Born 1980, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan

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Education & Residencies

2006 - 2007 Casa das Caldeiras in São Paulo (Brazil)
1999 - 2004 AKV | St Joost|  Academy for Art and Design Den Bosch (NL)

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Solo Exhibitions

2021 Escape to Solastalgia, New Taipei City Arts Center, Taipei (Taiwan)
2020 Extraordinary Machine, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei (Taiwan)
2014 Tropism, Occupy my Time Gallery, London (UK), duo show with Lorraine Robbins
2012 I'm good at being uncomfortable, Braziliality Gallery, London (UK)
2010 Artist Available, Artists with Attitude, Amsterdam (NL)
2007 60m² of Drawing Myself, Casa das Caldeiras, São Paulo (Brazil)
2005 Karin Janssen, Effenaar, Eindhoven (NL)

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Karin Janssen Project Space​ in London

Karin Janssen Project Space was an independent exhibition space established by artist Karin Janssen in London, active between 2011-2015. The dynamic exhibition programme provided a platform for international emerging and established artists to showcase new work and create new international networks and partnerships. The exhibitions received significant press attention and were frequently recognized as 'Top London art exhibitions to see' and listed among 'Hackney's 10 Hippest Galleries'.

Visit Karin Janssen Project Space

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Group exhibitions

2022 Taipei Lantern Festival
2018 Zhoupu Art Museum, Shanghai (China)
2018 Occuring, IINNOO Gallery, Shanghai (China)
2017 Expositie Robinson, Galerie Nasty Alice, Eindhoven (NL)
2016 Tekenkabinet, This Art Fair, Amsterdam (NL)
2015 Out to Sea, Aurora Museum, Shanghai (China)
2015 Tekenkabinet, Kunstenhuis, Amsterdam (NL)
2015 Young & Beautiful, Gallery Nasty Alice, Eindhoven (NL)
2015 365 Drawings, La Galerie d’Anières (Switzerland)
2015 Tekenkabinet, Museum Waterland, Purmerend (NL)
2014 Chinese Whispers, collaboration between Gallery Nasty Alice, Eindhoven (NL)
 and Karin Janssen Project Space, London (UK)
2014 Tekenkabinet 2.0 & The Big Draw Amsterdam (NL)
2014 365 Drawings The Keep, Reading, Berkshire, exhibition and talk (UK)
2014 Tekenkabinet, Museum Waterland, Purmerend (NL)
2014 VANITAS, Karin Janssen Project Space, London (UK)
2014 SEX, Gallery Nasty Alice in Eindhoven (NL)
2014 A5, Platform Projects, by Lubomirov Easton, London (UK) at Art Athina (Greece)
2014 Summer Exhibition, NSH Arts, London (UK)
2014 RAW Art Fair in Rotterdam with Gallery Nasty Alice (NL)
2013 Tekenkabinet, Kunstsalon Assen (NL)
2013 GROWTH in Karin Janssen Project Space, London (UK)
2013 Tekenkabinet, Amsterdam Westpoort (NL)
2013 Tekenkabinet, Museum Waterland, Purmerend (NL)
2013 THOTS and... by Neil Ferguson, at Mile End Art Pavilion, London (UK)
2013 Raw Skin, Karin Janssen Project Space in London (UK)
2013 Cold Climate, Occupy my Time Gallery in London (UK)
2013 Defcon Salon, Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh (UK)
2012 Woman’s Art?, Studio 180, exhibition and talk, in London (UK)
2012 70 Artists 7 Days, Braziliality, Mile End Art Pavilion in London (UK)
2011 I am Braziliality, Forman's Smokehouse Gallery in London (UK)
2011 Bad Girls, C&H Art Space in Amsterdam (NL)
2011 Local, Karin Janssen Project Space in London (UK)
2010 Salon, Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam (NL)
2009 Salon, Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam (NL)
2008 Aanwinst, BBK, Loods 6 in Amsterdam (NL)
2008 Tekenen 8, Quartair in The Hague(NL)
2008 Sugarfactory in Amsterdam (NL)
2008 Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam (NL)
2007 Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (NL)
2007 Nutopia, Chiellerie in Amsterdam (NL)

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Subsidies & Prizes

2010 Short-listed for stage 2 of John Moores Painting Prize (UK)
2006 Production fund FBKVB/Mondriaan Foundation (NL)
2003 Sandberg Institute, The One Minutes Foundation (NL)

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Projects

• Karin Janssen Project Space, London, founder and curator, 2011-2014
• NIKA Art Projects, Amsterdam, co-founder and director, 2007-2011 
• Women and Children First, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, 2006-2007
• The Enchanted Loft shown in Almere, Amsterdam, Amstelveen, Nieuw Beijerland and Sheffield, 2007

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Press & publications

Press coverage of "Escape to Solastalgia" at New Taipei City Arts Center

• TV interview with Home+, New Taipei City, "Dutch artist holds painting exhibition hoping for Taiwanese to raise awareness of environmental protection", September 2021 >> 
• The Storm Media, Taiwan, “Dutch artist Karin Janssen's solo exhibition explores our contemporary world with fantastical colors", September 2021 >>
• The Taiwan Story, Taiwan, “Dutch artist Karin Janssen's solo exhibition explores our contemporary world with fantastical colors", September 2021 >>
• dPi Taiwan Magazine, “Deconstruction of form, nothingness: ‘Escape to Solastalgia’ a glimpse of death in fantasy”, September 2021 >>
• Taiwan Shih Shang Daily News, "Dutch artists come to Taiwan for a solo exhibition of fantasy colours to take a look at the contemporary world", September 2021 >>
• Central News Agency, Taiwan, "Dutch artist Karin Janssen comes to Taiwan for a solo exhibition of fantasy colours to take a look at the contemporary world", September 2021 >>
• Taiwan Hot, "Dutch artist Karin Janssen's solo exhibition will be on display at New Taipei Art and Culture Center today", September 2021 >>
• Liberty Times Net, Taipei, "Dutch artist's solo exhibition New Taipei debuts fantasy colors to draw dinosaur skeletons", September 2021 >>
• Newtalk News, Taipei,  "Dutch artist Karin Janssen holds a solo exhibition", September 2021 >>
• Taiwan Shih Shang Daily News, "Dutch artists come to Taiwan for a solo exhibition of fantasy colours to take a look at the contemporary world", September 2021 >>​
• MomBaby, Taiwan, "Foreign artist mother in Taiwan! Karin Janssen's solo exhibition, exploring the meaning of self and environment, nature and home", September 2021 >>
• National Education Radio, Taiwan, “Dutch artist Karin Janssen's solo exhibition explores our contemporary world with fantastical colors", September 2021 >>​

Press coverage of "Extraordinary Machine" at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei

• TVBS National Taiwan television: a conversation with the Dutch representative Guy Wittich and C-LAB director Hsiangling Lai which was covered by 方念華 Georgiana Fan’s 看板人物 show "Feature People"​, Taipei, August 2020 at her exhibition "Extraordinary Machine" (starts at 10.39 min) >>
• Newtalk News, Taipei, July 2020 Interview “The nomadic artist and
  old dreams under a foreign sky” >>
• Match Lifestyle Web, Taipei, July 2020 Interview “The nomadic artist
  and old dreams under a foreign sky” >>
• Newtalk News, Taipei, July 2020 Article “Reflecting on Oneself
  and the World on an Island” >>
• Arttime Art Web, Taipei, June 2020 >>
• Bureau of Culture’s iCulture, Taipei, June 2020
• Culture Express by Bureau of Culture, Taipei, June 2020 “Extraordi-
  nary Machine” Karin Janssen, solo exhibition >>
• National Art and Culture Event Information Web, Taipei, June 2020
  “Extraordinary Machine” Karin Janssen, solo exhibition >>
• ARTalks by Tai Shin Bank’s Art and Culture Foundation, Taipei, June
  2020 Article ““Extraordinary Machine” Karin Janssen solo exhibition” >>

Press coverage in Shanghai

• TV interview Pudong Broadcast & TV Station, Shanghai, May 2018
• Interview CN Create, 24 November 2017
  The Extraordinary Machine >>

​Press coverage of various exhibitions in London, the Netherlands, Brazil and Italy

• Eindhovens Dagblad, 18 December 2014
  Kunstenaars zorgen voor een dubbel feestje >>
• The Culture Trip, November 2014
  ​London Culture Guide: Hackney's 10 Hip Galleries >>
• Blog Galerie Nasty Alice, November 2014
  Uitgelicht: Karin Janssen >>

• Wall Street International, November 2014
  Chinese Whispers >>

• East End Review, November 2014
  Front cover and "Gallery on Well Street to host Chinese Whispers exhibition" >>

• Hackney Citizen, November 2014
  Front cover Review and article "Chinese Whispering Gallery" >>

• Time Out London, November 2014
• FAD, 7 July 2014
  Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London by Tabish Khan (Vanitas) >> 

• Time Out First Thursday 
  Top 5 exhibitions July 2014 (Vanitas)

• The Art Newspaper, 15 June 2014
  Article "Let's talk about sex", Galerie Nasty Alice
• El Mundo, 18 June 2014
  Article "La vida es un Barrio Rojo", Galerie Nasty Alice
• Groot Eindhoven, June 2014
  Article "Nasty Alice doet gewaagd", Galerie Nasty Alice
• Exhibition catalogue by Occupy my Time Gallery, May 2014 
  Title ‘Silent Screams in the Valley of Uncanniness’ 
• Wall Street International, 30 April 2014
  Article ‘Karin Janssen and Lorraine Robbins’ >>
• Inveterate Guide, 27 April 2014
  Article ‘Occupy My Time Gallery: Tropism by Karin Janssen and Lorraine Robbins’ >>
• East End Review - full cover, November edition 2013
  Cover and feature ‘Screaming Out’ >>
• I am like a Wednesday, 13 November 2013
  Interview “Karin Janssen: GROWTH, The Uncanny and The Artist Run Space” by Amelia Murray  >>
• Baleeblu, 14 November 2013 
  Interview “Screaming with Karin Janssen” by Ana Gil Gomez >>
• Hackney Citizen cover, November edition 2013
  Feature ‘It’s a scream!’ >>
• Wall Street International, 7 October 2013
  Article ‘Growth’ >>
• London Artists Quarters, November 2013
  ‘Growth’ exhibition front page
• Artlyst, 19 April 2013
  ‘Raw Skin’ recommended exhibitions  >>
• Trebuchet, 19 March 2013
  Interview ‘Hanging Offence’ >>
• Rough, 23 April 2013
  Article ‘Raw Skin’ 
• The Star, 31 May 2012
  The Enchanted Loft
• Epoca, São Paulo, Brazil, 5 August 2011
  Interview ‘I am Braziliality’ >>
• ArtWake, Italy, August 2011
  Review ‘I am Braziliality’ >>
• Hackney Citizen, August edition 2011
  Review ‘I am Braziliality’
• Time Out First Thursdays, August 2011
  Top 5 with ‘I am Braziliality’
• Hackney Citizen, April edition 2011
  Interview ‘Looking into the Local’ >>
• Self, An Ovenden Contemporary Project, 2009
  Compiled by Craig Kerrecoe, ISBN 978-1-907437-00-7
• Kunst? Kopen! 2007
  by Veronique Baar, QKunst, supported by ArtOlive, funded by Mondriaan Foundation, ISBN 978-90-811888-1-4
• Big is Beautiful Magazine, 2007
  Interview ‘60m² of Drawing Myself’ by Minke Vogel
• Amstelveens Weekblad, April 2006
  Interview ‘Women and Children First’
• Scoop, 2005
  Interview ‘The Art of Becoming Famous’
• The One Minutes, 2003
  On AT5 television, initiative from Sandberg Institute

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