Out beyond all imaginations
Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing
There is a field.
I'll meet you there.
Rumi
Real understanding of an artwork
is not possible by intellectual thinking only.
understanding is a holistic act of
intentional perception,
which embraces senses and feelings.
Nana Nauwald
If conscious perception of an artwork
is a process of communication based on resonance
and leaves a mark, an im-pression in the viewer,
which im-pression does the viewer leave in the artwork?
Nana Nauwald
Interview with Nana
Nana Nauwald
Visual Artist, Author, Lecturer.
Stations of her art life:
University training for teaching art, restorator of paintings,
Art studio in Kronberg/Ts and Frankfurt/M
Visiting professor at the “ University of Art Braunschweig ”
Art studio in the Lüneburg Heath, northern Germany
Intensive study visits to Nigeria, Nepal, North – and South-America which influences deeply her art-work
For 23 years she experiences and researches into the “worlds of consciousness” with the central themes of perception and reality.
She lives in the countryside of northern Germany and in the Peruvian jungle area at the Amazon.
Some thoughts to my art work
The necessary preparations for any artistic vision are intensity of attention and conscious perception. For me this preparation started already in my childhood with my father, an artist by himself. So I lived in an environment of paintings and spiritual questions. The study of the old masters of art and the mysteries of their manifold painting techniques sharpened and changed my view of “seeing” to “perceiving”.
The term “perception” for me does have the meaning of an act of insight, of actually “perceiving” the deeper information of the quality which is shining through the form and expression of an artwork.
Conscious perception as an act of cognition is only possible by experience. Each experience is a sensual impression. The natural world as expression of a “creative intelligence”, and the people “who know”, whom I met during several travels to the old indigenous cultures who live in the Amazon jungle area of Peru are my teachers for the experience of all the possible fields of the “Multiversum”.
My experience in these cultures, which still live in the living spirit and do have knowledge of the interwoven, intermingled network of all visible and invisible appearances of information, do have a strong impact on my art work.
If you want to order postcards, silk screen prints or printings of the paintings in original measures please click here: postcards – silk screen prints – painting prints.
Nana Nauwald - Exhibitions
Exhibitions in Germany:
1994 - Hamburg, "Schlange, Vogel, Frau" - Galerie Silbermond
1996 - Bremen, "Visionen menschlicher Zukunft", Kongress-Zentrum
1996 - Hamburg, "Transpersonale Kunst" - Dojo-Galerie
1996 - Heidelberg, "Welten des Bewusstseins" - Stadthalle
2000 - "Cosmic Web" - Galerie Anita Pavani
2001 - "Cosmic Web" - Camp Reinsehlen
2003 - München: "Pforten der Wahrnehmung" - Kunstraum
2003 - Boren: "Pforten der Wahrnehmung" - Kunstraum
2003 - Dresden: "Pforten der Wahrnehmung" - Blaue Fabrik
2005 - Reppenstedt: „Zeitspuren“, Kunst-Forum Gellersen
Group Exhibitions
Germany:
1995 - Hamburg, Airport Hotel
1998 - Hamburg, "Lebenslinien" - Krematorium Ohlsdorfer Friedhof
1998 - Lüneburg: "Sushi urban", Museum des Fürstentums Lüneburg
2001 - Reppenstedt: Kunstforum Gellersen, Jahresausstellung
2001 - Meiningen, "Die Anderswelt in der bildenden Kunst",
Städtische Galerie ada
2001 - Soltau, "Labyrinth der Frauen", Kunstfestival 2001
France:
2001 - Quiberville, Gemeinschaftsausstellung des Gellerser Kunstvereins
Netherlands:
1998 – Amsterdam: Tropeninstitut, Gruppenausstellung
2003 – Amsterdam: Go Galerie, Gruppenausstellung
2005 – Amsterdam: Go Gallery, Gruppenausstellung
Switzerland:
1999 – Basel: "Psychonautische Landkarte" - Gruppenausstellung Kongresshalle
1996 – Solothurn: "Visuelle Ekstase" - Galerie Dogon, Einzelausstellung
2003 – Zürich: „Psychonautische Landkarte 2“- Galerie Incontro Gruppenausstellung
2004 – Zürich: „Pforten der Wahrnehmung“, Galerie Parabola, Einzelausstellung
2006 – Basel: Kongresszentrum, Gruppenausstellung
USA:
2000 - Santa Fe: Sirius Art Gallery, Einzelausstellung
Publications of her Art in Books:
Goodman, Felicitas: "Die blaue Brücke", edition nada, D
Hofmann/Schultes: "Pflanzen der Götter", AT-Verlag, CH
Gottwald/Rätsch: "Schamanische Wissenschaften", Diederichs Verlag, D
Gottwald/Rätsch: "Rituale des Heilens", AT-Verlag, CH
Ott/Rätsch: „Coca“, AT-Verlag, CH
Nauwald, Nana: "Bärenkraft und Jaguarmedizin", AT-Verlag, CH
Steiner/Hirsl: "Psychonautische Landkarte", Nachtschatten Verlag, CH
Adelaars, Rätsch/Müller-Ebeling: „Ayahuasca“, AT-Verlag,Ch
Publications of her Art in Magazines:
Shaman's drum, USA, Sommerausgabe 2000
Tattva Viveka - Nr. 16, 2001
Connection „special" - 2000
Cañamo, Spanien, Frühjahr 2002
Tattva Viveka, Nr. 20, 2003
Bewusster leben, 03/2005
Visionen, 03/2006
Entheogene Blätter, 3/06
Books of Nana Nauwald
Ekstatische Trance – Das Arbeitsbuch, 2004
Ecstatic Trance – A Workbook, 2003, published also in Russian and French, 2007
Bärenkraft und Jaguarmedizin, 2002
Der Gesang des schwarzen Jaguars, 2003/2007
Der Flug des Schamanen – Schamanische Märchen und Mythen, 2004
Flying with Shamans through Fairly Tales and Myths, 2004
Contes et mythes chamans du monde entier, 2004
Vliegen met de Sjamanen, 2004
Rituale der Wahrnehmung, 2005
Im Zeichen des Jaguar, 2005
Internet:
www.ekstatische-trance.de
www.ecstatictrance.com
More information to the books
Visual Artist, Author, Lecturer.
Stations of her art life:
University training for teaching art, restorator of paintings,
Art studio in Kronberg/Ts and Frankfurt/M
Visiting professor at the “ University of Art Braunschweig ”
Art studio in the Lüneburg Heath, northern Germany
Intensive study visits to Nigeria, Nepal, North – and South-America which influences deeply her art-work
For 23 years she experiences and researches into the “worlds of consciousness” with the central themes of perception and reality.
She lives in the countryside of northern Germany and in the Peruvian jungle area at the Amazon.
Some thoughts to my art work
The necessary preparations for any artistic vision are intensity of attention and conscious perception. For me this preparation started already in my childhood with my father, an artist by himself. So I lived in an environment of paintings and spiritual questions. The study of the old masters of art and the mysteries of their manifold painting techniques sharpened and changed my view of “seeing” to “perceiving”.
The term “perception” for me does have the meaning of an act of insight, of actually “perceiving” the deeper information of the quality which is shining through the form and expression of an artwork.
Conscious perception as an act of cognition is only possible by experience. Each experience is a sensual impression. The natural world as expression of a “creative intelligence”, and the people “who know”, whom I met during several travels to the old indigenous cultures who live in the Amazon jungle area of Peru are my teachers for the experience of all the possible fields of the “Multiversum”.
My experience in these cultures, which still live in the living spirit and do have knowledge of the interwoven, intermingled network of all visible and invisible appearances of information, do have a strong impact on my art work.
- I perceive the worlds of consciousness as a spiritual net, in which each part is connected with every other part.
- Every part carries information and information is spirit.
- Matter and consciousness are an interwoven unity, a limitless field of possibilities, resonating with everything.
- Information also is vibration, sound. Colour and form are a visible expression of the qualities of vibrations.
- Therefore my paintings are visible “songs”, which are weaving all information into an always new and renewing net of consciousness.
If you want to order postcards, silk screen prints or printings of the paintings in original measures please click here: postcards – silk screen prints – painting prints.
Nana Nauwald - Exhibitions
Exhibitions in Germany:
1994 - Hamburg, "Schlange, Vogel, Frau" - Galerie Silbermond
1996 - Bremen, "Visionen menschlicher Zukunft", Kongress-Zentrum
1996 - Hamburg, "Transpersonale Kunst" - Dojo-Galerie
1996 - Heidelberg, "Welten des Bewusstseins" - Stadthalle
2000 - "Cosmic Web" - Galerie Anita Pavani
2001 - "Cosmic Web" - Camp Reinsehlen
2003 - München: "Pforten der Wahrnehmung" - Kunstraum
2003 - Boren: "Pforten der Wahrnehmung" - Kunstraum
2003 - Dresden: "Pforten der Wahrnehmung" - Blaue Fabrik
2005 - Reppenstedt: „Zeitspuren“, Kunst-Forum Gellersen
Group Exhibitions
Germany:
1995 - Hamburg, Airport Hotel
1998 - Hamburg, "Lebenslinien" - Krematorium Ohlsdorfer Friedhof
1998 - Lüneburg: "Sushi urban", Museum des Fürstentums Lüneburg
2001 - Reppenstedt: Kunstforum Gellersen, Jahresausstellung
2001 - Meiningen, "Die Anderswelt in der bildenden Kunst",
Städtische Galerie ada
2001 - Soltau, "Labyrinth der Frauen", Kunstfestival 2001
France:
2001 - Quiberville, Gemeinschaftsausstellung des Gellerser Kunstvereins
Netherlands:
1998 – Amsterdam: Tropeninstitut, Gruppenausstellung
2003 – Amsterdam: Go Galerie, Gruppenausstellung
2005 – Amsterdam: Go Gallery, Gruppenausstellung
Switzerland:
1999 – Basel: "Psychonautische Landkarte" - Gruppenausstellung Kongresshalle
1996 – Solothurn: "Visuelle Ekstase" - Galerie Dogon, Einzelausstellung
2003 – Zürich: „Psychonautische Landkarte 2“- Galerie Incontro Gruppenausstellung
2004 – Zürich: „Pforten der Wahrnehmung“, Galerie Parabola, Einzelausstellung
2006 – Basel: Kongresszentrum, Gruppenausstellung
USA:
2000 - Santa Fe: Sirius Art Gallery, Einzelausstellung
Publications of her Art in Books:
Goodman, Felicitas: "Die blaue Brücke", edition nada, D
Hofmann/Schultes: "Pflanzen der Götter", AT-Verlag, CH
Gottwald/Rätsch: "Schamanische Wissenschaften", Diederichs Verlag, D
Gottwald/Rätsch: "Rituale des Heilens", AT-Verlag, CH
Ott/Rätsch: „Coca“, AT-Verlag, CH
Nauwald, Nana: "Bärenkraft und Jaguarmedizin", AT-Verlag, CH
Steiner/Hirsl: "Psychonautische Landkarte", Nachtschatten Verlag, CH
Adelaars, Rätsch/Müller-Ebeling: „Ayahuasca“, AT-Verlag,Ch
Publications of her Art in Magazines:
Shaman's drum, USA, Sommerausgabe 2000
Tattva Viveka - Nr. 16, 2001
Connection „special" - 2000
Cañamo, Spanien, Frühjahr 2002
Tattva Viveka, Nr. 20, 2003
Bewusster leben, 03/2005
Visionen, 03/2006
Entheogene Blätter, 3/06
Books of Nana Nauwald
Ekstatische Trance – Das Arbeitsbuch, 2004
Ecstatic Trance – A Workbook, 2003, published also in Russian and French, 2007
Bärenkraft und Jaguarmedizin, 2002
Der Gesang des schwarzen Jaguars, 2003/2007
Der Flug des Schamanen – Schamanische Märchen und Mythen, 2004
Flying with Shamans through Fairly Tales and Myths, 2004
Contes et mythes chamans du monde entier, 2004
Vliegen met de Sjamanen, 2004
Rituale der Wahrnehmung, 2005
Im Zeichen des Jaguar, 2005
Internet:
www.ekstatische-trance.de
www.ecstatictrance.com
More information to the books