/ about
Assen Janev, born in Sofia, studied art and media sciences, history and political science at University of Konstanz, currently based in Basel. Assen Janev is a multidisciplinary artist working in a variety of media including photography, collage, drawing and painting. He explores the mechanisms of medial representation and the ambiguity and construction of human identity. The focus is on questions of individual and collective transformations, memory and transience, diversity and migration as well as personal and collective myths.
Current / Upcoming
10_2023
Site-specific installation
Valencia, Spain
Recent
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
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