Karin Janssen is a Dutch visual artist, dividing her time between working and exhibiting in Shanghai, London and the Netherlands and running Karin Janssen Project Space in London. Janssen’s work researches how crude emotions can alter the appearance of the physical body by creating large, seductive drawings that lure us in and then confront us with our own abject inner-self. In her independent exhibition space she curates shows of both emerging and established artists from the UK and abroad. 

Karin Janssen Visual Artist

Recent, current and upcoming exhibitions
  • Chinese Whispers, Gallery Nasty Alice, Eindhoven, 29 Nov-20 Dec 2014
  • Out to Sea, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, 11-18 Jan 2015
  • 365 Drawings, La Galerie d’Anières, Switzerland, 4-17 May 2015 >>
NEW WORK
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Bubbly. Pencil, gouache, watercolour and Indian ink on cut paper, 21x29cm, 2014
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I don't worry about pollution, I've got a strong throat. Pencil, gouache, Indian ink and watercolour on paper, 27x35cm, 2015
NEW BLOG POST
New Shanghai studio, freshly painted new beginnings
I've moved to Shanghai! What a crazy few months it’s been. Lots of exhibitions and travelled loads through Italy and Uganda, moved the Chinese Whispers exhibition from London to the Netherlands >>
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'Tropism' by Karin Janssen, 150x230 cm, gouache, ink, watercolour, pencil on paper, 2014
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detail Tropism
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detail Tropism

Karin Janssen Project Space

NEWS: SHANGHAI 
After four years in London it is time for Karin Janssen Project Space to spread its wings to broader horizons and after Chinese Whispers we will be expanding to China! Shanghai will be the base of the gallery, but the interaction between London, the Netherlands and Shanghai will become an important part of the gallery's practice. The aim of the coming years is to work as a connecting presence between the UK, Europe and Asia, organising exhibitions in London, the Netherlands and Shanghai. Karin Janssen and her Project Space are not leaving; they are just going ahead to explore the Asian art world. But we'll be back. For latest updates see blog.
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Huangpu River seen from the Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Recent exhibition
CHINESE WHISPERS
6 - 23 November 2014, Thu- Sun 12 - 6 pm

Chinese Whispers is a collaborative art project between Karin Janssen Project Space in London and Gallery Nasty Alice in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Together the galleries have invited forty-nine artists, twenty-five living in the Netherlands and twenty-four living in the United Kingdom, to take part in the project. Read more...
  • Eindhovens Dagblad, Kunstenaars zorgen voor een dubbel feestje >>
  • Blog Galerie Nasty Alice, interview Karin Janssen >>
  • The Culture Trip, Hackney's 10 Hip Galleries >>
  • East End Review, front cover and feature >>
  • Hackney Citizen, front cover and feature >>
  • Wall Street International >>
  • Listed in Time Out >>
Recent exhibition
VANITAS
Top 5 best art exhibitions in London says FAD and TIME OUT First Thursdays
Tessa Farmer, Julian Farrar, Chiho Iwase, Karin Janssen, Suzanne Moxhay
3 - 20 July 2014 >>