Monika Jansen

It's time to make music
I play with the colors
The heart is happy ... and the soul sings!

The photographic taking of special perspectives in nature has accompanied me since my youth. I only started painting in 2004. Too bad, because my school grades in this subject were always the best. But I didn't pay attention to that. The trigger for the turn to painting was then a taster course with a very talented painter, who taught me and the other participants in an outstanding way motivating and encouraging but also didactically explaining the techniques extraordinarily well, the basic steps of watercolor painting. But not only that! He also showed us how to properly stage his picture and prepare it ready for sale. I went home back in 2003 with the happy feeling of having found a new hobby. From that point on (2004), painting has not let go of me. In addition to my full-time job as a clerk in a company, I spent almost all my free time learning painting techniques and drawing. First, pictures were created from the learned technique. Later I developed my own procedures. I took a special photo motif as a basis and learned to create a new one with color and shape variants on the canvas. Currently, I usually give my brush arm the freedom to b...

Training stations 2005 to 2015

- Adult Education Center Esslingen,
Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg, VHS-Heim Inzigkofen, Germany

- Art School Filderstadt, Germany

- Kolping Art School Stuttgart, Germany, 6 months

- Academy of Contemporary Art Fabrik am See,
Horn Gaienhofen, Germany
20 weekly seminars with Beate Bitterwolf
and other lecturers

- Art Academy Esslingen 2008-2014

Main Lecturers:
Angelika Hentschel, Esslingen,Germany
Beate Bitterwolf, Horn Gaienhofen, Germany
Gerhard Almbauer, Graz, Austria
Prof. Klaus Lomnitzer, Frankfurt, Germany
Franziska Statkus, Stuttgart, Germany
Wolfgang Mandernach, Stuttgart, Germany

Solo Exhibitions
2024 Wohnstift Radäcker, Esslingen
2020 Bistro-Café, Markgröningen
2016 Town Hall Ebersbach, near Ulm
2014 University Clinic, Tübingen
2014 Joint practice Dr. med. Peter & Dres., Esslingen
2013 Town Hall, Stuttgart-Obertürkheim
2012 Café Morlock, Plochingen
2010 District Hospital, Plochingen
2010 Physiotheraphy Echteler, Esslingen
2010 Forum Heppächer, Esslingen
2009 Residential pen Radäcker, Esslingen
2008 Senior Residence Charlottenhof, Esslingen
2008 Galleria Zeus, Esslingen
2008 Clinic Schelztor, Esslingen
2008 Goldsmith B.N., Esslingen
2007 Sunflower, Esslingen
2007 Leinfelden Galeriecafé Olga, Remshalden
2007 Science of life Center Banyan-Insel
2006 Atelier Herrenwiesenweg, Esslingen


Collective Exhibitions

2023 Residential pen Radäcker, Esslingen
2019 Town Hall, Esslingen, 34. Esslingen Art Market
2012 5. International ArtFair, Sindelfingen
2012 2. Exhibition 11. Int.Syrlin Art Prize 2012
Galerie CentreCourt, Stuttgart
2010 2. Art Finalist Presentation, 9. Int. Syrlin Art Prize,
Collage & FotoArt, Galerie Centre Court, Stuttgart
2010 Art Finalist Presentation, Category Collage & FotoArt, 9. Int. Syrlin Art Prize, Art Fair, Euro Antik &Contemporary Fine Art, Sindelfingen
2009 4. Gerlinale,...