Contact
Barbara Nanning
WG-Plein 21
1054 RA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T: +31 (0) 6 512 312 83
E: barbara.nanning@aie.nl
About Barbara and her work
For over forty years, Barbara Nanning has been an internationally renowned artist with works in numerous public and private collections around the world. Her work is included in the collections of Sixty-nine (69) museums in the Netherlands and abroad.
Describing herself as a ‘three dimensional designer’, the Dutch artist quickly gained global recognition for her unique characteristic ceramic, sand-coloured vessels and sculptures. Alongside her more intimate objects, she also realises monumental projects in the Netherlands and abroad, including a monument for Mount Fuji in Japan and gilded chandeliers for two cruise ships of the Holland America Line.
After graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1979), Nanning began her career as a ceramic artist. In this early work, she introduced vivid colour applications previously associated mainly with painting, giving her ceramics an unexpected, almost unreal dimension. In 1995, she made the transition to glass, the medium in which she would ultimately fully develop her practice. Through experimenting with fusing, glassblowing, and gilding, she merges different worlds into a distinctive visual language.
Nature is a continuous source of inspiration. She studies crystals, jellyfish, flowers, and micro-organisms, with a strong fascination for form, structure, and geometry.
Her constant thirst for new challenges has led Nanning to Nový Bor in the Czech Republic. Since 2001 she has lived and worked there as well as in Amsterdam, where she is assisted by highly skilled craftsmen.
In her work, opposites come together: tradition and innovation, Eastern opulence and Dutch restraint, freedom and structure, reason and emotion. By combining traditional craft techniques with innovative materials, she creates a distinctive, self-contained universe that transcends existing categories.
Galeries
David Gill Gallery, London (England)
www.davidgillgallery.com
Lohmann, New York (USA)
www.jlohmanngallery.com