Mandla Reuter
Mandla Reuter was born in 1975, Nqutu (South Africa), and he lives and works in Berlin (Germany). As a sculptor and installation artist, he explores the ambiguous relationship between art and the notion of ‘place’. The constant focus of Mandla Reuter’s research is the exploration of internal and external space. His interventions, which are subtle but at times also radical, call into question typical artistic notions such as ‘art production’ and ‘presentation context’. Reuter often bases his work on the specific characteristics of the space in which he is exhibiting. Poetic, ironic and surreal, Mandla Reuter is an artist who disrupts the language of the ‘system’ of art. He sometimes appears to entirely detach this from the real world, evoking an alienating atmosphere in which fiction proliferates. Reuter takes local narratives to return them to the world as universal events, metaphors of the contradictions that have always distinguished contemporary man. Iquitos, Buenos Aires, the island of Thasos, Los Angeles – where the artist owns a plot of land purchased for an exhibition (A Plot, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, 2010) – are some of the places that the artist has traced in his personal geography, the routes that led him to come across mythical tales or paradoxical stories.
A selection of his Solo Exhibitions: Neompalta, Friends of S.M.A.K, Ghent, 2018; Papananamama, Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva, 2018; Wasser, Schindler House, MAK Center, Los Angeles, 2017, Leland Fitzpatrick House, Los Angeles, 2017; Francesca Minini, Milano, 2017; Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2017; Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, 2017; Mandla Reuter, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, 2016; Atlantis in collaboration with Neue Alte Brücke, On Site – Petit Palais, Paris, 2016; #08 Mandla Reuter, Mezzaterra11, Flat Gallery, Belluno.
Mandla Reuter was born in 1975, Nqutu (South Africa), and he lives and works in Berlin (Germany). As a sculptor and installation artist, he explores the ambiguous relationship between art and the notion of ‘place’. The constant focus of Mandla Reuter’s research is the exploration of internal and external space. His interventions, which are subtle but at times also radical, call into question typical artistic notions such as ‘art production’ and ‘presentation context’. Reuter often bases his work on the specific characteristics of the space in which he is exhibiting. Poetic, ironic and surreal, Mandla Reuter is an artist who disrupts the language of the ‘system’ of art. He sometimes appears to entirely detach this from the real world, evoking an alienating atmosphere in which fiction proliferates. Reuter takes local narratives to return them to the world as universal events, metaphors of the contradictions that have always distinguished contemporary man. Iquitos, Buenos Aires, the island of Thasos, Los Angeles – where the artist owns a plot of land purchased for an exhibition (A Plot, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, 2010) – are some of the places that the artist has traced in his personal geography, the routes that led him to come across mythical tales or paradoxical stories.
A selection of his Solo Exhibitions: Neompalta, Friends of S.M.A.K, Ghent, 2018; Papananamama, Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva, 2018; Wasser, Schindler House, MAK Center, Los Angeles, 2017, Leland Fitzpatrick House, Los Angeles, 2017; Francesca Minini, Milano, 2017; Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2017; Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, 2017; Mandla Reuter, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, 2016; Atlantis in collaboration with Neue Alte Brücke, On Site – Petit Palais, Paris, 2016; #08 Mandla Reuter, Mezzaterra11, Flat Gallery, Belluno.
- Cacao, 2017Bronze, other materials
38×17×12 cm
Edition unique - Untitled, 2017Paper (5 letters)
28×187×3 cm - Untitled (I), 2017Offset print
120×85×4 cm
Edition unique - Untitled (II), 2017Offset print
120×85×4 cm
Edition unique - Untitled (I), 2017Offset print
152×136×4 cm
Edition unique - Untitled (VI), 2017Offset print
152×136×4 cm
Edition unique - Atlantis, 2016pvc coated polyester fabric, metal, other materials
320×550×320 cm
Edition 2/3 - Untitled, 2016Paper, glass
46,5×35,5×10 cm
Edition unique - Untitled, 2015aluminium, plaster, asphalt, acrylic glass
153×101 cm - Untitled, 2015aluminium, plaster, asphalt, acrylic glass
153×101 cm - Untitled, 2015aluminium, plaster, asphalt, acrylic glass
153×101 cm - RTS NSS, 2015paper, acrylic glass
42×35 cm - Untitled, 2015Silkscreen, gesso, wood
40×30 cm - a3d 0n3plo Wl, 2015chromogenic print
55×45 cm
Edition 2/3 - a3d 0n3plo Wl, 2015chromogenic print
55×45 cm
Edition 2/3 - a3d 0n3plo Wl, 2015chromogenic print
55×45 cm
Edition 2/3 - a3d 0n3plo Wl, 2015chromogenic print
55×45 cm
Edition 2/3 - a3d 0n3plo Wl, 2015chromogenic print
55×45 cm
Edition 2/3 - a3d 0n3plo Wl, 2015chromogenic print
55×45 cm
Edition 2/3 - a3d 0n3plo Wl, 2015chromogenic print
55×45 cm
Edition 2/3 - a3d 0n3plo Wl, 2015chromogenic print
55×45 cm
Edition 2/3 - a3d 0n3plo Wl, 2015chromogenic print
55×45 cm
Edition 2/3 - a3d 0n3plo Wl, 2015chromogenic print
55×45 cm
Edition 2/3 - Untitled, 2014Diazotype mounted on canvas
99×143 cm - Untitled, 2013cast aluminium
52×54 cm - Sheraton’s S, 2006/2013Chromogenic print, framed
46×54×4 cm - North Brodway, 2013Modified space lighting, paper lanterns
Dimensions variable - Untitled, 2013Diazotype mounted on canvas
65×84×5 cm - Allée, 2013Framed etching, exit
Dimensions variable - Survey, 2012Diazotype
127×102,5×4 cm - Shell, 2012Framed Chromogenic Print, wood, plaster, paint
125×100 cm - Shell, 2012Framed Chromogenic Print, wood, plaster, paint
125×100 cm - Untitled, 2011Offset print, Emulsion paint, dibond, wood, glass
178,8×86,8 cm - Prospect, 330 Waldon Pl., 2010Framed chromogenic print
55×45 cm
Edition 3/3 + AP - Prospect, 330 Waldon Pl., 2010Framed chromogenic print
55×45 cm
Edition 3/3 - Prospect, 330 Waldon Pl., 2010Framed chromogenic print
55×45 cm
Edition 3/3 - Untitled I, 2010Offset print, Emulsion paint, dibond, wood, glass
205×153 cm - Park, 20097 Framed Baryt prints
39,2×45,5 cm
each - The Foyer, 2014Exhibition view at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
- The Foyer, 2014Exhibition view at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
- The Foyer, 2014Exhibition view at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
- The Foyer, 2014Exhibition view at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn