About Barbara
Curriculum Vitae
Barbara Nanning
WG-Plein 21
1054 RA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T: +31 (0) 6 512 312 83
E: barbara.nanning@aie.nl
Barbara’s Studio and Showroom is open for Visitors by Appointment.
Please feel free to contact her at e-mail or telephone.
You are also welcome at:
J. Lohmann, New York (USA)
www.jlohmanngallery.com
Taste Contemporary, Geneva (Switzerland)
www.tastecontemporary.com
david gill gallery (England)
https://www.davidgillgallery.
For over forty years, Barbara Nanning has been an internationally renowned artist with works in numerous public and private collections around the world. Describing herself as a ‘three dimensional designer’, the Dutch artist quickly gained global recognition for her unique vessels and sculptures.
After graduating from the renowned Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Nanning started out her career as a ceramicist. She introduced to the medium vivid colours that had only previously been possible in painting and gave an unexpected, almost unreal dimension to her work. Nevertheless, Nanning soon took the surprising step of adding glass to her repertoire — the material on which she would eventually focus exclusively. Experimenting with pate de verre, glass blowing, and metal gilding, she fuses different worlds into an entirely personal visual language.
Nature, both organic and inorganic, is a constant source of inspiration for Nanning. She studies multifaceted crystals, soft jellyfishes, flowers and micro-organisms with a particular fascination with form, structure and geometry. Her constant thirst for new challenges has led Nanning to Nový-Bor in the Czech Republic. There she enjoys the support of the most talented glassblowers and polishers, but above all the possibility of employing colour in a totally new way. In Nový-Bor, Nanning glassblows her forms, which are then sawn up, ground, polished and sandblasted.
Barbara Nanning combines tradition with innovation, Eastern opulence with Dutch austereness, freedom with structure and reason with emotion. Her work is a fusion of classical artisan methods and innovative materials. As a result, her language does not comply with an existing one, but forms a universe all of its own.[/su_spoiler] [/su_accordion]
Books
Barbara Nanning – Eternal Movement Ceramics, Installations and Glass Art
Author: Titus Eliëns
Publisher: Waanders & de Kunst, Zwolle
144 pages
7,87 x 9,84 inch
Full colour
€ 25
ISBN 978 94 6262 256 2
https://www.waandersdekunst.
This retrospective artist monography highlights the outstanding qualities of her work as it has evolved over the last forty years.
Thanks to the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds / Elisabeth Vermaat Müller Fonds.
Barbara Nanning, Galaxy & Terra, Ceramics – Reizen in tijd en ruimteAuthors: Liesbeth Crommelin, Paul Donker-Duyvis
ISBN 90-6617-106-5
full colour images, 36 pages
Amsterdam 1993
barbara nanning_evolution
Author: Thimo te Duits, Barbara Nanning
ISBN 90-9017369-2
ca. 100 full colour images, 164 pages.
Price: Euro 49,—
Evolution, Amsterdam 2003
About the work (Dutch)
About the work (French)
About the work (Japanese)
Press
Glas 2 / 2025
Article in Glas 2 / 2025
Article about the exhibition at Fraeylemaborg in 2025 (in Dutch):
Vormen uit Vuur 258
Article in Vormen uit Vuur 258
Article about my work and the exhibition at Fraeylemaborg in 2025 (in Dutch):
Barbara Nanning in Galerie LiveArtfully, Summer 2024
Read the article in Magazine Galerie LiveArtfully, summer 2024
Archive Barbara Nanning to the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History
Recently, the paper part of my archive, which consists of all documents relating to my education and work, was transferred to the RKD in The Hague. The archive has been inventoried by art historian Karlijn de Jong and divided into the various disciplines in which I work: glass, ceramics and monumental art. Correspondence, design sketches, notes, documents regarding prizes and participation in exhibitions and fairs, together with the many photos of my work (process), are now stored in acid-free covers and archive boxes in the RKD warehouse. It will soon be available for consultation by researchers there. In the long term, the digital part of the archive will also be added to this paper part.
Wikipedia page expanded
Much more information about my work can now be found on the Wikipedia page, both the Dutch and English versions.
Jan Living – Dossier Glass
Autumn 2021 – ‘Door alle groen- en blauwtinten staar je in de oceaan’
With an article about my work (Dutch).
Art Aurea Eternal Movement
20.08.2020 Art & Life – Other – Studio Visits
With an article about my work.
Artdiction – In the Hands of a Sculptor
July / August 2020
With an article about my work as a sculptor.
Klei Keramiek 2019 – 5
Article in Klei Keramiek
Article about my work:
de kleine k / het onafhankelijke digitale keramiekmagazine / Number 56 / August 2019
Barbara Nanning De cirkel is rond …
Look at the magazine (in Dutch):
de kleine k / het onafhankelijke digitale keramiekmagazine / number 56 / August 2019
Neues Glas / New Glass 2019 03
With an article about my work and coming exhibition in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
New Glass 2016 – 1
Article about ‘Colorful Shadows in
Pulsating Landscapes’ (English / German).
Fjoezzz 2015 – 4
An introduction of the new work: “Coloured Shadows” in Fjoezzz (Dutch).
Fjoezzz 2015-4
A-A+A magazine
In the Chinese A-a+a Magazine architecture&art of the Architectural Society of China, Beijing is an article about Barbara Nanning and Her Secret Garden.
A-a+a magazine
Neues Glas 2012
‘Selten wurde die aus einem tiefen Winterschlaf neu erwachende Natur so ausdrucksvoll dargestellt wie in der Eternal Spring Kollektion von Barbara Nanning…’ (artikel Gerard Hoeks, in Neues Glas 2012)
Neues Glas 2012
De fine fleur van Barbara Nanning – COLLECT – maart 2012
“Vanaf 31 maart zet glaskunstenares Barbara Nanning de bloemetjes buiten in het Gentse Design museum. Collect ging alvast op atelierbezoek in Amsterdam. ‘Ik kan uren kijken naar een bloemknop die opengaat.'” (artikel Iris De Feijter, fotografie: Tom Haartsen)
COLLECT March 2012
Art and perception / Ceramic Art
In Art and Perception/TECHNICAL (www.ceramicart.com.au) you can read an interesting article about the work of Barbara.
Art and Perception/TECHNICAL