John Franzen

BIO:

John Franzen (1981) was born in Aachen, Germany. Both parents were nurses.
With 7 years he grew up in Belgium.
Later he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht, Netherlands 2002-2007, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Working in various disciplines and materials, he focuses on the theme and production of complex frames of concepts with the focus of the inherent primordiality.
He lives and works in Maastricht, Netherlands and as an artist and conceptor.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

An artist in his true nature is made of incomprehensible multitudes; he is the untidy culmination of a shaman who is not believing but praying, a scientist who is not searching but analyzing, an engineer who is not building but inventing, and a child who is not playing but dreaming. He exists in the paradoxical state of attempting to capture his own vast inner perceptions of reality in the confines of the outer world. His artwork is mystic ritual, scientific model and applied philosophy.
His process may be compared to how priests or shamans work while praying. His art springs forth in a way similar to the emergence of holy offerings, that is, from a deep internalization of and total commitment to the unknowable source of...

BFA - Academy of fine arts Maastricht NL

2024
Hong Kong City Art Fair - Muse Gallery - Hong Kong
Art Amoy Fair - Muse Gallery - Hong Kong
Schlieder Contemporary - Frankfurt Ger
Galerie Engert - Eschweiler Ger
Jason Podgorny Robinson Gallery - Vence Fr

2023
Galerie Engert - Eschweiler Ger
Schlieder Contemporary - Frankfurt Ger
Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen - Neunkirchen Ger (Institution)
Paper Positions Munich - Schlieder Contemporary - Frankfurt Ger
Edition Maeght - Gallery Maeght - Paris Fr

2022
Collaboration Edition Maeght - Gallery Maeght - Paris Fr
Galerie Engert - Eschweiler Ger
Schlieder Contemporary - Frankfurt Ger

2021
Positions Art Fair - Schlieder Contemporary - Berlin
Cosmoscow - Booroom Gallery - Moskau RUS
Schlieder Contemporary - Frankfurt Ger
Drawing Now Art Fair - Galerie Podgorny Robinson - Paris FR

2020
Schlieder Contemporary - Frankfurt
Yoko Uhoda Gallery - Lüttich BE
Booroom Gallery - Moskau RUS
Cosmoscow - Booroom Gallery - Moskau RUS
Galerie Podgorny Robinson - S. Paul de Vence FR

2019
Saatchi Gallery Drawing Fair - London GB
Ora Ora Gallery - Hong Kong
Yoko Uhoda Gallery - Knokke BE
Galerie Art Engert - Eschweiler
Galerie Podgorny Robinson - S. Paul de Vence FR

2018
ART PARIS - Paris FR
Yoko Uhoda - Knokke BE
Parkview Gallery - Hong Kong
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