Born in Sydney, Simone Mangos has been living in Germany since 1988. She is inspired by the constant tension between Germany's past and future, as reflected in its monuments and architecture.
Simone Mangos / Artistic overview
Simone Mangos works in installation, sculpture, performance and photography. Mangos is engaged in an ongoing project that explores Berlin's Former Ministerial Gardens (Ehemalige Ministergärten), which have been everything from a Nazi ministry to a stage for pop concerts, but are now almost forgotten as a future site of the concrete Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe. She is currently completing a PhD at the University of New South Wales.
Information / http://www.simonemangos.com
Simone Mangos has lived and worked in Berlin since 1988, when she won an Australia Council/Berlin DAAD residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Mangos has exhibited in important international exhibitions including Kunstraum Deutschland (2000), Antipodean Currents (1994), Biennale of Sydney (1990), and Australian Bicentennial Perspecta (1987). In 2002 Mangos was included in a residency program at the British School in Rome. Her work is held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Queensland Art Gallery, and in key collections in Europe and the United States.
