In her artistic work Judith Mann has been dealing with natural phenomena, their interdependence and reproducibility for the last two decades. They range from electromagnetism, rain, fog and lighting to more subtle aspects of the flora and its metabolic processes. For about ten years now, she has been directing her focus predominantly on relational aspects of resonance between the individual, the social and the phenomena often referred to as 'nature'. Her work aims less at a realistic reproduction or representation, but rather at the energy that appears in the resonating interrelations of these moments. Two of her preferred mediums, with which she seeks to encapsulate and evoke this energy are fire/bronze and fog – but also an array of other materials, ranging from clay to 3MTC Solid State tesla coils, are represented in her artistic work.

Judith Mann completed her studies at Berlin University of the Arts as graduate engineer in architecture in 1999. She is a trained pyrotechnician and mother of two daughters. In 2008 she founded the Effektschmiede, a collective of and for artists and technicians, whose artistic direction she has held since. Amongst other things, the Effektschmiede aims at questioning the boundaries of technology and art, pursues an educational mandate of imparting scientific knowledge via new means and enables a safeguard for the independent production of art. The experimentation with individual and cooperative ways of working forms an integral part of her artistic practice. Judith Mann lives and works in Cologne.