ART

ABANI

MALLA


& THE SHAPES OF PARADIGMS


VISUALLY
RESPONDING TO
QUESTIONS
RAISED 
BY & FOR

HUMANKIND






                       How can an
architecture museum
expand into a
perpetual cultural,
collaborative &
creative hub?





Taragaon Next
Brand Strategy & Visual Identity Design
Building & Wayfinding Signages
Multi-platform Assets & Guidebooks

Set within the Hyatt Regency in Kathmandu, Taragaon Museum is known for its landmark architecture designed by Carl Pruscha in the 1970s and for its permanent collection of architectural artefacts from the Kathmandu Valley.




How can a
Journalist-led
BLOG
playfu
lly
encourage

CONTEMPLATION?



 


Glimpses
Brand Strategy
Visual Identity Design
Merchendise & Campaigns

Glimpses is a journalist-run blog that shares first-impression anecdotes about what the writer encounters in a day. The project aspires to put forward moments that are usually neglected due to their ubiquity.






How can an
OPTIMISTIC
DESIGN
STUDIO
channelITS

MOVEMENT
CONFIDENTLY?





moware
Visual Identity Design
Seasonal Packaging
Product Catalogue

moware (mountain waste repurposed) is a circular-design studio that transforms waste from the Everest region into design objects and offers them as functional souvenirs of conservation and conscious consumption.




How can an
ART
EXHIBITION

become
IMMORTALISED?


{the state of my heart: the zine}
Mixed-Media Art
Interventions
Poetry zine

Supplement of the eponymous exhibition, the zine features
additional poetry & proses, illustrations & photography from the
artist along with the exhibition momento.



How can a
SURREALISTIC

POETRY
COMMUNICATE

TANGIBLY?




redefining.
Pschyogeography
Surrealism
Intimacy

A passion poetry project exploring the author's relationship to a city featuring illustrations in a mini zine.





ABOUT

Abani Malla (she/her) is a transdisciplinary artist & designer working across graphic, editorial, spatial, and experiential design. Her practice investigates how visual systems can evolve into environments, interactions, and experiences that foster cultural participation.

With a decade of experience spanning art and design, branding, journalism, and filmmaking, she has crafted empathetic & immersive sensory narrative systems that converge brands, audiences and cultures largely in South Asia and the UK.

EDUCATION

Master of Arts
Applied Imagination
UAL: Central Saint Martins
2024/25

Bachelor of Science (Hons)
Multimedia Technologies
London Metropolitan University
2020/21


EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS

36 HOURS LONDON
Three Rooms, London
2026

ARCANA
Walthamstow Art Trail
ACME Studios, London
2026

MULTIVERSE

Graduate degree show
Central Saint Martins, London
2024

emotional architecture
Series of workshops
London, UK
2024

fig. {the state of my heart}
solo exhibition
Kathmandu, Nepal
2022

sikne, sikaune: digital postcard
Workshop with doodle.cha
Virtual/Kathmandu, Nepal
2020
AWARDS

UAL International Postgraduate Scholarship
2024/25



MENTORSHIP + TALKS


Gradcast: Season 5
UAL Grad Support 
Guest Speaker
2025

Communities Podcast: Ep05
Arts Student Union
Guest Speaker
2025

Media Artivism Fellowship

Freedom Studio, Nepal
Mentor + Trainer
2023

The Changemaker
Women LEAD Nepal
Guest speaker/panellist
2019


PRESS

Fig. The State of My Heart: Artist’s Emotions on Display
Nepali Traveller
2022

Fig. The State of My Heart
The Kathmandu Post
2022

Healing through Art
The Himalayan Times
2022

The YouTube Generation
The Himalayan Times
2018