• Michiel Jansen
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  • Michiel Jansen
  • Environmental
  • Sculptural
  • Wall Based
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  • Plus Minus Zero (2023)

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  • Off all the things I say and do, the opposite is also true (2023)

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  • Clockwork (2023)

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  • Of all the things I know the most (2023)

    Three volumes, each with exactly the same volume, are stacked on top of each other in front of a curved wall. The three volumes are based on three shapes; a circle, a cross,…

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  • Entropy (2023)

    As part of the exhibition ‘Of all the things I know most’ I made an edition of 5 and 2 a.p. which depict the basic shapes used in the exhibition with all the…

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  • Compass for a unknown direction (2022)

    Compass for an unknown direction is an edition, made for the crowdfund box of IPIHAN. It’s related to the works I made there ‘the landscape as a sketchbook’ in different materials and colors.…

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  • Chrome Robinia (2022)

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  • The landscape as a sketchbook (2022)

    Markierung #1Spuren einer nicht existierenden Struktur (Traces of a non-existent structure) Markierung #2zwei Punkte (two dots) Markierung #3Robinia Kreuzung (Robinia Crossing) Markierung #4erhöhtes Dreieck (heightened triangle) Markierung #5eine gerade Linie durch eine abwechslungsreiche…

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  • Mausoleum (2021)

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  • Landschaft an der Lessingstraße (2021)

    Tijdens IPIHAN#11 in Meuselwitz (Duitsland), had ik de beschikking over de begane grond van een voormalige bakkerij met een afmeting van ongeveer 20 bij 25 meter. De vloer was bezaaid met bergen steenwol,…

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  • Concrete Stiege (2018-2021)

    Three concrete castings of a scale model of the original Stiege (link to page), made in Zeitz (Germany)during IPIHAN #7. Each edition of the series has been given a different plinth, all made…

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  • I’m not here, I’m everywhere… (2021)

    A sphere and a hundred dots. A balloon hovering over the dam at Nærsnes. Several hundred meters away in a part of the woods dominated by spruce, the trunks of hundred trees are…

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  • Concrete Skies (2020)

    A one square meter tableau of tiles, made out of a self-made mixture of PU foam and concrete on a piece of green floor isolation. The tiles were used separately as a multiple…

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  • Rearrangement (2020)

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  • Squares of mass displacement (2020)

    Directly on the waterline of an artificial lake on the ‘Betonplaat’, a giant concrete slab which used to be a concrete factory, two squares of one square meter each emerge. The first square…

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  • 48 paces (2020)

    A 33 meter long line marks the walk I made through the artificial lake on the ‘Betonplaat’ (concrete slab) in Rotterdam. Three layers of concrete street stones (found on the location) were needed…

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  • Portals and Arcades (2020)

    A commissioned piece for ‘de Rotterdamse Munt’ a communal garden in the city of Rotterdam. I designed 2 double and 3 single gates with 2 different patterns, cut out of Corten steel. Organic…

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  • Cutting Corners (2020)

    Cutting Corners is the spacial intervention made for a group exhibition in Temporary Art Centre in Eindhoven. It’s the first life size installation, followed after many experiments durig a related residency in Tripkau…

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  • The consequences of changing foundations (2020)

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  • Kollaps (2020)

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  • Harbour City (2019)

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  • This is the last time I’ll explain how it’s done (2019)

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  • The Cave (2019)

    The project space at the Carl Berner metro station is built into a mountain cave that is no longer visible due to the concrete structure that houses the gallery. The contrast between the…

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  • L (2019)

    Temporary site specific installation at the ‘Zitza’ factory in Zeitz, during IPIHAN#9.

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  • Layers (2018)

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  • Foldings (2018)

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  • The Dalhart Solid (2018)

    It’s 12.55 in Dalhart Texas, the sun is shining. A sunbeam from Dalhart enters ZQM in Berlin and shines on the ceiling.Berlin, also 12.55 and sunny, the same moment. Another beam shines in and…

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  • 5 Tiles (2018)

    5 Tiles is a series of 5 works, all measuring 45 by 45 centimeter, with a variable depth between 3 and 5 centimeter. They are layered material paintings, made of almost any common…

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  • Block (2018)

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  • Cut Out (2018)

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  • Inside Out (2018)

    Temporary site specific work during IPIHAN#7 in Altenburg. A wooden block, as long as my body, is sticking out of a window on the fourth floor of a huge blind wall. On exactly…

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  • Kuhlstelle (2018)

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  • Stiege (2017)

    In an old noodle factory in Zeitz (Germany), the space from above a stairs has been formed by a plasterboard wooden structure and put inside a large empty production hall. The large sculpture…

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  • Himmelkörper (2017)

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  • Horizont (2017)

    Temporary site specific in ‘the Nudel’ in Zeitz, during IPIHAN#7. The wooden batten block is a scale model of the space it is in. It’s positioned on the diagonal of the space in…

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  • Balustrade (2016)

    The handrail from the five story high stairs in the old Polygraph factory in Leipzig was removed from its original place and meticulously put back together in the main hall on the first…

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  • Spine (2016)

    Glass plates from glass pieces glued together, recreated the five story high staircase off the Polygraph factory in Leipzig. It fitted exactly between the floor and ceiling on the third floor of the…

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  • 4 Elements (2016)

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  • Window Grid (2016)

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  • Bended Cube (2016)

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  • Laboratory (2015)

    Researching the possibilities of bending and laminating wood during a four weeks residency in ‘het Ampelhaus’ in Oranienbaum, former East-Germany.

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  • Warehouse (2015)

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  • 1 m2 (2015)

    Jansen’s sculptural works are made of thin, pliable strips of multiplex, flexible enough to be bent into curves and loops without fracturing. In his works he pushes the limits of what the material…

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