Galerie Kandlhofer

Mandl creates expansive, colourful and material-intensive collages, composed of analog and digital image archives that she combines into precise and multi-layered images in which private memories meet the collective memory of a generation. In her practice, Mandl uses sticker motifs and decals, Disney characters and Bravo covers, handwriting and photos in conjunction with photoshop layouts and renderings, pixelated surfaces and visual information remains from digital image production, storage and reproduction. The canvas is repeatedly emphasized in terms of its materiality, different textiles meet and are processed in different ways and used embroidery as if a gestural brushstroke. In the work, sewn and embroidered items are an anchor point and antipole to the accelerated image production and circulation that characterizes digital technologies.

Nana Mandl (b. 1991 in Graz, Austria) studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee and received her diploma in fine arts at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Recent solo shows include: : „you’re so cool“, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, AT, 2021; KS+ performance (with Karl Karner) Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, AT, 2019; sweet attraction & dissatisfaction, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, AT, 2018; adventure time no. 2, with Sarah Sternat, Improper walls, Vienna, AT 2018; making love in 2018, Zone1, Vienna Contemporary Art Fair, Vienna, AT 2018; getting down on knees and nerves, with Karl Karner, Kunsthalle Graz, AT 2018; BYE BUY, SideStreetStudios, Cape Town, ZA, 2018.


Galerie Kandlhofer was founded in 2016 and represents both emerging Austrian and international artists. The gallery is located in the centre of Vienna and has become a vibrant meeting place for artists, curators and collectors. Within the program, Galerie Kandlhofer presents artists of varying mediums from painting to performance with a particular interest in artists whose practices engage in interdisciplinary art. Furthermore, Galerie Kandlhofer actively curates the gallery program with an ethos of engaging with diverse voices and perspectives.