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Aditya Mandayam

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Born in 1983, Bangalore, India - died 30 December 2019, Warsaw, Poland.
Aditya Mandayam alias Aditya Zalewski-Mandayam alias Popobobo Oddodood alias Ciscaucasus Xabarnama alias Genitalman alias Brud. In 2014 the artists Aditya Mandayam & Ada Pola changed their solo practices into a metamorphosis of the Indo-Polish art-parasite Brud. Brud was based in a slaughterhouse in the city center of Warsaw, Poland.


Residencies 2016 - 2017 RIAT, Vienna, Austria 2014 - 2015 Rupert / Centre for Art and Education, Vilnius, Latvia 2014 Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa 2014 Wiels, Brussels, Belgium 2011 - 2013 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam 2011 Kiosko, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia 2010 Fabrica, Italy 2008 - 2009 IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan 2007 Max Planck Institute for Linguistic Anthropology, Jakarta, Indonesia 2006 - 2007 Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany Stanford University - on indefinite leave
Awards 2016 Live Works Performance Art Award (Finalist) 2015 VISIO Next Generation Moving Images Acquisition Prize (Finalist) 2013 Absolut Art Award (Nominated) 2010 Prix Levallois (Special Mention)
Solo exhibitions 2018 Love Story, Brud / Aditya Mandayam & Emilia Zalwska, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 2018 The Donut of Confusion, Brud / Aditya Mandayam & Emilia Zalwska, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany, cat. 2017 Thingamajig, Brud / Aditya Mandayam & Emilia Zalwska, Centre for Contemporary Art Futura, Prague, Czech Republic 2015 Poland International, NN Contemporary, Northampton, England, participation as artist's duo Brud 2014 Sukuranburu Kousaten by Indigenous Genitalman, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 2013 Domake - makedo, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 2013 Zoon in a Zoot-Suit*, kim? Riga, Latvia 2013 Kim? / Contemporary Art Space, Riga, Letvia 2013 Iliulu Uliilu, Rijksakademie Open, Amsterdam
Group exhibitions 2018 School of Pain, Art in General, New York, Brooklyn, USA, curator Michal Novotný 2017 The Unique versus Series versus the Multiple, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 2017 Plato / Office for Art, Ostrava, Czech Republic, curator Michal Novotný 2015 Leize Jenius, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 2015 XII Baltic Triennial, CAC / Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania 2015 Last day at Rivoli, Delire Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2015 Poland International, NN Contemporary Art, Northhampton, England 2014 The 3rd Biennial Land Art Mongolia 360°, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 2014 Delire Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, with Marcel Broodthaers, Nico Dockx & Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pat McCarthy, Gianni Motti and Roman Opalka 2014 The Pink Spy, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium, curator Narcisse Tordoir 2014 Aditya Mandayam, Occii, Amsterdam 2014 Amsterdam Drawing 2014 / Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 2013 The Pink Spy*, MHKA, Antwerp, Belgium 2013 Lost and Found, De Waag, Amsterdam 2013 Iliulu Uliilu, Rijksakademie Open, Amsterdam, Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, artist's publication in envelope 2013 Rewire, The Hague, Netherlands 2013 Legless Midriff in Topless Bar, Museumnacht, Amsterdam 2013 Makedo Domake, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 2013 Fusiform Gyrus, Lisson Gallery, London, England, curator Raimundas Malašaukas 2013 Dread Fear in the Age of Technological Acceleration, De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands, curator Juha van 't Zelfde 2013 Lizzard Lounge, National Gallery of Art / foyer; Harare International Festival of the Arts, Harare, Zimbabwe 2013 De Service Garage, Amsterdam 2012 Rijksakademie Open, Amsterdam 2012 Edward Brought Home A Good Ford Car, Russian Tea Room, Paris, France 2012 Le songe, la raison et les monstres, Galerie Paul Frèches, Paris, France 2011 Piksel, Bergen, Norway 2011 Electropixel, Nantes, France 2011 Principio Potosi, Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia 2011 Alla Utilizan Quirquiña, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Bolivia 2011 Anim/a/l/e, La Manzana, Santa Cruz, Bolivia 2010 Photo-Levallois, Paris, France 2010 Make Art, Poitiers, France 2010 Szendvics, Begec Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia 2010 @party, Harvard, MA, USA 2010 Il Lampeggiatore, Spazio XYZ, Treviso, Italy 2010 Fatto Foto, Fondazione Buziol, Venice, Italy 2007 Fotokopisusu, PKBB, Jakarta, Indonesia 2007 Fotobiscotti, Yoshida Haus, Tokyo, Japan 2006 Phantom of the Crothera, Stanford, California, USA
Publications 2018 The Ooze, Roma Publications, Amsterdam 2018 Shocking Nonsense, Gruz Publications 2018 The Politics of Periphony, Sounds in Space, University of Derby, Derby, UK 2018 Sic Magazine #3 2017 Flusser Studies 2013 CUT Magazine #8 2013 CUT Magazine #9
Interview 2019 Blok Magazine, interviewers: Romuald Demidenko and Virginija Januškevičiūtė, 10 October
Performances and radio boadcastings 2013 De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands 2013 Yayapiti Papaya: 1st set of performances, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 2013 Yayapiti Papaya: 2nd set of performances, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 2018 Zenzizenzizenzik, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland, performance on 7 October 2018 Radio JUJU, Aditya Mandayam / UMMO alias BRUD, with Juan-Pablo Villegas Delgado, 21 November 2019 Radio JUJU #1: Allegro, Andrea Liu & Ummo, RIB, Rotterdam, 1 February
Collections Museo Nacional de Arte, Bolivia ISelf Collection, Maria and Malek Sukkar Fiorucci Art Trust, London MuHKA, Antwerp


Selected exhibitions, performances and talks Zebra, La Kaje, New York ISelf: Self-Portrait as a Billy-Goat, Whitechapel Gallery, London Shocking Nonsense, Zachęta, National Gallery, Warsaw Group Theory, Centrale Fies, Italy Making Use, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland A Million Lines, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland 2018 Terra Interpreta, WIELS, Brussels Principio Potosi, Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia Alla Utilizan Quirquiña, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Bolivia Adobedo, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town Legless Midriff in Topless Bar, Museumnacht, Amsterdam Lizzard Lounge, National Gallery of Art, Zimbabwe Sousveillance, FLAT, Amsterdam Poland International, NN Contemporary, Northampton Leise Jenius, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin