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Through challenging camera angles Menno Aden abstracts most familiar actual living environments and public interiors into flattened two-dimensional scale models. The images lay out space in symmetrical compositions that look like assemblages stripped off any kind of objectivity. The views into private homes and secret retreats bring up associations of the ubiquitous observation camera. The notion of surveillance is systematically played out by the artist to hint at society’s voyeuristic urge that popular culture has made mainstream.  (Miriam Nöske)

Works

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2012

Still Light, with Marcin Cienski and Eva Magyarósi, Deák Galéria, Budapest

2011 

Menno Aden - Photography, Schuster Gallery Miami (Solo Show)

Ich bin ein Berliner, with Georg Baselitz, Rebecca Horn, Katharina Sievering et al., Dezer Schauhalle, Miami

US-HQ 1, with Daniel Becker, Anna Kolod, Alessandro Grassi et al., US-HQ, Berlin-Dahlem

Blooom Art Fair, with Galerie Lesmeister, Cologne

Experimental VDO Art 8, Bangkok, Chang Mai, Nakhorn Pathom, Thailand

Menno Aden - Seach for Traces, with Galerie Lesmeister, Regensburg (Solo Show)

Nachbarn. Abgrenzung und Gemeinsamkeit, HUB:Kunst-Diskurs, Hanover (curated by Thomas Kaestle)

AAF, Galerie Lesmeister, Milan

Stand der Dinge, with Juliane Eirich, Gudrun Kemsa et al., Galerie Schuster Photo, Berlin

2010 

ArtFair 21, Galerie Schuster, Cologne

Volta6 Show, Deák Erika Galéria, Basel

Contemporary Art Ruhr, Galerie Art Affair, Essen

Menno Aden - Room Portraits, Galerie Schuster Photo, Berlin (Solo Show)

Raum Formen, Galerie ArtAffair, Regensburg

The Universe is not your Friend, Babe, with Steffi Stangl and Jessica Buhlmann, Deák Erika Galéria, Budapest

New Homeland, Kasseler Architekturzentrum im Kulturbahnhof, Kassel

Urban Life, PopUp195 Photogalerie, Berlin

New Homeland, VHS-Photogalerie, Stuttgart


2009
 

Experimental VDO Art 6, Video, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Nakhorn Pathom, Thailand

New Homeland, Architektur Galerie Werkraum, Berlin

The Dark Side Of The Moon, with Steffi Stangl, Natalie Pelosi, Marieken Matschenz, Christian Stähler, Galerie im Park, Bremen

New Homeland, Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt am Main


2008
 

Menno Aden - Ambient Portraits, Photography, Galerie Zu Den Ferd, Berlin (Solo Show)

Experimental VDO-Art 5, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Nakhorn Pathom, Thailand


2007
 

Menno Aden - Quis Custodiet Custodiam
, Your Mother Gallery, Singapore (Solo Show)

Manfred Schumacher
Menno Aden
born 1972
in Weener (Germany)
lives and works in Berlin
Profile Page

Deák Galéria, Budapest
STILL LIGHT
Menno Aden, Marcin Cienski, Eva Magyarósi
24 February to 24 March 2012

Opening: 23 February 6 to 11 pm
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 TV

"German Photographer Menno Aden"
Euromaxx, Deutsche Welle TV, 02/2011
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Bibliography

2012

"Der Künstler Menno Aden"
Der Tagesspiegel, 18 Feb. 2012, KUNST/MEHR BERLIN (german)
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2011

"Menno Aden - Photography 2006 - 2011", Catalogue. Texts by Joseph Mulligan, Christina Wendenburg
Stuttgart, 10/2011 
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"The Eye of the Cyclops - The Raumportraits of Menno Aden", Joseph Mulligan
Barner Books, New York, 04/2011

"Der irritierend andere Blick auf die Welt", Michael Scheiner
Mittelbayerische Nachrichten, 04/2011

"Menno Aden - Kunst = Kapital"
Capital Magazin 05/2011 

"Über-Blick: Die besten Fotos von Menno Aden"
Manager Magazin 02/2011

"Einer behält den Überblick", Ruth Händler
Häuser Magazin 01/2011
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2010

"Künstler Menno Aden", Wilhelm von Werthern
Le Monde Diplomatique 09/2010
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