Marianne Manda Vernissage Marokkanische Botschaft Berlin 2017 Copyright Matthias Könsgen 2017

Biographie

1943
Born in Kempten Allgäu / Germany
1959 – 77
Detailer for Mechanical Engineering and then for Garden / Landscape Architecture
1978 – 82
Studies in Free Painting and Graphic Arts at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Mac Zimmermann, Munich / Germany
1982
ARGE-ALP-Grant, Bayerisches Kultusministerium Munich / Germany
1982 – 84
Member of Robin Page´s Master Class
1982 – 84
Archaeological Drawings, Excavation Hassek Höyük , Turkey, for German Archaeological Institute, Berlin
1984
Graduated in Fine Arts at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Germany
1984
Grant in Fine Arts, Rauriser Malertage, Government of the Country Salzburg / Austria
1984
Teacher in Scientific Drawing at Girnavaz-Excavation, Ankara-University, Turkey
1985 – 87
Archaeological Drawings at Excavation Munbaqa, Syria, for Technical University Hamburg-Harburg
1985 – 88
Teacher in Free and Scientific Drawing at University of Applied Sciences, Kempten / Germany
1986
Idea, Organisation and Steering of 1st Allgaeu Symposion of Fine Arts, Kempten / Germany
1987-2009
Archaeological Drawings for the Station Sanaa / Yemen, for the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin
1990-07
Teacher in the Graphic Arts Workshop at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria
1991
Grant from the Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin
Artist´s book: The Delicate Inner Compass
1992
Organisation and Steering of 2nd Allgaeu Symposion of Fine Arts, Kempten / Germany
1994-2000
Regular Steering of Etching-Days in KUNST KONZEPT MANDA, Dresden
1995
Grant for 7th Saxonian Printing Workshop, Hohenossig, Germany
1996
Archaeological Drawings in the Museum Ras Al-Khaimah, U.A.E.
2000
Certificate in Pyrotechnics, Shots & Fire School, Dresden, Germany
2007
Journey on a Freighter ¬¬– Germany, Caribbean, French Guayana, Brazil and back
2008,09,10
Giving Courses in Free Painting at the Hortus Niger International Summer Academy for Fine Arts, Halbenrain, Austria
since 2009
Regularly: Archaeological Drawings for the Excavation YEHA in Ethiopia,
for German Archaeological Institute Berlin
2010
5 months Travelling around the World on a Freighter
2012/13
Guest-Professorship in Painting and Graphics, 6th October-University, Cairo / Egypt
2013
Course in Archaeological Drawings for Yemen Archaeologists,
GIZ and General Organisation for Antiquities, Sanaa, Yemen
2016/17
Guest-Professorship in Painting and Graphic Arts, on “Languages of Arts”,
6th October-University, Cairo

Marianne Manda is living since 35 years in both West and East, mainly in Yemen, and since 2011 in Egypt.

Exhibitions and Projects, Fire Installations, Performances and Art Productions since 1986 in Germany, Austria, USA, Brazil, Pacific Ocean, Serbia, Syria, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), Yemen and Egypt.

2008/10/12/16 invited Participant in the International Calligraphy Biennial, Sharjah, U.A.E.

Art-Prizes:

1992
Senden / Germany
2007
Slavi-Soucek, Government of Salzburg / Austria
2010
Modern Calligraphy, 4th International Calligraphy Biennial Sharjah / United Arab Emirates
2014
Großer Schwäbischer Kunstpreis, Augsburg / Germany
2018
Carsten Niebuhr-Prize of the Deutsch-Arabische Gesellschaft Berlin / Germany

Marianne Manda
SOLO EXHIBITIONS, ACTIONS, INSTALLATIONS, PERFORMANCES AND PROJECTS

1986
ROOM OF LIFE, Room-Installation, Drawings, Gallery Urnina, Goetheinstitut, Damaskus / Syria,
1986
Gallery Muessiggengel-Zunfthaus, Drawings, Etchings, Collages, Kempten / Germany
1987
Gallery Adriana, Drawings, Etchings, Memmingen / Germany
1988
Gallery No.1, Drawings, Etchings, Sanaa / Yemen
1988
STATIONS OF THE CROSS, Room-Installation, Drawings and Objects, Town Hall, Kempten / Germany
1989
STATIONS OF THE CROSS, Room-Installation, Drawings and Objects, Frauenkulturzentrum, München / Germany
1990
BLACK WHITE, YES NO, HOT COLD, Room-Installation, Drawings, Objects, St.Virgil, Salzburg / Austria
1991
ORIENT OCCIDENT, Production, Dramaturgy and Installations, Music/ Sounds, Incentses,
Museum Prähistorische Staatssammlung, München / Germany
1992
National Library Sanaa / Yemen, for the German President Richard von Weizsäcker
1992
VANITAS, Theatre-Performance for the Symposion COUNTED, WEIGHTED, DIVIDED Kempten / Germany
1993
SABA-SONG – Archaeological Traces, Etchings, Gallery Pohle, Bad Schussenried /Germany
1994
ON RAVENS AND HUMANS, Room-Installations, Paintings, Drawings, Objects Townhall Kempten / Germany
1995
WILD HEART, Gallery Spectrum, Etchings, Memmingen / Germany
1995
FIRE AND FLAME, Fire-Performance for the Music „Bilder einer Ausstellung“ from Mussorgsky, Bar’an-Temple, Marib / Jemen
1995
WATERGLOW, Fire-Installation, Großer Garten, Dresden / Germany
1995
SABA-SONG – Archaeological Traces, Etchings, Gallery Pellentier, Ann Arbor / USA
1996
INTROVERS EXTROVERS, Etchings, Gallery im Hörsaalbau, Leipzig / Germany
1996
TIMEROOM, Works on Paper, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken / Germany
1996
TRACE OF LIGHT, Nicolai Church, Fire-Installation, Leipzig / Germany
1996
HUMAN RELICTS, Performance, immaginaire Relations, Archaeological Park Cambodunum, Kempten / Germany
1997
KANTENSPRÜNGE, Gallery of Univercity Saarbrücken, Grafics, Saarbrücken / Germany
1997
HOW I AM COLORING THE OCEAN?, Performance, Gulf of Aden / Jemen
1998
INTROVERS EXTROVERS, Hadda Gallery, Etchings and Fire Installation, Sanaa / Jemen
1998
DRUNKEN SHIP, Drawings, Objects, Plauener Bahnhof, Dresden / Germany
1998
STREAM CURRENT, Fire-Installation on Elbe-River, Dresden / Germany
1999
FLAME – SIGNATURE, Fire-Installation for Franz von Kutschera, University Leipzig / Germany
1999
MAGMA, Fire-Installation about Low and High Tide, Gulf of Aden / Yemen
1999
LAYLA AND MADJNUN, Production, Dramaturgy and Fire-Installation with sound, Hadramout / Yemen
1999
MAGIC-GARDEN, Production, Dramaturgy and Installations, with Ballett-School Dasa Wagner, Chapuispark, Kempten / Germany
2000
FIRERIVER, Fireshow, Production, Direction with Beda Percht, Iller-River, St. Mang-Brigde, Kempten / Germany
2000
„CHEFETAGE“ – Sächsische Zeitung, Radierungen und Holzkohle, Dresden / Germany
2001
ZDF-Film „Terra-X“, Television Germany, Feuerperformance, Sirwah, Provinz Marib / Jemen
2001
WEILAKUM! (woe betide you!), Performance, Marib, Wadi Joufaynah / Yemen
2002
SURSUM CORDA, Fire-Installation, Strobl / Austria
2003
LINE AND DRIVE, Etchings, House for Culture, Beit Al Thaqafa, Sanaa / Yemen
2004
SECRET MESSAGES, Etchings, Gallery PRO ARTE, Hallein / Austria
2004
INDUCTION, Performance with Cornelia Kaufmann, Fortress Hohensalzburg, Salzburg / Austria
2004
BARBARA VISITS BARBAROSSA, Fire-Installation, Production, Marble Quarry, Untersberg / Austria
2005
COWS COWS, Zeichnungen und Feuerinstallation, Allgaeuer Bergbauernmuseum, Dippolz / Germany
2005
BARBARA VISITS BOCHUM, Production, Dramaturgy, Performance, with Bocumer Höhenrettung and 60 Statists, Deutsches Bergbau Museum, Bochum / Germany
2005
BURNING DORNBUSCH, Fire-Installation, Province Marib, Rub Al Khali / Jemen
2006
… FALLING OUT OF CLOUDS, Fire-Performance, Musik Nane Frühstückl, Marble Quarry, Untersberg / Austria
2007
Gallery in Trakl House, Etchings, about the Slavi-Soucec-Award of Landesregierung Salzburg, Salzburg
2007
SECRET MESSAGES, Etchings and Installation with Herbes in the Minara, Mosque-Garden, Aden / Yemen
2007
EQUATOR, Flying Gallion, Action on a Freighter, Amazon‐Delta / Brasil
2007
… FLOWERS OF GRASS, Room-Installation, Musik Nane Frühstückl, Art-Hall, Kempten / Germany
2008
… FLOWERS OF GRASS, Room-Installation, Musik Nane Frühstückl, Townhall-Gallery, Salzburg / Austria
2008
FIRE-WINGS, Fire-Performance, Musik Nane Frühstückl, Tamsweg, St. Leonhard / Austria
2008
ZENIT AND NADIR, Fire- and Fly-Performance, Hortus Niger, Halbenrain / Austria
2008
ME AND YOU – Tryings of Approaching, Installation with Sound, German House, Sanaa / Yemen
2009
FESTIVAL OF LINE, Etchings, Tafelhaus Kempten / Germany
2009
SEASONS, Presentation from Spring, Summer, Autum and Winter, Allgaeu / Germany
2009
STOVE-FIRE, Fire-Installation, Province Marib, Rub Al Khali / Jemen
2010
FIRESOUND, Fire- and Sound-Performance, Musik Nane Frühstückl, Bad Gastein / Austria
2010
LINE SPEECH HAND, Fire‐Installation for the Opening of the 4th International Calligraphy Biennial, Sharjah / V.A.E.
2010
LIVING GALLION, Action on a Freighter, Pacific Ocean
2010
SHOT TO THE HEART, Action with shots, Indian Ocean, Khor Umairah / Jemen
2011
LAYRINTH, Fire-Performance with Music, Ajen, Allgaeu / Germany
2011
ABOUT REDUCING THE SHADOW, Archaeological Drawings, Altstadthaus, Kempten / Germany
2011
FIREBIRD, Fire-, Music and Hanging-Show, directed by and with Marianne Manda, Dancers Ballettschule Dasa Wagner, St. Lorenz-Basilika, Kunstnacht Kempten / Germany
2011
SNOWHEARD, Fire-Innstallation with Music, Kreuztal, Allgaeu / Germany
2012
PATHS – Past, Present, Future, Drawings and Etchings, Library 6. October University, Cairo / Egypt
2013
… AND OTHER WORLDS, Room-Installation with Drawings, Etchings and Objects, Kreuzherrnsaal Memmingen / Germany
2014
SELECTIONS, Etchings, Paper Cuts, archaeological Drawings, 6. October University, Cairo-Culture-Science City, Cairo / Egypt
2015
GAIA IS SLEEPING, Installation with Music in Town-Park, Kempten / Germany
2016
FRUITS OF HERITAGE, Paper Cuts, University of Fine Arts, Sharjah, Invitation by Sonderexhibition in the 5th International Calligraphie Biennial, Sharjah / U.A.E.
2016
WORLD THEATRE, Drawings, Etchings, Cairo Opera House, Music Library, Cairo / Egypt
2017
MESSAGES AND DREAMS, Drawings, Paper Cuts, Etchings, Cultire Centre, Maroccaean Embassy, Berlin / Germany
2017
TERRA NOSTRA, Drawings, Museumspavillon Gallery Stadt Salzburg, Salzburg / Austria
2017
PTOLEMÄUS AND ME, Installation in the Garden of the Residence-Building Kempten with 39 painted Works, Kempten / Germany
2018
ANIMAL. HUMAN. SIGN., Drawings and Paper Cuts, Etchings, Art Hall, Kempten /Germany

2008,10,12,16:
Invitation by the International Calligraphy Biennial, Sharjah / V.A.E.