Nicola Barth
Langen, Hessen
I am a painter and researcher focusing on the unseen—the threshold of change and the realms beyond perception.
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Artist Bio:
Nicola Barth's path to becoming an artist began in the picturesque town of Mölln, Germany. With a master's degree in German language and literature, psychology, and theatre, film, and television studies from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. Additionally, she learned painting under the guidance of renowned artists like Markus Lüpertz, one of Germany's most celebrated painters. Nicola's comprehensive academic background provided her with a unique perspective on the world.
However, it was her deep-seated curiosity and the profound questions of life that ultimately led her to transition from the written word to the world of visual art. Painting became her medium of choice to communicate the complexities of the human experience that transcended the confines of language. Nicola's artistic technique is a fusion of the abstract and the metaphysical, inviting viewers into dreamlike, transformative realms of artistry. Her work captures moments of change and evolution, resonating with a perpetual sense of motion and exploration.
Nicola's belief in the dynamic essence of reality serves as the driving force behind her art. Her work goes beyond mere visual representation; it is an exploration of the metaphysical and a celebration of the ever-changing nature of existence. Her dedication to preserving and honouring cultural traditions and customs underscores her commitment to cross-cultural understanding and appreciation. The artist’s work inspires others to seek answers to life's profound questions and encourages a deeper appreciation for the rich tapestry of customs and traditions that define our world.
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Nicola Barth, born in Mölln in 1966, now lives and works near Frankfurt am Main. She completed her master's degree in German Studies at the JW Goethe University in Frankfurt.
She always wanted to write books, but soon put down the pen and picked up a paintbrush to find new forms of expression. Words were no longer enough to describe what she was dealing with: permanent metamorphic processes in non-obvious areas. "Non-representational painting is now my language without words. That makes sense to me, because I "report" from worlds and expanses in which languages are spoken that we don't (know). My gaze is always focussed on what lies behind, beneath and above, in worlds of experience that are not obvious. So my language must also lead from the depths of the experience of being, another, more open form of communication that is grasped with other senses, a language that is impression and expression and frequency, without naming, evaluating, classifying." In addition to transformation and change of form, her work is about language and space, accompanied by questions about identity, alienation and defragmentation of the individual and their localisation in space and time.
“My artistic work is a journey into the interstices of existence, where ambivalences prevail. I explore the state of metamorphosis in which things are neither one nor the other, in which absence and presence exist side by side and simultaneously, and try to visualize processes and shapes in motion - in informal paintings and drawings, accompanied by excursions into space (sculpture) or into the digital world of photography.”
"The indeterminable, the changeable in form, shape and space and finding the appropriate language for the changing shape, the changing form in the changing space. That is what occupies me. This development, transformation and change of form in turn often takes place "invisibly" for us, in spaces and worlds behind them, on meta-levels, in spaces that are not spaces (in the true sense of the word).