Ann Veronica JANSSENS
04 February - 24 March 2011
Ann Veronica Janssens' artistic practice could be defined as an exploratory journey into the sensory experience of reality. Using different devices ? installations, projections, immersive environments, urban interventions, sculptures ?, she invites the viewer to cross the threshold into a new sensory space, on the borderline of dizziness and bedazzlement. In a register inspired by cognitive processes, her works tend toward a certain minimalism, underscoring the fleeting, ephemeral or fragile character of what she is proposing. Spatialization and distribution of light, radiant colour, and translucent or reflective surfaces all serve to reveal the instability of our perception of time and space. Properties of matter (gloss, lightness, transparency, fluidity) and physical phenomena (reflection, refraction, perspective, balance, waves) are rigorously investigated for their ability to destabilize the very concept of materiality.
Ann Veronica Janssens' artistic practice could be defined as an exploratory journey into the sensory experience of reality. Using different devices ? installations, projections, immersive environments, urban interventions, sculptures ?, she invites the viewer to cross the threshold into a new sensory space, on the borderline of dizziness and bedazzlement. In a register inspired by cognitive processes, her works tend toward a certain minimalism, underscoring the fleeting, ephemeral or fragile character of what she is proposing. Spatialization and distribution of light, radiant colour, and translucent or reflective surfaces all serve to reveal the instability of our perception of time and space. Properties of matter (gloss, lightness, transparency, fluidity) and physical phenomena (reflection, refraction, perspective, balance, waves) are rigorously investigated for their ability to destabilize the very concept of materiality.
Ann Veronica Janssens
Born in 1956, Folkestone, United Kingdom
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
Museo Capella San Severo, with Nord Project / Laurent Jacob, Napoli, Italy
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels
Art Unlimited, Art44, Basel, Switzerland
L'édition populaire # 22, Borgerhout, Belgium
2013
Ronny Van De Velde, Knokke, Belgium
Eglise Sainte-Honorat des Alyscamps, Arles, France
FRAC Corse, Bonifacio, France
1301PE, Los Angeles, USA
Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
Chapelle de Grignan, Grignan, FR (Public space intervention)
2012
Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli, Italy
18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (curated by Catherine de Zegher)
2011
"Dans la poussière du soleil", Château des Adhémar CAC, Montélimar, France
"Knock, Knock", Sorry we're closed, Brussels, Belgium
"Ann Veronica Janssens", Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst Münster, Münster, Germany
"2 éclats blancs toutes les 10 secondes", CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France (with Aurélie Godard)
2010
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
"May", Air de Paris, Paris, France
Galeria Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli, Italy
2009
"Laboratoire Espace Cerveau", avec Nathalie Ergino, IAC de Villeurbanne, France
"0034 93 487 64 02", Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
"Are You Experienced", Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Castello, Spain
"Serendipity", Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
2008
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
"Experiences and Sketches", Galerie Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
"Silhouettes", Hotel Van De Velde, Bruxelles
Lauréate du "David d'Or": First Price Les David, Académie pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
2007
"Keeping still - Part 1", Anne Theresa De Keersmaeker - Ann Veronica Janssens, Brussels, Belgium
"An den Frühling" (cur. Markus Heinzelmann), Museum Mosbroich, Leverkussen, Germany
"Experience of Color - Ann Veronica Janssens and Diana Theater" (cur. Greogory Salzman), Amherst, MA, US
Galeria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
2006
"June", Chapelle du Genêteil, Château Gonthier, France
"April", Air de Paris, Paris, France
Lithographies, MUKA Studio and Gallery, New Zealand
Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
1301PE Gallery, Brian Butler, Los Angeles, U.S.
2005
Galerie Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
Einstein Spaces, The Institute of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
2004
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
"Recent Work / Obra Recent", Galería Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
"Curating the Library", deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium
Ciap, Hasselt, Belgium
2003
"Ann Veronica Janssens - 8'26"", MAC Galeries contemporaines des musées de Marseille, Marseille, France
"Travellings", Openluchtmuseum voor Beeldhouwkunst Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
"Aux Origines de l'Abstraction 1800 /1914 " Rouge 106 " Bleu 132", Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
"Licht und Farben, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
"Scrub Color II", Schipper & Krome, Berlin, Germany
CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
"1301PE", Galerie Brian Butler, Los Angeles, USA
2002
IKON Gallery, Brimingham, UK
Art Unlimited, Art33, Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
"Red, Blue & Yellow", CIVA, Fondation pour l'Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
2001
"Sculpture de Fumée", Centre d'Art Contemporain - La Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France
"Light Games", Neue National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
"Vision", City of Tomorrow, Malmö, Sweden
"Works for Space", Kunstverein München, Germany
2000
"00.32.2", Presentation of the book, Editions Camomille, C. Von Scholz, Brussels, Belgium
"In the absence of light it is possible to create the brightest images within oneself", Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria Dance Festival (by invitation from the choreographer Pierre Roulais), Tours, France
1999
"Recent Work", Galeria Toni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain
"Super Space, 13 installaties in Utrecht", 14th Festival, Werf, Utrecht, The Netherlands
"Perte de Reperes", FRAC Lorraine, Metz, Fance
1998
"Le bain de Lumiere", Haus of Prints, Multiples and Drawings, Antwerp, Belgium
1997
Blanlin-Evrart Award, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
"Ann Veronica Janssens", MuHKA (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen), Antwerp, Belgium
1996
"Voorstelling van een ronde vorm / Représentation d'un corps rond", De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
"La Pichenette", Haus of Prints, Multiples and Drawings, Antwerp, Belgium
1995
"Begin the Beguine / Inside the Visible", Fondation d'Art Kanaal (cur. by Cathy de Zegher), Kortrijk, Belgium
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
"Terre !", Centre Universitaire La Citadelle, Ancien Entrepôt des Tabacs (cur. by Mireille Geslin), Dunkerque, France
Etablissements d'En Face (cur. by Alec De Busschere and Delphine Bedel), Brussels, Belgium
"Box", Nationale Loterij, Vereniging van de Tentoonstellingen van het Paleis van Schone Kunsten
(cur. by Dirk Snauwaert), Brussels, Belgium
1994
Espace d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne, France
1992-1993
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
1990
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
1989
Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Villa Gillet, FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Centre d'Unité de Recherches Contemporaines, Lyon, France
Galerie Alice, Rome, Italy
1988
Galerie Inexistent, Antwerp, Belgium
1987
Musée d'Art Moderne, Salle Altenloh, Brussels, Belgium
1982
Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
1981
Galerie Philarmonie, Liege, Belgium
DUO EXHIBITONS
2011
"2 éclats blancs toutes les 10 secondes", CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France (avec Aurélie Godard)
2010
"2 éclats blancs toutes les 10 secondes", Le Quartier, Quimper, France (avec Aurélie Godard)
2007
"The Experience of Colour: Ann Veronica Janssens & Diana Thater", Univeristy Gallery Fine Arts Center, Amherst, USA
"Keeping Still" performance with Ann Theresa De Keersmaecker, KunstenFestivaldesArts, Brussels
1999
"Horror Vacui: Ann Veronica Janssens & Michel François", 48th Venice Biennale, Belgian Pavilion, French Community of Belgium, Espace 251 Nord, Venice, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
"Museum to scale 1/7" (by Ronni Van De Velde), touring : Fine Arts Museum, Brussels BE, Kunsthalle Rotterdam, NL, Baker Museum, Naples, US
"Before the Horizon" - Fundacio Juan Miro, Barcelona SP
"Sculptures I", Ronny vand de Velde, Knokke, BE
"The ever changing body: Part II, Cultureel Centrum Strombeek, BE
"Des choses en moins, des choses en plus", Palais de Tokyo, Paris FR
"Roesler hotel #26: spectres" - Gallery Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo, BR
"Vertigo", Fabrique du Mirail, Toulouse, FR
"First lines, like first dates, or the first bite of dessert, can be deceptive" - Gallery Bortolami, New-York, US
"Horizon nécessaire", Le Musée passager, many locations, FR
"Drapeaux Gris" - Galerie Backslash, Paris, FR
"Go-Golf", Biennale de Rennes, FR
"Les Horizons", La Criée, Rennes, France.
"Manifesta X", Hermitage museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
"présentation des collections", Musée régional d'art contemporain, Sérignan, France
2013
"Upside Down, part I:Specific Objects" and "Upside Down Part II: Let's Dance", CC Strombeek, BE
"Lumineux ! Dynamique ! Espace et vision dans l'art de nos jours à 1913", Grand Palais, Paris, France (curated by Serge Lemoine)
Des gestes de la pensée - Verrière Hermès, Bruxelles, BE (curated by Guillaume Désanges)
"Fruit de la passion", 10 ans du projet pour l'art contemporain - Société des amis du MAM, Paris, France
"S.F. (Art, science & fiction)", MAC's, Site du Grand Hornu, Mons, Belgium
"Light Show", Hayward Gallery, London, UK
"009 Magiciens", Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris, FR
"About Waves 1 / Het ding - Insert André Beulens", Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, BE
2012
"Lux Perpetua", Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
"Vacanza Permanente", NICC, Antwerp, Belgium
"flowerCASTLE", Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse, The Netherlands
"The Exact Weight of Lightness", Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
"A Strangely Luminous Bubble", LiveInYourHead, Institut curatorial de la Head, Geneva, Switzerland
Petit musée de la Danse - Garage, Rennes, France (curated by Boris Charmatz)
"Frecher !", LOODS12, Wetteren, Belgium
"Marcher dans la couleur", Musée régional d'art contemporain de Sérignan, France
"Sense of color", Galerie Keitelman, Brussels, Belgium
"The unseen", Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China (curated by Jonathan Watkins)
"Greetings from Los Angeles", Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand (curated by Brian Butler)
"Expanded Field", Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
"Minimal Art", Galerie Ronny Van De Velde, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium
"Futbol, arte y passion", MARCO Monterey, Mexico
"Brouillard", La Comète - E251 Nord, Liège, Belgium
2011
"Je suis seul avec vous", MAC's, Mons, Belgium
"Apparitions", lille3000, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
"In Perceptions", Le 104, Paris, France
"Found in Translation, Chapter L", Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
"Art et Bicyclette", l'Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
"En Piste!", Centre d'Art de Chamarande, Chamarande, France
"Von Dort Aus " Nieuwe Kunst Uit België / Art Nouveau De La Belgique II" Galerie Christian Nagel, Koln, Germany
"Propos d'Europe 10: Des artistes belges", Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, France
"unExhibit", Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
"Le moins du monde", FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
2010
"A.B.C. - Art Belge Contemporain", Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
"Manifesta 8", Antigua Oficina de Correos y Telégrafos, Murcia, Spain
"Documents 2010", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
"Brussels Body Speech", Minsheng Art Museum, Shangaï, China
"Xanadu", SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
"Art vs Design", Untitled Space, Genève, Switzerland
"Sketches of Space", MUDAM, Luxemburg
"A l'ombre d'un doute", FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
"En mai fais ce qu'il te plaît", Musée Bourdelle, Paris, France
2009
"Universal Code", The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
"Sphères", Caleria Continua - Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
"Bienal del Fin del Mondo", by Goethe Instituut Sao Polo, Ushuaia, Brazil
"Down to earth", Culturel centrum Strombeek, Strombeek, Belgium
"Ismopolis", Etablissements d'en face, Bruxelles, Belgium
"La suite(2) ",Galerie Air de Paris , Paris, France
"Fora de Joc", Fundatio Sunol, Barcelone, Spain
2008
"SCAPE 2008 - Christchurch Biennial of art in public space", Christchurch, New Zealand
"Honorons Honoré", De Garage, Mechelen
"Não te posso ver nem pintado", Berrardo Foundation, Lisboa
SCAPE, Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space
"The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale", Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
"It's not fair " le monde est arbitraire" CC Belgica, Dendermonde
"Permutations, 40 artistes 01 musee vide", Musée de Valence, Valence
Exposition du prix "Les David", Académie pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris
"Le Soigneur de gravité", Mac's, Hornu
"Collection(s) 08", IAC, Villeurbanne - Lyon
"Doing It My Way " Perspectives on Belgian Art", Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg
"Losing Control" with Aline Bouvy / John Gillis, Michael van den Abeele & Leen Voet, De Garage, Mechelen
"Designed by Artists", Z33, Hasselt
2007
"Slow", Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
"Orgasme n°6", Maison Grégoire, curateur Jean-Paul Jacquet, Bruxelles, Belgium
Galerie Blancpain (curator Etienne Ficheroulle), Geneva, Switzerland
"The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience", NICC, Antwerp, Belgium
"The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience", The Breda Break, Lokaal 01, Breda, The Netherlands
"Pratiques du (non)visible: en avoir le coeur (corps) net", 49 Nord 6 Est, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
"Sometimes", Museo Colecçäo Berardo, Belem, Lisboa, Portugal
"Small stuff three/code red", Museum Ferlix De Boeck, Drogenbos, Belgium
"Merveilleux!", 2007/2008 au Château de Malbrouck Site du Conseil Général de la
Moselle Manderen, France
"Sur la Route", Tour de France, London, UK SMAK, Gent, Belgium
"L'Emprise du lieu" (curator Daniel Buren), Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
"Dedica", Pan Palazzo della Arti, Napoli, Italy
"Stay for ever and ever and ever", South London Gallery, London, UK
"La Ricarda", Centre d'Art Le Lait, Albi, Castres, France
"La Ricarda", De Garage, Cultuurcentrum, Mechelen, Belgium
"La Ricarda", KunstenFestivaldesArts, La raffinerie, Belgium
"La Ricarda", Chapelle du Genéteil, Château Gonthier, France
2006
'On/Off', Saarlandmuseum, Sarrebruck, Germany Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Frac Lorraine, Metz, FR
'My home is my castle', Galerie L'Indépence/ Parc Heintz, Luxembourg
Femmes d'Europe à Saint-Tropez, Saint-Tropez, France
"I'm Yours Now", Sikkema Jenkins&co., NY, USA
"Centre d'art contemporain la Chapelle du Genêteil / Chateau Gonthier", France
"Images Publiques", Liège, Belgique
"Distorsions", Institut d'art contemporain, Vileurbanne, France
"Circulez il n'y a rien à voir (vide et plein)", Espace d'art contemporain, Rurart, France
'De Maillol à Tony Cragg', Musée Van Buuren, Bruxelles, Belgique
'My home is my castle', Dexia, Luxembourg
'5ieme Biennale de photographie et arts visuels', Liège, Belgique
'Billboard', Vienna, Austria
'Space Boomerang", Swiss Institute, New York, USA
'La collection Acte IV: de la perception à l'expérience de l'oeuvre', Collections du Mac, Marseille, France
2005
"Ils sont là', Galerie d'art contemporain Stéphane Ackermann, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
"Ecstasy, In and about altered states", MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
"Rundlederwelten", Martin - Gropius - Bau, Berlin, Germany
"Einstein Spaces", The Institute Berlin of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany
"(?) d'une beauté sublime. C'est un mot qu'on emploie plus que pour les actrices et encore dans le langage des coulisses", Maison Grégoire, Bruxelles, Belgium
"L'humanité mise à nu et l'art en frac", même, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
"Le génie du lieu", Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France
"Lil moteur, art optique et cinétique / 1950-1975", Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, France
"One by one (een triptiek te lezen van links naar rechts en zich uitrollende gedurende vier maanden", Herman
Teirlinckshuis, Beersel, Belgium
"La Belgique visionnaire", Palais des Beaux-arts de Bruxelles, Belgium
"Vollevox # 8", Installation sonore au Musée d'art moderne de Bruxelles, Belgium
"Voisins officiels", Musée des Beaux-arts de Lille, France
2004
"Densité + 0", cur. Caroline Ferreira D'Oliveira & Marianne Lanavère, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France; Centre d'art contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland
"Spiritus", Länsmuseet Gävleborg, Gävle, Sweden; Göteborgs Konstmuseet, Gothenburg, Sweden
"Voir en Peinture / Widzie" w Malarstwie, cur. Eric Corne, Instytutu Francuskiego, Warsaw, Poland
"The City that never was. Fantastic Architecture in Western Art", Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
"Amicalement vôtre", Lille 2004, Musée de Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France
"Gonflables!", (cur. Caroline David), Tri Postal, Lille, France
"The Perception of Space", Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Nico Dockx & Friends: Interventies 2", MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
"Schöner Wohnen", (cur. Moritz Küng), BE-PART, Waregem, Belgium
"Pauvre-nous", Factor 44, Antwerp, Belgium
2003
"Coconutour", CRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, France
"Printemps extra large", Le Blac, Brussels, Belgium
"Look and Feel", De Verbeelding, Zeewolde, The Netherlands
"Nuits Blanche", Mairie de Paris, Paris, France
"The City that never was. Fantastic Architecture in Western Art"", CCC, Barcelona, Spain
"Voir en Peinture", cur. Eric Corne, Le Plateau, Paris, France
"1/1 x temps quantités, proportions et fuites", FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France; Le Consortium, Dijon, France
"Spiritus", Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; Jönköpings Länsmuseet, Jönköping, Sweden; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway; Sundsvall Museet, Sundsvall, Sweden
"Dreamscapes (Beelden op de Berg 8)", Arboretum Belmonte, Wageningen, The Netherlands
"Capp Street Project: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts,
San Francisco, USA
2002
"Area" Works on Conceptual Space", Schipper & Krome, Berlin, Germany
"L'Herbier et le Nuage", MAC's, Grand-Hornu, Belgium
"Richard Venlet Paramount Basics (extended)", MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
"Married by Powers", curator Bik Van der Pol, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"The Object Sculpture", curator Penelope Curtis, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
"Lost Past 2002-1914, Memorial Signs for the Present", curator Moritz Kung, Merghelynck Museum, Ieper, Belgium
"Look and Feel", Ann Veronica Janssens Mike Tyler, De Verbeelding, Zeewolde, The Netherlands
"Natuurlijk", Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
"Spring", Anne Daems, Guy Mees, Gauthier Hubert, Honoré d'O, Orla Barry, Sylvie Macias-Diaz,
Ann Veronica Janssens, Suchan Kinoshita Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Liege, Belgium
"Grimbergen 2002", Atelier Van Lieshout, Jan De Cock, Lili Dujourie, Ann Veronica Janssens, Job Koelewijn,
Jan Lauwers, Peter Rogiers, Thomas Schütte, Christophe Terlinden Grimbergen, Belgium
"Sculpture Triple Base", Tobias Rehberger, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Keith Wilson, Ann Veronica Janssens curator Penelope Curtis,The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, United Kingdom
"Subréel", curator Nathalie Ergino & François Piron, MAC, Marseille, France
"Paramount basics Richard Venlet", Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
"Presentness is Grace", Spacex Gallery, Exeter, United Kingdom
"Onderstroom-Bovenstroom", Bruges, Belgium
"Lost Past", Ypres, Belgium
"Group Exhibition: David Claerbout, Wim Delvoye, Alicia Framis, Bernard Frize, Daan Van Golden,
Ann Veronica Janssens, Mark Luyten, Guy Mees, Marthe Wéry, Christopher Wool", Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
2001
"Presentness is Grace", Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom
"Casino 2001", Ghent, Belgium
"Mettre en Scène", Rennes, France
"Ici & maintenant / Hier & nu", Ancien Entrepot Royal Tour & Taxis (cur. by Laurent Jacob), Brussels, Belgium
"BO1", Malmö 2000, Malmö, Sweden
Milano 2000, Milan, Italy
"Touch me...", Cultural Centers Strombeek, Sint-Niklaas / Roeselaere / Rumbeke (Constructies Erpeel), Belgium
"Another Dimension" (with Wim Delvoye, Joëlle Turlinckx, James Lee Byars), Hyperspace (b-space.be),
Brussels, Belgium
"The World on its Head", San Fransisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
"The Return of Small Stuff", Museum Herman Teirlinck (cur. by Hans Theys), Beersel, Belgium
"Poesie, Love, Sneeuwitje, Pfft", Museum Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2000
"Voici", Palais des Beaux-Arts (cur. by Thierry De Duve), Brussels, Belgium
Danse - Arts Plastiques, Samedi Danse Pierre Droulers: Ann Véronica Janssens - Michel François (projet choréographique), Ferme du Buisson, Marne-La-Vallée, France
"La répétition, la tete dans les nuages", Villa Arson, Nice, France
"Group Show Melanie Counsel, Ceal Floyer, Audible Light" (cur. by Astrid Bowron), MoMA, Oxford, UK
"Orbis Terrarum", Museum Plantijn Moretus en omgeving (cur. by Moritz Kung), Antwerp, Belgium
"Lust Warande / Pleasure Garden", Tilburg, The Netherlands
1999
"Stimuli", Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art (cur. by Karel Schampers), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Modern Art Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Small Stuff", Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery (cur. by Hans Theys), New York, NY
"En attendant l'année derniere", Archives Actives, Espace 251 Nord, 48th Biennale of Venice, Venice, Italy
"Schetsen, Tekeningen, Maquetttes, Probeersels, Gepruts & Gebroddel", Herman Teirlinckxhuis,
Beersel, Belgium
"Domtoren", Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
"Perte de reperes", FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
"Vloeibaar harnas", Exedra Centrum voor Kunst,Vormgeving en Architectuur, Hilversum, The Netherlands
"Trouble Spot Painting", MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Graaf de Ferraris - Hendrick Conscience, Gemeenschapscommissie van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest - catalogue and book with Hans Theys, Brussels, Belgium
"Démarches", Cultureel Centrum Leuven (cur. by Lut Pil), Leuven, Belgium
"On the Sublime...", Center for Contemporary Art, Roosem, Malmö, Sweden
"Liberté, libertés chéries ou l'art comme résistance", un regard posé sur dix années d'acquisitions de la communauté française (1989-1998)", Institut Supérieur pour l'Etude du Langage Plastique
(cur. by Gita Brys-Schatan), Botanique, Bruxelles, Belgium
1998
"Aspects de l'Art Actuel en Belgique", FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais (cur. by Veerle Van Durme), Dunkerque, France
"De droom van een fontein", De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
"Au milieu de nulle part", Oeuvres de la Collection du FRAC Rhones-Alpes, Angle, France;
Institut d'Art Contemporain,
St-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, Drôme Provençale, France
"Twee uur breed of twee uur lang, over kunst en samenleving. Fascinerende facetten van Vlaanderen", Koninklijk
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
"Fascinerende facetten van Vlaanderen, over kunst en samenleving", Centro Cultural de Bélem
(cur. by Barbara Vanderlinden), Lisbon, Portugal
"Bureau augmenté", NICC (cur. by Michel François), Antwerp, Belgium
"Every Day", Biennale of Sydney (cur. by Jonathan Watkins), Sidney, Australia
"Serio ludere, oeuvres du FRAC Rhônes-Alpes", Le Hall, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France
"Wereld van verschil", Kunstenaressen in de Gemeentemusea Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands
"Tussenin / In between (Pierre Bismuth, Ricardo Brey, Peter Buggenhout, Jo Huybrechts,
Ann Veronica Janssens, Kurt Ryslavy)", Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
"(ID)entiteit", MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
1997
"Inside the Visible, An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art of and from the Feminine", Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
"Lost in Space", Kunstmuseum Luzern (cur. by Moritz Küng), Luzern, Switzerland
Atelier Structure, Musée Communal d'Ixelles / Ancienne Machine a Eau, Mons, Belgium; Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain de Liege (cur. by Etienne Tilman et Tapta), Liege, Belgium
Openstelling Openmuseum, Provinciaal Centrum voor Beeldende Kunsten (cur. by Joëlle Tuerlinckx), Begijnhof, Hasselt, Belgium
"La rayure, l'intervalle, le jour... Une proposition de René Denizot", FRAC Nord-Pas-de Calais, Dunkerque, France
"Un bel été", Casino Luxembourg (cur. by Michel Assenmaker, Eric Brunier, Enrico Lunghi), Luxembourg, Luxemburg
"Mona Hatoum, Ann Veronica Janssens, Gabriel Orozco", Galerie Micheline Szwajcer (cur. by Catherine de Zegher), Antwerp, Belgium
"Trapped Reality" (cur. by Luk Lambrecht), Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
"Who loves in Brussels" Live show! Encore... Bruxelles", Brussels, Belgium
5th International Biennale Istambul (cur. by Rosa Martinez), Istambul, Turkey
"Reushering in Sacrality", Galerie Ferdinand Van Dieten - D'Eendt, The Netherlands
1996
"Lumen Travo" (cur. by Frank Hetig), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Inside the Visible, An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art in, of and from the Feminine", The Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Museum of Woman Art, Washington, DC; Whitechapel Art Gallery (cur. by Catherine de Zegher), London, UK
"The Event Horizon: Part Two", The Irish Museum of Art (cur. by Michael Tarantino), Dublin, Ireland
"Friche belle de Mai", Ateliers d'Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, Marseille, France; Espace 251 Nord, Liege, Belgium
"Architecture(s), Absalon, Pep Agut, Jürgen Albrecht, Ludger Gerdes, Ann Veronica Janssens, Langlands & Bell, José Maldonado, Didier Marcel, Julian Opie, Thomas Schütte", Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
"Accrochage", Richard Foncke Gallery (cur. by Dirk Pültau), Galerie des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
"Trente-deux espaces d'art contemporain", Espace d'Art Contemporain, Casino de Montbenon, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Pour un couteau", Le creux de l"Enfer, Thier, Belgium
"Géometrie Sacrée", Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
"Les Yeux d'un Monde", Espace 251 Nord, Liege, Belgium
1994
"EV-A", Limerick City Gallery of Art (cur. by Jan Hoet), Limerick, Ireland
"Glissements", Le Creux de l'Enfer, Thier, Belgium
"Vista-Solitary, Visions, Dynamic Views, Marcel Broodthaers, Patrick Corillon, Michel François, Ann Veronica
Janssens" (cur. by Catherine de Croës), Breda, The Netherlands; Biennale Internationale de São Paulo,
São Paulo, Brazil
"Conceptual Living", Rhizome, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1993
"L'Art en Belgique depuis 1980", Musée d'Art Moderne (cur. by Alain Noirhomme), Brussels, Belgium
"Ann Véronica Janssens, Bernd Lohaus, Marthe Wéry", Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
Zoersel '93, Domein Kasteel van Halle (cur. by Flor Bex et Peter de Kort), Zoersel, Belgium
"Kontact '93, Sculpturen", Josephine-Koch-Park, Eupen, Belgium
"Un accrochage ou des coins remplis de ce qui a été raflé dans les coins", Galerie Micheline Szwajcer,
Antwerp, Belgium
"Ann Véronica Janssens, Richard Venlet", Chisenhale Gallery (cur. by Jonathan Watkins), London, UK
"Le Jardin de la Vierge", Anc. Ets. Old England, Brussels, Belgium
"Vertrekken vanuit een normale situatie en deze hervertalen uit elkaar overlappende en meervoudige lezingen van condities uit heden en verleden", MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
"Maroc, l'architecture du paysage au XXieme siecle" (en collaboration avec Michel François), Fondation pour l'Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
"La tentation de l'image, Patrick Corillon, Michel François, Ann Veronica Janssens, Babis Kandilaptis, Jacques Lizene, Johan Muyle", Fondacion Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Espace 251 Nord, Liege, Belgium
"Résidences Secondaires", Visions Contemporaines, Centre Borschette (cur. by Catherine de Croës),
Brussels, Belgium
1992
"Basserode, François, Janssens, Vergara", Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
"Anne Veronica Janssens - Pierre Bismuth", Galerie One Five, Antwerp, Belgium
"3 Raüme - 3 Künstler", Galerie M+R Fricke, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Daniel Dutrieux, Bernard et Monika Hubot, Ann Veronica Janssens, Martine Neddam", Galerie Etienne Ficheroule, Brussels, Belgium.
"Entre cosmos et tiroir de cuisine", Exposition itinérante organisée par Tapta (cat.)
"Antwerp invited in Den Haag", Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, The Netherlands
Museum Dhondt-Daenens, Deurle, Belgium
"Een verzameling verstilde momenten", Caldic Collectie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1991
"Op water gebouwd, in de vesten van Goes", The Netherlands
"Kunst Europa, Belgian Niederlande Luxemburg", Kunstverein, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Artedomani, 1991 punti di vista, ex-pospedale San Matteo degli Infermi" (cur. by Marcella Anselmetti, Catherine Arthus Bertrand, Aldo Lori, Dirk Snauwaert), Commune di Spoleteo, Spoleto, Italy
"Gedachten Gängen", Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany; Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt, Belgium
"Les Voies de la Culture Européenne" (cur. by Andrzej Paruzel), Lodz / Bratislava / Bruxelles / Berlin
"Proiezioni", Castello di Rivara (cur. by Gregorio Magnani), Rivara, Italy
1990
"Leuven Wellicht", Arenberg Instituut, Leuven, Belgium
"The Köln Show", Monika Sprüth Gallery, Köln, Germany
"Belgique, une nouvelle génération (Willem Cole, Patrick Corillon, Wim Delvoye, Ann Veronica Janssens, Narcisse Tordoir, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Jan Van Oost, Richard Venlet)", FRAC des Pays de la Loire (cur. by Jean-François Taddei and Lieven Van den Abeele), Clisson, France
"Le Choix des Femmes", Le Consortium (cur. by René Denizot for Kate Blacker, Isa Genzken, Ann Veronica Janssens, Babis Kandilaptis, Johan Muyle), Dijon, France; Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt, Belgium; Espace 251 Nord, Liege, Belgium
"Confrontationes", Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
"Trans-Atlantique", Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
1989
"Trans-Atlantique", La Chambre Blanche, Québec, Canada
"Illusie als werkelijkheid, Leo Coopers, Ann Veronica Janssens, Dominique Stroobant", HCAK, The Hage,
The Netherlands
"De Integraal", Atelier Steel, Bruges, Belgium
"Incidents de parcours", Palais des Beaux-Arts (cur. by Fabienne Dumont), Bruxelles, Belgium
"Het Latijnse Noorden in Vier Scenes", Provinciaal Museum (cur. by Laurent Jacob), Hasselt, Belgium
"9 sculpteurs", Parc Ten Bosch (cur. by Carine Potvin), Brussels, Belgium
"Ann Véronica Janssens, Ria Pacquée", Tanya Rumpff Gallery, Haarlem, The Netherlands
1988
De Lege Ruimte, Bruges, Belgium
"Belgisime - Objet d'Art", Casa Frollo, Venice, Italy
"Matériaux signifiés II", Galerie Détour (cur. by Michel Baudson), Jambes, Belgium
"Cinco artistas belgas", Sala Amadis, Madrid, Spain
"Beelden buiten 1988", Tuin De Brabandere, Tielt, The Netherlands
"Etats Limites, Archivers des Passsions", Espace 251 Nord, Liege, Belgium
1987
"Intentie en rationele vorm", Fabriekspand van Dooren (cur. by Frederik Leen), Mol, Belgium
"Dialogue d'Art / Kunstdialoog", Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium; Hôtel Van De Velde, Brussels, Belgium
"Belgica situazione dell'Arte", Villa Pino Casagrande, Rome, Italy
"Mandelzoom, Canino, Italie", L'Esprit de l"Escalier 11, Brussels, Belgium
"Portrait de scene a l'Ile aux Phoques", Casa Frollo, Venice, Italy
1986
"Initiatief d'Amis", Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
"Intuition et Mémoire", Atelier Sainte-Anne (cur. by Phil Mertens), Brussels, Belgium
"Portrait de scene a l'Ile aux Phoques", Casa Frollo (cur. by Laurent Jacob / org. by Espace 251 Nord),
Venice, Italy
"Portrait de scene Musée d'Assembourg", Hôtel Bocholtz (cur. by Laurent Jacob), Espace 251 Nord, Liege, Belgium
Galleria Sala Uno (cur. by Laurent Jacob / org. by Espace 251 Nord), Roma, Italy
1985
"Investigations", Place Saint-Lambert, Espace 251 Nord, Liege, Belgium
1984
"De eerste chauvinistische / La premiere chauviniste", Montevideo, Antwerp, Belgium
1983
"La grande absente", Musée d'Ixelles (in collaboration with Monica Droste), Brussels, Belgium
Boursiers de la Fondation pour la Tapisserie, Maison de la Culture (in collaboration with Monica Droste),
Tournais, Belgium
"Parcours", Centre d'Art Contemporain (in collaboration with Monica Droste), Brussels, Belgium
1982
La 10ieme Biennale Internationale de Tapisserie, Lausanne, Switzerland
1981
"Aspects de la sculpture dans les écoles d'art francophones de Bruxelles", Atelier 340, Brussels, Belgium
1979
Lauréat de La jeune Peinture Belge, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
CATALOGUES
2009
"Ann Veronica Janssens: Experienced", EACC, Castello, Spain
2007
"Ann Veronica Janssens An den Frühling", Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
2004
"8'26", Musée d'Art Contemporain de Marseille, Marseille, France
2003
"The Gliding Gaze", Hans Theys, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
2001
"Ann Veronica Janssens: Lichtspiel", Mieke Bal, Kunstverein München - Berliner Künstler Programm DAAD, Germany
1999
"A Different Image in Each Eye (Une image différente dans chaque il", ed. Laurent Jacob, Liège and Brussels, Belgium
"Het raadsel van de verdwenen kat (L'énigme du chat perdu)", Hans Theys, Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Brussels, Belgium
1997
"Ann Veronica Janssens", MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
"En Avant la Musique (bis)", Hans Theys, Beersel, Belgium
1996
"Ann Veronica Janssens", De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Belgium
1989
"Ann Veronica Janssens", Galeria Alice, Rome, Italy
"Ann Veronica Janssens", Villag Gillet, FRAC Thône-Alpes, Lyon, France
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