Prabhavathi Meppayil Prabhavathi Meppayil

Prabhavathi Meppayil

Born 1965 in Bangalore, India. Lives and works in Bangalore.
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Exhibition view: Conversations II, Esther Schipper, Seoul, 2025 Photo © Hyun Jun Lee

Introduction

Born to a family of goldsmiths, Meppayil transposes the techniques and materials associated with this ancestral savoir-faire into a contemporary plastic language that formally draws on  the modernist canon.

Full biography

Selected works

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Prabhavathi Meppayil
s/twenty six, 2025
Copper wire embedded in gesso panel
121,9 x 121,9 x 5 cm
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Prabhavathi Meppayil
s/twenty seven, 2025
Copper wire embedded in gesso panel
121,9 x 121,9 x 5 cm
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Prabhavathi Meppayil
s/twenty eight, 2025
Thinnam on gesso panel
91,4 x 91,4 x 5 cm
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Prabhavathi Meppayil
s/twenty nine, 2025
Thinnam on gesso panel
60,9 x 60,9 x 5 cm
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Prabhavathi Meppayil
seventy one twenty five, 2025
Gesso on wood
75,8 x 76,1 x 8 cm
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Prabhavathi Meppayil
seventy twenty four, 2024

Polishing stones and pigmented gesso panels

30 parts
147,3 x 119,3 cm
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Prabhavathi Meppayil
fifty nine twenty two, 2022
Copper wire embedded in gesso panel
91,4 x 91,4 x 5 cm
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Prabhavathi Meppayil
thirteen/sixteen, 2016

Copperwire embedded in lime gesso panel Kupferdraht in Gesso
45,7 x 45,7 x 3,3 cm
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Prabhavathi Meppayil
tw/one, 2016

Installation of approximately 700 found objects (iron and brass) and found object embedded in gesso cube
Dimensions variable
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Prabhavathi Meppayil
BerlinSeptember/Ten, 2014

Copper wire embedded in lime gesso panel
45,7 x 45,7 x 3,3 cm
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Prabhavathi Meppayil
One Ten, 2010

Gold wire on gesso panel
40 x 48,2 x 2 cm
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Prabhavathi Meppayil
Two Ten, 2010

Gold wire on gesso panel
40 x 48,2 x 2 cm

Gallery Exhibitions

Conversations II With Prabhavathi Meppayil and Yeesookyung

Conversations II

With Prabhavathi Meppayil and Yeesookyung
Esther Schipper Seoul is pleased to present a two-person exhibition titled Conversations II featuring Prabhavathi Meppayil and Yeesookyung. This exhibition marks the second installment of Esther Schipper Seoul's Conversation series which began...
May 27—July 26, 2025
Esther Schipper, Seoul
b/seven eighths Prabhavathi Meppayil

b/seven eighths

Prabhavathi Meppayil
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Prabhavathi Meppayil's first solo exhibition with the gallery, entitled b/seven eighths. The exhibition will include four ensembles of works. Prabhavathi Meppayil transposes in her works the...
June 8—August 11, 2018
Esther Schipper, Berlin
The Mulberry Forest Becoming Ocean

The Mulberry Forest Becoming Ocean

Esther Schipper is pleased to present The Mulberry Forest Becoming Ocean, a group exhibition with works by Pak Sheung Chuen, IM Heung-soon, Tao Hui, Minjung Kim and Prabhavathi Meppayil and curated by...
January 20—February 25, 2017

External Exhibitions

Fragment of an Infinite Discourse With Rosa Barba, AA Bronson, David Claerbout, Ryan Gander, General Idea, Isa Melsheimer, Prabhavathi Meppayil,...

Fragment of an Infinite Discourse

With Rosa Barba, AA Bronson, David Claerbout, Ryan Gander, General Idea, Isa Melsheimer, Prabhavathi Meppayil, Roman Ondak, Anri Sala and Karin Sander
Fragment of an Infinite Discourse is the title of a work of art by Mexican conceptual artist Mario García Torres: three glass rings interlock without touching one another. The work serves as...
June 28, 2023—August 31, 2025
Lenbachhaus, Munich
Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence With Prabhavathi Meppayil

Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence

With Prabhavathi Meppayil
Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, presented artworks and programs by almost 60 artists and groups, including Prabhavathi Meppayil's sb/eighteen, 2018. Mao Jihong Arts Foundation in collaboration with Centre Pompidou
November 2, 2018—January 6, 2019
Mao Jihong Arts Foundation in collaboration with Centre Pompidou
Islands, Constellations and Galapagos with Prabhavathi Meppayil and Anri Sala

Islands, Constellations and Galapagos

with Prabhavathi Meppayil and Anri Sala
“Islands,” “Constellations,” and “Galapagos” are keywords that connote connectivity and isolation, imagination and creativity, identity and diversity, among others. While the world today is expanding with globalization, it is being shaken to...
August 4—November 5, 2017
Yokohama Triennale
forming in the pupil of an eye Prabhavathi Meppayil

forming in the pupil of an eye

Prabhavathi Meppayil
December 12, 2016—March 29, 2017
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi
nine seventeen Prabhavathi Meppayil

nine seventeen

Prabhavathi Meppayil
April 2—May 11, 2014
American Academy in Rome
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico with Prabhavathi Meppayil

Il Palazzo Enciclopedico

with Prabhavathi Meppayil
June 1—November 24, 2013
55th Venice Biennale

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Prabhavathi Meppayil and Yeesookyung’s Two-Person Exhibition “CONVERSATIONS II” K-ART NOW
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Prabhavathi Meppayil and Yeesookyung’s Two-Person Exhibition “CONVERSATIONS II”

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Prabhavathi Meppayil among recipients of the Kerala State Visual Arts Awards 2023
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Prabhavathi Meppayil among recipients of the Kerala State Visual Arts Awards 2023

Dhaka Art Summit 2020 with Prabhavathi Meppayil & Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Events

Dhaka Art Summit 2020 with Prabhavathi Meppayil & Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Convening a critical mass of artists, thinkers, and participants, Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements will provoke us to reconsider (art)histories, movement, borders and fault lines. From February 7–15, Dhaka, Bangladesh will be the...
February 7 – 15, 2020
Prabhavathi Meppayil participating in 21st Biennale of Sydney
Exhibitions

Prabhavathi Meppayil participating in 21st Biennale of Sydney

We congratulate Prabhavathi Meppayil for her participation in the 21st Biennale of Sydney! Artistic Director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney Mami Kataoka has announced the title of the 2018 Biennale of...
March 15 – June 11, 2018

Publications

Prabhavathi Meppayil Nine Seventeen

Prabhavathi Meppayil

Nine Seventeen
This catalog was published to coincide with the exhibition nine seventeen at the American Academy in Rome (April 2 – May 11, 2014) and subsequently at Pace London (26 June – 2...
2014