Galerie Martin Janda

The sculptural compositions of the Mexican artist Tania Pérez Córdova are performative works that do not move – “contemporary relics”, as she calls them. Driven by a fascination with materiality, the artist explores the transition between the production of an object and the experience of it as an event in everyday life. Her sculptures often explore material processes as a narrative tool for examining time, identities, and places. “There is a bronze contour, which in its liquid state was poured into sand. An approximation to a real scale…” (Pérez Córdova). In the series Contours, outlines of windows, doors, and passageways recall memories of existing rooms and spaces, redefining the position of an unknown observer. View from a Mass Protest (Contour #16), 2022 was especially produced for the presentation at Spark. The title makes a reference to the original door where the shape was taken from: the main door from the Palacio Nacional in the Zócalo Square of Mexico City, where most mass protests in Mexico end up. “I feel making work is a process of looping between the general and the personal. Climate change anxiety, political tensions, migration issues, gender politics, violence are all issues that reflect on everyday life and translate into our way of living and our rendering of the world. It is unavoidable for me to speak about these issues, but I try to address them as a personal experience, from the intimacy of everyday life.” (Pérez Córdova) Tania Pérez Córdova, born in Mexico City in 1979, lives and works in Mexico City.

1979 born in Mexico City (MX), lives and works in Mexico City (MX). Solo Shows (Selection): 2022 Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; All our explanations, Galerie Art Concept, Paris; 2020 Short Sight Box, Tina Kim Gallery, New York; 2019 Tragic, comic and bold facts., Galerie Martin Janda, Wien; 2018 Daylength of a room, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; 2017 Smoke, nearby, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; 2016 Handhold, Galerie Martin Janda, Wien; 2014 for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels; 2012 gente, algo, gente, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City. Group Shows (Selection): 2021 Nothing is Lost, GAMeC, Bergamo; Normal Exceptions: Contemporary Art in Mexico, Museo Jumex, Mexico City; 2020 Satellite III, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna; 2019 Portadores de sentido, Colección Cisneros, Museo Amparo, Puebla; Performativity, Centrale Fies, Dro; Taming Y/Our Passion, Aichi Triennale 2019, Aichi; 2018 Casa Tomada, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe; 2017 A rock that keeps tigers away, Kunstverein München, Munich; Zigzag Incisions, Salts, Birsfelden; Ayrton, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; 2016 The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?), Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju; 2015 2015 Triennial: Surround audience, New Museum, New York; 2014 A Mouse Drowned in a Honey Pot, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna; 2013 Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre; 2011 Six degrees of separation, FRAC Lorraine, Metz; How To Work (more for) less, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; 2009 This Place you see has no size at all, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris.

Galerie Martin Janda was founded in 1992 by Martin Janda and from the beginning has always been an internationally active contemporary art gallery. In 1999 the gallery moved to its present location in the city centre of Vienna and together with four other renowned Austrian galleries, a new centre for contemporary art and discussion was formed at close proximity to the historical and iconic Vienna Secession, Academy of Fine Arts, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Art History) and Museumsquartier. Our gallery programme concentrates on international contemporary art – conceptual art, painting, drawing, film/video, photography, sculpture as well as installation – and focuses on artistic positions that combine different experiences.