Jannis Besen, sculptor

Jannis Besen
Artist: sculptor

Currently studying at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf.

For more information about the artistic practice or list of works, feel free to get in touch via... besen@protonmail.com

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...for networking, staying in touch via instagram: @musszumbus

Studio shot in Munich, 11/2024.
In the background you see an oil painting that is part of a three-part painting work. In the foreground you see the upper part of a bronze sculpture.

Untitled chess paintings, 2x 115x115cm
Zirka, München, 2024

CV:
In 2016/17, I gained extensive theater experience and worked as an assistant director at Schauspielhaus Zurich, Gare Du Nord in Basel, and Volksoper Vienna in productions by René Pollesch and Milo Rau. In 2021, I completed a curatorial internship at KW Berlin.
Since 2018, I have been studying Fine Arts at HFBK Hamburg with Prof. M. Boyce. In the summer of 2021, I spent an exchange semester at Beaux-Arts in Paris with B. Sarcevic. Subsequently, I joined Prof. A. Bircken's class in Munich as a guest student and then permanently transferred to ADBK Munich.
Prior to this, I studied Theater Studies at the University of Vienna and completed various internships, which are not detailed here as they are less relevant.
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Exhibitions and curations:
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Cat edition, on its way on the train from Munich to Düsseldorf. 05/2024

Elevated Strategies, rise, retreat, grounded, 2023
45x166x200cm
Uncoated sheet metal, epoxy, oil on canvas
Kunstarkaden München

Love Exposure (Working title), 2022
125x90cm
Ink, ink paste on photo print

Page 2, narrative sculptures

Souvenir Spielraum (engl. title: Souvenir Leeway), 2022
Galerie Goldberg

This sleep is being slept elsewhere Vol. 2)
The Pool, Düsseldorf, 2022

(Detail)

This sleep is being slept elsewhere
Annual Exhibition ADBK Munich, 2022

Interlocking social narrative was my sculptoral contribution to the annual exhibition 2023. Its an assemblage out of various materials I had in the studio using mixed material mostly containting out of found objects. The painting I added was actually not in the show but the newspaper captured it the day before.

ShAmE, 2022
The Pool, Düsseldorf
Drawing sewn into city map of Paris sewn into pillow.

(Lost found object in Hamburg, 2018...)

(Detail ShAmE)

“To be titled”, 2024
80x105 cm
This work is an assemblage out of white mirror frame, oil, ink, pastes on canvas, white spray paint (to break the transition to the prominent frame), cut cardboard

”Sculpting over time” 2024

Lovaas Projects, Munich

This sculpture is a replica of that lost found object from Hamburg, 2018.
The iron will rost in similiar way over time to make a reference to the past object.

Different works

Ready made autumn break, 2022
Chungheongak, Haenam-Gun, South Korea

Detail, Ready made autumn break, 2022

Untitled, 2022
Assemblage, door mat, hair hoop, tape on wood

Lose forms, two canvas paintings, 2023
ink, ballpoint-pens, thread
2x 115x85cm

Untitled, 2023

Alles führt zu nichts, 2023
Oil, ink, sun cream, shoe polish, paste on canvas 60x90cm

Portrait of a disease, 2023, ink, oil, thread, staple needles
60x90cm

(Detail Portrait of a disease)

Sinking Ceiling, 2022,was a work I contributed for a show in Haenam, South-Korea. In this found object I was interested in the overlap between the surrounding and ‘painterly’ trace that weathering after time left on the metal. This object was like an abstract painting by nature on an abandoned metal plate.

The idea for me for this exhibition in Korea was to not prepare anything except the concept- I wanted to build on my found object practice and not take any prepared work with me. It was unusual in the sense that I experienced that you rather run into found-objects rather than specifically trying to find one to present as an art work. These thoughts from before have sharpened visual perception in particular, so that you try even harder to perceive the surroundings.