The Suzanne Biederberg Gallery is delighted to invite you to our first solo exhibition with Jans Muskee presenting a recent body of his work in a very intimate setting. As Muskee writes, regarding the background to his works in this exhibition:

“At the end of 2022, I made my last large drawing. After that, it went quiet in my head. Where I’m usually overflowing with ideas, there was nothing left. It felt like I could retire, as if everything I wanted to make had been done.

At the summer, I did a little project with Chantal Breukers, to experience the differences between painting and drawing. And at that point, maybe I can start over, with paint, just things around me, and then back to basics: small, on canvas, and the question: how do you make a painting? Focusing solely on composition, color, and material, and trying to do that as best as I could. And then it started flowing again, from one thing to the next, and I couldn’t stop. Once again, I’m a student investigating how to make a painting.”

Apart from the new small paintings, we will be showing a recent large-scale oil pastel drawing and a spectacular new sculpture.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a new publication of Muskee’s most recent work.

Jans Muskee (Nieuw-Amsterdam, 1961), lives and works in Ede, the Netherlands. He is a graduate of the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten “Minerva”, Groningen and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. He has exhibited extensively in both the Netherlands and internationally.