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.