silk-screen artist print | limited edition | signed
The artist Marianne Manda is best known for her archaeological drawings of the Middle East. Her photographs never reach the same level of detail as her scientific and artistic works. She passes on her knowledge in various teaching assignments. As a book author, Marianne Manda reports on her experiences in the countries of the Orient.
As a cosmopolitan, the artist has been traveling between European and Arab countries since 1987. Her unmistakable drawings are created on cargo ship voyages and around the world, during archaeological excavations. In her works, Orient and Occident, dream and reality, millennia-old finds and contemporary depictions merge.
With matching objects and installations, Marianne Manda’s diverse forms of expression merge into a total work of art and also allow viewers to immerse themselves in distant worlds in which she herself loves to travel.
Eva Mueller | Art Consultant
Curator of the Koenigshof Collection
VITA MARIANNE MANDA (short form)
1943 born in Kempten | 1959-77 training and work as a part designer for mechanical engineering | 1959-1977 garden and landscape planner | 1978-1982 Academy of Fine Arts with Prof. Mac Zimmermann | master student with Robin Page | diploma Mac Zimmermann | master student of Robin Page | diploma | since 1984 documentation draughtswoman for excavations of the German Archaeological Institute Berlin in Ethiopia, Yemen, Turkey, United Arab Emirates | guest lecturer at Ankara University, Turkey for scientific drawing | 1985-88 teaching assignment at Kempten University of Applied Sciences | 1989-92 Rawda, Saana in Yemen | 1990-2010 teaching assignments at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria | since 1999 Studios in Aden, the Indian Ocean, various countries in the Middle East and Germany | 2012-13 and 2016-17 visiting Professor of Painting and Graphics at the 6th of October University Cairo, Egypt
AWARDS AND WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACE (selection)
1982 Arche-Alp scholarship from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture | 1991 Funding from the Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin, artist’s book “Der zarte innere Kompass” | 1992 Graphics Prize, City of Senden | 2007 Slavi Soucek Prize, Salzburg State Government | 2010 “Moderne Kalligraphie”, 4th International Calligraphy, Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates | 2014 Grand Swabian Art Prize of the City of Augsburg | 2018 Carsten-Niebuhr Prize of the German-Arab Society Berlin | 2023 Art Prize Förderverein Bildende Kunst
1983 Director and designer for “Caesar visits Kempten”, 10 days of installation and play, Festwoche Kempten | 1986 and 1992 Idea and director of the 1st Allgäu Symposium of Visual Artists, Kempten | 1994-2000 Director of annual etching days at “Kunst Konzept Manda”, Dresden | 2008-18 International Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial, United Arab Emirates | 2016 “World Theatre” Opera House, Cairo, Egypt