Saskia Janssen (‘s-Hertogenbosch, 1968)
1990-1995 Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag
1996-1997 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
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Exhibitions/ Presentations/ Screenings (selection)
2013 “Diamonds in the Sky”, Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder
2013 “Homeworks” (Less is More), KAAP children’s exhibition Fort Ruigenhoek, Utrecht (i.s.m. Maria Pask)
2012 ‘Ben-de-Insanim’, public space Ankara and Siyah Beyaz Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
2012 ‘A Glass of Water’ (Some Objects on the Path to Enlightenment), Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS (solo)
2011 ‘The Dutch identity? The Power of Now’, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere
2011 ‘Black Cube’, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2011 ‘Mutualisms’, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
2010 ‘The Stability of Objects’, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, South-Korea
2010 ‘Fare Well’, Brain Factory Gallery, Seoul, South-Korea (+ catalogue)
2010 ‘Monument for Invisible Particles’, Belastingkantoor Kralendijk, Bonaire
2010 ‘I Hear A New World’, RC De Ruimte, IJmuiden
2010 ‘Kaap’, Fort Ruigenhoek, Groenekan (children’s exhibition + catalogue)
2009 ‘Windows’, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
2009 ‘Me & You on a Golden Avenue’ , Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam (solo + publication)
2009 ‘Everybody Here Comes From Somwhere’ (Pushing the Sonic Perimeter), Montserrat Gallery, Beverly MA, USA,
in collaboration with Jonas Ohlsson, Sarah Slifer and Femke Lutgerink
2008 ‘Blaka Watra Spiders’, Ellen De Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam (solo)
2008 ‘Imagen Latente’, Galeria Cerro Nutibara, Medellin, Colombia
2008 ‘Another China’, Kunstverein Tiergarten/ Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany (+ catalogue)
2007 ‘To Raise One Question after Another’, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing, China
2007 ‘One year of Experimental Art at Lashihai, Lashihai Haidong Art Center, Yunan, China
2007 ‘Liefde in de Stad’, W139, Amsterdam
2007 ‘Sound of Haarlemmermeer’, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen
2007 ‘East/West, Paradise in Reverse’, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (solo)
2007 ‘Nieuwe Gezichten, recente aankopen’, 2004-2006, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
2006 ‘Peter Stuyvesant’s Ghost’, Public Space/ East Village-New York City
2006
‘World Unlimited’, Museum of Modern Art, (MMKA) Arnhem
2005 KO Video,1st Durban Video Festival, Durban Art Gallery, South-Africa (+ catalogue)
2005 ‘East/West, Paradise in Reverse’ , Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam (solo) + solo presentation at Art Cologne, Germany
2005
‘Social Sculpture’, Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam (with Carey Young and Jean-Baptiste Ganne)
2005 CD presentation The Blue Comets, 25-5-’05, HCBK Stroom, The Hague
2005 ‘Jianghu 3’, mobile video show, Lijiang Studios, public space,Kunming, China
2004 Art Cologne, Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS (+ catalogue)
2004 ‘Situations’, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere (+ publication and DVD)
2004 ‘Smog, Smoke & Fortune’, Fries Museum/ Buro Leeuwarden (solo)
2004 ARCO, Madrid, Spain / Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS (+ catalogue)
2004 ‘Straal’, Outdoor pojection programme De Balie/ AFK, Amsterdam
2003/04 SKOR, De Inkijk, Ruysdaelkade 2, Amsterdam
2003 Art Forum Berlin, Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS (+catalogue)
2003 ‘Chock-a-block-stock 2’, Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam
2003 ‘Smog, Smoke & Fortune’, House of Arts, Brno, Tsjechië, (solo)
2003 Art Rotterdam / Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Rotterdam Cruise Terminal
2002 ‘Upstream’, de Bazel / public space, Amsterdam (+ catalogue)
2002 ‘Circus Maximus in Space’, Sonneborgh Observatory, Utrecht (Lazy Marie Foundation)
2002 ‘Super Stage’, Display Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
2002 Art Rotterdam / Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Rotterdam
2001 ‘Grass Plot Shoot’, Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam (solo)
2001 Internationales Foto Festival Herten (+ catalogue)
2001 ‘House of Games’, Festival aan de Werf, Utrecht
2001 Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie
2001 ‘Kaleidoscopic Eye’, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig (+ catalogue)
2000 ‘P’rend’, commission Gemeente Purmerend /Museum waterland (+ catalogue)
2000 ‘En Bloc’, MK-expositieruimte, Rotterdam
2000 ‘Cum Laude 2′, Internationaal Perscentrum Nieuwpoort, Den Haag (+ catalogue)
2000 World Wide Video Festival, Planetarium Artis, Amsterdam (+catalogue)*
2000 PARTIE 8, Brandenburgische Kunsttage / Internationales Kunst Forum Drewen, Duitsland (site spec.werk + catalogue)
2000 Chock-a-block-stock’, Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam
2000 MK-expositie ruimte , Rotterdam
2000 ‘Slick, Bang & Doo wops’, Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam (solo)
1999 ‘Double Happiness and Other Juices’, Flatland galery, Utrecht (with George Korsmit + Owen Oppenheimer)
1999 CBK Rotterdam
1999 ‘Beat Streuli, Saskia Janssen, Frank van der Salm’, MK-expositieruimte, Rotterdam
1999 ‘Faces & Names’, Exedra, Hilversum
1998 ‘Flipside’, Exedra, Hilversum (with Owen Oppenheimer)
1998 MK-Expositieruimte, Rotterdam
1998 ‘Killing your Darlings’, Ziegler, Groningen (+ catalogus)
1998 ‘Trapdoor’ , MK-Expositieruimte, Rotterdam
1997 Open Ateliers , Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten , Amsterdam
1997 ‘Hong kong etc.’, 2e Biënnale Johannesburg, South Africa (+ catalogue)
1997 ‘Jus Primae Noctis’, galery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
1997 ‘Hong kong, Perfumed Harbour’, De Appel, Amsterdam (+ catalogue)
1997 MK-Expositieruimte, Rotterdam
1996 Open Ateliers , Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten , Amsterdam
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* Catalogues / Articles / Publications (selection)
2013 ‘Spelen met Betekenis’, (Tubelight, M.Geraedts)
2013 ‘The Autonomy of Affect’, Proximity Magazine # 10, p. 46-53 ( artist contribution i.c.w. G.Korsmit and A.Mers)
2012 ‘Actie ! Nieuw activistisch elan’, (Kunstbeeld #11, 2012, Renate van der Zee)
2012 ‘Al die losse eindjes dienen een hoger doel’, (Het Parool, feb. 2012 K.Keijer)
2012 ‘A Glass of Water’ (Some Objects on the Path to Enlightenment), artist publication/edition of 60 / isbn 978–90-818783-0-2
2011 ‘Blind Date With Experts In Future’, (Graphic #18 workshop issue, p.175-188)
2010 ‘Fare Well’, (Top Class Magazine # December 2010, p.44-.47)
2010 ‘Exoten Act’, (Mister Motley # 25 on ‘Fear’, September 2010)
2010 ‘Een bioscoop voor vogels op Fort Ruigenhoek’, (NRC, 11-6-2010, Dana Linssen)
2010 ‘Als je niet durft: tanden op elkaar en erdoorheen!’ ( Trouw, de Verdieping, 2-6-2010, Anita Twaalfhoven)
2009 ‘Saskia Janssen, Me & You on A Golden Avenue’, (Kunstbeeld nr. 3 2009, Anna van Leeuwen)
2009 ‘Het spinnen van een mensenweb’, (Tubelight 23-4-2009, Maarten Steenhagen)
2009 ‘Die webben zijn zelfportretten voor mij’, (Parool 17-3-2009, Liedewij Loorbach)
2009 ‘Spinnenportretten van Verslaafden’, De Wereldomroep 26-3-2009, Jan-Willem Oomen
2009 ‘Blaka Watra Spiders’, artists publication published by Roma Publications
2008 ‘Inloophuisgasten ontmoeten wereld van verschil’, (De Ware Tijd 11-10-2008, Gracia Nelson)
2008 ‘Another China, Das Lijijang Studio in Yunnan’, (Kunstforum International no.92, p.267-269, Herman Pfütze)
2008 ‘Alexis’, ‘Clifton’, ‘Annemieke’, Mister Motley #18 on ‘Imago’, p.5-7, p.22 and p.24-25
2008 ‘Gimme Shelter’ # 5, published by the RainbowSoulclub
2007 ‘Blaka Watra Spiders’, Saskia Janssen, Gray Magazine #3, p.42-51
2007 ‘Gimme Shelter’#3 and #4, published by the RainbowSoulclub
2006 ‘Gimme Shelter’#1 and #2, published by the RainbowSoulclub
2007 Twee leefwerelden vinden elkaar in kunst (Het Parool,20-9-2007, Marco van der Heijden)
2007 ‘Liefde in de Stad’ (Trouw,31-8-2007, Hans Nauta)
2007 ‘Lente breekt door bij Sound of Haarlemmermeer’, (Haarlems Dagblad 26-3-2007, Peter Bruyn)
2005 ‘Plumpuddingtapijt’, (NRC, 10-6-2005, Hans den Hartog Jager)
2005 ‘Een grens van bloemen’, (NRC, 21-10-2005, Machteld Leij)
2005 Politiek en vermaak verenigd in kunst’, (Volkskrant, Wieteke van Zeil, 8-6-2005)
2005 ‘Groeistapels voor een nieuwbouw’, (Het Schooldomein, juni 2005, Robbert-Jan Muller )
2004 ‘Saskia Janssen, tussen Engagement en Mysterie’, Han Schoonhoven, PhotoQ, 10-2004)
2004 ‘Een hangplek tussen kassen, hokken en rode kolen’, (Mr.Motley, issue#03, Mireille de Putter)
2004 ‘Scene Shifters’, artist’s publication, published by Artimo Publishers, Amsterdam
2004 ‘Soundtrack van een Almeerse woonwijk’, (NRC,19-5-2004, Edo Dijksterhuis)
2004 ‘Saskia Janssen legt zwartwerkers in de watten’, (SKRIEN, may 2004, Jacquine van de Elzen)
2004 Display Book 2001-2002, published by Display Gallery, Prague, Czech Repunblic
2003 ‘Exedra 1997-2001, tussen feit, lijn en fictie’, (p.17, p.64) published by Exedra Foundation, Hilversum
2002 ‘Super Stage’, Umelec Vol.6, 2002/2, Michaela Ivaniskova
2002 ‘Kunstenaars tonen hun kijk op 400 jaar VOC’, (Noord-Hollands Dagblad, Martha Dirkmaat Planting)
2002 ‘Saskia Janssenová : Super Stage’, (Týden no. 24/2002, Thomás Pospiszyl)
2002 ‘Lidska dramata ve fotografiích Saskie Janssenové’, (Lidové Noviny Kultura, 14-06-2 Michaela Ivaniskinova)
2002 ‘The three-ring circus of life: artist explores contemporary displacement of ordinary people’, (Prague Post, 22-6-2001, Mimi Rogers)
2002 Catalogue Prix de Rome Photography / Film 2002
2001 ‘Hangjongeren in Purmerend’, (Het Parool, 24-11-2001, Kees Keijer)
2001 ‘Als opgeprikte vlinders, over de portretten van Saskia Janssen’, (Kunstblad, feb.2001, Claudine Hellweg)
2001 ‘Photomaton’, #15, (Channel 1, Bulgarian National Television, 17-2-2001)
2001 ‘European Photography’, nr.68 fall/winter 2000, text by Bas Vroege
2000 ‘Straten, pleinen en schooljeugd in Purmerend’, (NRC, 14-12-2000, Eddie Marsman)
2000 Catalogue 18th World Wide Video Festival, (tekst Nathalie Zonnenberg )
2000 ‘Kunst abladen verboten’, (Der Tagesspiegel, 16-9-2000, Christophe Tannert )
2000 ‘Verdreht in Drewen’, Die Brandenburgische Kunsttage in der Prignitz stellen ein dorf auf den Kopf, (Der Tagesspiegel, 9-9-2000, Nicola Kuhn)
2000 ‘P’rend’, publication/project; published by Paradox, 2000(text by Bas Vroege en Maartje v.d. Heuvel)
1999 ‘De Amsterdamse Kunstprijzen’, AT5 broadcast nov. 1999
1999 ‘Maritiem Epos’, (Het Financieele Dagblad, Mirelle Thijssen)
1998 ‘Cliché op cliché is geen cliché meer’, (Volkskrant, 16-9-’98, Anne van Driel)
1998 ‘Een machinekamer als circuspiste’, (Volkskrant, 25-2-’98, Erik Hagoort)
1997 ‘Traderoutes’ , catalogue 2e Biennale Johannesburg, Zuid-Afrika
1997
‘Hongkong’ , kunstenaarspublikatie, published by Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
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Comissions in Public Space
2010 Commission Rijksgebouwendienst for tax office at Bonaire
2010 Research commission for Poelenburg quarter, Gemeente Zaanstad
2006/7 Commission Public Space, Gemeente Haarlemmermeer
2004 Commission Public Space Staatsliedenwijk Almere, Museum De Paviljoens/Gemeente Almere
2003 Commission for new school building ISW College, ‘s-Gravenzande
2000 Commission Art in Public Space for Gemeente Purmerend
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Teaching positions & lectures (selection)
2002-present Lecturer Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, (graphic design department)
2013- present Lecturer Artez Academy Arnhem( Fine Arts)
2009-2013 Lecturer Artez Academy Zwolle (Fine Arts)
2012 Artist talks at Museum De Paviljoens, Almere and at Kunst Fort Vijfhuizen
2012-13 Lecturer/advisor for No-Academy/het instituut, Amsterdam
2009 Guest lecturer for AKV/St.Joost, MFA photography
2009 Lecture at ‘Monte Verità’, Studium Generale 2009, Gerrit Rietveld Academy
2008-2009 Visiting artist/guest lecturer for Montserrat College of Art, Beverly (MA), USA
2008 Workshop/guest lecturer for Artez Consevatorium/Hogeschool v.d. Kunsten Arnhem
2006-2009 member of knowledge group / Profesorship of Art and Public Space- Gerrit Rietveld Academy ( finish artistic research : may 2007)
2006 Guest Lecturer and public workshop for Artez conservatorium/Hogeschool v.d. Kunsten Zwolle
2004 Lecture + performance workshop for Mr.Motley’s kunstkennisdag, 18-11-2004, Post C.S.
2002 Guest Lecturer Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen. (MFA painting Minerva academy)
2002 Guest Lecturer Royal Academy for Visual Arts, The Hague (photograhy department)
2001-2002 Lecturer Academy St.Joost, Breda (photography department)
2000-2001 Lecture /visiting photographer, Amsterdam Center for Photography
2000 Guest Lecturer Académie des Beaux Arts Régionale, Rouen, Frankrijk
2001 Lecture for Studium Generale Akademie Kunst en Vormgeving, Den Bosch, ‘Kunst op zoek naar nieuwe territoria’
1999 Visiting Artist Washington University, St.Louis, U.S.A. (with George Korsmit)
1998-2004 Lecturer Akademie Kunst en Vormgeving, ‘s-Hertogenbosch (visual art department)
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Other
2013 A 3-month residency period at Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder
2012 ‘Dancing with the Alphabet’, Performance evening by Rietveld students for Holland Festival, Frascati theatre, 15 june, i.c.w. Uta Eisenreich and Sara v/d Heide
2010 3 month residency period at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, South-Korea
2009 Loko 09, presentation and lecture for SKOR in schouwburg Almere
2007 ‘Karma Orkest’: workshop & performance for Mister Motley, at Lowlands Music Festival
2005 Residency period at Lijiang Studios, Lijiang, Yunnan province, China
2004-2009 Board member Materiaalfonds voor Beeldend Kunstenaars
2004-2007 Board member stichting De Veemvloer
2000 Member of editorial board “Lost & Found”, de Waag, Amsterdam
1999 Incentive Price Photography 1999, Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts (AFK)
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Work in Collections :
a.o. CBK Rotterdam, Museum De Paviljoens, Museum Modern Art Arnhem, Fries Museum,
Collestion Almere, IMCO Purmerend, various private collections.