/ about
Assen Janev /born in Sofia, studied art and media science, currently based in Basel/ is a multidisciplinary artist working in a variety of media including photography, collage, installation, drawing and painting. The focus of his autobiographically motivated works is on the explosive nature of human existence shaped by temporal and spatial simultaneity. His works reflect his commitment to the diversity, the incompatibilities and the contradictions of the world we live in today. They are the external view of an internal resonance space and a polyphonic deconstruction of convictions and certainties. What is revealed in them is the possibility, the potential, the interface between something real and its representation. In this way, different contexts come together to form a complex whole that nevertheless remains a fragment.
Current / Upcoming
05/06_2024
Solo exhibition, Charta Gallery
Sofia, Bulgaria
Recent
09/10_2023 _swallowed sentences
Group exhibition, +369 Gallery
Sofia, Bulgaria
10_2023 memento mori #22
Site-specific installation Barrio del Carmen
Valencia, Spain
07/08_2023 painting in contemporary
art
Group exhibition, City Art Gallery
Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
03_2023 du mein sie #02
Site-specific installation Parque Natural
de Los Volcanes
Lanzarote, Canary Islands
12_2022 limited prints only #2
Group exhibition, DEPOO
Sofia, Bulgaria
10/11_2022 _komm wort
Solo exhibition, Arosita Gallery
Sofia, Bulgaria
10_2022 koma #05
Site-specific installation Largo José Saramago
Lisbon, Portugal
03_2022 _tod und tanz
Solo exhibition, ONE+ Gallery
Sofia, Bulgaria
12_2021/01_2022 limited prints only #1
Group exhibition, DEPOO
Sofia, Bulgaria
11/12_2021 ultraviolet
between black, white and grey
Solo exhibition, ETAGE EIGHT
Sofia, Bulgaria
05/06_2021 larvatus prodeo
Solo exhibition, DEPOO
Sofia, Bulgaria
10_2020
Site-specific installation
Lisbon, Portugal
(canceled due to Covid-19)
03_2020
Site-specific installation
Madrid, Spain
(canceled due to Covid-19)
10_2019 hetztier #02
Site-specific installation Sigmund-Freud-Park
Vienna, Austria
04_2019 migration of fraud #38
Site-specific installation Circo Massimo
Rome, Italy
04_2018 donald #15
Site-specific installation Avinguda del Paral·lel
Barcelona, Spain
02_2018 donald #07
Site-specific installation Alameda de Hercules
Seville, Spain
10_2017 neglect #13
Site-specific installation Karl-Marx-Alee
Berlin, Germany
08_2017 neglect #03
Site-specific installation City Garden
Sofia, Bulgaria
04_2017 migration of fraud #44
Site-specific installation Plaza de los Carros
Madrid, Spain
03_2017 migration of fraud #09
Site-specific installation Giudecca
Venice, Italy
10_2016 migration of fraud / neglect
Site-specific installation Paul-Lincke-Ufer
Berlin, Germany
06_2016 LAS VEGAS, halt
Simultaneous spatial intervention
(with D. Schulz) Alte Zollhalle
ART Basel 2016, Switzerland
01_2016 donald
Solo exhibition, WESTPOL
Basel, Switzerland
09_2015 look at my GUTS
Exhibition series WARTE RAUM 6/11 part III
(with M. Leiss), STELLWERK
Basel, Switzerland
05_2015 migration of fraud
Exhibition series WARTE RAUM 6/11 part II
solo exhibition, STELLWERK
Basel, Switzerland
03_2015 WARTE RAUM 6/11
Exhibition series WARTE RAUM 6/11 part I
(with V. Mitrev), STELLWERK
Basel, Switzerland
11_2014 Kunst_stücke ins Licht getaucht
Group exhibition, DOCK
Basel, Switzerland
06_2014 OUT
2-channel projection for a live dance performance
(with Annapaola Leso), BBAW
Berlin, Germany
05_2014 Physik der Schwermut
1-channel projection for the stage reading with the
Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov, STELLWERK
Basel, Switzerland
03_2014 LAS VEGAS, halt
Simultaneous spatial intervention
(with D. Schulz) BOLLAG
Basel, Switzerland
06_2013 me are
Solo exhibition, Walzwerk
Muenchenstein, Switzerland
12_2012 a voice for a play
Sound installation, REGIONALE 13,
Kunsthaus Baselland
Basel, Switzerland
09_2012 me are
Group exhibition, GGG Künstlerhaus
Basel, Switzerland