Mark Manders (1968) explores the quiet depths of human consciousness. The internationally acclaimed artist fixes thoughts and moments in sculptures, paintings and installations that hover between the tangible and the elusive. His oeuvre breathes a poetic tension: intimate and universal, concrete and mysterious.
For Voorlinden he brings together more than eighty works –both iconic and more recent pieces – which together form a layered journey through his world of thought. The solo exhibition Mindstudy is on display from 20 September 2025 to 18 January 2026.
A journey into the imagination
In Mindstudy Mark Manders invites you to follow him through the spaces of his thinking. At Voorlinden he constructs a living room, a bathroom, factories and studio spaces — and to do so, the museum’s interior is substantially reworked. He starts on the estate and inside the museum, he redirects the entrance into his exhibition. There unfolds a world of frozen thoughts and arrested moments. There is no chronological ordering: early work may look recent, while other pieces have the aura of an archaeological artefact. Subtle connections and echoes arise between the works, which link to and refer to one another. One example is the monumental installation Room With Three Dead Birds and Falling Dictionaries, in which painted dictionaries fall onto collages of newspapers that contain every English word, while — as the title reveals — three dead birds are hidden.
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