Nana Mandl

Nana Mandl (b. 1991 in Graz, Austria) studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee and received her diploma in fine arts at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

 

Mandl creates expansive, colourful and material-intensive collages, composed of analog and digital image archives that she combines into precise and multi-layered images in which private memories meet the collective memory of a generation. In her practice, Mandl uses sticker motifs and decals, Disney characters and Bravo covers, handwriting and photos in conjunction with photoshop layouts and renderings, pixelated surfaces and visual information remains from digital image production, storage and reproduction. The canvas is repeatedly emphasized in terms of its materiality, different textiles meet and are processed in different ways and used embroidery as if a gestural brushstroke. In the work, sewn and embroidered items are an anchor point and antipole to the accelerated image production and circulation that characterizes digital technologies.

 

Recent solo exhibitions include: "you're so cool", Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, 2021, “Dropping Distance’, Kunstraum und Sammlung Hollenstein: Dock 20, Lustenau, 2020; 'Sweet Attraction & Dissatisfaction', Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, 2018; 'Adventure Time No. 2', with Sarah Sternat, Improper Walls, Vienna, 2018; 'Getting Down On Knees And Nerves', with Karl Karner, Kunsthalle Graz, 2018

 

Recent solo and duo exhibitions include “Fear of missing out“ (with Karl Karner), KS Room, Feldbach, 2022; “1.000.000”, Spark Art Fair, Vienna, 2022; “you’re so cool”, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, 2021; “dropping distance”, DOCK20 Kunstraum und Sammlung Holleinstein, Lustenau, 2020; „sweet attraction & dissatisfaction“, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, 2019; „getting down on knees and nerves“ (with Karl Karner, Kunsthalle Graz, Graz, 2018; “BYE BUY”, SideStreetStudios, Cape Town, 2018; „SHUFFLE REPEAT“, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz, 2016.

 

Selected group shows contain „Fragile Phantome“, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz; „Hier und Jetzt“, Neuer Kunstverein, Vienna, 2022;  “Rhizome – Images of Thought” Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, 2020; “Now. collected #9/#10”, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, 2020; “Über das Neue“”, Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2019; “anything goes”, White & Weiss Gallery, Bratislava, 2019; “constellations”, wellwellwell, Vienna, 2017.

 

Nana Mandl is also a founding member and current contributor to the internationally active artist collective CLUB FORTUNA.