Mark Manders (
Volkel
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, 1968) is a
Dutch
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artist
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, currently living and working in
Ronse
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Early settlements to 14th century
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,
Belgium
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.
His work consists mainly of
installations,
drawings
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and
sculptures
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.
[Janet Koplos, "Mark Manders at Greene Naftali - New York," ''Art in America'', April 2003.]] He is probably best known for his large bronze figures that look like rough-hewn, wet or peeling clay. Typical of his work is also the arrangement of random objects, such as tables, chairs, light bulbs, blankets and dead animals.
[Melissa Gronlund, "Mark Manders review," ''Frieze'', Issue 100, June - August 2006.]
Biography
Working as a graphic designer in his late teens, Manders studied at the
ArtEZ University of Arts, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in
Arnhem
Arnhem ( or ; german: Arnheim; South Guelderish: ''Èrnem'') is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands about 55 km south east of Utrecht. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland, located on both banks of ...
(now ArtEZ Academy of Art & Design) from 1988 to 1992.
[Mark Manders; male/Dutch, Belgian; sculptor, painter, installation artist, cinematographer, draftsman, publisher](_blank)
at rkd.nl. Accessed 2017-01-10 During his studies, his fascination for design and language, and particularly poetry, further developed into a visual language of his own, where words were substituted by objects.
His work soon gained widespread interest and in 1992, upon graduating from the academy, the artist was awarded the second prize at the Dutch
Prix de Rome
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in the category Art & Public Space.
Together wit
Roger Willemsan
Marc Nagtzaamhe founde
Roma Publications1988, 'as a platform to produce and distribute autonomous publications made in close collaboration with a growing number of artists, institutions, writers and designers'. Looking for an affordable larger studio, Manders emigrated to Belgium in 2007, where he found an abandoned small station building in Ronse.
Manders is represented b
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York City & Los Angelesan
Gallery Koyanagi in Tokyo
Work
Since 1986 Manders has been making ''Self-portrait as a building''.
[ The first of this series of fictional architectural plans was ''Inhabited for a Survey, (First Floor Plan from Self Portrait of a Building)'' (1986), where the plan is drawn on the floor of the gallery using pencils, crayons and other markers.]
The fictional building represents a fictional artist, "Mark Manders", an alter-ego distinct from the artist Mark Manders.[ This fictitious character is described by the artist as a, "Neurotic, sensitive individual who can only exist in an artificial world." Each of his exhibitions includes an evolving floor plan of the self-portrait building along with various art works.][
Manders uses this architecture to drive his work and allow it to make the decisions, calling it a "machine", but at the same time bringing objects to a standstill as he develops these memory spaces. Despite creating this fictional space, he insists on using "real objects" in the "real world" to make his sculptures.
]I don’t often show my work in the public domain, rather in museums where people choose to go to see art. But since 1991 I always test a work that I’ve just finished in a supermarket. I just imagine a new work there and I check if it can survive where it doesn’t have the label of an artwork. It is just a thing that someone placed in a supermarket. Now I am sure that all of my works can stand in that environment.”'' He often feels alien to the real world and its institutional art settings. He insists that his work stays the same throughout its exhibitions but gets re-contextualized each time it enters the "real world".[Mark Manders in 2013 interview, cited in]
Dutch entry 2013
at mondriaanfonds.nl, 2013. Accessed 11.01.2017.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibition
Manders solo show ‘''Parallel Occurrences / Documented Assignments''’ travelled from the Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...
in Los Angeles (2010) to the Aspen Art Museum
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Aspen Art Museum Building ...
in Aspen (2011), Walker Art Center
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in Minneapolis (2011) and Dallas Museum of Art
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(2012). Another show, ‘''The Absence of Mark Manders''’, toured from Kunstverein Hannover Kunstverein may refer to:
Germany
* , an art association, founded in 1986 in Aachen
* Kunstverein Arnsberg, an association for contemporary art in Arnsberg
* , an art association in Karlsruhe
* , an art society which operates the Kunsthalle Bremen ...
(2007) to Kunsthall Bergen (2008), S.M.A.K. in Ghent (2008) and Kunsthaus Zürich
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(2009).
Other major solo exhibitions by the artist include:
*Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
The is a contemporary art museum in Koto, Tokyo, Japan. The museum is located in Kiba Park. It was opened in 1995.
Collections
*''Marilyn Monroe'' by Andy Warhol (1967)
*''Girl with Hair Ribbon'' by Roy Lichtenstein (1965)
*''Honey-pop'' by To ...
(2021)
*Duo-exhibition with Michaël Borremans
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at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa (2020)
* Bonnefanten in Maastricht (2020)
* Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea in Santiago de Compostela (2014)
*Collezione Maramotti
The Collezione Maramotti is the private collection of contemporary art of Achille Maramotti, who founded Max Mara. It is housed in the former premises of the company in Reggio Emilia, in Emilia Romagna in central Italy, converted for the pur ...
in Reggio Emilia (2014)
* De Vleeshal in Middelburg (2014)
* Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain in Nîmes (2012)
*IMMA
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in Dublin (2005)
* The Art Institute in Chicago (2003)
* The Renaissance Society in Chicago (2003)
* Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich (2003)
Biennials
The artist represented the Netherlands at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia in 2013, where he showcased ‘''Room with Broken Sentence''’, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti (1972). His work also featured in the Ateliers de Rennes in 2016, the Athens Biennial of 2007, Manifesta
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History
Manifesta was founded in 1994 by Dutch art historian Hedwig Fijen. The first edition took place in Rotterdam. One of ...
in 2004 and the Venice Biennial
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of 2001.
Group exhibitions
Amongst many others exhibitions, Manders work has featured in numerous exhibitions around the world, including
*Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
The is a contemporary art museum in Koto, Tokyo, Japan. The museum is located in Kiba Park. It was opened in 1995.
Collections
*''Marilyn Monroe'' by Andy Warhol (1967)
*''Girl with Hair Ribbon'' by Roy Lichtenstein (1965)
*''Honey-pop'' by To ...
(2019)
* Fondazione Prada in Milan (2018)
* Museu Berardo in Lisbon (2018)
* MARTa Herford
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Building and history
The idea for the museum formed in 2000, drawing from Herford's status as a German center of furniture and home furnishing production. The name ''MARTa'' is a ...
(2017)
* Wiels in Brussels (2017)
* Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar (2016)
* Kunstmuseum Bonn
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(2016)
* Louvre in Paris (2015)
* S.M.A.K. in Ghent (2015)
* Guggenheim Museum in New York
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(2015)
* Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2014)
* 21er Haus in Vienna (2014)
* The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford (2012)
* The Menil Collection in Houston (2012)
* David Roberts Arts Foundation in London (2012)
* MoMA in New York (2012)
* ICA in Philadelphia (2011)
* DESTE Foundation in Athens (2011)
* Kunsthalle Bern
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It was built in 1917–1918 by the Kunsthalle Bern Association and opened on October 5, 1918. Since then, it has been the site of numerous ex ...
(2010).
Awards
Manders work has been awarded with numerous prizes, including the Dr. A.H Heineken Prize for Art in 2010, the Philip Morris Art Prize in 2002, the Vordemberge-Gildewart Award, Switzerland in 2000, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte in Italy in 1994, the Touche Prize, The Netherlands, also in 1994, and both the Prix de Rome
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and the Prix Nouvelles Images in The in 1992.
Collections
Public collections
Manders' work is held in numerous public collections around the world, including: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
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*Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater
**Main Hall
**Concert Hall
*Aichi Prefectural Arts Promotion Service
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(JP), Art Gallery of Ontario
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(CA), Art Institute of Chicago
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(US), Bonnefantenmuseum (NL), Carnegie Museum of Art
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(US), Centraal Museum
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(NL), Collezione Maramotti
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(IT), Dallas Museum of Art
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(US), David Roberts Art Foundation
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(GB)
The Donum Estate
US)
(CN), Fondation Louis Vuitton
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(FR)
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
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(US), Kistefos Museum and Sculpture Park (NO), Hammer Museum
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(US), Henry Art Gallery
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(US)
Hudson Valley for Contemporary Art
US), IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IE), Julia Stoschek Collection (DE), Kunsthaus Zürich
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(CH), Kunstmuseum Bonn
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(DE)
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
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(NL), Museum of Contemporary Art Santiago de Compostela (ES), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
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(US), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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(US)
Museum Hedendaagse Kunst De Domijnen
NL), Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem (NL), Museum Voorlinden
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(NL), Mu.ZEE (BE), National Gallery of Art Washington D.C (US), Noordbrabants Museum 's Hertogenbosch (NL), Olbricht Collection (DE), Over Holland Collection (NL), PAMM, Perez Art Museum (US), Philadelphia Museum of Art
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(US), Pinakothek der Moderne
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(DE), Rabobank Collection (NL), Rubell Museum
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(US), Sammlung Goetz
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(DE), S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art (BE), SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (US), Stedelijk Museum
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(NL), Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum (NL), The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse (US), The Menil Collection
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(US), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
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(US), Walker Art Center
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(US).
Work in the public domain
* In 2019 Public Art Fund Public Art Fund is an independent, non-profit arts organization founded in 1977 by Doris Freedman, Doris C. Freedman. The organization presents contemporary art in New York City's public spaces through a series of highly visible artists' projects, n ...
commissioned Mark Manders to create a large public sculpture for the Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park, New York
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.
* In 2017 Manders created two large sculptures for Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2017) and for the Rokin Square in Amsterdam (2017).
References
External links
*
Artist page from Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
Artist page from Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York City , Los Angeles
Fox/Mouse/Belt, 1992, MOMA
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1968 births
Living people
Dutch conceptual artists
Dutch contemporary artists
Dutch ceramists
People from Uden
Winners of the Heineken Prize
21st-century ceramists