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In his work, Janos Schaefer investigates the flickering ridge between aesthetics and ideology. Taking the role of the trickster and charlatan, the dandy and daddy, he mimetically reproduces and slightly pushes visual fragments of pop and idyll over their tipping points towards folk and horror. Thus he manages to surf occurring cracks in formerly sleek aesthetic surfaces, cracks that reveal underlying conceptions of subjectivation, happiness and order.


Janos Schaefer is living and working in Amsterdam, the Netherlands as well as in Nuremberg, Germany





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︎ Born in Nuremberg, Germany

︎ 2023 First Examination and Meisterschüler at AdBK, Nuremberg
︎ 2024 - 2025 M.A. Dirty Arts at Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam



 



︎ 2024 “Stiyx and Stones”, group exhibition at Het Slotervaart , Amsterdam

︎ 2024 Debutante Exhibition, AdBK Nuremberg

︎ 2023 „Arebutieu“, group exhibition at Kuma Gallery, Seoul

︎ 2023 „Locked Out“, group exhibition, curated by Dr. Marian Wild, at St. Aegidien, Nuremberg

︎ 2023 „Feet Up!“ with Mathis Hauter and Jonathan Werner at the Bavarian State Ministry for Finace and Homeland, Academy Gallery and Galvani Gallery, Nuremberg

︎ 2022 „Illustration Reloaded“, group exhibition at Klingspor Museum, Offenbach

︎ 2020 „how much are they“, online exhibition, curated by Nele Jäger and Ina Ritter

︎ 2020 „Hersbruck Panic“, group exhibition at K5, Hersbruck





︎ 2024 „Culture Award Bavaria“, Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts and Bayernwerk AG

︎ 2023 Debutante Promotion, Federal State of Bavaria 

︎ 2022 „Young Art, New Paths“, Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts







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