Nicola Barth

"There is indeed a world behind this world. And it's constantly moving. As a philosopher without words, I try to make milk glass permeable."

"I always thought about writing books, but soon I picked up a brush to find new forms of expression. Words were no longer sufficient to describe what I was dealing with: permanent metamorphic processes in non-obvious areas.
Over time, however, I realized that words and language were too ´brained´ and that I lacked the means to express what there was to say. In non-objective painting I then found exactly this possibility of expression. Language is unambiguous, is controlled by the mind and raises us to a conformal level. Painting, on the other hand, deviates from the norm. It leads from the depth into the depth of an experience of being, it is another, for me more open form of communication, which is grasped with other senses and leaves more scope and freedom. Here it is more about experiencing and not understanding."

In addition to transformation and permanently metamorphic processes, the focus of her work is the theme of space, accompanied by questions of identity, the alienation and defragmentation of the individual and its location in space and time.
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Nicola Barth, female painter lives and works in Germany (near Frankfurt am Main)
She studied literature and switched from writing to painting 25 years ago until today cryptic dialogues and written language can be found in her paintings.
Her works have been on show in numerous curated individual and group exhibitions in Germany, Italy USA, Switzerland, Athens and 2021 at the London Art Biennale. She has been nominated for various art award (and has received the Artfacts Performance Award for Strong Artfacts Rank Growth Trend in 2020).

A detailed exhibition list from 2012 to 2022 can be found on my website: https://www.nicola-barth.com