Atlantis

Mandla Reuter

BornNationalityBased In
1975N/ABerlin
Biography

Mandla Reuter’s large installations complicate the space they occupy by redirecting movement, the audience’s presence and the flow of information. By incorporating found objects, large-scale abstract sculptures, plants, sound, video and lighting – blocking, obstructing and expanding – the works actively require the viewer to participate in the composition of the space. Examining questions of art production, debunking the neutrality of exhibition spaces and playing with the difference between the natural and the artifice, Reuter continuously reinvents the language of art-making. His installations at once alienate the outside environment by inserting fictional, abstract imagery and present familiar metaphors and contradictions of contemporary human subjectivity. From local to universal, Reuter’s work reverts to the intervention and reinvention of art, artefacts, space and experience alike. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Selected Artworks
No Such St
Mandla Reuter
No Such St, 2012
23 x 31 x 1cm
Untitled
Mandla Reuter
Untitled, 2014
86 x 76cm
a3d 0n3Plo Wl
Mandla Reuter
a3d 0n3Plo Wl, 2015
54.6 x 42.6cm
Atlantis
Mandla Reuter
Atlantis, 2016
320 x 550 x 320cm
Gallery Representation
Biennals
Gwangju Biennial2008 - Gwangju
Gwangju Biennial2008 - Gwangju
Istanbul Biennial2001
Istanbul Biennial2001
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