Mark Manders

Monumental bronze busts and abstract sculptural landscapes exploring subjectivity, grief, and the limits of language through dreamlike, fragmented forms.

Why go

Manders' sixth solo show here presents a new phase of work centered on bone-white materiality—from cracked clay heads to a painted bronze monument for his mother's lost child—alongside paintings framed in newspapers printed with all existing English words, creating an ambiguous chronology that collapses past, present, and future.

What to expect

Large-scale bronze and clay heads, abstract sculptural landscapes with suspended elements, paintings with dimensional newspaper frames, and smaller fragmentary busts throughout the gallery's multiple floors, arranged as a "scenography of the mind" to move through.

Things to know

• Born 1968 in Volkel, Netherlands; represented the Netherlands at the 2013 Venice Biennale.
• Winner of the 2002 Philip Morris Art Prize and the 2010 Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Art.
• Work held in MoMA, Guggenheim, Art Institute of Chicago, and 15+ other major museums.
• Monument (2024–25) created as memorial to his mother's stillborn child and all silent grief.
• All Existing Words newspapers contain every English word used once in random order, framing paintings like windows.
• Field Fragment uses tiny blue tiles on a balanced metal rod to represent multiple sky moments simultaneously.