NANA MANDL: you're so cool

12 March - 17 April 2021

  • NANA MANDL

    you're so cool
  • Nana Mandl
    Installation view I: you´re so cool, 2021

  • YOU'RE SO COOL

    be my tool
    draw on times
    of connecting
    thru analogue collecting
    new input missing
    childhood reminiscing
    hunting treasures
    for our own pleasures
    motives to trade
    not one profile displayed
    yet price being paid
    early learning
    growth confirming
    feeling the chain
    like to complain
    about no interaction
    leftover distraction
    from trying use
    my emotional 
    values

  • 101 ways to run from your problems, 2021 mixed media on wood (3D-Sticker) 80 x 44 cm 31 1/2 x 17 3/8 in (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    our mistakes, 2021 plastisol and mixed media on canvas 132 x 192 cm 52 x 75 5/8 in (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    poor dog, 2021 mixed media on wood (3D-Sticker) 86 x 90 cm 33 7/8 x 35 3/8 in (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    lovely locks and other things, 2021 plastisol and mixed media on canvas 41 x 31 cm 16 1/8 x 12 1/4 in (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    ...and always, 2020 mixed media on canvas 130 x 90 x 10 cm 51 1/8 x 35 3/8 x 4 in (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    thumbsup / not my culture, 2017 / 2020 mixed media on canvas 130 x 90 x 10 cm 51 1/8 x 35 3/8 x 4 in (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    three generations in love, 2021 mixed media on wood (3D-Sticker) 80 x 106 cm 31 1/2 x 41 3/4 in (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    baby seal for fridays, 2021 mixed media on wood (3D-Sticker) 35 x 15 cm 13 3/4 x 5 7/8 in (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    101 ways to run from your problems, 2021
    mixed media on wood (3D-Sticker)
    80 x 44 cm
    31 1/2 x 17 3/8 in
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  • Mandl creates expansive, colourful and material-intensive collages, composed of analog and digital image archives that she combines into precise and...

    Installation View, 2021

    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.

  • 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.

     

    Recent solo exhibitions include: “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 group shows: ‘Rhizome – Images of Thought’, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, 2020; 'On the New', Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2019; 'Anything Goes', White & Weiss Gallery, Bratislava, 2019; 'Oh Please Do', Fifteen Seconds Festival, Stadthalle Graz, 2018.

     

    Her work has been included in the following institutional collections: Lentos  Kunstmuseum, Linz, 2020; Künstlerhaus, Vienna, 2016; Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, 2015; Kunsthalle, Museumsquartier, Vienna, 2015.