{"id":1265,"date":"2012-08-29T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artmandel.de\/about\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T15:29:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/artmandel.de\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/i> Artists\u2019 statement<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

<\/i> Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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<\/i> Dedication<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>
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From sculpture to installation to painting to song<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a sculptor I started working with spaces early on. Only in a certain context does an object turn into a sculpture. And I did not define this context theoretically, or obtain it from institutional guidelines, but produced it spatially in a concrete way: the sculptures were given their own space or the space in which they were located was reinterpreted in such a way that a clearly visible art location was created.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Sculptures floating on lakes, forest floor spread out in churches, interspersed with masks made of rice paper, avenue trees belonging to the commons as carriers of drawings. Between tables and chairs in a public space, a long table with stools and their stony, sculptured guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At some point I realised why I felt the irresistible urge to colour my sculptures: in my world as a synaesthete everything is coloured, words, thoughts, sounds, spaces, sensations. Everything.I needed large paint surfaces for an installation. I needed large paint surfaces for an installation. So I locked myself up for a week with freshly mounted canvases and painting materials, and when I emerged again, I knew I had found a way to live my colours.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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The glazing technique of highly diluted numerous acrylic layers enables the intense impression of spatial depth and movement on the canvas: the layers of paint float and oscillate, demanding time from our light-sensitive retinal rods to settle into them. The colour is created in the eye and not on the palette; it changes with every light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, the images concretely and sensorily demonstrate the phenomenon that there is no thing in itself<\/em>, but that everything only – and solely – comes into being in the light that falls on it. It does not exist independently of what it makes appear and of the person who perceives it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since everything is coloured in my world, a colourless sculpture for me is one that has had its colour stripped off like the rabbit’s fur. Colour is not something that is placed on a sculpture, but belongs to the sculpture like the skin to the organism. Even more: I can only think of every form in terms of colour.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Looking for a material that, unlike the application of colour to an object, enables a fusion of colour and coloured body, I inevitably came to ceramics and glaze. Here my sculptures could finally let off steam in terms of colour, ideally as a symbiosis of image and sculpture, as colour concretising itself in three-dimensional space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All free forms – which are fed by the forms stored in my hands through touch, varied by the encounter with the complexity of organic nature, such as that of deep-sea organisms, \u2013 I develop in a coloured idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I understand my work as creating a place where movement is transformed: In painting, movement becomes colour, in sculpture it becomes form In both, movement is saved and preserved, transformed into a state that takes movement out of time and yet does not immobilise it, but allows it to be experienced as movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air that moves is sound. Since in my world sounds are not only colourful but also form distinct shapes with haptic surfaces surface – how one can hear without seeing I cannot even imagine \u2013 it was only a matter of time before I realised that when I sing, I sing sculptures. This is how my sculptures found their real material: in the transformation into sound. And me as a singer, I gained the experience of creating ONE sound with musicians, dancers and the audience.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Curriculum Vitae<\/h2>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>
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Born and raised<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Berlin<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Study of philosophy<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Berlin and T\u00fcbingen<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Actress with Robert Wilson Death Destruction and Detroit I<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Schaub\u00fchne am Halleschen Ufer<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Harun FarockiEtwas wird sichtbar<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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(female lead)<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Study of sculpture with Harald Klingelh\u00f6ller<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Akademie Karlsruhe<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Stage design assistance with Johannes Sch\u00fctz<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Opera Frankfurt on the Main<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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Exhibitions, installations, illustrations<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Sound spaces, performances,Vocals in various ensembles<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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Illustratoren Organisation e.V.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Member<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Deutschen Syn\u00e4sthesie Gesellschaft<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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former board member<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Marine Conservation Organization DEEPWAVE e.V.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Founding member and CEO since 2017<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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lives and works with her family in Hamburg<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Solo exhibitions<\/strong> and performances (selection)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>
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Showroom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Hamburg from 2016<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Our Blue Planet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Meeresmuseum Stralsund 2016<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Our Blue Planet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Zoologisches Museum Hamburg 2014<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Lost in Plastic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Galerie Tornberg | Hamburg 2012<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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AKTIONSRAUM. Performance<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein | Stuttgart 2015<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Das H\u00f6ren und Sehen von Musik<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Concert performance with cellist Andranik Sargsyan | Hamburg 2012<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Lost in Plastic<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Video with Andrew Levine | 2012<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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plastik MEER musik<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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MS Stubnitz | Baakenhafen Hamburg 2011<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Und Tiere sehen Dich an<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Leipziger Tier\u00e4rztekongress | 2011<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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FarbT\u00f6ne<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Stage design for the a cappella choir vOkabile | 2011<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Leuchten und Singen<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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with Benjamin Schubert | Hamburg 2011<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Skulpturen singen Kinderlieder<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Altonale Hamburg 2011<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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SkulpturenSingen<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Blurred Edges Festival | Hamburg 2011<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Farbformfarbe<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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EiswiesenDialoge | Karlsruhe 2010<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Foraminiferen<\/strong><\/strong> Norddeutschlands<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Eiszeitmuseum L\u00fctjenburg 2010<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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The Language of Mimic<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Inst. f. Kultur- u. Sozialanthropologie | Wien 2010<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Blurb und Urga<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Exhibition and sound installation | Jenischpark 2010<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Showroom <\/strong>Hamburg from 2016Our Blue Planet <\/strong>Meeresmuseum Stralsund 2016Our Blue Planet<\/strong>Zoologisches Museum Hamburg 2014Performance <\/strong>W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein | Stuttgart 2015Lost in Plastic Galerie<\/strong> Tornberg | Hamburg 2012Das H\u00f6ren und Sehen von Musik<\/strong> Concert performancewith cellist Andranik Sargsyan | Hamburg 2012Lost in Plastic<\/strong> Video with Andrew Levine | 2012plastik MEER musik<\/strong> MS Stubnitz | Baakenhafen Hamburg 2011Und Tiere sehen Dich an<\/strong> | Leipzig 2011FarbT\u00f6ne <\/strong>Stage design for the a cappella choir vOkabile | 2011Leuchten und Singen<\/strong> with Benjamin Schubert | Hamburg 2011Skulpturen singen Kinderlieder<\/strong> | Altonale Hamburg 2011SkulpturenSingen <\/strong>Blurred Edges Festival | Hamburg 2011Farbformfarbe <\/strong>EiswiesenDialoge | Karlsruhe 2010Foraminiferen <\/strong>Norddeutschlands Eiszeitmuseum L\u00fctjenburg 2010The Language of Mimic<\/strong> Inst. f. Kultur- u. Sozialanthropologie | Wien 2010Blurb und Urga<\/strong> Exhibition and sound installation | Jenischpark 2010<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Work in the public space<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<\/div>\n\n
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Daphne with family<\/strong>The Lion<\/strong>The Throne<\/strong>Bulimina Marginata 1:6000<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Grimma | SachsenHigh altitude hiking trail near Balderschwang | Allg\u00e4uPr\u00f6sitz | SachsenBildhauergarten | Karlsruhe<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Daphne with Family<\/strong> Grimma | SachsenThe Lion<\/strong> High altitude hiking trail near Balderschwang | Allg\u00e4uThe Throne<\/strong> Pr\u00f6sitz | SachsenBulimina Marginata<\/strong> 1:6000 Bildhauergarten | Karlsruhe<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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References<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

DEEPWAVE e.V. | The Marine Conservation Organization (website, print, film festival).Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine ResearchNational Geographic DeutschlandFreistil \u2013 Best of German Commercial Illustration 2014Synaisthesis Verlag | LuxemburgWIR \u2013 Menschen im Wandel | info- VerlagBlumlein Records | HamburgVocal Ensemble vOkabile<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Dedication and Thanks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This page is dedicated to my husband, who inspires and supports me, sets my exhibitions up, and is there whenever more than two hands are required in my workshop. Who made school lunches, lasagne and bonfires with and for our sons, so that I could work through the night, and made apple pie for all our guests. My harshest critic, the most open, curious, impartial, enthusiastic person I have met. Who will always inspire and support me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My whole-hearted thank goes out to our sons, Heye and Tjark, for filling this life with joy, light, and chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Dedication and Thanks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This page is dedicated to my husband, who inspires and supports me, sets my exhibitions up, and is there whenever more than two hands are required in my workshop. Who made school lunches, lasagne and bonfires with and for our sons, so that I could work through the night, and made apple pie for all our guests. My harshest critic, the most open, curious, impartial, enthusiastic person I have met. Who will always inspire and support me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My whole-hearted thank goes out to our sons, Heye and Tjark, for filling this life with joy, light, and chaos.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Onno Gro\u00df, 1964 – 2016<\/h4>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n