Gerard Janssen
NOUVEAUX DESSINS

June 20, 2025

Drawings, ink on paper 50 cm X 60 cm

Berlin-based Dutch artist Gerard Janssen uses pen and ink to add features to objects with the aim of expressing human emotions. Houses and trees often appear in his drawings and they can seem to be happy or sad, lonely or brooding. Gerard Janssen says: “In my art, I give objects their own history and a different behavior, so that a different order and new meanings emerge. In doing so, I want to increase our awareness of what is around us.”

Gerard Janssen was born in 1967 in Smallingerland, Netherlands. Today he lives in Berlin. He has studied, among other places, at the Minerva Art Academy in Groningen. When drawing, the artist sometimes experiences the same joy as when he was playing as a child, building his own world with its own rules and stories. Thus, his drawings seem like excerpts from longer narratives. The viewer senses that something happened before and something could happen after.

Galerie Blaue Stunde Berlin

The artist in front of the gallery