Artist statement
My practice moves between textile, painting, and sculpture. They can come together allowing individual pieces to form a spatial constellation. My work is informed feminism and led by intuition. It often develops before language. It stems from questions, lived experience, and emotion. Making is a way of thinking and testing ideas.
Materials and the tactility of working with those provide momentum to my making process.
Experimentation and failure are key to this, understanding mistakes as productive points that can redirect work.
Layering, shifts in visibility and perception that change with light, distance, and viewing angle are elements spanning across my work.
The work aims to meet the viewer on an emotional and sensory level, allowing meaning to arise through perception and bodily presence rather than through rational explanation.
BIO
Originally from Cologne (DE), I transitioned from a decade in management consulting in London(UK) to fully focus on art in 2019 and am now based in Malmö.
EXHIBITONS
02-04/2025 Våsalongen, Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm
10-12/2024 Refectorium, group show, Gallery Das Esszimmer, Bonn (DE)
10/2024 Lund Konsthelg, open studios, 3rd floor Ateljéföreningen, Lund
04/2024 Supermarket independent artfair 2024, Stockholm
04/2024 Group show, Molekyl Gallery, Malmö
10/2023 Lund Konsthelg, open studios, 3rd floor Ateljéföreningen, Lund
03/2023 Solo show, Abandoned gallery, Malmö
10/2022 Lund Konsthelg, group show, 3rd floor Ateljéföreningen, Lund
09/2022 Vienna calling III, group show, Gallery CoolPool, Vienna
03/2022 Framing Our Future: International women’s day, Group show, ArtCan
12/2021 Kunst im Karton, pop-Up artfair, Berlin
10/2021 Supermarket independent artfair 2021, Stockholm
09/2021 Gerichtshöfe Nacht & Tag 2021, open studios, Berlin
02/2021 Prelude, group show ArtCan
10/2020 Vienna calling II, group show, Gallery CoolPool, Vienna
09/2020 Gerichtshöfe Nacht & Tag, open studios, Berlin
07/2020 Transient, group show, ArtCan virtual gallery
03/2020 #fakenews, Group show, Offshoot gallery, London
02/2019 – 08/2019 Elevate, group show, ArtCan at the Shard, London.
03/2018 Kylie, me and all the lovers, solo show, Bow Art’s - RAW labs, London.
CHRISTINE MANDERLA