Johanna Mangold’s artistic practice engages with transitions between reality, fiction and imagination, as well as between materiality and immateriality. Processes of the unconscious, such as memory and dreaming, play a central role, alongside questions concerning the relationship between humans, nature and technology. Personal and collective experiential spaces intersect with visual languages drawn from mythology, science fiction and pop culture.

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Mangold develops open constellations and non-linear narratives in which visual, sonic and textual elements overlap. Figures appear fragmented, ornamental or hybrid. They act as carriers of states and projections. Bodies are conceived as biographical maps and as repositories of memory in which experiences leave their traces.

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Johanna Mangold works across a range of media, including drawing, object-making, textiles, video, sound, virtual reality and text. Through the expansion of her practice into digital space and the use of immersive media, virtual image worlds intertwine with the physical manifestations of her works. This results in multimedia spatial installations that invite viewers to explore the interplay between the different media and to form individual narrative or poetic connections within the network of works.