Sandra Mann

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Sandra Mann (2002)

Sandra Mann (born October 27, 1970 in Groß-Gerau ) is a German artist and photographer . In her cross-genre work, she deals conceptually with the relationship between people, with nature, the environment, the animal world or with sexuality. Her work is characterized by research into the fundamentals of photography and visual language.

Life

Sandra Mann studied art history at the University of Frankfurt and visual communication with Heiner Blum , Rudolf Bonvie and Lewis Baltz at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main . While still a student, Jean-Christophe Ammann acquired several of her works for the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt and exhibited them. She financed her studies with part-time jobs in bars and clubs. During this time she staged people from the nightlife, such as B. bouncers, bartenders or DJs, in the style of saints. The first orders from music and lifestyle magazines followed, as well as photo orders for well-known companies (e.g. Atelier Markgraf, Daimler Chrysler / Lab01, Expo 2000). Record covers, portraits, fashion photos and photo room designs were created. Mann became known for her photo impressions from the glamor and party world of the metropolises Paris, Milan and New York.

Although she sees her photographs as individual works, she often arranges them in exhibitions into slide shows and wall installations. This creates visual chains of associations that place the images in contexts that define the artist's thinking for the viewer.

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Man makes use of a wide range of artistic forms of expression. Her main focus is on photography. She researches and works in various media areas such as B. spatial installations, sculptures, videos, multimedia installations, artistic interventions and design.

Sandra with beard , gender photography 2000

A recurring element of her work is dealing with boundaries and their abolition. The mixing of different media areas as a means of expression is part of their content-related analysis. One of her first video works, the music video Biomechanics, was created for Anthony Rother . She took photos with a Nikon F3 , serially with a motor. Instead of filming, she had the slides scanned and animated, and in this way obtained a video in 35 mm quality. In 2001 she converted an empty business space into a Schnaken memorial. Representing a fictional funeral home, she presented the mosquitoes in small coffins, accompanied by a rich buffet, funeral music and book of condolences, and in the Buddhist way thought of a tiny insect that is more known as a nuisance than as a memorable animal.

Sandra Mann achieved her international breakthrough in 2005 with a second version of her work Expedit.

Expedit II , Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City, Mexico, 2005

In the exhibition Morir de Amor at the Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte in Mexico City (MUCA) she exhibited with Marina Abramović , Tracey Emin , Nikki S. Lee , Bas Jan Ader , Sophie Calle , Douglas Gordon , Félix González-Torres and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster . From a distance, at first glance, Expedit appears to be a kind of abstract painting with a frame. On closer inspection, you can see that it is an installation in the form of an ordinary Ikea shelf, which the artist had built into a wall and filled with records. The shelf and the back of the record cover only look out 5 cm, hence the initial painting character. If you approach the work, you can read that the songs and albums are love songs that contain the word love. In doing so, she managed to visualize, compress and archive one of the greatest feelings of humanity.

The video Balla Balla from 2005 shows at first glance a group of women veiled in a chador playing football in front of an abandoned industrial site. The viewer is misled by the images: In fact, the women are not playing in the Middle East, but in Frankfurt am Main, on the grounds of the empty wholesale market hall . In 2002 the grounds of the wholesale market hall were bought by the European Central Bank. In the Third Reich it was used as a deportation station for Jewish children, women and men. The alleged Muslim women are actually a German women's soccer team of various religions, which confidently deals with the inconvenience of the imposed culture. This is evident from the professional style of play. The video is musically accompanied by the techno piece Apricot by Sven Väth , which increases the irritation of the viewer: something is not right here.

In autumn 2008 the Vehbi Koç Foundation, curated by the artist Ekrem Yalcindag, dedicated an exhibition to her in the Operation Room exhibition hall of the American Hospital in Istanbul. Since 2012, Mann has dedicated her series Waldlife to the topics of diversity, climate change and nature conservation.

Mann lives in Frankfurt am Main, led the photography class at the AVA Academy of Visual Arts / Frankfurter Akademie für Kommunikation und Design and has been teaching photography and visual language at the European School of Design since 2011.

Her works are represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the Kunsthalle Mannheim , the Tyrolean State Museum , the MUCA in Mexico City, the Vehbi Koc Foundation in the American Hospital in Istanbul and the Art Collection of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation.

Sandra Mann is a member of the German Association of Artists .

Quotes

  • "She has the look of a forensic doctor." (Gebhard von Jagow, President of the Medical Faculty Conference)
  • “Sandra Mann is not a photo reporter, nor is she a scene photographer. It belongs more to the tradition of a Larry Clark or a Nan Goldin. "(Jean-Christophe Ammann)
  • "Sandra Mann - El Animal Politico / The Political Animal" (Julio Sapollnik, Critico de arte, Argentina Arte AlLimite Magazine)
  • "The Frankfurt artist and photographer Sandra Mann explores social diversity and our longing for nature with photos, installations and sculptures." (Markus Wölfelschneider, Schirn Mag)

Exhibitions and projects (selection)

  • 1999 Communication in Art , Kunstverein Heidelberg
  • 1999 track 015 , Marburg Art Association
  • 2000 See-Touch-Lists , photographs in the Daimler-Chrysler-Pavilion, LAB 01, Expo Hannover
  • 2001 Free elections for young art, State Art Hall, Baden-Baden
  • 2001 Expedit and Exodus , scene change XX, Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main
  • 2002 Release, Leuchtspur, Hauptzollamt Frankfurt am Main
  • 2003 natural-physical-sensual , Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2004 Emporter des femmes à Paris , Goethe-Institut, Athens
  • 2004 Nightlife, Artisti per Alcamo , Castello dei Conti di Modica, Goetheinstitut Palermo
  • 2005 Morir de Amor , MUCA, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City
  • 2005 Stadtluft , Landesausstellung, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Hall
  • 2005 Balla Balla, The New Orient (Lido) , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 2005 Video / economy - sales in world format , ZKM, Karlsruhe
  • 2006 Marie Therese , New Talents Förderkoje, Art Cologne, Galerie Stefan Röpke
  • 2006 full house , Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2007 P., T., A. & Landscapes , Photofestival Milan, Galleria San Carlo New Contemporary, Milan
  • 2007 Gestalte / Create-Design Medien Kunst , MAK, Museum for Applied Arts, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2008 IMAGINe / g of thinking , HIAP, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki
  • 2008 Elk Test , Kaapelin Galleria, Helsinki
  • 2008 Daylife , Operation Room, Vehbi Koc Foundation, American Hospital, Istanbul
  • 2010 Darmstadt Days of Photography , Kunsthalle Darmstadt
  • 2011 Nightmare , German Association of Artists, Berlin
  • 2011 No Fashion please !, Strapinski's Schicksal , Kunsthalle Wien
  • 2016 Doppelganger , Torrance Art Museum, Torrance , USA
  • September 2, 2016 - April 28, 2017, "The Female Portrait", Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, The Cube, Eschborn
  • 2017 Sandra Mann-Büchsenlicht, Kunsthalle Gießen
  • 2018 Sandra Mann / Waldlife, Stadtgalerie im Badehaus, Bad Soden
  • 2019 Sandra Mann feat. Valentina Stanojev / Arkadischer Wandel, kjubh Kunstverein Cologne
  • 2019 The German Way of Life II, Haus am Dom, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2019 Sandra Mann-Waldlife, Goethe-Institut Hanoi, New Space Arts Foundation, Hue, Viertnam

Scholarships, Awards and Prizes

  • 1998 DAAD project grant
  • 1999 scholarship from the Augsburg University Foundation
  • 2001 Award (annual grant) Frankfurter Verein für Künstlerhilfe eV
  • 2008 Helsinki Scholarship, Artist in Residence Program, Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main and HIAP Helsinki
  • 2019 Artist in Residency, New Space Arts Foundation, Hue, Vietnam

Collections (selection)

  • Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt
  • Art Association Marburg / Artothek
  • Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • DZ Bank
  • Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte (Mexico City)
  • Art Collection Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation

Bibliography (selection)

  • XL PHOTOGRAPHY 5 - Art Collection Deutsche Börse AG, Kehrer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86828-624-3
  • The art of collecting comics, Alex Jakubowsky & Sandra Mann, Edition Lammerhuber, ISBN 978-3-901753-80-0
  • No fashion, please! Photography between gender and lifestyle. Modern art publishing house, Nuremberg, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86984-269-1 .
  • with Florian Heinke: Love kills. Betting on the Muse. 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032479-6 .
  • Fame, honor, noise, smoke, Sandra Mann Photo Class. Eichhorn, Frankfurt 2011.
  • Daylife, Sandra Mann, American Hastanesi Yayinlari. Istanbul 2008, ISBN 978-975-6523-12-4 .
  • Create! Create! Design.Media.Art, HfG Offenbach. Lehmbeck Verlag, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-89986-092-4 .
  • Morir de Amor. Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City 2005, ISBN 970-32-2716-3 .
  • The hotel Die Mauer / The future of nature State exhibition 05. tappeiner-Verlag, Lana Südtirol 2005, ISBN 88-7073-367-X .
  • Nightlife Sandra Mann. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-933257-96-4 .
  • Ten years of the Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main. Dumont Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-8321-5629-1 .
  • Beacon, special cultural projects. City of Frankfurt, 2002.
  • Track 015. Marburger Kunstverein, 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ from "Sandra Mann Contando sin palabras" by Leonie Schilling, Arte Global / ArteAllimite, pp. 126-131, no. 37, Julio-Agosto 2009, translated from the text
  2. ↑ Overview of the lecturers, accessed on June 18, 2011 at academy-of-visual-arts.de, PDF ( memento of the original from November 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.academy-of-visual-arts.de
  3. ↑ germangalleries.com
  4. ↑ artbooksheidelberg.de
  5. ↑ from Sandra Mann by Alexander Antonakis, Sub Culture, 03.2006.
  6. ↑ from "Transcending Transfiguration" by Ichiro Irie, RIM, Artist Magazine Mexico City & Los Angeles, no. 6, Autumn, 2004, translated from the text
  7. ^ From Naked in front of the church altar by Claudia Buchenauer, Feuilleton, Darmstädter Echo, May 16, 2002.
  8. ^ "Schnakenleiche on the menu card" by Silke Hohmann and Sandra Danicke, Frankfurter Rundschau, July 9, 2001.
  9. ↑ from Recorridos emocionales by cmedin, Reforma, Seccion Cultura, p. 26, June 11, 2005, and Morir de Amor, Pamela Echeverria, MUCA, 2005, ISBN 970-32-2716-3, translated from the text
  10. ^ From Die Kunst und das Tor, Frankfurter Rundschau, Journal, 06.2006.
  11. ^ Events - Hanoi - Goethe-Institut Vietnam. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  12. ↑ farbfabrik.info ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / farbfabrik.info
  13. ^ City magazine Frizz, March, 2011.
  14. ↑ work show jul 19 | european school of design. Retrieved October 8, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ Sandra Mann. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  16. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "M" / Sandra Mann (accessed on November 11, 2015)
  17. ↑ at the Daylife book presentation at the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt on June 3, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  18. ↑ openpr.de
  19. ^ From the introductory text by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Nightlife, Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2003.
  20. ↑ kunstaspekte.de
  21. ↑ wasmuth-museumsshop.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wasmuth-museumsshop.de  
  22. ^ Arte Al Límite | Edición especial N ° 90.Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Sandra Mann. Retrieved October 8, 2019 (Spanish).
  24. ↑ http://www.kunsthalle-giessen.de/2017_mann.html
  25. ↑ "Forest Life" by Sandra -Fotoarbeiten man in. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  26. ↑ kjubh - exhibition space - Cologne. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Art Initiatives Cologne | Arcadian change. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  28. ^ The German Way of Life II - Städel School. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  29. ^ Events - Hanoi - Goethe-Institut Vietnam. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  30. ^ Events - Vietnam - Goethe-Institut Vietnam. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  31. ↑ Offenbach College - Forest Life: Artist talk with Sandra Mann. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  32. ^ Events - Hanoi - Goethe-Institut Vietnam. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  33. ^ Events - Hanoi - Goethe-Institut Vietnam. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .

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Commons : Photographs by Sandra Mann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Man, Sandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Gross-Gerau