GER

ELISA MANIG
nichtsdestotrotz

April 5–May 17, 2025

Opening:
Friday, April 4, 6–9 pm

Opening Hours during May 2–4:
Friday: 11am–9pm, Saturday: 11am–7pm, Sunday: 11am–4pm

Belts, handles, holders and barriers. In Elisa Manig's current works, seemingly realised safety concepts meet tangible limitations and restrictions - only to be revealed as something completely different in the next moment. Our notions of flowing sequences, physical processes and order are repeatedly undermined by the artist's objects. What just seemed familiar and functional turns out to be an illusion that distorts, irritates and humorously outrages. In Elisa Manig's absurd universe of devices, we are thrown back on our expectations and demands on the world around us, confronted with challenges and forced to think in a completely new way; a good exercise for the worst-case scenario...

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Elisa Manig lives in Hamburg and was born in 1987 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz). She began her studies of fine art at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts in Kiel in 2011 and continued at the HfBK Dresden in 2014. She graduated in 2018 as a master student (Meisterschülerin) of Monika Brandmeier. In the same year, she received the Saxon State Scholarship. Her work has already been shown in numerous exhibitions, a.o. at the Kunstverein Meißen, the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, the Museum Bensheim and the Museum Wilhelm Morgner in Soest. Works by Elisa Manig have already been purchased by numerous collections, including the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection. At the POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair 2020, Elisa Manig presented her works as part of the curated special exhibition Academy POSITIONS by Berlin Hyp and was honoured with the Berlin Hyp Art Award. As the winner, she was represented with a solo exhibition at the fair the following year. In 2022, she was selected for a sponsored solo show at Art Cologne as part of New Positions. In the same year, she had a solo show in an own room at Amtsalon Berlin and presented her first solo exhibition Schweben, stürzen, fliegen at Jarmuschek + Partner gallery. This was followed by a major exhibition together with Regine Schulz at Kunstverein Schwerin. In 2024, Jarmuschek + Partner showed works by Elisa Manig in a solo sculpture space at Art Karlsruhe and the Kunstverein Heidenheim presented Elisa Manig in a solo show.