Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané invites us to question our habits and how we look at the world. He creates environments visitors can experience with all their senses.

  • 31.3.–10.9.2023
5th floor
Tickets: with a museum ticket

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané dislocates the way we look at art

For Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (b. 1977, Barcelona), the museum is no longer a space for the accumulation of artefacts, isolated from reality. Rather, it should be a place where our relationship with the planet is reconfigured.

Born in Barcelona and based in Rio de Janeiro since 2004, Steegmann Mangrané aims to capture the moment of detachment when the visitors stop engaging with individual works and start to engage with their own presence in the space. To achieve this, he uses light, colour, taste and scent, and plays with size and scale.

The exhibition at Kiasma is an experience for the entire body, not just the eyes.

The organic meets the geometric 

The exhibition includes collage, drawing, hologram, installation, moving image, photography, sculpture, sound and poetry.

The fifth floor of the museum is transformed into an immersive installation. A striking element on the top floor galleries is the natural light streaming in from the windows through coloured filters, which makes the exhibition change constantly, according to the outdoor light conditions. The floor is lined with blue carpeting, which denaturalizes and further questions a typical museum space. Steegmann Mangrané aims to disorient our senses and divert our typical ways of seeing and experiencing.

Nature and artifice often meet in Steegmann Mangrané’s work. What is man-made and what is natural becomes unclear. For the artist, however, these are not opposites. Humanity is part of nature, it is something we can’t place outside ourselves as if it were merely a backdrop for our necessities. For Steegmann Mangrané, the rainforest – a recurring element in his work – is a metaphor for the interconnectedness of all things. 

Two-part exhibition

The exhibition is on view

  • on the 5th floor 31.3.–10.9.2023
  • on the 4th floor 31.3.–13.8.2023

Featured artworks

Attention!

  • The works in the exhibition are fragile, please avoid touching them.
  • The floor on the 5th floor is uneven, watch your step.
  • There are lights that may trigger a migraine or epilepsy attack.
  • One of the exhibits involves the handling of citrus fruits and their juice.

Collaboration

The exhibition is a collaboration with MACBA – The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. With the support of the Institut Ramon Llull.

Curators

The exhibition is curated by João Laia, chief curator of temporary exhibitions at Kiasma and Hiuwai Chu, head of exhibitions at MACBA, with Piia Oksanen, curator of temporary exhibitions at Kiasma.