1995-97 Feng Shui Consultant Training, St. Devine und R. Chin, Kushi Institute, Amsterdam

1991-95 Theatre Design, Hogeschool voor Beeldenden Kunsten, Utrecht, Netherlands

1992-1993 Decoration Design for Meditation Wonderland, Humaniversity, Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands. Reiki Teacher, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1988-89 apprentice for Set Design and Technical Drawing, T. Richter- Forgach, Kobscheid, Germany. Apprentice for costumes and sets, Stadttheater, Bielefeld 1987, apprentice for costumes, Schauspielhaus, Berlin, apprentice for costumes, Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Apprentice for costumes, Maria Lukas, Cologne

1983-90 Jugend Musik-und Kunstschule Bielefeld, Yael Niemeyer, Germany

1985-87 Dressmaking apprentenship, Jobis, Bielefeld, Germany Individual


Expositions

2003 Innere Gärten, paintings, Int. Frauenzentrum, Bonn, Germany

1998 Wer bin ich, paintings and installation, Galerie Bauermeister, Kürten, Germany 1990 Loslösung, paintings, Discothek Farout, Bielefeld, Germany


Collective Expositions

2003 Townhall, Kall, Germany. Wildnis-Wandlungs ins Nichts des Herzens III,Feng Shui Art Installation, Kall, Germany. Leidenschaft and Crystalworks, Townhall, Kall, Germany

2000 Wildnis-Wandlung ins Nichts des Herzens II, Feng Shui Art Installation, Project: rheinart

2000 Bad Honnef, Germany

1999 Wildnis-Wandlung ins Nichts des Herzens, Feng Shui Art Installation, Project: Vogelfrei'99, Darmstadt, Germany

1998 Feuerblume, painting, Restaurant, Osho's Place

1991 Wandlung, painting, Group theme: Dance, Supernova Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1987 paintings, Krankenhaus Rosenhöhe, Bielefeld, Germany. Sculptures of found Objects, Art New England, Bennington, USA


Artistic Approach

Nanda Gruss has studied from 1983-1990 with Yael Niemeyer at Musik-und Kunstschule Bielefeld painting, drawing, sculpture and performance, which founded the basis for her multidimensional expression. After learning dressmaking, she took different apprentices in theatre ateliers and with a theatre designer in Germany.

Her main motivation has always been learning by doing. During her study at the Hogeschool for beeldende Kunsten Theatre Design from 1991-1993, it became clear that her strength is in art and space design with a therapeutic or trans-formational purpose.

Projects like Meditation Wonderland followed between 1992-1993 initiated by Mariet Wijnen of the Humaniversity in Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, in which she created art rooms that supported Self Therapy Procedures -- the beginning of meditation influenced art.

During 1990-1999 her paintings were marking different stages of experimenting with meditation and expressing the findings of the inner world on paper, the medium mainly oil crayon and drawing.

When she dicovered the ancient art of Feng Shui in Amsterdam at the Kushi Institut from 1995-1997, she realized that she wanted to create art that supports the chi flow in a space. She got invited to join the Vogelfei '99 Project, that was initiated by two Galeries of Darmstadt. The purpose of this project was, to bring art out of the museum into people's private space open to the puplic. Each artist choose a garden of a private home, for which he or she would create something. In this project Nanda Gruss brought for the first time all the elements of her different studies of theatre, art, Feng Shui and performance together and participated with Wildnis- Wandlung ins Nichts des Herzens.

This project had 1000 of visitors from around Germany.Two moderations of this Installation were done in 2000, when she participated in an old ruin at the rheinart 2000 Exposition and in 2001 at the Ausstellung Kaller Künstler when she placed the Installation in the entrance of a schoolbuilding.

In 2003 she started her own business with Transformational art like paintings as well as objects for spaces, Feng Shui Consultation and Space clearing. Her way of working is that she has inner visions of certain structures and forms while meditating in a specific space and these become the basis of what she expresses than on canvas, paper or trevira voile. Watching and listening to the movements of nature and invisible energy forms is a major aspect of her motivation.

She is emotional sensitive and expressive. Her purpose is to balance energies in herself and the surrounding. Structures that appear are plants, flowers, animals, energetic patterns and colours. She works in a way very translucent with different layers over each other. Watercolours, acrylic and oil crayon have been her main medium.

(Artist's Text)