Triest oder die Götter. Eine Retrospektive (26. März – 25. Aug. 2024)
Schleswig, Schloss Gottorf
Together with the Rolf Horn Foundation, the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation is showing the retrospective "Matthias Mansen. Triest or the Gods" with works from four decades. Matthias Mansen is one of the centrale proponents of woodcut printing in contemporary art. He has worked exclusively in this medium since 1983. …
The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy (11. Feb. – 27. Mai 2024)
Kreissparkasse, Esslingen
The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy presents insights into the work of these innovative, early 20th-century artists and their continuing impact a century later. The National Gallery of Art has important holdings of prints and drawings by German expressionists Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Emil Nolde, among others. …
Landkreis in Bildern. Ein Holzschnitt-Zyklus (ab 21. Sept. 2023)
Kreissparkasse, Esslingen
To mark the anniversary of the district and Kreissparkasse Esslingen, Matthias Mansen explored the region to create a comprehensive woodcut cycle for the Kreissparkasse. He traveled to various regions of the Esslingen district and selected 15 significant motifs - some familiar, others unfamiliar - which he transformed into impressive woodcuts.
Triest oder die Götter (18. Juni – 16. Juli 2023)
Kreuzkirche, Nürtingen
The figure is usually the starting point of Matthias Mansen's artistic work. In his woodcuts, some of which are large-format, he approaches various human poses and postures by merely hinting at the figures, which evoke antique sculptures, through a kind of hatching.
Triest oder die Götter (13. – 14. Aug. 2022)
Haus Möller, Zermützel
Exhibition of the new editions from the series "Trieste or the Gods" (2021) upon the invitation of Wolfgang Wittrock at Haus Möller in Zermützel, Brandenburg, designed by Hans Scharoun.
Holzschnitt. 1400 bis heute (3. Juni – 11. Nov. 2022)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
"Woodcut. 1400 to Today" kicks off a new series of exhibitions at the Kupferstichkabinett, each presenting an artistic printing technique. Using over 100 works of art on paper - including masterpieces by Albrecht Dürer, Edvard Munch or Käthe Kollwitz - the development of the technique is traced from its beginnings to the present day. The …
Matthias Mansen, Weibliche Gesten (8. Mai – 11. Juni 2022)
Kunstverein Bretten
Matthias Mansen was born in Ravensburg in 1958. From 1978 to 1984 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Since then he has worked almost exclusively in the medium of woodcut. Mansen is not interested in reproducing already existing motifs or images, but in developing complex images in a large number of variations. His …
Getürmt – Turmmotive in der Gegenwartskunst (23. Sept. – 26. Nov. 2021)
Stiftung BC – pro arte, Biberach
The group exhibition is dedicated to the archetype of the tower as a multi-layered symbol that can stand for protection, defense or imprisonment as well as for progress, farsightedness and the skyward striving of the human spirit. The Tower of Babel became a symbol of human hubris; as phallic symbols, towers are gestures of patriarchal power. …
Contradictions (2. März – 4. Juli 2021)
Musée d'arts d'histoires, Genève
There is a widespread idea that any form of reproduction is synonymous with a loss of originality. But this potential for dissemination, on the contrary, includes unexpected aspects: It calls into question creativity itself. Thus, the exhibition at the Musée d'arts d'histoire in Geneva invites us on a journey to the core of the artistic act. …
Matthias Mansen: Das gute Leben, eine virtuelle Ausstellung (1. – 31. März 2020)
Internet
At the start of this year I was planning a small exhibition at Mother, Maiden & Crone, Potsdamer Straße, Berlin, a place where I usually go for lunch. While I was selecting the prints, I was surprised by the number of works relating to food!
As the exhibition had to be postponed indefitivly due to Corona, I would like to present …
SPECTRUM 10 Jahre Galerie Laing (30. Nov. 2019 – 2. Feb. 2020)
Galerie Laing Münster
Klaus Hack, Robert Hammerstiel, Joachim Jurgeluchs, Per Kirkeby, Matthias Mansen, Otto Pankok, Günther Ücker
Additionen (13. Nov. 2019 – 17. Jan. 2020)
ratskeller - Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst
Albrecht Fersch, Verena Freyschmidt, Alexander Habisreutinger, Matthias Mansen, Silke Miche, Lilla von Puttkamer. The exhibition was accompanied by a brochure.
Matthias Mansen: Berlin-Zyklen – Holzschnitte (15. Nov. – 21. Dez. 2019)
Galerie Schrade Karlsruhe
Matthias Mansen (* 1958 in Ravensburg), studied 1978–1984 at the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe. Having lived and worked in London, Paris and New York, he has been based in Berlin since 1994. In his large scale series of woodcuts, Mansen investigates how images come into being. In a traditional technique, he explores …
Alles ist Ausschnitt! Matthias Mansen. Potsdamer Straße (26. Jan. – 31. März 2019)
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
"The 'Potsdamer Strasse' series forms the heart of this exhibition and is complemented by a selection of works that illustrate Mansen's various creative phases." The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Wienand Verlag.
August Laube, Print Fair, Matthias Mansen, Triest oder die Götter (25. – 28. Okt. 2018)
New York City
The new series "Triest and the Gods" (2018) was exhibited by August Laube on the IFPDA Print Fair in New York.
Familienbande (10. Juni – 12. Aug. 2018)
Kunstverein Ellwangen e. V., Schloss ob Ellwangen
The exhibition shows oil paintings by Erich Mansen, watercolours and drawings by Anna Mansen, woodcuts by Matthias Mansen and works by Susanne Mansen, as well as nineteenth-century landscapes by Emma Schlette, a great-aunt of Anna Mansen from Ellwangen.
The German Woodcut: 70s into 80s (30. Sept. – 21. Jan. 2018)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
This exhibition presents a selection of gestural, expressionist woodcuts and linocuts from the late 1970s and 80s by four contemporary German artists: Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Felix Droese, and Matthias Mansen.
Matthias Mansen: Configurations (23. Juli – 20. April 2018)
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Matthias Mansen (German, born 1958) creates large-scale woodcuts that explore abstraction and figuration. He advances the tradition of woodblock printing by transforming pieces of scavenged wood—discarded floorboards or fragments of abandoned furniture—into printing blocks, which he progressively carves and recarves. Working on numerous …
Matthias Mansen - Potsdamer Straße (29. Aug. – 5. Sept. 2015)
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
This is the first presentation of Matthias Mansen’s new woodcuts, made in Berlin between 2011 and 2015. The geographical coincidence is striking: Matthias Mansen’s studio as the production site (Am Karlsbad), the venue of the presentation at Galerie Aurel Scheibler (Schöneberger Ufer), and Mansen’s source of inspiration Potsdamer Straße are …
Matthias Mansen – Work in Progress (23. Nov. 2012 – 24. Feb. 2013)
Musée d'arts d'histoires, Genève
The exhibition includes works donated to the Department of Graphic Arts by the family of Daniel and Pearl Bell (Harvard) in 2011. The relationship with the renowned sociologist and collector Daniel Bell was of great importance to Matthias Mansen. From this encounter arose a dense and fruitful exchange. The exhibition "Work in Progress" is a …
Dialoge: Matthias Mansen – Sammlung Rolf Horn (8. Mai 2011 – 8. Jan. 2012)
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Schloss Gottorf, Stiftung Rolf Horn
Two years after the Rolf Horn Collection was featured at the Brücke Museum in Berlin, the contemporary Berlin artist Matthias Mansen is now a guest at the Rolf Horn Collection. His expansive woodcuts are in dialogue with the works of classical modernism, with the woodcuts of the "Brücke" as well as with the works of Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann …
Matthias Mansen. Woodcuts (26. April – 31. Mai 2008)
Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
Matthias Mansen – Master student of Markus Lüpertz and Georg Baselitz – is renowned throughout Eruope and the United States for his skill in the traditional medium of woodcut. His masterpieces are in famous museum collections in the U. S. and Germany, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C. …
Matthias Mansen – Land und See (23. Sept. – 4. Nov. 2007)
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
„...the new invention of the land and the sea in woodcuts.“ (Eckhart Gillen)
The Berlin-based artist Matthias Mansen is one of the most distinguished woodcutters of the present day. The exhibition Matthias Mansen. Land und See, which has been developed in cooperation with the Kunstverein in Mannheim and the Städtische Kunstsammlungen …
Matthias Mansen – Land und See (13. Juli – 16. Sept. 2007)
Hamburger Kunsthalle
„...the new invention of the land and the sea in woodcuts.“ (Eckhart Gillen)
The Berlin-based artist Matthias Mansen is one of the most distinguished woodcutters of the present day. The exhibition Matthias Mansen. Land und See, which has been developed in cooperation with the Kunstverein in Mannheim and the Städtische Kunstsammlungen …
Matthias Mansen – Land und See (14. Jan. – 11. Feb. 2007)
Mannheimer Kunstverein
„...the new invention of the land and the sea in woodcuts.“ (Eckhart Gillen)
The Berlin-based artist Matthias Mansen is one of the most distinguished woodcutters of the present day. The exhibition Matthias Mansen. Land und See, which has been developed in cooperation with the Kunstverein in Mannheim and the Städtische Kunstsammlungen …