Nina Mangalanayagam

News & Updates

Recent exhibitions, publications, talks, and press coverage.

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Hasselblad Center — Bugs & Metamorphosis: Glitching Photography

Hasselblad Center, Feb–May 2025

Bugs & Metamorphosis: Glitching Photography exhibition.

Guided talks with the curators Nina Mangalanayagam & Louise Wolthers, 5 March & 22 March.

Photo by Elisabeth Toll.

GIBCA 2021 — Artist Talk with Ayesha Hameed

GIBCA 2021 — Artist Talk with Ayesha Hameed

Artist talk this 20th Oct with Ayesha Hameed as part of GIBCA 2021.

Global Photographies Network , 19th Jan 2022

Global Photographies Network , 19th Jan 2022

Nina will present her practice and, together with Louise Wolthers, discuss their new research project: Photography and the Glitch.

Galerija Umjetnina / Museum of Fine Arts — 6th Aug - 1st Sep 2019 — Split, Croatia

Galerija Umjetnina / Museum of Fine Arts — 6th Aug - 1st Sep 2019 — Split, Croatia

Balancing Act appears in the exhibition Oscillations at Galerija Umjetnina, Museum of Fine Arts in Split, Croatia.

Exhibition website

Paletten Magazine, November 2018

Paletten Magazine, November 2018

A text in Swedish by Nina Mangalanayagam on We Call Her Pulle appears in PALETTEN magazine issue #312-313-2018. This is the transcript of a paper originally delivered in English at Delfina Foundation when Athena Farrokhzad released White Blight (Vitsvit).

Organ Vida International Photography Festival, 12th — 30th Sep 2018, Zagreb, Croatia

Organ Vida International Photography Festival, 12th — 30th Sep 2018, Zagreb, Croatia

We call her Pulle will be on show at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb from 12th September. It is part of this year’s Organ Vida Photography Festival, celebrating its 10th year. This year’s focus is Engaged, Active, Aware – women’s perspectives now. The grand opening for the festival and the exhibition is on the 12th at 20:00. Nina will be present at the opening and will participate in a panel discussion as well as in the conference on the 14th.

See the full program at https://ovfestival.org/

Guernsey Photography Festival 2018, 20th Sep — 20th Oct 2018, Guernsey

Guernsey Photography Festival 2018, 20th Sep — 20th Oct 2018, Guernsey

The tangled web of belonging will be exhibited at Guernsey Photography Festival 2018. The theme for this year’s festival is Political Landscape. The exhibition and festival launches 20th September and runs until 20th October.

See the festival website for more information.

pHOTOeAST — FESTIVAL & EXHIBITION, 24 MAY — 24 jUNE 2018, Ipswich, UK

pHOTOeAST — FESTIVAL & EXHIBITION, 24 MAY — 24 jUNE 2018, Ipswich, UK

Nina's project The tangled web of belonging features in PHOTOEAST 2018 in Ipswich from 24th May. Works in the festival will be exhibited in various spaces along the Ipswich Waterfront, with Nina's in the Whistler Gallery, Jerwood DanceHouse, IP4 1DW

Nina will be giving an artists talk on Saturday 26th May, 12.30pm.

See the festival website for more information.

vigilance, struggle, pride: Through Her Eyes - Exhibition, 3rd — 17th May 2018, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

vigilance, struggle, pride: Through Her Eyes - Exhibition, 3rd — 17th May 2018, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

Nina's video installation We call her Pulle appears in this group exhibition in Berlin and will later travel to Graz, Zagreb and Bratislava. Nina is giving an artists talk at the venue on the opening night, 6pm 3rd May.

Participating artists: Ahlam Shibli, Amak Mahmoodian, April Gertler, Hannah Starkey, Laia Abril, Lua Ribeira, Nina Berman, Nina Mangalanayagam, Nydia Blas, Sandra Vitaljić, Tasneem Alsultan, Tomoko Sawada, Zanele Muholi

Curator: Marina Paulenka

Exhibition website

FT Weekend Magazine, 6th January 2018
FT Weekend Magazine, 6th January 2018

FT Weekend Magazine, 6th January 2018

Images from the project The tangled web of belonging and a text about the work by Nina appear in the FT Weekend Magazine, 6th January 2018. 

vigilance, struggle, pride: Through Her Eyes - Exhibition, UGM, 19th January - 8th March 2018

vigilance, struggle, pride: Through Her Eyes - Exhibition, UGM, 19th January - 8th March 2018

Nina's video installation We call her Pulle appears in this group exhibition that premieres in Maribor, Slovenia and will later travel to Berlin, Graz, Zagreb and Bratislava.

Participating artists: Ahlam Shibli, Amak Mahmoodian, April Gertler, Hannah Starkey, Laia Abril, Lua Ribeira, Nina Berman, Nina Mangalanayagam, Nydia Blas, Sandra Vitaljić, Tasneem Alsultan, Tomoko Sawada, Zanele Muholi

Curator: Marina Paulenka

Exhibition website

The Social: Autobiography - Talk, Photographers Gallery - 30th November 2017

The Social: Autobiography - Talk, Photographers Gallery - 30th November 2017

Nina Mangalanayagam and Emma Bowkett discuss autobiography within photography at The Photographers' Gallery, London.

Event website