Born and trained in Barcelona,
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Both in his sculptures and installations, which are extremely fragile and incorporate altered organic materials, and in his film work, the artist experiments with the correspondences between organic and geometric forms, as well as the complex web of dependencies between the natural order and the order created by human beings. He is about to open in Paris
La pensée férale, a two-part solo exhibition at Esther-Schipper and Mendes Wood (2/04 - 26/05/2024) and has had solo exhibitions at MACBA, Barcelona (2023-2024); Kiasma, Helsinki (2023) ; Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum Tromsø, Tromsø (2022) ; Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes (2022) ; Kunsthalle Münster, Münster (2020); Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2019); Institut d'Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne (2019); CCS Bard College, New York (2018); Fundació Tàpies, Barcelona (2018); Museo Serralves, Porto (2017); MAMM, Medellín (2016). His work has been included in group exhibitions at MoMA, New York (2023); Bourse de Commerce, Paris (2023); Gare de Hambourg, Berlin (2022); Liverpool Biennale (2021); Taipei Biennale (2020); Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2019) ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018); Stuttgart Museum of Art, Stuttgart (2018); Centre Pompidou, Metz (2017); Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz (2017); 14th Lyon Biennale (2017); Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2016); New Museum Triennial, New York (2015); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2015); Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (2014).
Teresa Castro is a lecturer in film studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. A significant part of her recent research focuses on the links between cinema and animism, plant life forms in visual culture and environmental histories of photography and cinema. In this context, she has published 'The Mediated Plant' (E-flux, 2019) and co-edited with Perig Pitrou and Marie Rebecchi the collective work Puissance du végétal et cinéma animiste. La vitalité révélée par la technique (Presses du réel, 2020). With Brenda Edgar and Estelle Sohier, she co-ordinated the "Histoires écologiques de la photographie" dossier in the journal Transbordeur (2024).
Practical information
6.00pm-7:00pm followed by a drink with the guest speakers (conversation in english).
Free access upon registration.
École des Arts Décoratifs, 31 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris
Based on a curatorial proposal by Fondation Thalie, this fourth season hosted at the École des Arts Décoratifs is organised by Chiara Vecchiarelli, coordinator of the programme Creators facing the climate emergency, in co-construction with Patrick Laffont-DeLojo, teacher in stage design at the École des Arts Décoratifs.
In partnership with the École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
