• AnsSwart

    Visual Artist and Thangka-Painter

    Current Project
    [überleben und leben]
    Gabriele Stötzer & Ans Swart
    06. 03. – 12. 04. 2026
    Vernissage Thursday, 05. 03. 2026, 6 pm
    Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867 e.V.
    Projektraum Eisenacher Straße 118, 10777 Berlin

  • AnsSwart

    Visual Artist and Thangka-Painter

    Current Project
    [überleben und leben]
    Gabriele Stötzer & Ans Swart
    06. 03. – 12. 04. 2026
    Vernissage Thursday, 05. 03. 2026, 6 pm
    Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867 e.V.
    Projektraum Eisenacher Straße 118, 10777 Berlin

  • AnsSwart

    Visual Artist and Thangka-Painter

    Current Project
    [überleben und leben]
    Gabriele Stötzer & Ans Swart
    06. 03. – 12. 04. 2026
    Vernissage Thursday, 05. 03. 2026, 6 pm
    Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867 e.V.
    Projektraum Eisenacher Straße 118, 10777 Berlin

  • AnsSwart

    Visual Artist and Thangka-Painter

    Current Project
    [überleben und leben]
    Gabriele Stötzer & Ans Swart
    06. 03. – 12. 04. 2026
    Vernissage Thursday, 05. 03. 2026, 6 pm
    Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867 e.V.
    Projektraum Eisenacher Straße 118, 10777 Berlin

  • AnsSwart

    Visual Artist and Thangka-Painter

    Current Project
    [überleben und leben]
    Gabriele Stötzer & Ans Swart
    06. 03. – 12. 04. 2026
    Vernissage Thursday, 05. 03. 2026, 6 pm
    Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867 e.V.
    Projektraum Eisenacher Straße 118, 10777 Berlin

  • AnsSwart

    Visual Artist and Thangka-Painter

    Current Project
    [überleben und leben]
    Gabriele Stötzer & Ans Swart
    06. 03. – 12. 04. 2026
    Vernissage Thursday, 05. 03. 2026, 6 pm
    Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867 e.V.
    Projektraum Eisenacher Straße 118, 10777 Berlin

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Ans Swart

Ans Swart is an artist whose work explores fundamental aspects of human existence, such as the body, voice and mind. Over the 40 years of her artistic work, she has developed a diverse body of work, ranging from traditional panel paintings to expansive spatial environments and collaborative projects. Although painting remains at the core of her practice, she is increasingly extending it beyond the image into space, time and embodied experience.

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In her early experimental performances, Swart approached painting as a temporal and spatial process, using spontaneous expression to explore the power and interplay of form, colour, music and voice. In the early '90s, she met her spiritual master, Prof. Chögyal Namkhai Norbu. Throughout this significant encounter, she developed an extraordinary range, moving between spontaneous expression and the absolute exactness of traditional Thangka painting. This development, moving from outer expression to an inner understanding of forms and colours, mirrored her interest in the unlimited potential of human beings through both free artistic expression and fundamental traditional forms. Ans Swart creates works of art that function as both images and spaces, in which art becomes a living process of attention and interconnection.

Work

Paintings and Series

Move

Performances

Word

Catalogs and Words

Space

Exhibitions

PERFORMANCE »Lambdoma«
Creatief Centrum Maastricht 1988
With Peter Freysen - actor and singer, and Birgit Ruttkowsky (D) – movement-artist.

Weather/Again is my mother (Weer Is Mijn Moeder)
Paintings inspired by a legacy - the diaries left by my mother.

Simhamukha, 530 x 350 mm
Ans Swart with her Thangka »Simhamukha« in her Atelier on Tenerife
Interview by dzamlinggar.net

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Ans Swart

Ans Swart is an artist whose work explores fundamental aspects of human existence, such as the body, voice and mind.
Over the 40 years of her artistic work, she has developed a diverse body of work, ranging from traditional panel paintings to expansive spatial environments and collaborative projects. Although painting remains at the core of her practice, she is increasingly extending it beyond the image into space, time and embodied experience.

read more…

In her early experimental performances, Swart approached painting as a temporal and spatial process, using spontaneous expression to explore the power and interplay of form, colour, music and voice. In the early '90s, she met her spiritual master, Prof. Chögyal Namkhai Norbu. Throughout this significant encounter, she developed an extraordinary range, moving between spontaneous expression and the absolute exactness of traditional Thangka painting. This development, moving from outer expression to an inner understanding of forms and colours, mirrored her interest in the unlimited potential of human beings through both free artistic expression and fundamental traditional forms. Ans Swart creates works of art that function as both images and spaces, in which art becomes a living process of attention and interconnection.

Natalia Gershevskaya, eloque

  • Dorothea Frank

    T R A N S F O R M A T I O N

    In any case Ans Swart has added her own vision and interpretation. The starting point of this ritual is visualization. Six disturbing passions or emotions - and the matching worlds (lokas) - are symbolized through particular colours situated in the different chakras. The ritual purifies each colour in turn. Instead of being eliminated the negative emotion (such as pride, jealousy, anger or attachment) is transformed into related wisdom. As a painter Ans saw a challenge.

  • Louise Levi

    About Tiglé’s

    Tiglé’s also represent the natural movement of the formless world &, in Tibetan practice, are used as methods of liberation. In my work, the tigle can be considered an extension of my studies w. the Tibetan Ati Yoga teacher, Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, or simply as a circular depiction of colour & rays.

  • Daan van Ophuysen, 9 oktober 2000

    Text from an spectator

    Consciousness is everywhere, but the one phenomenon is more accessible, more resonant, or more inspiring than the other. »Beauty is in the eye of the beholder«, and for these qualities is this also true: that for which my eyes open, that which they want to see, that works for me.

Ans Swart
Visual Artist, Thangka-Painter
Amsterdam / Tenerife

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