Janne Schipper

Janne Charlotte Schipper (NL), obtained her BA degree at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, at the Visual Arts department, sculpture. Her practice includes installations, sculptures, poetry, photographs, drawings and textile works. In her practise Janne Charlotte uses different materials and brings them together in installation art. The parts of these installations can be taken out of their original context and become part of another artwork or be small entities on their own. In 2018 she co-founded the artist group ANNASTATE in The Hague and In 2022 she received the prestigious Royal Award for Modern Painting. Currently Janne Charlotte is studying to receive her MA in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Artist statement:

“For me it is important that what I create springs from sensitive intuition — a magical visual language that is intrinsically ambiguous; in which human dimensions are related to something incomprehensible, without beginning or end. 

I employ several artistic methodologies, following art-making as an existential enquiry. As a baseline throughout my artistic practise I have been working with wood, plaster, clay and stone. These materials allow a sense for the monumental and can simultaneously preserve small and intricate details, creating a sensitive sculpture or installation. In the works I find it important to include vulnerability. Insecurity is present in making art, but also in audiences observing art. Underlining a sense of acknowledgement to the chaos we all face is, I think, something an artwork can effectuate“