Works
Esther Janssen
Weeping
2022
120 x 155 cm
Esther Janssen
The Silence no.9
2022
100 x 120 cm
Esther Janssen
Disco Solo No.5
2017
Esther Janssen
The Neighbourhood No.1
2014
Esther Janssen
The Neighbourhood No.3
2015
Esther Janssen
The Silence No.4
2021
122 x 240 cm
Esther Janssen
The Neighbourhood No.5
2021
Esther Janssen
The Promise
2019
Esther Janssen
The Silence II
2020
Esther Janssen
The Silence III
2020
Esther Janssen
The Silence IV
2021
Esther Janssen
Untitled
2022
40 x 50 cm
Exhibitions
9 March - 12 February 2023
ART TOKYO
Art Fair
7 September - 4 October 2021
Esther Janssen
Silence
Unit London Editions
Esther Janssen
The Silence III
2022
Hand-signed and numbered by the artist
Edition of 80
56 cm x 67 cm
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Biography
Esther Janssen was born into a family of artists in Maastricht, Netherlands in 1976. As a child, she assisted her father with his woodcut prints and later introduced hard-edged shadows to define the pictorial space in her own works. She received a BFA from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2000, where she was given the freedom to work beyond the official curriculum. Her graduation work was a large-scale artificial leather sculpture, The Pink House, which bridged the realms of design and fine art. Esther’s design background has informed her distinctive style and artistic approach, sparking her interest in ‘the tension between intended design and lived reality’, between the ideal and the real. The academy was also central to her early adoption of digital approaches, as in the series of digital paintings which received support from the Mondriaan Fund.
Following a series of smaller presentations, Esther’s work was first shown in a museum context in a 2006 group exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Den Hague. Her work has since appeared in both national and international exhibitions and art fairs including Art Rotterdam, Art Cologne and Art Basel. By the time of her solo international debut in Florence in 2008, she had already begun working with artificial leather in the shape of sewn objects and, later, sewn paintings. Her first solo museum exhibition was in 2012 at the Museum Helmond, Netherlands. In 2014, three imitation-leather paintings from her ongoing Disaster series were included in a group show at Chamber Gallery in New York. The artist has received multiple grants from the Mondriaan Fund and Stroom Fund. Her work forms part of public collections including the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Museum Helmond, DSM Art Collection and Province of Limburg, as well as private collections worldwide.
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