative Projects
2022
SLET, Costume, props, space design for International theater, Novi Sad, EU cultural capital 2022, Serbia.
2021
Stone Soup, interactive project with Bar Univers’elle, In Gent @Syllabus, Kunsthal Gent, Gent, Belgium
Logos Gentse feesten, collaborative performances with Logos Foundation in public spaces, Gent, Belgium
2017
Walk with Milk, collaborative performance, LASANAA, NexUs Culture Nepal,
Kathmandu Triennale, Kathmandu, Nepal
2015
HERE WE ARE, theater shows by ZID Theater, visual concept and designed costumes,
Stadsschouburg and Vondelkerk Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2014
Marcham El Matroz, (Mode en Ambacht) collaborative project with women organizations
in Stadsdeel West, supported by stadsdeel West, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2013
On occasion of International Concourse of POLIFONICO, collaborative event between Choir Vox Cordis
Arezzo and Auspiciously Red Installation at Casa Delle Culture, ICASTICA (1st Biennial), Arezzo, Italy.
2012
SaReeMe, (Mode en Ambacht) collaborative project with women organizations in Stadsdeel West,
supported by stadsdeel West Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Wereldpark Erasmus, costume design, Zid Theater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009
ME/ folly: Old Fashioned, Interactive and mobile house by Holger Nickisch, Aachen, Germany.
2008
New order of Things, Guest Curator, Sinoppale, Sinop Biennale II, Sinop, Turkey.
ME/ folly: Moving Hope, Interactive and mobile house by Holger Nickisch, Amsterdam West, The Netherlands
2007
Milkwhite, multimedia contemporary dance, collaboration with ZID Theatre, (Videography,
Production, Editing, Installation), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2006
Quilt/ Deken, Community Art Project, with Stichting Artwalk, funded by AFK, SVP Kunst, Stadsdeel Westerpark. Quilts on permanent installation in Stadsdeel West, Bos en Lommer, The Netherlands.
2004
Tea Ceremony, project by Meher & Nakazaki in collaboration with AZC, Bos en Lommer, in Babylon club,
SFA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Given Workshops
2022
Performing Identity, performance workshop, La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium.
2017
Lost in transition, me myself and I in a changing world, Studium generale, ArtEZ university Arnhem, NL
2014- 2012
Marcham El Matroz 2013, (Mode & Ambacht), women groups Bos en Lommer, Amsterdam West. NL
SaReeMe Project (Mode & Ambacht), Doenja, Stadsdeel West, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011
Zid Mixt Zondag, Doenja, (women organization), Stadsdeel West, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Doenja, workshop with women organization, Bolo-K Art Route, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2009
Ritual & Reality, performance workshop, (The other Sudan dance festival) Dutch art Institute, Enschede, NL
Restoring Our Temples, workshop, FEM Festival, La Merce, Girona, Spain
Wear yourself, workshop, Performance Lab, AKI Enschede, The Netherlands
2008
Restoring Our Temples, workshop (New order of Things) Sinopale II, Sinop Biennale, Turkey.
Performance workshop, Discomfort at performance, invited by Siemens, Galata Perform, Istanbul, Turkey.
2007
IPAH (International performance association Hildesheim), summer camp in Berlin, Germany
2000
International Summer Academy, assistant for the drawing class, Fortress, Salzburg, Austria
1999
Mural Workshop at Kamala Raheja School of Architecture, Mumbai, India.
1996
50 years of Independence Festival, stage design for dance performance, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai.
1991
Camp Farwell, Art & Crafts counsellor, New-Burry, Vermont, U.S.A.
Participation
2024
Kiemkracht festival, as a part of Moving Roots walk, Viernulvier (Vooruit), Ghent, Belgium
2021
Knipoogt naar Van Eyck, Kunstenparcour 9050, Ledeberg-Gentbrugge, Gent
Ledeberg Verlicht, Public installations, optician shop vitrine & Cafe windows Ledebergplein, Ghent, Belgium
2017
Kunstenparcours 9050, Ledeberg-Gentbrugge, Gent
2012
Art Chennai, Art Residency III, Chennai, India
2011
Art Chennai, Art Camp II, KodaiKanal, India
2006
De 7de Hemel, Fashion show by AZIZ/ performance, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2004
Cleaning the House, Marina Abramovic, NMAC, Montemedio, Spain.
2003
Performance workshop, CEIA, Moniek Toebosch, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
De Toren Van Babel, Robert Steijn & Lidy Six, Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002
Hollandse Nieuwe, Festival, Cosmic theatre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
DINNER, (Cuchina Mobile), Work by Judith Witteman, W 139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
De Toren Van Babel, by Robert Steijn & Lidy Six, Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2001
Orientation/ Disorientation, workshop, Skoki, Poland.
Performer & Mediated Image, workshop organized by Amsterdam- Maastrich Summer University,
Monte-Video, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Performance-workshop with Marina Abramovic, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
1997
Vegetable Dye Workshop by Mr. Toofan Rafai at Birla Academy for Art & Culture, Mumbai, India
Bibliography
2024
Reliving Time, Time for Live Art, published by THOR, Brussels, supported by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Page 31
2023
NICC x 25, on the occasion of Silverjubilee, book, published by Stockmans art books, pages 148 - 150
Unknown Landscape, self-published book, printed by Graphius/ Cultura, paper: Munken polar rough 150 gr, paperback with inside cover flaps, bilingual (translation from Dutch – English), pages: 100
2021
Vijf edities Kunst op de Koffie, book, published by KODK, pages 86, 87.
2020
Walking Bodies, papers, provocations, action, published by Triarchy Press, Pages 152, 153
2019
Falling Star, catalogue solo exhibition, works from 2004 – 2019.
2018
Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance, by Phil Smith, Macmillan International, Pages 41, 42, 57.
2016
Biennale Arte Dolomiti, catalogue Cibiana di Cadore, Italy.
2014
Sparsha, Ritual and contemporary, catalogue Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
Threads, catalogue Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands
2013
ICASTICA, 1st International Arezzo Biennial (Glocal women), catalouge
2012
Il Siero Della Verita, catalogue, MK Search Art Gallery, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
2011
Prague Biennale 5, Crossroads: India Escalate, book, page 89.
2010
The New Order of Things, catalogue, 2nd Sinop Biennale, Turkey, pages 108-111
ARTWALK AMSTERDAM, book, Pages 38, 39.
EAT YOUR ART OUT, art cookbook, Artkitchen & Gallery A, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009
REBELLE, Art & Feminism, 1969-2009, book, Museum MMKA Arnhem, page 194- 195.
2008
Thing, book, First Sinop Biennale, Turkey, pages 99 to 104.
2007
Another publication, Piet Zwart Institute, cover page
Cleaning the house, NMAC Foundation, page 58
2005
MIP, International Performance Manifestation, CEIA, Belo-Horizonte, 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, Pages 16-18.
Shifting Map, RAIN network, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Book, Page 45.
2003
de inrichting, Heiloo, The Netherlands, Contemporary art & Psychiatry, Pages 42, 43.
Student Body, book by Marina Abramovic, Pages 276 to 281.
2002
MAAP, Beijing, Catalogue, Pages 76, 77.
Third Text (57), book, performance Camouflage, (The visible in the invisible), Zeigam Azizov, Pages 96, 97, 98
External Advisorship
2008 – 2009
Dutch Art Institute, MA Program, Studio visit & external advisor for final presentation, Enschede, NL.
Symposium/ Panel Discussions/ Talks
2022
KASK lecture series, Jacqueline de Jong in conversation with Monali Meher.
2019
Presented paper, Backward walking in silence with incense sticks, at Walking’s New Movements,
University of Plymouth, UK
2017
Being in Body and Public, private and social, participation in symposiums, Kathmandu Triennale, Nepal.
2015
Performance Art, La Cambre Art Visuals, Brussels, Belgium
2009
Departed, Assembled, Wrapped, Captured: Time, Talk with Arshiya Lokhandwala,
Mohile Parekh Centre, NCPA, Mumbai.
2008
Writing Home About Home, VASL Residency, Karachi, Pakistan.
2007
Talk at ECHO.BASE (Artistic workspace), Antwerp, Belgium
Culture and development, Akkoord van Schokland, Club 11, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Performance Art and Other Histories, NRLA, Glasgow.
2006
Talk, Sinoppale, 1st Sinop biennale, Sinop, Turkey.
2005
Roundtable discussion at BKOR, Art projects in Public spaces, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Artist Talk HIVOS, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2002
The Contemporary New Language within Indian Art, NRLA (National Review of Live Art), Glasgow
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