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Ann Veronica Janssens, Blue Wind , 2010, Sculpture: 21 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 25 1/2 in (55 × 55 × 55 cm) Base: 21 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 25 1/2 in (55 × 55 × 55 cm)

Ann Veronica Janssens (b. 1956 in Folkestone, United Kingdom) endeavors to enable viewers to perceive light as a material through intimate sculptural environments. The artist’s luminous works create gradient zones that oscillate between light and shadow, opacity and transparency, engaging her ongoing scientific and architectural inquiries. Janssens’s object-based works are studies on the behavior of light, and their phenomenological effects belie their simplicity.

Janssens lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy; Collection Lambert, Avignon, France; Fondation CAB, Brussels, Belgium; Panthéon, Paris, France; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland, among many others. Her work is included in several collections such as the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX; Musée d’art Modern, Brussels, Belgium; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark.

Exhibitions

Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: After the peacock wheel

After the peacock wheel

23 Jun – 25 Aug 2023

Bortolami
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Grand Bal

Grand Bal

5 Apr – 30 Jul 2023

Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: entre le crépuscule et le ciel

entre le crépuscule et le ciel

2 Jul – 9 Oct 2022

Collection Lambert, Avignon
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: 5766 chemin des Trious

5766 chemin des Trious

4 Jun – 9 Nov 2022

Fondation CAB, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: 23:56:04

23:56:04

1 Jun – 30 Oct 2022

Panthéon, Paris
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Hot Pink Turquoise

Hot Pink Turquoise

23 Sep – 29 Nov 2020

South London Gallery
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Hot Pink Turquoise

Hot Pink Turquoise

23 Jan – 17 May 2020

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: The Song of the Araponga

The Song of the Araponga

28 Jun – 9 Aug 2019

39 Walker
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Ann Veronica Janssens

Ann Veronica Janssens

10 Nov 2018 – 31 Mar 2019

De Pont Museum, Tilburg
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Ann Veronica Janssens

Ann Veronica Janssens

12 Oct 2018 – 13 Jan 2019

Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Space Shifters

Space Shifters

26 Sep 2018 – 6 Jan 2019

Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Ann Veronica Janssens: Fog Star

Ann Veronica Janssens: Fog Star

30 May – 31 Oct 2018

Baltimore Museum of Art
Installation view of Ann Veronica Janssens / Baltimore

Ann Veronica Janssens / Baltimore

May 2018

Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: The Absent Museum

The Absent Museum

2 Apr – 13 Aug 2017

Wiels Contemporary Art Centre
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: University of Disasters

University of Disasters

30 Mar – 22 Apr 2017

Bortolami
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Mars

Mars

24 Mar – 7 May 2017

Institute d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Going Home: 43 Fifth Avenue

Going Home: 43 Fifth Avenue

15 Nov – 18 Dec 2016

43 Fifth Avenue, New York
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: I Beam U Channel

I Beam U Channel

30 Jun – 12 Aug 2016

Bortolami
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Ann Veronica Janssens

Ann Veronica Janssens

23 Jan – 17 Apr 2016

Nasher Sculpture Center
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Ann Veronica Janssens

Ann Veronica Janssens

9 Jan – 20 Feb 2016

Bortolami
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: .A | Ayşe Erkmen & Ann Veronica Janssens

.A | Ayşe Erkmen & Ann Veronica Janssens

31 Oct 2015 – 14 Feb 2016

S.M.A.K., Ghent
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Ann Veronica Janssens: yellowpinkblue

Ann Veronica Janssens: yellowpinkblue

15 Oct 2015 – 3 Jan 2016

Wellcome Collection, London
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Philaetchouri

Philaetchouri

6 Apr – 30 Apr 2015

La Verrière, Fondation D'Enterprise Hermès
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: First lines, like first dates, or the first bite of dessert, can be deceptive.

First lines, like first dates, or the first bite of dessert, can be deceptive.

28 Mar – 26 Apr 2014

Bortolami
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Chapelle Saint-Vincent

Chapelle Saint-Vincent

25 May – 15 Sep 2013

Chapelle Saint-Vincent, Paris
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: 18th Biennale of Sydney: All Our Relations

18th Biennale of Sydney: All Our Relations

27 Jun – 16 Sep 2012

Carriageworks, Sydney
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Rundlederwelten

Rundlederwelten

20 Oct 2005 – 8 Jan 2006

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Ann Veronica Janssens

Ann Veronica Janssens

3 Jul – 17 Aug 2003

Kunsthalle Bern
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: 1999 Venice Biennial: Horror Vacui

1999 Venice Biennial: Horror Vacui

13 Jun – 17 Nov 1999

Ca’ Giustinian, Venice

Press

Orlando Whitehead 'Eludes literal interpretation': Evocative new artwork unveiled in front of European Parliament The Brussels Times Jan 2024Amanda Wall Ann Veronica Janssens’ Emulation of Biological Structural Color FF2 Media Jul 2023David Behringer 4 Must-See Art Exhibitions in New York This Summer milk-design Jul 2023Dilpreet Bhullar Ann Veronica Janssens’ ‘Grand Bal’ conjures performative and sensorial experience stirworld Jul 2023Ana Vukadin Ann Veronica Janssens’s Heightened Sensual Perception ArtReview Jul 2023Billy De Luca Ann Veronica Janssens at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca “That Space Between Inhale and Exhale. That.” Office Jun 2023Benoit Loiseau Ann Veronica Janssens wraps Milan’s Pirelli HangarBicocca in light, mist and magic Wallpaper* Apr 2023Dilpreet Bhullar Fondation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence exhibits minimalist works from its collection Stir World Aug 2022Karen Orton Making the Invisible Visible, Ann Veronica Janssens Ark Journal Apr 2022Hettie Judah Ann Veronica Janssens review – Jackson Pollock meets Disney Princess Party The Guardian Sept 2020SLG Ann Veronica Janssens: Hot Pink Turquoise at the South London Gallery South London Gallery Sept 2020Monica Khemsurov The T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week The New York Times Style Magazine Jan 2020Scott Indrisek Ann Veronica Janssens and Michel François - The Song of the Arapongo ArtReview Sept 2019Alina Cohen 5 Artists Using Glitter to Create Dazzling and Complex Artworks Artsy Aug 2019Cultured Gallery Peeping: New York Heats Up With A New Wave of Summer Exhibitions Cultured Magazine Jul 2019Kerr Houston Tension and Convergence: Ann Veronica Janssens’ Fog Star Bmore Art Jun 2018Roberta Smith ADAA: A Fair to Remember Starts a Month of Art Show Madness The New York Times Mar 2018Laura Gascoigne Tracey Emin finds a kindred spirit in Turner The Spectator Oct 2017Jean-Marie Durand Troubles de la perception avec Ann Veronica Janssens et son exposition "Mars" à Villeurbanne Les lnrockuptibles Mar 2017Christian Lund Ann Veronica Janssens: Passion for Light The Huffington Post Sept 2016Jeffrey Kastner Ann Veronica Janssens Artforum Mar 2016Pieter Plagens From Software to Plein Air, Plus Minimalism in Heaven The Wall Street Journal Jan 2016David Ebony David Ebony's Top 10 New York Gallery Shows This Winter Artnet Jan 2016Ann Veronica Janssens Review: Artist Ann Veronica Janssens takes us inside the rainbow Star-Telegram Jan 2016Ann Veronica Janssens Ann Veronica Janssens @ Bortolami 2-Times Jan 2016Roberta Smith Ann Veronica Janssens Casts Strong Beams at Bortolami The New York Times Jan 2016Isabella Smith Ann Veronica Janssens: Illuminating the Masses AnOther Jan 2016Natalija Paunić Ann Veronica Janssens Minimalistic Space Manipulations on view at Bortolami New York Widewalls Jan 2016Ali Morris Into the mist: Ann Veronica Janssens fills the Wellcome Collection with a thick, multicoloured fog Wallpaper* Oct 2015Antonia Wilson States of Mind: Ann Veronica Janssens’ yellowbluepink Creative Review Oct 2015 Bortolami gallery’s exhibit shows 3 x minimalist encounters FirstIndigo&Lifestyle Apr 2014

Writings

  1. Ann Veronica Janssens, Interviewed by Michel François
    Ann Veronica Janssens: Are You Experienced?
    (Basepublishing: 2009)

Publications

Book cover on plain background with title of Hot Pink Turquoise

Hot Pink Turquoise

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and South London Gallery
2020