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As a budding photographer, Sandra Mann found it difficult to see herself as an artist. This changed in 2001 when Mann, still a student at the HfG Offenbach, exhibited at the Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art (MMK). In a collection exhibition, she presented the installation Expedit, a wall-mounted Ikea shelf, filled with vinyl records from different times, genres and countries, all of which contain the word »love« in the title. The installation forms part of the MMK collection. Sandra Mann is also represented in the Art Collection Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation. Today she defines herself as an artist with a focus on photography.

Currently, Sandra Mann is working on a series of partly staged portraits of people in nature. »The forest becomes the stage,« she explains. It is the relationships and fluid transitions of people with their surroundings, nature and animal world, which he wants to explore. But it is also about misleading the viewers' expectations, »in relation to photography, as a medium closest to reality.« Not everything is always as it seems in the photographs.

Some works from this series were on view in the spring of 2016, in the exhibition Doppelgänger in the Californian Torrance Art Museum. Sandra Mann conceived and curated the show, in which contemporary artistic positions from Germany were presented along with work by American colleagues. She showed her photographs in the form of a modular, sculptural staging, instead of only hanging them on the walls. »I don’t only work two-dimensionally, but also in relation to space,« she emphasises. A book is now being created from the Wald series. Sandra Mann had already published books for previous projects. From her HfG Diplom in 2003, a compilation of photographs from nightlife and music scenes titled NIGHT LIFE came about. The book DAYLIFE was published in 2008 at a solo exhibition in Istanbul.

Before her graduation, Sandra Mann was playing with the idea of going into advertising. She came to the HfG Offenbach because one could study both fine arts and applied graphics. From painting she developed towards photography after completing her pre-Diplom. She realised her Diplom project finally in the subject area of Experimental Spatial Concepts. The open structure of the university suited Mann: »I am very curious and inquisitive, which is probably why there are so many pillars.« She advises students today and in the future to make many contacts during their studies and to exhibit as much as possible.

Works

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    231100-0002 Sandra mit Bart

    Photography, ​2002
    Art Collection Deutsche Börse

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    Expedit II

    Exhibition view of the installation Exhibition »Morir de Amor« in the MUCA
    ​(Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte)
    ​Mexiko Stadt,  2005

    Kuratiert von Pamela Echeverria

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    Nahaufnahme / Detail (090302-0015 Love Records)

    ​Installation »Expedit«
    Exhibition Szenenwechsel XX
    Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, 2001

    Kuratiert von Prof. Dr. Jean-Christophe Ammann

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    Strapinskis Schicksal

    Exhibition view of the photo installation
    ​»No Fashion, Please!«
    Kunsthalle Wien, 2011

    Kuratiert von Prof. Peter Weiermair

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    Marie Therese

    room installation
    Exhibition view in a youth hostel
    Photofestival Mailand
    Galeria San Carlo New Contemporary
    ​​2007

    Kuratiert von Benedetta de Magistris & Marta Casati

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    150909-2789 Schafe & Autos (Offenbach)

    Photography
    2009

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    110515-9893 Written on Bourgeois Body

    Jos Diegel & Shirin 
    ​(Offenbach-Bürgel, Germany)
    Photography
    2015

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    »Innige Verbindung«, 2016 (050915-9413 & 050915-9466 Erin Kirk) & Serie »Holla die Waldfee«, 2012-2016

    Exhibition view Kunsthalle Darmstadt Photoinstallation
    ​10 gerahmte Fotografien 

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    Zeitenwende / Saluting the End

    Exhibition view 
    JAUS Los Angeles, USA, 2011 
    Ausstellung mit Lewis Baltz, Thomas Draschan, Bea Emsbach, Christine de la Garenne, Nathalie Grenzhaeuser, Florian Heinke, Anny & Sibel Öztürk, Manfred Peckl, Marcus Sendlinger, Johannes Spehr, Karsten Thormaehlen, Eva Weingärtner und Michael Wutz

    ​Kuratiert von Sandra Mann

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    Doppelgänger

    Exhibition view 
    ​Torrance Art Museum, USA, 2016
    Transfer-Ausstellung mit Kio Griffith, Ichiro Irie, John Knuth, Eric Yahnker, Roland Reiss, Britton Tolliver, Lena Wolek, (USA), Christiane Feser, Christine de la Garenne, Sandra Kranich, Anny & Sibel Öztürk, Manfred Peckl, Ekrem Yalcindag und Tobias Rehberger (GER)

    Kuratiert von Dr. phil. Julia-Constance Dissel & Sandra Mann / Ichiro Irie & Max Presneil

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    Doppelgänger

    Exhibition view 
    ​Torrance Art Museum, USA, 2016
    Transfer-Ausstellung mit Kio Griffith, Ichiro Irie, John Knuth, Eric Yahnker, Roland Reiss, Britton Tolliver, Lena Wolek, (USA), Christiane Feser, Christine de la Garenne, Sandra Kranich, Anny & Sibel Öztürk, Manfred Peckl, Ekrem Yalcindag und Tobias Rehberger (GER)

    Kuratiert von Dr. phil. Julia-Constance Dissel & Sandra Mann / Ichiro Irie & Max Presneil

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    NIKE Deutschand GmbH

    commission photography

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    Stille Wasser sind tief

    Catalog of singel exhibitions »Stille Wasser sind tief«
    Regierungspräsidium Darmstadt

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    Fotografie & Bildsprache

    Presentation of Fototage at Fürsteneck Castle, 2016

    Foto: Karsten Thormaehlen

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    ​BRITA Kunstpreis 2015

    Preface as a jury member detailed view

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    CRITICA

    Internet view CRITICA
    Journal of Philosophy and Art Theory editorial member

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    XL PHOTOGRAPHY 5

    catalog view
    Art Collection Deutsche Börse AG, 2015
    Artists:
    Aymeric Fouquez, Bruce Davidson, Deutschlandreise, Diane Arbus, Ernst Haas, Evelyn Hofer, Gerd Danigel, Gunnar Smoliansky, Ivo Kuhn, John Stezaker, Karl ​Hugo Schmölz, Lucas Foglia, Mike Brodie, Mirko Krizanovic, Paul Fusco, Pentti Sammallahti, Peter Bialobrzeski, Regine Petersen, Richard Mosse, ​Sandra Mann, Vivian Maier

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231100-0002 Sandra mit Bart

Photography, ​2002
Art Collection Deutsche Börse

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