Mark Manders

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Mark Manders is a Dutch artist. He was born in 1968 in Volkel, The Netherlands.

Manders's body of work consists mainly of installations, drawings, sculptures and short films.He manages to turn everyday objects into something bizarre, alienated from their usual context and environment. At the same time these estranged items evoke a sense of power. He places random objects, such as tables, chairs, light bulbs, blankets and dead animals, in an almost religious configuration and thus provides these objects with some sort of sacred aura. Manders’ calls these installations his “Self-portrait as a Building”. The installations are representations of his own thoughts and ideas, and invite the spectator to decipher both the secret of the work, as of the artist himself.

In 2003 Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and the Art Institute of Chicago in co-operation with the Renaissance Society have organized solo-exhibitions of his work. In 2004, he was selected for the Manifesta Biennale in San Sebastian (ES). In 2005, the solo-project "Matrix 214: The Absence of Mark Manders" was held at the Berkeley Art Museum in California (US) and another solo show "Parallel Occurrence" has run at IMMA Dublin. For 2007, Manders is invited by several venues around the world to have a solo show, for instance New Museum in New York (US), Kunstverein Hannover (DE), Kunsthaus Zürich (CH) and S.M.A.K. in Ghent (BE).