Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Born 1977 in Barcelona, Spain. Lives and works in Barcelona.
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Exhibition view: Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, A Leaf Shapes the Eye, MACBA, Barcelona, 2023 Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Introduction

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's practice encompasses a wide range of media, including film, sculpture, sound, gardens and drawing. His work focuses on the creation and migration of forms between nature, art and architecture. 

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Selected works

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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
11 Pine Blades, 2024
11 Pine Blades, 2024
Pinus Halepensis blades, gold pin

11 x 21 x 6 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Little Knot, 2024
Tangerine peel, silk thread, silver support

3 x 5,5 x 15 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Ramita Partida, 2024
Split beech twig
40 x 30 x 30 cm
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Knotted triangle, 2024
Avenca fern branches, elastic string
36 x 25 x 20 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Mask, 2024
Gilded camboatã de leite leaf
20 x 7,5 cm (unframed)
45 x 35 x 5 cm (framed)
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Ramita with leaf, 2024
Split prune twig and brass
51 x 3 x 1 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Branch with eye, 2024
Branch with eye, 2024
Oak, glass eye
31 x 6 x 6 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Mask, 2024
Gilded camboatã de leite leaf
13 x 2 x 2 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Geometric Nature/Biology, 2024
Split beech twig, elastic cords

Dimensions variable
40 x 25 x 12 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Árvore Multiplicada , 2024

Split prune branch

40 x 40 x 40 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Untitled, 2023
Kriska aluminium curtain, aluminium rail, powder-coated steel frame
340 x 460 x 6 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Untitled (Curtain), 2022
Kriska aluminium curtain and laser cut powder-coated steel frame
400 x 600 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Hologram (Form with branch and insect), 2021

Pulse hologram

25 x 20 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Hologram (sprouting hand), 2021
Pulse hologram
25 x 20 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
La Pensée Ferale, 2020
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper
120 x 150 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Fog Dog, 2019-2020

2k video (color, stereo sound)
Duration: 47:37 min
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Fog Dog (Couple), 2019-2020
Giclée print
50 x 75 cm (unframed)
51,8 x 76,8 x 3,5 cm (framed)
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Systemic Grid 124 (Window), 2019

Security glass, ornamental glass, mounts, concrete and wood pedestal, glass panel
261 x 126 x 1,5 cm (glass panel)
40 x 40 x 40 cm (concrete base)
278,2 x 126 x 40 cm approx. (overall)
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Summer Cloud, 2017
Kriska aluminium curtains, aluminium rail, powder-coated steel frames
350 x 476 x 6 cm each, 2 parts
Minimum room dimensions: 315 x 400 x 400 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Spiral Forest 9, 2015

Analog C-print
60 x 40 (unframed)
77 x 57 x 3 cm (framed)
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Systemic Grid 17 (Puddle 1), 2015
Mirrored-finish, polished stainless steel
64,5 x 102,7 x 0,4 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Phantom (kingdom of all the animals and all the beasts is my name), 2014-2015
Virtual reality headset, Unity 3D forest scan, motion capture technology, custom ceiling grid
Developed by ScanLAB Projects, London
Installation height variable
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Morfogenesis / cripsis, 2014

Wall Drawing, watercolor, linden branch
ø 50 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Kiti Ka'aeté (light drawings), 2013
Slide projection, slides (27 drawings)
Dimensions variable
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Orange Oranges, 2001

Steel modular structure, photographic filter (ref. 306 medium lemon), Indian silk curtain, stools, table, knifes, juicers, cups, fresh oranges
220 x 313 x 313 cm
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Hojas llovidas, 2001
Engraved and dried Ligustrum japonica leaves, silk thread

50 x 50 x 5 cm

Gallery Exhibitions

La Pensée Férale Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

La Pensée Férale

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce La Pensée Férale, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s third exhibition with the gallery and his first at our Paris location.
April 2—July 18, 2024
Esther Schipper, Paris
En la casa de Marquès Esther Schipper Mallorca

En la casa de Marquès

Esther Schipper Mallorca
Visit us this summer for a special exhibition entitled Inside Marquès House in Palma de Mallorca held at the former residence of Martí Marquès Marquès, a historic house dating back to the...
July 12—31, 2021
Casa Museo Can Marquès, Palma de Mallorca
Parley Collective – Virtual exhibition on Vortic Collect with works by Etienne Chambaud and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Parley Collective – Virtual exhibition on Vortic Collect

with works by Etienne Chambaud and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Esther Schipper is pleased to present its first virtual exhibition on the extended reality (XR) app Vortic Collect to help raise funds to support Parley’s Global ocean protection initiatives. On this occasion,...
October 2—November 2, 2020
Fog Dog Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Fog Dog

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Entitled Fog Dog, the exhibition includes architectural light interventions, a sound installation and a new film. A...
March 7—May 27, 2020
Esther Schipper, Berlin
Esther Schipper Bookstore Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Esther Schipper Bookstore

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
A presentation by Daniel Steegmann Mangrané on occasion of his new monograph The Spiral Forest and his edition in support of Rio de Janeiro’s non-profit art space CAPACETE.
October 26—November 24, 2018
Esther Schipper Bookstore
Spiral Forest (kingdom of all the animals and all the beast is my name) Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Spiral Forest (kingdom of all the animals and all the beast is my name)

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Esther Schipper is pleased to present Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Entitled Spiral Forest (kingdom of all the animals and all the beasts is my name), the exhibition...
May 1—June 13, 2015

External Exhibitions

A Leaf Shapes the Eye Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

A Leaf Shapes the Eye

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
A Leaf Shapes the Eye, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s first retrospective, brings together works that span twenty-five years. A choreography between space, light, objects, and people, the exhibition is an invitation to engage physically, sensorially and intellectually, to reshape our relationship...
November 16, 2023—May 20, 2024
MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona
A Leaf Shapes The Eye Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

A Leaf Shapes The Eye

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Deeply influenced by the socio-natural context of Brazil, the work of Daniel Steegman n Mangrané (Barcelona, 1977; lives and works in Rio de Janeiro) looks into ecology as a tool to analyze the relations of mutual transformation present in life....
March 31—September 10, 2023
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
Avant l'orage with works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané and Anicka Yi

Avant l'orage

with works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané and Anicka Yi
Avant l’orage invites visitors on a journey from shadow to light, through installations and works, some iconic, others new, by some fifteen artists, throughout the spaces of the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection. With works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre...
February 8—September 18, 2023
Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris
Breathing Lines Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Breathing Lines

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
For Breathing Lines, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's first solo exhibition in Norway at the Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum in Tromsø, the artist transforms the museum space through architectural, light, and sound interventions.
September 24, 2022—February 12, 2023
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø
Under Construction With Ceal Floyer and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Under Construction

With Ceal Floyer and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
The Hamburger Bahnhof holds an exhibition entitled Under Construction, presenting the latest additions to the Nationalgalerie collection, including works by Ceal Floyer and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané.
June 2, 2022—January 15, 2023
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Fata Morgana With Rosa Barba, Ann Veronica Janssens and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Fata Morgana

With Rosa Barba, Ann Veronica Janssens and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
The Jeu de Paume festival offers the public the opportunity to discover the multiple dimensions of the image in the diversity of its forms. Combining exhibitions, screenings, performances and concerts, and presenting a large number of new productions, this event...
March 22—May 22, 2022
Jeu de Paume, Paris
A Leaf-Shaped Animal Draws The Hand Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

A Leaf-Shaped Animal Draws The Hand

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
The work of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané ponders on the relationship between culture and nature. The artist’s interest in biology has led him to analyze complex ecological systems and introduce the natural world...
September 12, 2019—January 19, 2020
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
Ne voulais prendre ni forme, ni chair, ni matière Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Ne voulais prendre ni forme, ni chair, ni matière

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané intends to totally and profoundly transform the space of the IAC. And so, the path of the exhibition, Ne voulais prendre ni forme, ni chair, ni matière, generates new...
February 20—April 28, 2019
Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
February 16—May 6, 2019
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Concrete Contemporary with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Concrete Contemporary

with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
How does contemporary art handle the constructivist, concrete and conceptual art of the 20th century? What is its stance on that art’s ideas, accomplishments and sometimes utopian projects? Does it merely use...
February 7—May 5, 2019
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
Space Shifters with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Space Shifters

with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
A major group exhibition of sculptures and installations that explored perception and space. Featuring 20 artists and spanning a period of roughly 50 years, the exhibition included innovative, minimalist sculpture from the...
September 26, 2018—January 6, 2019
Hayward Gallery, London
A Transparent Leaf Instead of the Mouth Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

A Transparent Leaf Instead of the Mouth

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
A Transparent Leaf instead of The Mouth is the first institutional solo exhibition in the United States by Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. The exhibition will be presented at the Center for Curatorial Studies,...
June 23—October 14, 2018
CCS Bard Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
-’— –‘- Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

-’— –‘-

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
The Morpho helenor is a bright blue butterfly, abundant in tropical areas of Central and South America. Its wings are huge in relation to the size of its body and therefore it...
April 27—May 5, 2018
Fundació Tàpies, Barcelona
Phantom Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Phantom

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
The Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Spanish artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané in the Baltic States. The exhibition Phantom comprises two works in...
March 2—April 1, 2018
CAC Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
A Transparent Leaf Instead of the Mouth Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

A Transparent Leaf Instead of the Mouth

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto presents an immersive exhibition by Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. This exhibitions forms part of the Contemporary Projects programme – a dynamic platform for the presentation...
October 1, 2017—January 21, 2018
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto
Floating Worlds with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Floating Worlds

with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
“To meld the interior and exterior of an exhibition is one of the first duties of art: the museum space can no longer be a space for the accumulation of artefacts, insulated...
September 20, 2017—January 7, 2018
14th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale
Infinite Garden, from Giverny to Amazonia with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Infinite Garden, from Giverny to Amazonia

with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
The exhibition Infinite Garden, From Giverny to Amazonia depicts nature in the perspective of a metaphorical spring. Germination, blossoming and degeneration suggest the cycles of Earth, where the winter stop is the...
March 18—August 28, 2017
Centre Pompidou-Metz
(Paisaje de posibilidades) Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

(Paisaje de posibilidades)

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
September 28—November 20, 2016
Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín
Did Not Want to Have Human Form, Human Flesh or Human Matter Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Did Not Want to Have Human Form, Human Flesh or Human Matter

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
February 17—April 8, 2016
The Green Parrot, Barcelona
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané with Phillippe Van Snick

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

with Phillippe Van Snick
Conceived for two unique spaces of modernist Brazilian architecture – the Museum of Modern Art (MAM Rio), in Rio de Janeiro, and the Casa Modernista, in São Paulo –, the exhibitions of...
September 5—November 11, 2015
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
Species of Spaces with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Species of Spaces

with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
With: Ignasi Aballí, Lara Almarcegui, Serafín Álvarez, Martí Anson, Marcel Broodthaers, Luz Broto, stanley brouwn, Victor Burgin, Luis Camnitzer, Azahara Cerezo/Mario Santamaria, Joan Colom, Jordi Colomer, Guy Debord, Pep Duran, Andrés Fernández,...
July 16, 2015—April 24, 2016
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Família Moderna with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané & Phillippe Van Snick

Família Moderna

with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané & Phillippe Van Snick
February 25—May 24, 2015
Casa Modernista, Museu da Cidade, São Paulo
Phantom (kingdom of all the animals and all the beasts is my name) with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Phantom (kingdom of all the animals and all the beasts is my name)

with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
February 25—May 24, 2015
New Museum Triennial: Surround Audience, New York
Construire une Collection with Jean-Pascal Flavien and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Construire une Collection

with Jean-Pascal Flavien and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
January 22—June 7, 2015
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
Animal que no existeix Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Animal que no existeix

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Animal que no existeix inhabits an immaterial, abstract and unstable space. Animal que no existeix wanders through Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's exhibition, developing in it, as a process of exchange and operations of...
October 19, 2014—January 18, 2015
CRAC Alsace, Altkirch
~ with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

~

with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
taking as inspiration Lina Bo Bardi's architectural key concepts of flexibility, interaction and valorization of the vernacular, as well as its freedom and playfulness at the moment of design -specially regarding exhibition...
October 5—December 15, 2013
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo
Weather Permitting with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Weather Permitting

with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
September 7—November 7, 2013
9th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre
Bicho de nariz delicado Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Bicho de nariz delicado

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
April 20—May 20, 2013
Uma Certa Falta de Coerência, Porto
The Imminence of Poetics with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

The Imminence of Poetics

with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
September 7—December 9, 2012
30th São Paulo Biennial

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Simon Fujiwara, Pierre Huyghe and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané featured in CURA. 40 Manifesto
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Ceal Floyer, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané – Under Construction, New Acquisitions for the Nationalgalerie’s Collection
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

Ceal Floyer, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané – Under Construction, New Acquisitions for the Nationalgalerie’s Collection

The Hamburger Bahnhof holds an exhibition entitled Under Construction, presenting the latest additions to the Nationalgalerie collection, including works by Ceal Floyer and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. Read More
June 2, 2022 – January 15, 2023
58th October Salon
various locations, Belgrade

58th October Salon

October Salon is a representative manifestation of accomplishments in the field of visual art in Serbia, found and funded by the City of Belgrade. This year, the exhibition titled The Dreamers intends to question not...
June 25 – August 22, 2021
ROHKUNSTBAU 26
Schloss Lieberose, Brandenburg

ROHKUNSTBAU 26

This year's edition of ROHKUNSTBAU 26 presents the works of 22 artists including Etienne Chambaud, David Claerbout, Philippe Parreno and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. The exhibition title I am Nature – Of Vulnerability. Survival in the risk society defines a...
June 19 – October 3, 2021
Spotlight: Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
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Spotlight: Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

For our Spotlight this week we present Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's Summer Cloud, 2017. The work is from Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's series of brightly colored aluminium curtains with differently shaped passageways made from Kriska...
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at Kunsthalle Münster
Kunsthalle Münster

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at Kunsthalle Münster

With Dog Eye, on view from September 13 through November 22, the Kunsthalle Münster is presenting the first solo exhibition in a German institution of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. His works—comprising installations, films, sound-based works, photographs,...
September 13 – November 22, 2020
Dhaka Art Summit 2020 with Prabhavathi Meppayil & Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka

Dhaka Art Summit 2020 with Prabhavathi Meppayil & Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Convening a critical mass of artists, thinkers, and participants, Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements will provoke us to reconsider (art)histories, movement, borders and fault lines. From February 7–15, Dhaka, Bangladesh will be the...
February 7 – 15, 2020
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at Pirelli HangarBicocca
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at Pirelli HangarBicocca

Opening at Pirelli HangarBicocca on September 11, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's first exhibition in Italy will present more than twenty works made from 1998 to the present time, ranging from films, virtual reality...
September 12, 2019 – January 19, 2020
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at Institut d'Art Contemporain
Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at Institut d'Art Contemporain

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané intends to totally and profoundly transform the space of the IAC. And so, the path of the exhibition, Ne voulais prendre ni forme, ni chair, ni matière, generates new vanishing lines....
February 20 – April 28, 2019
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at Nottingham Contemporary
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at Nottingham Contemporary

Through a new immersive installation, architectural interventions, a 16mm film and a virtual reality work, the Rio-based Catalan artist looks at how diverse mediums and technologies can represent aspects of the Mata...
February 16 – May 6, 2019

Films

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A Leaf Shapes the Eye Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

A Leaf Shapes the Eye

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Watch the exhibition film of A Leaf Shapes the Eye, a comprehensive survey on the practice of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at MACBA in Barcelona.


Video © MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

Publications

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Ne voulais prendre ni forme, ni chair, ni matière

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Ne voulais prendre ni forme, ni chair, ni matière
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané intended to totally and profoundly transform the space of the IAC. And so, the path of the exhibition, Ne voulais prendre ni forme, ni chair, ni matière, generates new...
2020
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané The Spiral Forest

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

The Spiral Forest
'While surely not constituting an exhaustive and concluding portrait of the artist’s practice, this book aims at presenting a solid sample of the artist’s conceptual universe by pairing images with texts, which...
2018
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané A Leaf-Shaped Animal Draws The Hand

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

A Leaf-Shaped Animal Draws The Hand
This publication was published in conjunction with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's exhibitions Ne voulais prendre ni forme, ni chair, ni matière at IAC - Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes and A Leaf-Shaped Animal Draws...
2020
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané A Leaf Shapes the Eye

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

A Leaf Shapes the Eye
Through hundreds of images, this artist’s book follows the work of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané in chronological order from his earliest sculptures in 1997 to his most recent installations of 2022 in the...
2023