Antonia Nannt
Sculpture
Antonia Nannt (b. 1995, Reutlingen) is a visual artist who lives and works in Berlin. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) and studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her practice is grounded in sculpture, transforming architectural motifs and industrial materials through processes that combine steel with enamel, silkscreen, and fused glass.
Drawing from both architectural structures and ornamental languages, Nannt’s work investigates the relationship between form, surface, and symbolism. Her sculptural objects often oscillate between functionality and decoration, reflecting on questions of gender, memory, and power embedded in material culture.
Her work has been shown internationally, including exhibitions at Galerie A.M.180, Prague (2025), Kunstverein Ulm (2025), GROTTO, Berlin (2024), Roman Road Gallery, London (2023), and Galerie WAF, Vienna (2022). In 2025, she was awarded a workshop grant at Pilchuck Glass School by the Alexander-Tutsek Foundation.
Statement
My practice explores the tension between constructed form and emotive symbolism. I work with sculptural objects, combining industrial materials such as steel with decorative and fragile elements to create hybrid forms that question hierarchies between structure and ornament, strength and delicacy.
In my ongoing series Napkinfeminine frills are integrated into rigid steel frameworks, merging the decorative with the functional. These works evoke coded gender roles, nostalgia, and shifting power relations, using material contrast as a way of reflection rather than illustration.
Through a constant dialogue between exterior surfaces and interior spaces, I examine how objects carry emotional and social meanings. My sculptures function as sites where architectural logic and intimate symbolism intersect, inviting viewers to consider the relationship between outer appearance, inner life, and the cultural narratives embedded in material form.
