"The wondrous Inquisitiveness of Sandra Mann' -

 Not that Sandra Mann is a photographic reporter, nor is she a documenter of the in scene. Larry Clark or Nan Goldin are more where she comes from.

– Sandra Mann flies out and observes, unobtrusively; nothing escapes her eye.

People’s candour at the encounter and that they find their being put on show delightful, has to do with her temperament and her personality.

Possibly, too, with her charm and her tinkle of a laugh.

The camera is her constant companion, her extended arm,

 I would be tempted to say, an olfactory organ . . .

 

". . . Sandra Mann’s attitude to herself (to avoid the term of ‘ironic’) is playful.

That approach is consistent with a methodical procedure

insofar as her intuition encompasses more than it excludes.

What is remarkable is not only the continual change of perspective,

but her facility for associative blending in which one picture

not so much catapults another in a new direction,

than that the ‘outer regions’ of the respective images affect each other.

This can operate through affinities of colours or forms,

or again by a gravitation between constellations of content or meaning.

One thing stands out for me.

With her contemplation Sandra Mann produces an astonishing wealth of everything,

as if she wanted to embrace the all the world.

What we can only guess at in her pictures are the many noises,

sounds, voices, rhythms there - a tapestry as colourful and animated

as what we see - all the way to the silence of the iguana..."

 

(Jean-Christophe Ammann, by 'Night Life'', 2005)

 

 

 

1970, visual artist - fotografa reporter, nata a Gross - Gerau, D.

Vive e lavora a Frankfurt am Main. Ha studiato presso la J. W. Goethe Universitat di Frankfurt/M., e Comunicazione visuale, a Aschaffemburg, D, con artisti docenti come, W. Guy, G. Huter, ....

 

La sua ultima pubblicazione è Night Life - Sandra Mann, con testo critico di J. C. Ammann, edizioni Kehver Verlag, Heidelberg, 2005.

 

 

Selezione Esposizioni Personali: 

2011, Geil Welt, Main Triangel - Oberfinanzdirektion, Frankfurt am Main, D

2010, Darmstadter Tage der Fotografie, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, D

2009, Plastic Tree, Dirim Art Gallery, Istanbul

. Marie Therese, Kunstverein Walkmuehle, Wiesbaden, D

2008, Daylife Operation Room, Vehbi  Koc Foundation, American Hospital, Istanbul, Istanbul

.  Nightlife, Galerie Prentoundwiesel, Wiesbaden, D

. Toilet Meeting B.K.I. Outdoor - Project, Antwerpen, B

. Tierisch, Galerie Michael W. Schmalfun, Marburg, D

. Elk Test, Kaapelin Galleria, Helsinki

. Imagine/G of Thinking, Hiap Projectroom, Koapalitehcla, Helsinki,

2007-2008, Marie Therese, Galerie Perpetuel, Frankfurt/M. - D 

2005, Nightlife, Galerie Stefan Ropke, Koln . 

2005, Balla, balla, Des Neue Orient (con Anny & Sibel Ozturk), Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, D . ...

Selezione Group Show (dal '99):

2011,  Zeitenwende Saluting The End, Jaus, Los Angeles  .  Planket / The Fence 2011 - The Invisible, Lilla Mejtens Groand, Stockolm, Sweden  and  Goerlitzenstrasse, Berlin, Germany  .  00 Million Angels Singing, Jens Fehring Gallery, Frankfurt am Main  .  Project group show, Kunstraum Decastro, Dreieich, D  .  2008, Works, objects and attachments, Change + Partner, Roma . Archivio Change + Partner 2008, Change + Partner, Roma . 2007, Clima da rigenerazione / Climate of Regeneration, Change + Partner Contemporary Art, Roma . Galleria San Carlo New Contemporary, Milano . Villa Sandheimer, Frankfurt/M. . 2006, Kunsthalle Mannheim, D . Luminale, Frankfurt/M. . San Sebastian, ES . Balla balla, III, Ellwanger Kunstausstellung, Schloss ob Ellwangen . Galerie Arnès y Ropke, Madrid . Proyekt im Offentlichen Raum zur Fifa . Funbalweltmeisterschaft, Dortmund, Koln . Theater Marin Drzic, Dubrounik . Galerie Stefan Ropke, Koln . Art Cologne, Forderkoje . Galerie Arnzs Ropke, Madrid . Galerie Stefan Ropke, Pulse, Miami, Usa . 2005, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City . Landesaustellung 2005, Tiroler Landmuseum Ferdinandeum, Hall, Osterreich . Balla, balla', Video/Okonomie - Ulrtriche in Weltformat, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologia, Karlsruhe . Kunsthaus Tacheles, Neue Galerie, Berlin . 2004, Museo Etnico-Agricolo-Pastorale ed Artigiano, Castello dei Canti di Modica, Alcamo, I . Goethe - Institut, Atene . Auslandsanfenthalt, Mexico City e Usa . 2003, Dirimart Gallery, Istanbul . Kunsthalle Mannheim . Kunstahlle Mannheim . 2002, Auslandsproject, Johannesburg, Kopstadt, Sudafrica . 2001, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, D . Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/M. . 2000, Expo Hannover, D . Galerie Station kunstlerhaus Monsanturm, Frankfurt/M. . Freimaureslage zur Einigkert, Frankfurt/M. . 1999, Kunstverein Heidelberg, D . T2R Galerie, Technologie zentrum Bochum, D . Kunstverein Marburg, D . Auslandsarberten in New York, Usa e Tunisia . . .