Photo exhibition
Woodlife

Photo exhibition of Sandra Mann

Thu, 05.09.2019 -
Sat, 14.09.2019
New Space Arts Foundation Gallery

Sandra Mann is one of the most renowned artists and photographers in Germany. In August 2019 she was artist-in-residence of the New Art Foundation Hue. There she is presently showing her solo exhibition "Woodlife".

Sandra Mann uses a wide range of tools to express herself artistically, such as photography, installation, sculpture and video. She deals conceptually with the relationship of people to each other, to nature, to the environment, to wildlife and more. Furthermore Sandra Mann engages herself intensively with basics of photography, imagery and image perception. She curates exhibitions at home and abroad. Shas been a member of the international Curator network Qipo and works as a jury member in photography and photography Art competitions. She has received several awards and scholarships. Her works are shown in renowned national and international collections, including in the Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main, in the MUCA Mexico City, the Vehbi Koç Foundation Istanbul, or in the Art Collection Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation.

Vietnam is one of the ten most important biodiversity hotspots in the world. Biodiversity and forests play a vital role in securing the habitat of the world population. In particular, topics of diversity like climate change, nature conservation and its knowledge transfer play an enormous role in Sandra Mann's work. Its Vietnamese and German exchange, their artistic view on these topics is one of the main components of her work, which she continuously enhanced in Vietnam.
 

In the Phu Coc National Park she met with Thai Van Nguyen from SVW (Save Vietnams Wildlife), who, for years, had done an extraordinary job of protecting endangered species, in particular, the world's most endangered species the Pangolin. With the artist Hoan Le Quoc she staged a work with a water buffalo. Water buffalos that are still living in the wild, are extremely rare in Vietnam.
 
In dialogue with the artist Kien Trung Nguyen, the artist staged a photograph in the lagoon of Ru Cha (Hue), in front of a mangrove forest. The mangroves protect the land from salinisation as well as from flooding.
 
In the New Space Arts Foundation, the artist shows photographs from Germany combined with photographs taken in Vietnam.

Thanh Ngoc Le and Hai Duc Le are twin brothers and worldwide well known artists. For 9 years now, they have run the international artist residency New Space Arts Foundation in the out-of-town district "Phu Thuong commune (Phu Vang district) "