Mark Manders was born in 1968 in Volkel, The Netherlands. He currently lives in Ronse, Belgium.
In 1986, at the age of 18, Mark Manders produced Inhabited for a Survey (First Floor Plan from Self Portrait as a Building), a nearly three-meter-long architectural plan, not drawn but literally made up of writing instruments, painting materials, erasers and scissors. It was his first attempt at “self-portraiture,” one which inextricably interwove the written and the visual, the spatial and the fictional. Since then, the artist has conceived his work as the unfolding of this initial ambition, a comprehensive and by definition unfinished project. Each of his installations, sculptures, publications, and drawings thus constitute different rooms of an autobiographical building – a total work, diffracted and suspended in an eternal present, in which the multiple dimensions of the body and language, of physical space and the imaginary, are brought into play.
His work is represented by Xavier Hufkens (Brussels), Koyanagi Gallery (Tokyo), Tanya Bonakdar (NY and Los Angeles), and Modern Art (London).
