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photos from the exhibition "Sunny Side Up!"
> 06.2006.: nina braun
photos from the exhibition "sneak like a panther"
> 05.2005.: nina braun
Nina Braun has successfully merged a background in fine arts with the „real world“, using her experience in skateboard-fashion and the tough business demands of the market for young labels for her distinct conversion of todays values and trends into artistic statements. Not being fully (but partly) trained at an Institute for Fine Arts has helped Nina becoming the complete artist she is today: focused on the highly actual topics she choses for her works, determined, passionate and trained in the skills not usually being part of traditional studies and at the same time being an expert painter, illustrator and craftswoman.
2006
SUNNY SIDE UP!
Bizarre rag dolls are crawling out of the walls and ceiling, a bad weather cloud* is hanging from the gallery sky, whilst rosy naked mole rats are curiously watching from the floor: welcome to the wonderful world of Nina Braun.
For the second time after her 2005 show "sneak like a panther", Nina Braun holds an exhibition at the heliumcowboy artspace, and again she presents a strong, iconic and ironic comment on classic affiliation symbols, this time showing large flags of phantasy armies besides her ever growing range of toy artworks.
(*bad weather cloud with kind support by Anneli Schütz)
Vernissage: Saturday, June 3, 8 p.m.
featuring music by Sdag
running time: June 3 - 30
finissage: Friday, June 30, 7 p.m.
opening hours: wednesdays - fridays 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
2005
SNEAK LIKE A PANTHER
In may 2005 we held the first solo show of Nina Braun, "sneak like a panther", displaying not only her rich body of paintings, stitchings and tapestry, but also for the first time her latest artistic concept, the hand-knitted replicas of classical sneakers – Nina’s strong, iconic and ironic comment on the skateboard and Hip-Hop-generation that she has been a vital part of since founding her own all-female skater-label, SUMO clothing.
Her 2005 show gained huge interest from the media (art and lifestyle alike), and massive requests for Ninas work from around the world. The exhibition has been invited to Paris afterwards, and her story and images have been presented in countless international online-magazines and websites. A selection of her knitted trainers have been on world tour with a US-based leading urban art-event focusing on the sneaker-culture („sneaker pimps world-tour“).
photos from the exhibition "Sunny Side Up!"
> 06.2006.: nina braun
photos from the exhibition "sneak like a panther"
> 05.2005.: nina braun
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