NatHalie Braun Barends was born in Germany and grew up primarily in Brazil and Chile. Significant stages of her artistic career have taken place in various regions of the world.
She earned master’s degrees in communication and art from the University of Sao Paulo. She also studied at the Instituto per l’Arte e Ristauro in Florence, was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for International Art in Canada, was an invited artist at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and was an exchange artist at the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
One of her artistic focuses is working with light in its many forms. She works with natural and light-emitting pigments, new media, and materials. Her art also encompasses architecture and design, and she explores and creates symbols.
Solo exhibitions have included the Goethe-Institut in Sao Paulo, the Austrian Cultural Center “Palais Pallfy,” UNESCO in Paris, and various modern art museums in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, and Recife, the Museum of Image and Som in Sao Paulo, Expo Hannover, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Art Basel Badischer Bahnhof, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile, and the Museo de Arte Contemporánea in Valdivia, Chile.
NatHalie Braun Barends received the NY Art Commission Award for her lighting concept at the PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art (MoMA) and was honored for her lifetime achievement by the Divine Académie Francaise des Arts, Lettres et Culture, Paris.
The artwork “HBeing RP5,” exhibited at Munich HIGHLIGHTS, is a visual representation of the flow of life and divine principles. It is the artist’s first work to be produced as an NFT. The aim is not only to document the authenticity of the work, but also to present it vividly through different lighting and in different locations.
© NatHalie Braun Barends
