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.

• 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.



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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

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