From 29.08 to 06.10.2019 the exhibition Public Secrets. An Architecture of Limburg’s Visual Culture. is displayed at Bureau Europa (Platform for architecture & design Maastricht).

The group exhibition Public Secrets provides the first impetus for a sample of this region’s current visual culture. Image, imaging, and image culture have a relationship to, even an unprecedented grip on, our Self-image.

“Janneke Janssen takes us on a mystical yet meticulously researched stroll through a local cemetery and on such a visual walk through the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, along depictions and representations of the Roman Catholic church and Mary in particular.”

“Graphic designer and researcher Janneke Janssen (1983, Koningslust) takes a different approach to reading her surroundings by folding time and place into each other in a search for connections that may or may not be there. She investigates local phenomena found in public space, such as a cemetery or a statue of Mary. Or she scours her family photo albums for religious imagery found simple gestures such as clasped hands – an internalised Catholic symbolism and visual language – and puts her findings into full-colour poster books. Her sharp observations string together symbols and rearranges them according to a new logic. As a (typo-)graphic designer, she then collates these rearrangements into a new structure that is presented in book form, in magazines or in posters. In the spirit of the Situationists, one can wander through a cemetery or along iconic images of women in the Euregio.”

With: Sara Bachour & Gladys Zeevaarders, Dear Hunter, Janneke Janssen, Tineke Kambier, Chris Keulen, Chaim van Luit, George Meijers, Tanja Ritterbex, Johannes Schwartz, Nic. Tummers, Michiel Ubels & Mike Moonen, Kim Zwarts & special guest Ken Knabb

My work is selected for the It’s a Book independent publishing fair at the HBG Leipzig on March 23. Looking forward to it, so off we go! 📚

READSEARCH — PXL-MAD (Media, Arts, Design) School of Arts / Hasselt University —gave me the opportunity to organise and design the exhibition (and campaign) ‘Rite de passage’ @ Fameus during GAST, Hofstraat 15 in Antwerp. The event took place as a parallel programme besides ATypI 2018 (Typographic conference).

OPENING: Thursday, September 13, 20:30h
With:
• Somebody Called me Sebastiaan
• Readsearch legibility research
• A lot of student work and work of alumni
• Letters out of stone by Jos Geusens
• Mural by Vincent de Boer
(bar closes @ 0:00h)

Exhibition running from September 8 until September 21
Mo-Fr 10-17h
Sa-Su 11-17h

‘Rite de passage’ features typographic work from students who followed or are following (typo)graphic education in Hasselt. The exhibition shows:
a) typefaces designed by bachelor and master students from the past 12 years at PXL-MAD School of Arts (under the supervision of Ann Bessemans and her READSEARCH colleagues);
b) a set of splendid typographical artefacts created by students under the supervision of the Graphic teachers.

Beside, Rite de passage also gives a platform to:
a) alumni who would like to exhibit more of their typographic work;
b) our student Kenneth Vanoverbeke who received a TDC scholarship;
c) the work of Jos Geusens (former student of Kristoffel Boudens) a Belgian stone letter-carver who gives workshops in Hoepertingen.

(Typo)Graphic Teachers: Ann Bessemans, Geoffrey Brusatto, Tom Lambeens, María Pérez, Maarten Renckens, Luc Rerren, Monique Rutten, Katleen Verjans & Johan Vandebosch

From August 10 until August 28 my MA project was exhibit (among other works of Wanatoe nominees) during the event MoMeNT in the beautiful Eburon hotel in Tongeren.