ABOUT

Sarah Janßen (*1986 in Nordhorn, Germany) is a crossmedia artist based in Groningen, the Netherlands. She received her MFA in Interactive Media and Environments at Frank Mohr International Masters in Groningen in 2011. In 2009 she finished her Bachelor study in Art & Crossmedia Design at AKI Academy in Enschede. Starting points for her work are our viewing habits and the effect of images in our daily life. She is interested in how we perceive images, how media culture influences the way we see and where the boundaries of our perception are. Using diverse media, especially photography, video and new media, she strives to create concentrated pieces of work, which invite the viewer to see things in a different way.

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PRIZES / NOMINATIONS

2015
Nomination TFHMF Award, longlist, Tupajumi & HeavyMerryFinland art foundations
2013
Winner of the artist stipend 2013, Emsländische Landschaft e.V.
2012
Winner of the Hendrik de Vries Stipend 2012
Selected Member of the Groningen Talent Group 2012
2011
Nomination for the George Verberg Stipend 2011
Member of the Virtueel Platform HOT100 2011
2009
Member of the Virtueel Platform HOT100 2009

EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS

2016
Raytracing, melklokaal, Heerenveen, the Netherlands
Binnar Festival de Artes, Vila Nova De Famalicão, Portugal
UMW Media Wall, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, USA
2015
Sarah Janßen, (solo exhibition), Städtische Galerie Papenburg, Germany
Transfluxxion, Kunstschule Zinnober, Papenburg, Germany
Woest, online collectie Zomerexpo
Incubarte 7, Espai d'Art Fotogràfic, Valencia, Spain
Fonlad Festival, Espaço Partícula, Coimbra, Portugal
Kunst im Kreishaus, Nordhorn, Germany
2014
Movie - Kunstverein Weil am Rhein, Kino Kandern, Germany
Mmm, MOHR MOHR MOHR, Haarlem, the Netherlands
Images from thin air, Groningen, the Netherlands
2013
Koetshuis Mensinge, Roden, the Netherlands
Academie Minerva, Groningen, the Netherlands
Altes Rathaus, Neuenhaus, Germany
Atelier Horneman, Ten Boer, the Netherlands
2012
CBK Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Freeze Festival, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, the Netherlands
2011
EMAF (European Media Art Festival), Osnabrück, Germany
Groninger Museum Studentensalon, Groningen, the Netherlands
2010
[.BOX] / VisualContainer, Milan, Italy
Streaming Festival, The Hague, the Netherlands
Forum Images, Groningen, the Netherlands
Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, the Netherlands
ArcheTime Festival, New York, USA
Planetart, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2009
Random Collision, Groningen, the Netherlands
Filmfestival Münster, Münster, Germany
2008
Twentse Welle, Enschede, the Netherlands