NANA MANDL: you're so cool

YOU'RE SO COOL

be my tool
draw on times
of connecting
thru analogue collecting
new input missing
childhood reminiscing
hunting treasures
for our own pleasures
motives to trade
not one profile displayed
yet price being paid
early learning
growth confirming
feeling the chain
like to complain
about no interaction
leftover distraction
from trying use
my emotional 
values

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 exhibitions include: “Dropping Distance’, Kunstraum und Sammlung Hollenstein: Dock 20, Lustenau, 2020; 'Sweet Attraction & Dissatisfaction', Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, 2018; 'Adventure Time No. 2', with Sarah Sternat, Improper Walls, Vienna, 2018; 'Getting Down On Knees And Nerves', with Karl Karner, Kunsthalle Graz, 2018

Recent group shows: ‘Rhizome – Images of Thought’, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, 2020; 'On the New', Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2019; 'Anything Goes', White & Weiss Gallery, Bratislava, 2019; 'Oh Please Do', Fifteen Seconds Festival, Stadthalle Graz, 2018.

Her work has been included in the following institutional collections: Lentos  Kunstmuseum, Linz, 2020; Künstlerhaus, Vienna, 2016; Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, 2015; Kunsthalle, Museumsquartier, Vienna, 2015.