The absence of Mark Manders – Stephan Berg, Solveig OVstebO, Mirjam Varadinis, Philippe van Cauteren Korting

Dutch artist Mark Manders (*1968) has developed installative sculptural works since the late 1980s that are laid out as fragments of a self-portrait in the form of imaginary rooms. His has emerged as one of the most distinctive and independent positions within the international sculptural practice of the present day. Starting off from the model-like paradigmatic piece Self-Portrait as a Building, which was already made in 1986, his entire oeuvre can be understood as a large-scale attempt to translate his ow…