"It’s almost impossible to feel human suffering due to the fictions, labels, and entities channeled through the traces of colonialism, including but not limited to man-made race, economics, and religious power structures through which we filter our human emotions first. Painting allows me to feel indiscriminately of these power structures without any of those obstacles in the way.”
Marcus Jansen
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Marcus Jansens painting The Hideout, 2017 Permanent Collection, UMMA
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CF Hill Gallery / Arme Museum Building
Stockholm Sweden Marcus Jansen Faceless February 21 – April 4.2025 Marcus Jansen Faceless February 21,— April 4, 2025 https://www.cfhill.com/exhibition/__marcus-jansen__-faceless CFHILL, in association with Almine Rech Gallery and Marcus Jansen Foundation, presents Faceless, the first solo exhibition by Marcus Jansen in Stockholm. The exhibition brings together new and previously unseen works that merge gestural abstraction, surreal storytelling, and raw urban energy. Born in 1968 in New York City to a Jamaican mother and German father, Jansen grew up between the Bronx and Queens, New York and later Mönchengladbach, Germany. Moving between these two environments, he developed an acute awareness of power structures, exclusion, and identity—experiences that continue to shape his work. His early exposure to street art and graffiti in New York became a foundation for his artistic language, merging spontaneous expression with sharp social critique. Jansen’s paintings are layered with explosive color, architectural compositions, and haunting figures, creating visual narratives that explore the intersections of history, power, and human connection. His work engages with themes of colonialism, capitalism, and the unseen forces that structure contemporary life. Each canvas is a site of tension, where the personal and the political merge, challenging the viewer to question systems of control, representation, and memory. "It’s almost impossible to feel human suffering due to the fictions, labels, and entities channeled through the traces of colonialism, including but not limited to man-made race, economics, and religious power structures through which we filter our human emotions first. Painting allows me to feel indiscriminately of these power structures without any of those obstacles in the way.” Marcus Jansen. Influenced by pre-war German Abstract Expressionism and the authenticity of street art, Jansen moves fluidly between the figurative and abstract. His paintings examine what is revealed and what remains obscured, creating a dialogue of past and present. Faceless invites reflection on the visible and invisible structures that shape the world today. The Alliance for the Arts - Pop-Up Museum50 Internationally renowned painter, Marcus Jansen limited signed and numbered print releases with 100% of all print proceeds going to The Alliance for the Arts supporting the local arts!! The Marcus Jansen Foundation, with Marcus Jansen studios in collaboration with G&H Printing located in Naples, Florida and the. The Aliance for the Arts Fort Myers presents this (Rare) Limited Edition signed print “Monument Wars #11” the only of the series ever printed, coming soon to Fort Myers, Florida. March.1.2025 Only 50 prints ea. Available Contact @allianceforthearts to get on the list to reserve and join us to kick off the celebration with a special evening event featuring curated hors d’oeuvres, live music, and 50 museum-quality works by contemporary artists from across Southwest Florida. The UMMA Collection: The University of Michigan Museum of Art (On display now). A Gathering Curated by: Félix Zamora Gómez, Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future. This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience. So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come. |
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News Museum Acquisitions. Jun 18, 2024 Recent Museum Acquisition Almine Rech is pleased to announce that Marcus Jansen's artwork Soldier of the Avant-garde, 2021, is now part of the collection of the Fundación CALOSA, Irapuato, Mexico. December 6 — 8, 2024
Booth D20. The presentation features work by the following artists: Joe Andoe, Brian Calvin, Alejandro Cardenas, Günther Förg, Daniel Gibson, Alex Israel, Carlos Jacanamijoy, Marcus Jahmal, Marcus Jansen, Michael Kagan, Scott Kahn, Alexandre Lenoir, Inès Longevial, Sam McKinniss, Keita Morimoto, Sylvia Ong, Larry Poons, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Kenny Scharf, Laurie Simmons, Vaughn Spann, Vivian Springford, Claire Tabouret, De Wain Valentine, Jess Valice, Tom Wesselmann, Chloe Wise, and Zio Ziegler. ![]() Almine Rech - March 28 – 30, 2024 | Booth 展 位 1B25
The booth will feature works by Joël Andrianomearisoa, Roby Dwi Antono, Javier Calleja, Alejandro Cardenas, Gordon Cheung, Timothy Curtis, Sasha Ferré, En Iwamura, Carlos Jacanamijoy, Marcus Jansen, Youngju Joung, Minjung Kim, Alexandre Lenoir, Inès Longevial, Markus Lüpertz, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Jean Miotte, Tia-Thuy Nguyen, Sylvia Ong, Ted Pim, Li Qing, Kenny Scharf, Jan-Ole Schiemann, Taryn Simon, Vaughn Spann, Antoni Tàpies, Thu-Van Tran, Tom Wesselmann, Chloe Wise, Huang Yuxing, and Zio Ziegler. ![]() Almine Rech - February 2.2024 Booth E11 Featuring works by Farah Atassi, Brian Calvin, George Condo, Xavier Daniels, Sasha Ferré, Daniel Gibson, Peter Halley, Federico Herrero, Marcus Jansen, Alexandre Lenoir, Inès Longevial, Sam McKinniss, Gwen O'Neil, Sylvia Ong, Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Umar Rashid, Ryan Schneider, Vaughn Spann, Emma Stern, Tursic & Mille, and Chloe Wise Almine Rech
September 6 — 9, 2023 | Booth C23 On the occasion of Frieze Seoul 2023, Almine Rech will bring together artists represented by the gallery who demonstrate distinctive practices, spanning a wide range of generations and origins. The booth will highlight works by established and mid-career artists: Gioele Amaro, Oliver Beer, Jenny Brosinski, Javier Calleja, Ha Chong-Hyun, George Condo, Eric Croes, Timothy Curtis, Günther Förg, Jorge Galindo, Mehdi Ghadyanloo, John Giorno, Gregor Hildebrandt, Marcus Jansen, Scott Kahn, Minjung Kim, José Lerma, Cristina de Miguel, Jean Miotte, Li Peng, Ted Pim, Vivian Springford, Kim Tschang-Yeul, Tom Wesselmann and Choi Myoung Young. |
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The Baker Museum Selections from the Collection. December, 2023, through April. 28.2024 Rollins Museum of Art The Voice of the People: Freedom of Speech September 9. 2023 - January 7. 2024 What is the role of free speech in a polarized political climate? In tandem with the 2023-2024 Rollins College Common Read theme, Political Polarization, this exhibition examines the ways in which freedom of speech shapes democracy and civic engagement. The exhibition features a selection of works from the collection that center freedom of speech as a pillar of productive political conversations by exploring multiple artistic perspectives, approaches, and media. Works by artists Pedro Reyes, Michael Stone, and Danh Vo consider notions of freedom, democracy, and politics, while Jenny Holzer, Kota Ezawa, Hank Willis Thomas, and Emily Shur address specific instances in which freedom of speech has been recently debated. Also included in the selection are works by Melvin Edwards, Josh Kline, Marcus Jansen, and Norman Rockwell. |
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![]() December 6 — 10, 2023 | Booth B33 Joe Andoe, Oliver Beer, Szabolcs Bozó, Andrea Marie Breiling, Jenny Brosinski, Javier Calleja, Brian Calvin, Sasha Ferré, Günther Förg, Mehdi Ghadyanloo, Daniel Gibson, En Iwamura, Carlos Jacanamijoy, Marcus Jahmal, Marcus Jansen, Scott Kahn, Alexandre Lenoir, Cristina de Miguel, Gwen O'Neil, Larry Poons, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Ed Ruscha, Hiba Schahbaz, Kenny Scharf, Vaughn Spann, Phyllis Stephens, Emma Stern, Jess Valice, Amanda Wall, Chloe Wise, Ji Xin, Huang Yuxing, Zio Ziegler and Tom Wesselmann. Almine Rech, Shanghai Marcus Jansen In the Land of Silhouettes Mar 17 — Apr 29, 2023 Shanghai Opening on Friday, March 17th, 2023 From 5 pm to 7 pm. Almine Rech Shanghai is pleased to present In the Land of Silhouettes, a solo exhibition by Marcus Jansen and also his third exhibition with the gallery, on view from March 17 through April 29, 2023. The first solo exhibition of Jansen’s work in China, In the Land of Silhouettes showcases a new series of works in the artist’s unique hybrid style, which fuses aspects of gestural abstraction and graffiti writing into dynamic and surreal narratives. Almine Rech, London
Victims and Victors January 13 until February 19, 2022 is pleased to present its first solo exhibition of American artist Marcus Jansen. Each year, at 11 am on 11 November, the world falls silent to remember those who lost their lives in the battlefields of World War I. The so-called Great War was meant to be the war to end all wars, but since then, countless other conflicts have unleashed their horror and despair across the globe. Again and again, governments insist that the best way to resolve an argument is to kill. How to disrupt this terrible cycle of violence? Art is one way. Almine Rech, Paris Marcus Jansen Power Structures 16 — Feb 27, 2021 | Paris, Turenne Any discussion of Marcus Jansen’s work would be invalid as long as there is no mention of his intense life journey, the circumstances that influenced the way he is experiencing the world, and the way he conveys his emotions and concerns into his art. Jansen’s childhood years in the Bronx and Queens (New York) in the 1970s were in stark contrast to his adolescent years in Monchengladbach, Germany, where he went to art school and was exposed to European culture and lifestyle. After serving eight years in the US military and getting a first-hand experience of some of the most devastating and crucial events of the 20th century. |