Biography

Nalini MALANI, one of India’s most prominent artists, comprises paintings, wall drawings, video installations and a shadow play, and MALANI has gained an international reputation for her multi-layered mixed-media installations. Sourced from history and culture, and mixed with MALANI’s personal influences and experiences, they build up a narrative of epic proportions. Images from Palestine and Bosnia, and from the American destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are projected over Indian references, mixing universal concepts with specific historical and personal ones. Most of her works refer to female figures from both Indian and European traditions, which have been the focus of MALANI’s work since the 1970s and give additional meaning to her complex layered surfaces. She was brought up in India, the melting pot of diverse ethnic groups, languages and religions, focuses on the trauma caused by endless conflicts between religions and ethnic groups. The history of constant disunion and chaos has been the solid basis of her works.

Works
  • Nalini MALANI, Ballad of a Woman, 2023
    Ballad of a Woman, 2023
  • Nalini MALANI, Ballad of a Woman, 2023
    Ballad of a Woman, 2023
  • Nalini MALANI, City of Desires, 2023
    City of Desires, 2023
  • Nalini MALANI, Life, 2023
    Life, 2023
  • Nalini MALANI, Life, 2023
    Life, 2023
  • Nalini MALANI, Life, 2022
    Life, 2022
  • Nalini MALANI, My Reality is Different, 2020-2023
    My Reality is Different, 2020-2023
  • Nalini MALANI, Can You Divide the Clouds?, 2018
    Can You Divide the Clouds?, 2018
  • Nalini MALANI, Can You Hear Me, 2018
    Can You Hear Me, 2018
  • Nalini MALANI, Can You Hear Me?, 2018
    Can You Hear Me?, 2018
  • Nalini MALANI, Demons of the Night, 2018
    Demons of the Night, 2018
  • Nalini MALANI, Endgame, 2018
    Endgame, 2018
  • Nalini MALANI, George Orwell Once Said, 2018
    George Orwell Once Said, 2018
  • Nalini MALANI, HEART EARTH, 2018
    HEART EARTH, 2018
  • Nalini MALANI, Meglomaniac, 2018
    Meglomaniac, 2018
  • Nalini MALANI, Mephisto, 2018
    Mephisto, 2018
  • Nalini MALANI, Phantoms in the Head, 2018
    Phantoms in the Head, 2018
  • Nalini MALANI, Please Can You Hear Me, 2018
    Please Can You Hear Me, 2018
  • Nalini MALANI, Quote from Bertolt Brecht, 2018
    Quote from Bertolt Brecht, 2018
  • Nalini MALANI, UBU ROI, 2018
    UBU ROI, 2018
  • Nalini MALANI, All We Imagine as Light - Desire/Rupture, 2017
    All We Imagine as Light - Desire/Rupture, 2017
  • Nalini MALANI, All We Imagine as Light - I Am Everything You Lost, 2017
    All We Imagine as Light - I Am Everything You Lost, 2017
  • Nalini MALANI, All We Imagine as Light - One Day the Streets of the World Will Be Empty, 2017
    All We Imagine as Light - One Day the Streets of the World Will Be Empty, 2017
  • Nalini MALANI, All We Imagine as Light - The City from Where No News Can Come, 2017
    All We Imagine as Light - The City from Where No News Can Come, 2017
  • Nalini MALANI, All We Imagine as Light - Touch/Ashes, 2017
    All We Imagine as Light - Touch/Ashes, 2017
  • Nalini MALANI, All We Imagine as Light - You Needed to Perfect Me, 2017
    All We Imagine as Light - You Needed to Perfect Me, 2017
  • Nalini MALANI, In Search of Vanished Blood, 2014
    In Search of Vanished Blood, 2014
  • Nalini MALANI, In Search of Vanished Blood, 2012
    In Search of Vanished Blood, 2012
  • Nalini MALANI, In Search of Vanished Blood, 2012
    In Search of Vanished Blood, 2012
  • Nalini MALANI, Alice thru the Looking Glass (Pat Pat Pat, Copper Brain Map), 2011
    Alice thru the Looking Glass (Pat Pat Pat, Copper Brain Map), 2011
  • Nalini MALANI, Penelope, 2011
    Penelope, 2011
  • Nalini MALANI, After T.S.Eliot's The Wasteland, 2009
    After T.S.Eliot's The Wasteland, 2009
  • Nalini MALANI, Angel 3, 2009
    Angel 3, 2009
  • Nalini MALANI, Cassandra, 2009
    Cassandra, 2009
  • Nalini MALANI, Listen 1, 2009
    Listen 1, 2009
  • Nalini MALANI, Listen 2, 2009
    Listen 2, 2009
  • Nalini MALANI, Losing Sense, 2009
    Losing Sense, 2009
  • Nalini MALANI, Untitled, 2009
    Untitled, 2009
  • Nalini MALANI, Cassandra, 2008
    Cassandra, 2008
  • Nalini MALANI, Chance I, II, III, 2008
    Chance I, II, III, 2008
  • Nalini MALANI, Stories Retold: Mapping III, 2008
    Stories Retold: Mapping III, 2008
  • Nalini MALANI, The Tables Have Turned, 2008
    The Tables Have Turned, 2008
  • Nalini MALANI, Remembering Mad Meg, 2007
    Remembering Mad Meg, 2007
  • Nalini MALANI, Mother India - Transactions in the Construction of Pain, 2005
    Mother India - Transactions in the Construction of Pain, 2005
  • Nalini MALANI, Gamepieces, 2003
    Gamepieces, 2003
  • Nalini MALANI, Remembering Toba Tek Singh, 1998
    Remembering Toba Tek Singh, 1998
  • Nalini MALANI, The Sacred and the Profane, 1998
    The Sacred and the Profane, 1998
  • Nalini MALANI, Memory: Record/Erase, 1996
    Memory: Record/Erase, 1996
  • Nalini MALANI, Taboo, 1973
    Taboo, 1973
  • Nalini MALANI, Photogram Set B: Untitled I, II, III, 1970
    Photogram Set B: Untitled I, II, III, 1970
  • Nalini MALANI, Photogram Set C: Intestines of the Machine Age, Mushroom Cloud, Damaged Survivors, Les Manifestations – Paris, Le Chemin de Fer, 1970
    Photogram Set C: Intestines of the Machine Age, Mushroom Cloud, Damaged Survivors, Les Manifestations – Paris, Le Chemin de Fer, 1970
  • Nalini MALANI, Utopia, 1969-76
    Utopia, 1969-76
  • Nalini MALANI, Dream Houses (Version I), 1969
    Dream Houses (Version I), 1969
  • Nalini MALANI, Dream Houses (Version II), 1969
    Dream Houses (Version II), 1969
  • Nalini MALANI, Onanism, 1969
    Onanism, 1969
  • Nalini MALANI, Photogram Set A: Precincts, Trajectory, Flight, Vestige, 1969
    Photogram Set A: Precincts, Trajectory, Flight, Vestige, 1969
  • Nalini MALANI, Still Life, 1969
    Still Life, 1969
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