Ann Veronica Janssens

Born in 1956 in Folkestone, United Kingdom.

Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

Ann Veronica Janssens studied at L’École de la Cambre in Brussels. Her work foregrounds the body’s perception of the world and itself in it. She often uses light, natural optical phenomena or glass as a medium. Produced with great care, her works exude the impression of great simplicity yet create vivid experiences of the act of seeing, evoking a heightened awareness of the changeability and fleetingness of the individual perception. Her contribution to the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999, where she represented Belgium with Michel François, filled the space with thick mist that served to disorient the viewers. In 2013, she added colorful glass monoliths to the windows of the Chapelle Saint-Vincent de Grignan in Provence, transforming the interior space into a constantly changing color environment.

Her work is represented in the collections of Caldic Collection – Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; De Pont Museum, Tilburg; Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes; FNAC, Paris; Les Abattoirs – Musée FRAC Occitanie, Toulouse; FRAC Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque; 49 Nord 6 Est – FRAC Lorraine, Metz; FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux; FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon; FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou; FRAC Occitanie, Montpellier; FRAC Corse, Corte; FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon; Fundación Jumex, Mexico City; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; mac, Marseille; Mona – Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania; MUHKA, Antwerp; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels; Museu Coleçao Berardo, Lisbon; Mu.ZEE, Oostende; MAC, Grand Hornu; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; S.M.A.K., Gent; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv.