Corinna Naumann

In short: I make empathic artworks for complex minds.

Elaborately: Hi! I am a fine artist and sometimes illustrator who is polyamorous with different art techniques and styles. While I deeply love drawing with ink, I also love experimentally combining many materials such as watercolour, acrylics, acrylic and shellac inks, oils, varnishes, tea, pencils, and markers. Etchings, monotypes, and collages complete my range, while I also dabble in Photoshop. This wide array is also resembled by my usage of old and new paper, canvas, and old and new wood as support.

Most of my recent motifs are female watercolour portraits. Emotions, strength, and vulnerability are themes that don't cease to inspire me. Another recurring theme is nature, growth as decay, and life's beauty and complexity. I've done many works for exhibitions about the environment and Fukushima. I don't want to limit my work to beauty. Art, for me, is always also political. It can give problems voices and open up new options for actions. I'm a fan of LGBTQI+ art and humanist mindsets.

My art has already been shown in exhibitions and museums in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Macedonia, Japan, and South Korea, some remaining in the ownership of the museums.

I divide my time betw...

since 2011 freelance artist

2004-2011 master of arts in arts education, history of the arts and philosophy at LMU, Munich

2001-2004 apprenticeship to advertisment, art and industrial photography

2022 JAPAN ART FESTIVAL Schloss Nymphenburg, Munich, Germany and Tokyo, Japan

10/2022 ARCANA, Munich, Germany, see also https://arcanamuc.art/ with archive
2020 + 2021 ARCANA, online exhibition

12/2019 DRUCKMOMENTE [moments of pressure], soloshow, Stadbergen / Augsburg, Germany

10/2019 ARCANA, Munich, Germany

03/2018 Self Portraits, Herkenbosch, The Netherlands

10/2017 ARTMuc, Munich, Germany (art fair)

06/2017 LÜGE [lie], Munich, Germany

05/2017 Global Reactive Art Exhibition, Mardleybury Gallery, Datchworth Herfordshire, UK

05(2017 ARTMuc, Munich, Germany (art fair)

01/2017 Verbondenheit & Hoop / Hope & Solidarity, Maaseik, Belgium

11/2016 Portraits, Munich, Germany

04/2016 People And Eastern Art, Ahwaz Contemporary Art Museum, Iran

11/2015 Blick nach vorn [look forward], (soloshow) Munich, Germany

10/2015 Dinkela - Naumann - Rudert, Munich, Germany

08/2015 East meets West, Lee Art Museum, Geoje, South Korea

11/2014 BASSart [festival of music and arts - paintings and one room installation], Munich, Germany

09/2014 Weltenspiele ["games of worlds"], soloshow, Munich, Germany

05/2014 ARTMuc, Munich, Germany (art fair)

04/2014 „My Fukushima“, Munich, Germany [+ travelling exhibition through Portugal and Spain 2014-...