Janssens
About
Since the late 1970s, Ann Veronica Janssens has been working on the visitor’s experience. Her approach produces intangible works. Her site-specific installations play with reflections, luminosity and transparency, and are created using elusive elements such as light, artificial fog, sound and simple materials such as glass and mirrors, which are simply the means or supports to encourage visitors to experience the fleetingness of the moment, the subjectivity of the perception of space and temporality, and their perpetual evolution. This transformation of the material by the immaterial leads to a loss of reference points and a feeling of instability, shifting from the physical to the psychological. Visitors are actors in their own unique experience, through their movements, interactions and perceptions with the devices devised by the artist, and through these devices, the architecture and space of the places she inhabits.
She has represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale (with Michel François) and the São Paulo Biennale, and has taken part in the Istambul, Sydney, Sharjah and Beppu Biennales. Her solo exhibitions include ‘Grand Bal’ at the Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan in 2023, at the Pantheon in 2022, at the South London Gallery in 2021, at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in 2020, at the Musée de l’Orangerie in 2019, at De Pont,Tilburg, in 2018, at the Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne in 2017, at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, in 2016, at the S.M.A.K Museum of Contemporary Art, in Ghent, in 2010, at the WIELS Centre d’Art Contemporain, in 2009, at the Museum Morsbroich in 2007, at the Musée d’Orsay in 2003 and at the Neue National galerie in 2001. In 2009 she and Nathalie Ergino set up the ‘Brain Space Laboratory’ at the IAC in Villeurbanne.
Published on
14 February 2025