/ 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

 

09/10_2024 

Solo exhibition, The Residence Exclusive Club

Sofia, Bulgaria

 

05_2025
Solo exhibition, Arosita Gallery

Sofia, Bulgaria

 

 

 

Recent

 

05/06_2024  _in the shade of the ceiling

Solo exhibition, Charta Gallery

Sofia, Bulgaria

 

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