Born 1962, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Anya Janssen is fascinated with the processes that form our identity. She tries to take on complex issues like the conflict between nature (instinct) and nurture by examining their extremities through art. Although not visible from the start, her large-scale, soft focus paintings are an almost methodical survey of what portion of our identity is biological and what part is socially constructed. She uses subjects like identical twins and tales of people with animal urges to display man's inner feelings. She purposely choses situations where emotions run the highest to show how close we are to animals when completly uninhibited.
Solo Exhibitions
2017 'People say I'm different', Het Klooster, Tiel/NL
'People say I'm different',Torch gallery, Amsterdam/NL
'The hour of the wolf in the land of milk & honey', Galerie Vorn und Oben, Eupen/B
2016 'Retro-active', Janine Bean gallery, Berlin/BRD
2015 'The House', Natlab, Eindhoven/NL
'The House', Galerie Short cuts, Namur/B
2014 'De uitspraak 2', Paleis van justitie, Arnhem/NL
'The House, Torch gallery, Amsterdam/NL
2013 Anatomisch museum, Nijmegen/NL
'Back two back', Pan Kunst Forum, Emmerich/BRD
2012 'The Shapeshifter', Torch gallery. Amsterdam/NL
'The Shapeshifter', Willem3, Vlissingen/NL
'The Shapeshifter', MMKA, Arnhem/NL
2011‘The Shapeshifter', Polarraum, Hamburg/BRD
Plaatsmaken, Arnhem/NL
2009 KCG, Arnhem/NL
2006 'Double-edged II', Fuorizona Arte Contemporanea, Macerata/I
2005 'Back to back', Pan Kunst Forum, Emmerich/BRD
2004 'Double-edged II', Willem III, Vlissingen/NL
2003 'High Responder', Mondo Bizzarro, Bologna/I
'Double-edged', Torch Gallery, Amsterdam/NL
2000 'Displaced', Peninsula,Eindhoven/NL
'Headdip I', de Lege Ruimte, Gent/B
'Headdip II', Arkel Gallery,Brussel/B
1998 'Brainstorms', Galerie Torch, Amsterdam/ NL
1997 'The parliament of Monsters', Galerie De lege ruimte, Gent/B
1995 'Animal Urge', Museum voor moderne kunst, Arnhem/ NL
1994 Galerie Klecks/Herne, Herne/ BRD
1993/94 'Deranged inheritance', Galerie Torch, Amsterdam/ NL
1992 'Explorer of new lands', Galerie Torch, Amsterdam/ NL
1988 Galerie L. Mifka, Amsterdam/ NL
1986 Galerie 408, Amsterdam/ NL
1985 Galerie Goem, Nijmegen/ NL
