Robert Janitz is an artist from Alsfeld, Germany, born in 1962. His art practice is a combination of painting and visual language. He currently lives between Mexico City and New York. Janitz studied Art History and Sanskrit at the University of Marburg in Germany. From 1994 to 2008 he was a lecturer at the University of Paris VIII and the School of Fine Arts in Cherbourg. Janitz first came to prominence in 1996 with a solo exhibition at Galerie Valleix and has since had over thirty solo exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Brussels, Brussels, Istanbul, Seoul and Mexico City. He first appeared on the Latin American art scene with a simultaneous program in Mexico City. Recent exhibitions include Casa Gilardi (2021), König Gallery in Berlin (2020), Kunstmuseum Winterthur in Switzerland (2019) and CANADA in New York (2018). Future exhibitions include the MAZ Museum in Guadalajara in 2022 and...
Robert Janitz is an artist from Alsfeld, Germany, born in 1962. His art practice is a combination of painting and visual language. He currently lives between Mexico City and New York. Janitz studied Art History and Sanskrit at the University of Marburg in Germany. From 1994 to 2008 he was a lecturer at the University of Paris VIII and the School of Fine Arts in Cherbourg.
Janitz first came to prominence in 1996 with a solo exhibition at Galerie Valleix and has since had over thirty solo exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Brussels, Brussels, Istanbul, Seoul and Mexico City. He first appeared on the Latin American art scene with a simultaneous program in Mexico City. Recent exhibitions include Casa Gilardi (2021), König Gallery in Berlin (2020), Kunstmuseum Winterthur in Switzerland (2019) and CANADA in New York (2018). Future exhibitions include the MAZ Museum in Guadalajara in 2022 and the Museo Anahuacalli in Mexico City.
One of Janitz's solo exhibitions is Labyrinth, her first exhibition in Turkey, which opened at Sevil Dolmaci Art Gallery in 2021. In December 2021, she had another solo exhibition at Canada NY Gallery. In 2022, she will exhibit new works at König Gallery Seoul. Her artistic practice continues to evolve, including a visual vocabulary that she began to develop in Turkey.
In 2020, his monograph "Made in New York" was published by Distanz Verlag. Janitz's work has been featured in important publications such as Contemporary Painting (Thames & Hudson, 2021) and Frozen Gesture (Hirmer, 2019). His works are included in important collections such as Carole Server Collection, Collezione Maramotti, Hall Art Foundation and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Represented by galleries such as Canada (NY), Sevil Dolmaci (Istanbul), König (Berlin, London, Seoul) and Saenger Galería (Mexico City), Janitz's art continues to influence audiences worldwide. After living in New York for more than a decade, she will be based in Mexico City from 2020.
