Nina Annabelle Märkl’s drawings and installations reflect the structures of human rituals in everyday life. Her works questions how things merge inseparably with our inner and outer selves and become entwined in a permeable way. What are the ways in which the tools we use as prostheses take control? What happens if we lose autonomy? What are the structures of reciprocal actions of manipulation between the inside and outside world? And how can the microcosmic worlds we create be shown and reflected? Märkl refers in her works historic models of reflecting the greater world by the means of art such as the 19th century diorama or the panorama or the cabinet of curiosity. In her works these models become at the same time models for the reflection of inner worlds.

Nina Annabelle Märkl (born 1979 in Dachau, Germany) lives and works in Munich. She graduated in 2009 from the Academy of Fine Art in Munich where she now teaches drawing. Märkl is represented by the Gallery Max Weber Six Friedrich, Munich where she has had two recent solo shows Museum of Happiness, 2013 and Casting Shadows, 2011. In 2010 her first monograph Drawing Attention was published, and in the same year she won a New Position at the 43rd Art Cologne. Recent group shows include don’t walk the line at Kunstverein Pforzheim together with the sculptor Reinhard Voss, the art of drawing, Altes Rathaus Ingelheim, 2013; Death – 22 artworks, Deutsche Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst, München, 2013; Pen and paper, Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, 2010; and Shivering tunes, Kunstverein Oberhausen, 2010.