Julia Jansen
WORKS // INFO // BIOGRAPHY, AWARDS // EXHIBITIONS
WORKS
Julia Jansen | 2022 | Der hinkende Vergleich – die unzulässige Verkürzung | Öl auf Leinwand | 120 x 100 cm
Julia Jansen | Der hinkende Vergleich – die unzulässige Verkürzung II | 2022 | Öl auf Leinwand | 120 x 100 cm
Julia Jansen | Die Unverschämtheit + die Entschuldigung, gleichgesinnt | 2022 | Öl auf Leinwand | 120 x 100 cm
Julia Jansen | Die Unverschämtheit + die Entschuldigung, um Augenhöhe bemüht | 2022 | Öl auf Leinwand | 120 x 100 cm
ARTIST
Julia Jansen
Every time we look at a painting by Julia Jansen, we can observe ourselves as ‘seeing’, but perhaps equally as ‘deceived’. The latest works of the 2022 series of “Tropics & Figures” already refer in the title to something not clearly defined. With the tropics is meant here more than a climatic zone, because at most the backgrounds refer to it. What is meant here is the tropus (also the trope, plural tropes), which in rhetoric is an umbrella term for certain classes of rhetorical figures, i.e. stylistic devices. Thus, the figures shown are allegories, such as “the noble lie,” “the fact,” “the compromise,” etc.
The figures stand on a second level in front of the background, which depicts palm trees, beach and sea. In addition, the artist combines small-format images of colorful birds: Parrots and budgies.
Of course, the motifs of the pictures all come from reality, but here reality points to something doubtful. This silent world, where everything is almost natural, where one should not ask too many questions, obviously comes rather from the half-world of dreams. The subtle imbalance of the images is achieved with very few details. Did we see this half dream or dream this seen? The fictional seems as real as the factual here. Reality is perhaps more a mixture of the two after all. A picture, in order to be a picture, must show something on its surface that is not present at that point itself.
Every picture is thus a visible contradiction of presence and absence. The painting of Julia Jansen, however, is present and present. It offers itself to the looking eye and provides a sense that only images can communicate. This arises from the visibility of the image and therefore concerns the visual perceptive faculty of man. The peculiar fascination of Julia Jansen’s paintings perhaps stems from the fact that they are about seeing itself. Her paintings are of course material, but at the same time they are dematerializations that transform an object into pure visibility.
BIOGRAPHY
1972
born in Bonn, Germany
1995
School of the Art Institute, Chicago, USA
1997
6 x 6, workshop, Kaliningrad, Russia
1993-1998
Studies at the Städelschule – University of Fine Arts, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1997-1998
Slade School, UCL, London, UK
1999
Master student of Prof. Thomas Bayrle
2000
Acquisition price, Museo del’ Arte Contemporanea, La Spezia, Italy
1999-2001
de Ateliers, Amsterdam/Netherlands
Lives and works near Cologne, Germany.
Scholarships // Awards
1997
Erasmus Scholarship, UCL, UK
1999
de Ateliers scholarship, Amsterdam, NL
2000
purchase price, Premio del Golfo, La Spezia, I
2004
Promotion Award of the State of NRW for young artists
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020s
2023
MISSTORY mit Julia Jansen, Caroline Krause, Julia Mantel, Corinna Mayer und Bettina Sellmann, Kunstverein Familie Montez
2022
Hypnopomp mit Thorsten Brinkmann, Claus Brunsmann, Mathias Deutsch, Dirk Heiden, Julia Jansen, Nicole Messenlehner, Andres Arjona Martinez, Stefan Müller, Eva Schwab, Bettina Sellmann, HilbertRaum, Berlin
Tropen & Figuren, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt
2021
Easymagic123, Kunstverein Offenbach, KUNST IM KOMM, mit Bettina Sellmann
2020
Sweet Nothing Sweet, K.I.S.S. – Kunst im Schloss Untergröningen e.V.
EASYMAGIC123, Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen und Düsseldorf
Hunger nach Bildern, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
2010s
2019
Stubenausstellung 19, Kunstraum Dietz, Köln
2018
Stubenausstellung 18, Kunstraum Dietz, Köln
Shirley Lumina Claire, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
2017
Alles! Geben, B. Emsbach, C. Mayer, S. Mann, J. Jansen, V. Stanojev ua., art tempi communications, Köln
200 Jahre Städelschule- 200 Künstler, Galerie Perpetuel, Frankfurt a.M.
2016
Thomas Buck, Julia Jansen, Ulrich Meister, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt a.M.
Delusions of landscape, Galerie Christa Burger, München
Julia Jansen, Internistisch-kardiologische Gemeinschaftspraxis Westend, Frankfurt a.M.
2015
maria anisimowa, sevda chkoutova, julia jansen, enrico nagel, roland schappert, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankurt a.M.
Julia Jansen, DEAR FUTURE ME, Brussels, BEL
nach dem Leben ohne Zeit, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt a.M.
2014
kleine Formate, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt a.M.
Stubenausstellung, Volksgartenstraße 26, Köln
20 Jahre WeldeKunstpreis –Eine Retrospektive, Stadtgalerie Mannheim
2013
Hasenmilch, Galerie Christa Burger, München
Stubenausstellung, Kunstraum Dietz, Köln
Gloria Ozeana America, Städtisches Museum Engen
2012
Stubenausstellung, Kunstraum Dietz, Köln
kleine formate, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt a.M.
Julia Jansen, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
licht und liebe, Galerie Martia Detterer, Frankfurt a.M.
2011
Stubenausstellung, Kunstraum Dietz, Köln
Gästezimmer, Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt a.M.
2010
kleine Formate, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt a. M., Deutschland
2000s
2008
Geiz und Grausamkeit, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland, mit Julia Huebner (solo)
My Generation – 2, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
2007
Galerie Thomas Rehbein, Köln, Deutschland (solo)
Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair 2007, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln, Deutschland
2006
I love Landwirtschaft, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland (solo)
Julia Jansen und Matti Braun, Ehem. Reichsabtei Aachen-Kornelimönster, Aachen, Deutschland
2005
Landleben – I love Landwirtschaft, Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn, Deutschland (solo)
Neue Bilder, Galerie S 65, Cologne, Deutschland (solo)
Julia Jansen und Matti Braun, Ehem. Reichsabtei Aachen-Korneli-Muenster, Deutschland (solo)
2004–2005
Kleine Formate, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
2004
Landschaften, Galerie S 65, Köln, Deutschland
Gruppenausstellung vom Kunsthistorischen Institut der Universität Bonn, Deutschland (solo)
Perspektiven Heutiger Malerei”, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, Deutschland (solo)
2003–2004
Kleine Formate, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
2003
Foerderkoje Art Brussels, Galerie S 65, Aalst/Köln, Deutschland (solo)
Meat is murder, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland (solo)
2002–2003
Art Concern, Kortrijk, Belgien (solo)
2002
Early Works, 1998-2002, de Ateliers, Amsterdam, Niederlande
Dorothea von Stetten Preis, Kunst Museum Bonn, Deutschland
Atelierhaus Bonn, mit Julia Huebner, Deutschland (solo)
2001
Silver dreams, golden reality, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Deutschland (solo)
Kleine Formate, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
2000
…paint on paint…, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
Premio del Golfo, La Spezia, Biennale Europea Arti Visive, Italien
Julia Jansen und Grace Ndiritu, de Ateliers, Amsterdam, Niederlande (solo)
1990s
1999
Kunststudenten stellen aus, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Deutschland (Kat.)
bon direct, Bonner Kunstverein, Deutschland (Kat.)
1998
Stuttgart, 17.7.1956-Salem (Wis.)/ USA, 3.3.1977, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
kiss ffm, KX, Kunst auf Kampnagel, Hamburg, Deutschland
rraum, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland (solo)
1997
DownTown, Staedelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland (Kat.)
6 x 6, Künstler-Workshop, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Kaliningrad, Russland (Kat.)