Jan Ziegler

Berlin-based artist Jan Ziegler was born in southern Germany in 1974. He graduated from design studies in 2000 and has been working for numerous renowned and international fashion and lifestyle brands since then. Jan’s exquisite sense of aesthetics is also reflected in his work as a freelance artist and as a lecturer at several eminent fashion and design institutes. 
As a visually orientated person, he began exploring art and design at an early age. In 2011, he initiated working on his independent artist profile and using the medium of painting to capture snapshots of human emotions in abstract visual references.

Jan’s abstracted landscapes appeal to the viewer’s unconscious perception, they seem placeless and bestow a mysteriously vacuos, almost hermetic sense of atmosphere. 

In his often abstracted portrait works, Jan pursues a concept of subtle beauty that reaches beyond established ideals. Primarily male faces, they fascinate through their magical presence, and appear lost in reverie, sometimes looking almost stereotypical whilst leaving space for individual associations and interpretation.

Jan usually takes researched photographs as inspiration for his paintings, but he is also influenced by afterimages of random enc...

EXHIBITIONS

12/2022 MITGLIEDER AUSSTELLUNG 2022, group show, BADISCHER KUNSTVEREIN, Karlsruhe

11/2022 CHARITY ART AUCTION BY ROUND TABLE 5, Berlin

09/2022 UNBOUND, group show, PRIDEART / THE KNAST, Berlin

12/2021 MITGLIEDER AUSSTELLUNG 2021, online group show, BADISCHER KUNSTVEREIN, Karlsruhe

11/2021 CHARITY ART AUCTION BY ROUND TABLE 5, Berlin

04/2021 SPRING AUCTION, group show, WESERHALLE, Berlin

12/2020 MITGLIEDER AUSSTELLUNG 2020, online group show, BADISCHER KUNSTVEREIN Karlsruhe /Germany

03/2020 NEBULOUS, group show, STUDIO BAUSTELLE, Berlin / Germany

12/2019 MITGLIEDER AUSSTELLUNG 2019, group show, BADISCHER KUNSTVEREIN Karlsruhe / Germany

09/2019 POP-UP EXHIBITION, group show, THE BALLERY, Berlin / Germany

09/2019 STIR IT UP, group show summer academy painting class Norbert Bisky, ELSA ART SPACE, Bielefeld / Germany

05/2019 TEMPORARY EXHIBITION, solo show at POP IN store of ASHLEY MARC HOVELLE, Berlin / Germany

01/2018 CHARLOTTENBURGER HÄNGUNG, group show, GALERIE MICHAELA HELFRICH, Berlin / Germany

12/2018 ART GAYSEL, group show, HOTEL GAYTHERING, Miami Beach / USA

11/2018 POP UP STUDIO SHOW, group show, STUDIO JENNY KEUTER, Berlin / Germany

10/2018 SHOW UP 5, group ...