After growing up in the youth culture of her home town that she describes as heavily dominated by
Neonazis, she uses her installations to address the history of
right-wing terrorism and the aesthetic of commonplace homes. She calls furniture the medium of her art.[2] Through a rapidly expanding series of exhibitions, Naumann received significant media exposure in Germany.[3] In addition to her artistic work she also lectures and teaches.[4]
Works
Triangular Stories (2012) contrasts hedonistic and Neonazi youth culture in the Nineties[5]
Aufbau Ost (2016) considers the transformation of the
GDR and the integration of East and West Germany using the aesthetics of everyday items[6]
14 Words (2018) displays a former East German retail store referencing the
National Socialist Underground that mostly murdered retail traders inside their own shops[9]
DDR Noir (2018) exhibits works of Naumann's own grandfather, the GDR graphical artist
Karl Heinz Jakob amidst furniture of the period after reunification[10][11]
Eurotique (2018) at the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art[12][13]