“Jana Nowack’s photographs shine with artistry and intelligence. How she captures atmospheric light diffuses her images with tension or foreboding.They are the beginning, middle or end of a short story left to the viewer to narrate. Her abstractions, transforming the photographed world, are experiments in color and light that create new visual worlds for the viewer to contemplate.“
Gerald Oppenheimer, City University of New York
“Her photographs, videos and sculptures are experiments using the content and aesthetic potential of material. She aims to investigate our experience through images, questioning their meaning, elevating the magic and mystery of often overlooked details.These are journeys of realisation. Nowack invites us to look through the windows of her perception, where time is like poetry, standing infinitely still, or passing by. All illuminated by a strange light. In her work, dreamy imagery calls out to us from a place slightly outside of our shared “reality,” a place of unconsciousness. “ Phoebe Now
Dec 7, 2022 - March 5, 2023
Group Show at Fotofestival SOLAR at Pinacoteca do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
curated by Ângela Berlinde
with Cristina de Middel, Diego Moreno, Dominique Teufen, Gloria Oyzarbal, Guadalupe Milles, Hoda Afshar, Jana Nowack, Lisandro Suriel, River Claure, Shinji Nagabe, Yael Martinez
In this edition VENTO SOLAR throws a spark into the past by illuminating ancestral narratives to build new imaginaries and meanings for the future, proposing a reflection on the importance of dreams and their transforming power. Perhaps this is an opportunity to reconstruct our existence with joy, with hearts lifted high and eyes turned to the heavens, in the encounter with the magic and luminosity of the stars.
Exhibition views: Igor Ribeiro
COVID19 DIARIES
2 July - 11 September, 2020
Group Show at Lovaas Projects, Group Exhibition, Munich, Germany
Lovaas Projects initiated an “art virus” which has culminated in the COVID19 DIARIES ex- hibition.The first artist to be “infected,” Verena Issel, sent a work created in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and in turn “infected” another artist and so on and so on...
March 12 - 19, 2022
Book launch and exhibition at FOTO WIEN,
Das Weisse Haus, Vienna
curated by Ângela Berlinde
with Julia Gaisbacher, Elodie Grethen, Julia Maria Gruber, Lena Rosa Händle, Rafael Lippuner, Ryts Monet, Jana Nowack, Dayna Gross
ZWANG
Feb 14 - 16, 2020
Group Show at Springbreak Art Show, Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, USA
Curated by Kylie Manning and Tristan Mcallister
with Lucas Ajemian, Katie Armstrong, Gaby Collins- Fernandez, Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Chad Freilino, Dan Hougland, Layli Samimi, Jackie Manning, Kylie Manning, Jana Nowack, Andre Razo, Tino Razo, Michael Samuels, Christofer Taylor, Pyeng Threadgill
April 20th, 2024
Group Show at Eisen74, Berlin, Germany
with Raphael Nagel, Matthias Hamann, Jana Nowack
