Djos Janssens
Multidisciplinary visual artist, 1964
Lives and works in Liège.
He is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels.
“Attentive to deconstructing the codes of our consumer society and its stereotypes, this artist works on the text and context of his site-specific installations. Djos Janssens is one of the most productive and ingenious Belgian artists of his generation. Like all works that are constructed in the interstices and asperities of their time, thwarting fashion to establish a meaning irreducible to morality, something about his installations always escapes interpretation (…). Since 1997, his work has been exhibited in galleries, art centers, museums and public spaces. (Daniel Vander Gucht – PhD in art sociology, university professor and editor of La Lettre volée). In 2019, the “La Lettre volée” publishing house published its second monograph with a foreword by Caroline Lamarche (Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle 2019) and texts by Anne-Françoise Lesuisse (director of the Biennale internationale de la photo de Liège) and Philippe Van Cauteren (director of the Ghent Museum of Contemporary Art – SMAK). Six permanent installations have been completed in Belgium and one in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. In 2022, he presented a temporary integration for the 2022 -2023 season in the lobby of the Liège theater (BE). In the same year, he presented a solo exhibition and a permanent facade installation at the Centre culturel Prabbeli Luxembourg (L). Recently, his work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Belgian Gallery Brussels (curated by Bernard Marcelis). In May 2024 he will integrate a work on all the windows of the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris (curated by Stéphanie Pécourt) and in August he will present a solo work (curated by Justine Mathonet) at the Musée de la Boverie in Liège, as part of the “En piste” event, as well as a solo at the Centre d’art La Châtaignerie in September. He is represented by Belgian Gallery Brussels (BE).