Jana Schröder is known for a practice grounded in irreducible and frenetic painting techniques. A devoted formalist, she produces paintings which are largely governed by the action of the paint itself, resulting in webs of languid, curling brushstrokes that guide viewers’ roving eyes. Looping brushstrokes contain subtle variations in saturation, producing an effect of depth, like a many-layered web that advances towards and recedes from the viewer. Each series consists of a highly refined color palette, usually employing two or three shades. Executed in large scales, with the eye of a meticulous colorist and a keen sense for composition, Schröder’s works recall both the moving, intuitive body and the still, conceptual mind. The slowness of her process characterized by experimental discovery finds expression on her surfaces, which represent meticulously painted moments that might either be understood as negative space or positive shapes, depending on how one approaches the compositions. Schröder’s practice is a meditation on process and repetition, slowness and speed.
Jana Schröder, born 1983 in Brilon, lives and works in Düsseldorf. 2005–2009 Kunstakademie Düssel- dorf (class of Albert Oehlen). Selected exhibitions: 2023 Nino Mier Gallery, New York (s); 2022 Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt/Main (s); 2022 H2 Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Augsburg (g); 2022 Sammlung Grässlin, St. Georgen (g); 2022, 2019 & 2015 Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (s); 2021 Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne (s); 2021 Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt/Main (s); 2021, 2019 & 2016 T293, Rome; 2021 Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels (s); 2020 Kopfermann-Fuhrmann Stiftung, Düsseldorf (s); 2020 Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (g); 2019 Kunstmuseum Bonn (g); 2019 Kunstmuseum Wiesbaden (g); 2019 Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (g); 2018 Kunstverein Heppenheim (with Andreas Breunig); 2018 Aishti Foundation, Beirut (g); 2017 Kunstverein Reutlingen (s); 2016 Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (g); 2015 Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (g); 2015 Yves Klein Archives, Paris (g); 2014 Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, CH (g); 2011 KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf (g).
Public Collections: Aïshti Foundation, Beirut Friedrichs Foundation, Bonn / Weidingen Miettinen Collection, Helsinki, Berlin
Vita
1983
born 1983 in Brilon, lives and works in Düsseldorf.
2005—2009
State Art Academy, Düsseldorf, DE (class of Albert Oehlen)
Selected Solo Shows
2024
D. A. M – Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
PAPER: PoMuSec 1-9, 11 BLACS 1-4 NAT.FRAM BL 1,3,4, – Jahn und Jahn, Lisboa
2023
Skarstedt Gallery, Paris
Meyer Riegger, Berlin
PERLASYNTHICS & PoMu – Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main
DE PERLASYNTHICS – Nino Mier Gallery, New York
2022
RUDDYSYNC ILILAC – Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
2021
NEUROSOX – Lapse of Memory – Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main
Mother – Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels
PPR, Replace Rubens – Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne
LORY – T293, Rome
2020
Neurosox – Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
The Early Years – Kopfermann-Fuhrmann Stiftung, Düsseldorf
PHELTIE – Natalia Hug Galerie, Cologne
2019
Kadlites RS6-17 – T293, Rome
Kadlites – Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
2018
VOTE, with Andreas Breunig – Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim
Ecco Gelb – ANMO Art/Cha, Düsseldorf
Kadlites and Kinkrustations 2/2 – Natalia Hug Galerie, Cologne
Kadlites and Kinkrustations 1/2 – Natalia Hug Galerie, Cologne
2017
Spontacts and Kinkrustations – Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen
2016
Spontacts FX, T293 – Rome, IT
Spontacts / The Ultra-Diagram Series – Natalia Hug Galerie, Cologne, DE
2015
Spontacts – Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
Selected Group Shows
2024
JUBGWGGS #2 – JUBG, Cologne
2023
die Welt ist noch auf einen Abend mein – Galería Ehrhardt Florez, Madrid
Inhaling Painting, Exhaling Imagination: The Munich Breath – Jahn and Jahn, Munich
How Things Hold – T293, Rome
2022
Painters Paint Paintings (LA Version) – Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
What Time Is It? – Skarstedt, London
wir sagen uns Dunkles dark things we tell each other – Miettinen Collection, Berlin
Die Nacktheit der Zeichnung – Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst, Augsburg
Hitparade – Werke aus der Sammlung – Sammlung Grässlin, St. Georgen
2021
Echo Chambers – Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main
Surfaces – Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
Inaugural Exhibition – Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels
2019
Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland – Museum Wiesbaden / Kunstmuseum Bonn / Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz / Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Toti Scialoja – T293, Rome
2018
Trance: A Show by Albert Oehlen – Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
Vote – Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim (with Andreas Breunig)
2017
Quintessenz – Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Marcel Breuer, Paul Czerlitzki, Jana Schröder, Thomas Wachholz – Natalia Hug, Cologne
2016
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
2015
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Oh, of course, you were berry picking – Drei, Cologne
Present Conditional – Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
Yves Klein Archives, Paris
Zombie Routines – New Galerie, Paris
2014
17 ABSTRACT PAINTINGS – Wertheim, Cologne
Hausreste, curated by Albert Oehlen – Haus der Kunst Sankt Josef, Solothurn
L‘aventura – Die mit der Liebe spielen – Palazzo Guaineri delle Cossere, Brescia
2013
Fahrt ins Blaue – Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt
2012
Maja – Gagarin, Düsseldorf
Painting Show – Galerie Chaplini, Cologne
Abstrakt nach ’89 – Galerie Mahalesi, Gera
2011
Vor Gott ist alle Kunst Scheiße II – Boutique, Cologne
fine line? – KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
Sunbeam in the glasshouse – 701, Düsseldorf
Everything you ever liked about your mother – 15 Howie Street, London
2010
Addition and Subtraction – 304 days, Vancouver
GSK, Düsseldorf
2009
Panorama – Temporary Gallery, Cologne
Small Obsessions, Not Famous yet – Galerie Gabriele Dangel, Oxford
Painting on the Möve, curated by Albert Oehlen – Wiensowski und Harbord, Berlin
Von B nach D mit Fs – KMA70d, Berlin
Dolce Standards – Maverick, Cologne
2008
Staffellob – Project Space Grasser One, Munich
2007
bye bye acapulco – Kunstraum Acapulco, Düsseldorf
