Anima Goyal (1995, Punjab)
Based in Frankfurt, Germany, and Haryana, India
Education
2023-2025
Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, Class of Willem de Rooij, Frankfurt, Germany
2018-2022
Bachelors of Fine Art, Painting, Chandigarh University, India
Exhibitions
2025
Group show, curated by Vidya Shivadas, Serendipity Art Festival, 10th Edition, Panjim, India (upcoming)
Group show, WHW Akademija, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia (upcoming)
Cold Coal Crystals, Komet K, Frankfurt, Germany
Overture, Graduation Show, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Playground Art Prize meets Düsseldorf, Galerie Von&Von, Nuremberg, Germany
Rundgang, Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
2024
Leaf in waiting, Ostpark, Frankfurt, Germany
Rundgang, Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
2023
Symposium, Netzwerk Seilerei, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2022
Tuesday Lectures, Project_Space, Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, Delhi, India
Photograph from September 11, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
2021
States of Disarray: Practice as Restitution, Students’ Biennale, 4th Edition, Kochi Biennale Foundation
Readings, Performances
2025
Compartmentalization of an ill body, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
2024
Processing Translations, Hairpolice, Hannover, Germany
Lull Frequencies, Uncharted collective, Busan Biennale, South Korea
The Sound of Defiance, Biennale Urbana, Rio De Giardini, Venice, Italy
2023
Each time you love, FLINTA room, Studierendenhaus, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
A girl ago, Netzwerk Seilerei, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2022
To enter a sleep, Project_Space, Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, Delhi, India
Publications
2023
‘Making Hi-stories’, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Residencies, Fellowships
2025
WHW Akademija, Zagreb, Croatia
2022
In/Cube, Project_Space, Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), Delhi, India
Archives@NCBS, National Centre for contemporary Biological Sciences, under the guidance
of Paribartana Mohanty, Bangalore, India
Awards
2025
Städelschule Absolventenpreis
Playground Art Prize, first place
2024
Projektstipendium Bildende Kunst, Frankfurt City Culture Office
DAAD Preis 2024
2023-25
DAAD Postgraduate Studies Scholarship for Fine Arts
Selected Participations
2022
The Time is Now, a course by Amitesh Grover, organized by Serendipity Arts
Working from memory with Chandan Gomes, February Edition, supported by MurthyNayak Foundation
Zine Workshop, with Renuka Rajiv, organized by Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art
2021
OnScreens, with Charu Maithani, Propositions: Expanded Practises, Reliable Copy & The Ark Foundation
Methodologies of art-making and thinking through finding, Students’ Biennale
2020
Enter the Dragon, facilitated by Paribartana Mohanty, organized by Kiran Nadar Museum of Art