janna banning

We are no different.

2012-01-30T05:40:00.001-08:00

2012-01-19T03:40:00.000-08:00

"I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee… I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team.” (S. Wozniak)

So I am happy to tell you: There is a group show upcoming ;)

Be welcome!
Friday, Jan. 27. 19 h opening
Saturday, Jan. 28. 13-17h
Sunday, Jan. 29. 13-17h
at CBK, 's-Hertogenbosch

2011-12-28T02:58:00.000-08:00

110 x 130 cm

This is the only painting I made in the summer vacation. I painted it in my parents basement, it's still in my parents basement. This painting never saw the daylight yet.

2011-12-14T03:40:00.001-08:00

2011-12-12T09:13:00.001-08:00

2011-11-30T07:46:00.000-08:00

Irgendwo zwischen Eindhoven und Venlo, 25. November 2011

Der Weg vons’Hertogenbosch nach Eindhoven ist ein langer. In der zwischen Zeit schaffen esmeine Gedanken mehrere Male sich in Einbahnstraßen zu verlaufen, gehetzt legensie sich mehrmals mächtig auf die Fresse, werden jedoch nicht müde und rennenunaufgehalten in die nächste Einbahnstraße, um die nächste Ecke, sie machenU-Turns, rennen gegen Mauern, fallen schneller, fallen härter und rennen weiter– immer weiter, ‚Try and Error’, ‚Try and Error’,manchmal finden sie eine neueunbekannte Straße. Glück oder Dummheit, stellt sich dann als Frage.

Ich sitze im Zug, werdekrank und denke: ‚ Nicht viel beansprucht mehr Wahrheit als ein leeres BlattPapier.’

2011-11-21T10:01:00.001-08:00

November 21st 2011

Ever since I got an email with an 'okay' to call him, I was nervous like hell. I decided to call this morning, I barely slept, I couldn't eat. I called at noon. My roommate was laughing at me, because I was so excited and nervous, she said: 'Wow, usually you are so straight forward and now, I see you all over the place!' It was funny, it felt strange.
Once I heard his voice, I was fine again. We had a talk.

He has a very different idea of time than I. He told me, he only takes photographs for his 'work'. The past doesn't exist.
(Personally, I consider: We are a summing up of all yesterdays and one now.)

I took a silly picture after we talked, so I can show it to my future potential kids and say:
'Look honey, this was November 21st, the day your mom had a phone talk with her favorite painter!'

I totally forgot to tell him, that I like his work.

2011-11-20T08:02:00.001-08:00

Nr. 72, Öl auf Leinwand, 140 x 175 cm, 2011
I mixed up 'how' and 'what', it ended up in a mess. Sometimes the only way I fall asleep is by not trying to fall asleep. I talk and I don't listen. Love you.

aussicht

2011-11-06T03:12:00.000-08:00

2011-10-30T15:23:00.000-07:00

Fotografie, 105 x 135 cm

159 strategies & 1 summer (project)

2011-06-07T12:52:00.000-07:00

'Do the washing up.'

it's a very long summer: so I decided to go for a project, which I wanted to do since a long time already but never had the time and patience. I have no idea where it .... but you're welcome to have a look: http://at-least-two-a-day.blogspot.com/

'Scanning Adorno'

2011-05-30T15:21:00.000-07:00

‘Scanning Adorno’ ~~is an unfinished work. I haven’t figured out the final form yet/how it needs to be presented.~~

~~About the work: I was reading an essay by Adorno (Über einige Relationen zwischen Musik und Malerei) and his words (which are highly beautiful!) formed images in my head.~~

~~But since everybody forms their own images while thinking/listening, my images were already far away from Adorno’s.~~

I decided to only keep the essence needed for ‘my image’ and to get rid of everything unnecessary, while still receiving a complete image in the end – so I erased all the, to me expendable parts.

- ~~I didn’t change the order in which he used the words, except of one time.~~

- ~~I only added one time a personal note~~

- ~~Though, I didn’t change the order of words - I put them in my own rhythm~~

It was exciting to do, because I was able to create, with his words a personal sharp image of what I wouldn’t be able to tell without him. (The question is, whether it is mine or still his? Am I allowed to do this, I mean: Wow it’s Adorno, right! It doesn’t feel wrong.)

~~He offered me images and I stole them, formed and shaped them into mine, by erasing and playing with timing.~~

~~Is it vicious to do this because he carefully chose words and I decided to kick the ones with less value out, until the picture in front of me looked as sharp as possible?~~

~~I mean, in the end, that’s what we do all day long anyways – scan, produce images and focus until we get what we need to understand.~~

facing

2011-05-30T11:42:00.000-07:00

Stumpft der Mensch vom Gaffen ab?

2011-05-29T17:03:00.001-07:00

(nr.25)

2011-05-21T06:21:00.000-07:00

Öl auf Leinwand, 75 x 115 cm

2011-05-17T16:18:00.000-07:00

coming home

2011-05-11T08:56:00.000-07:00

Öl auf Leinwand, 75 x 115 cm

nr. 12

2011-05-06T10:17:00.000-07:00

Öl auf Leinwand, 60 x 80 cm

2011-05-03T02:54:00.001-07:00

19:52h

2011-05-02T04:52:00.000-07:00

28. April

2011-04-28T10:15:00.000-07:00

nr. 7

2011-04-05T14:02:00.000-07:00

Öl auf Leinwand, groß

'Kunst en Politiek'

2011-04-04T09:52:00.000-07:00

At the end of the minor 'kunst en politiek', we had a group-exhibition, for which I made an installation with paintings. But throughout the preparation process of the exhibition, the group made the decision (democratically) to show all the works in little voting booths - my work was everything but fitting in there.
After a lot of thinking and doubting, whether to change my work, whether to make new work, whether to deny the whole exhibition or to rent out my voting booth - I decided in the end, to make an 'answer to democracy'.
Because, even though it seemed like a fair choice, which was made by people, I thought at the same time it is: a dictatorship of the majority, a discrimination for painters and sculptors and the most silly thing to do - because art is not democratic at all!
So I thought: Okay, you give me all these rules and restriction, that's what you get than - AN ANSWER!
Next to the movie, which was screened in a loop on a little TV, standing on a old paper box on the floor of the booth, I offered some hand-outs of EU-regulations of cucumbers, in Dutch, English, French and German.

fragments: installation 'march 2011'

2011-03-21T10:03:00.000-07:00

I stole this.

2011-03-20T15:08:00.000-07:00

kw 10/2011

2011-03-09T11:40:00.000-08:00

Öl auf Leinwand, 30 x 42 cm

installation

2011-03-08T12:53:00.000-08:00

04.03.2011, out of my diary

2011-03-06T23:57:00.000-08:00

kw 8/2011

2011-02-22T12:33:00.000-08:00

Öl auf Leinwand, 100 x 120

kw 7/2011

2011-02-19T09:59:00.000-08:00

Öl auf Leinwand, 2011

nr. 5

2011-02-09T11:11:00.000-08:00

Öl auf Leinwand, 120 x 140 cm

2011-01-13T17:40:00.000-08:00

bild in fahlen farben (assoziationen geschwärzt)

meistens ist es zwei uhr nachts, wenn ich nicht schlafen kann. mein kopf ist hellwach, wobei ich zum schreiben eigentlich zu müde bin. ich habe keine ahnung, wie ich schnee male. es ist komisch, weil schnee eins meiner liebsten ist. weiß ich nicht wie ich ihn malen soll, weil ich ihn nicht richtig sehen kann. (die vorstellung ist mir aber zu kitschig.)

~~ich bin gespannt auf den tag,~~

nachtrag: ich mag keine berge, aber wenn sie mit schnee bedeckt sind, sind sie okay. vielleicht ist es auch das wasser. in jeder form, irgendwie immer unantastbar (hier: definitiv schwarz!), aber so richtig festhalten kann man es nicht, selbst wenn es gefroren ist, schmilzt es, sobald man es länger anfasst und wenn man es festhalten will, muss man es einsperren.

nebel,

dampf,

regen,

schnee,

eis,

siedend,

still.

(vielleicht lerne ich eines tages tennis zu spielen, denn ich stelle mir tennis so ähnlich vor wie zu malen.)

nr. 94

2011-01-04T13:55:00.000-08:00

Öl auf Leinwand, 90 x 120 cm

2010-12-30T06:08:00.000-08:00

2010-12-29T04:30:00.000-08:00

nr. 1052 (tweede versie)

2010-12-20T11:24:00.000-08:00

Oil on canvas, 100*120 cm

2010-11-20T08:27:00.000-08:00

Öl auf Leinwand, 95*110 cm

2010-11-18T02:16:00.000-08:00

2010-10-18T11:32:00.000-07:00

Öl auf Leinwand, 120*140 cm

Self-portait (September 2010)

2010-09-28T12:08:00.001-07:00

2010-09-14T11:57:00.001-07:00

2010-09-14T11:55:00.000-07:00

I cannot sleep

2010-08-20T03:49:00.000-07:00

2010-08-18T17:40:00.000-07:00

2010-07-21T16:14:00.000-07:00

pool

2010-07-13T10:12:00.000-07:00

2010-07-05T12:17:00.000-07:00

self-portrait june 2010

2010-06-22T04:30:00.000-07:00

~~I often think~~ my outside doesn't match my inside.

Expectations scare me ~~easily.~~ !

I wanna have a diamond ring later on in life.

I ~~like~~ love 'maybe'.

I ~~barely~~ don't find men, who drive mini coopers attractive.

I wonder if I am or if I try to be - and is there an affinity for superficiality?

Can you see, what you wanna see? Do you trust me or do you trust yourself here?

Are we close?

am I asking for too much

2010-06-15T14:59:00.000-07:00

we fitted an airplane in there

2010-06-01T12:27:00.000-07:00

this is a 'working together project', which I did with martijn. we got this space/room from school to work in and to work with.

our first impulse was: damn, we need a whale in here! but while playing around with the idea of getting a whale in there, we came to the conclusion: okay, way too cynical.

so we thought, how can we, in a different way, make this huge space too small.....(meanwhile - lots of strange ideas)....how about we fill the room with sound...lets put the outside of the building inside (final idea).

so we took measurements of the actual property of the building. at all six outline corners of the property, we took sound recordings.

we made a system (see drawn image), how to get the outside in - in a way, that we kept the proportions. so wherever the lines from the outside points, 'broke' through the inside wall, to get to the centre of the space, we fixed an installation with the sound recordings.

we also copied one thing from every recording spot and rebuilded it - we used the copies to play the sound in.

Untitled from janna banning on Vimeo.

2010-05-28T09:37:00.000-07:00

2010-05-27T12:43:00.000-07:00

a picture.

2010-05-25T11:41:00.000-07:00

I am not, who you think I am.

Totally bullshit.

I am, who you think I am.

Puking fascinates me -

maybe you can add that in your picture.

Puking in general - also puke,

not my own though.

Do you get a small dark spot on the picture now?

Don't worry, I am going to cover it. I LIKE BABY ANIMALS - cute ones.

I try to be nice a lot of times. I care for my friends. Maybe I laugh about your jokes out of politeness.

I can be very polite and charming.

I always say, that I am honest -

in fact, I am not. Maybe that's not important.

portait 2

2010-05-17T08:27:00.000-07:00

ich muss mich eben fünf minuten übergeben.

2010-05-16T03:29:00.001-07:00

portait 1

2010-05-15T08:50:00.000-07:00

fenster

2010-04-20T07:55:00.001-07:00

2010-04-13T08:13:00.000-07:00

don't.

2010-03-17T13:17:00.000-07:00

don't. from janna banning on Vimeo.

in oss

2010-03-17T13:13:00.000-07:00

they are screening my animation 'zeit oder so' at the jan cunen museum in oss between 02.03.2010 - 13.04.2010.

junger mann:solange der hintergrund glänzt

2010-02-23T09:29:00.000-08:00

don't.

2010-01-31T12:27:00.000-08:00

'don't' is an installation,

where I place

manipulated nature,

in already existing

manipulated/artificial nature.

the set up nature, out of nature,

will be protected through a little greenhouse,

but in the end reality/nature

will probably take over again.

'zeit oder so' in Breda

2010-01-21T12:12:00.000-08:00

My animation 'Zeit oder so' will be screened during the Culturnacht in Breda, 22/01/2010.

call it home.

2010-01-21T06:25:00.000-08:00

I forgot his name, but he was very kind.

2010-01-09T11:25:00.000-08:00

Oil on Canvas, 110 x 130cm

ann loves you.

2009-12-15T10:41:00.000-08:00

for insiders only.

2009-12-15T10:36:00.000-08:00

for insiders only. from janna banning on Vimeo.

2009-10-17T11:20:00.001-07:00

Acryl auf Leinwand, 110 x 130cm

smells like peaches.

2009-10-13T11:17:00.000-07:00

portrait.

2009-10-13T11:09:00.001-07:00

man.

2009-10-07T14:15:00.000-07:00

2009-10-07T13:55:00.001-07:00

portrait.

2009-09-25T09:06:00.001-07:00

2009-08-10T15:55:00.000-07:00

2009-07-17T03:22:00.000-07:00

2009-06-09T06:47:00.000-07:00

my head hurts like a bitch.
is my head a bitch?
is my head the only bitch?
I doubt it, but can't be sure. everything gets always rotten.

waschbecken

2009-06-04T14:45:00.000-07:00

go left on the mountain valley.

2009-06-04T14:20:00.000-07:00

step out inside.
drink milk puking it.
write impossible.
wrong walks good.
start crying without sugar.
go left on the mountain valley.
steal hearts.
puke in my shoes.

today

2009-05-28T08:33:00.000-07:00

halbes haus 5

2009-05-25T11:30:00.001-07:00

halbes haus 4

2009-05-25T11:28:00.000-07:00

explanation

2009-05-13T10:58:00.000-07:00

'once I'm pregnant, I'm going to quit smoking' is an installation/performance, where somebody is becoming me - while listening, speaking, wearing, looking, feeling, trying - being?. question is: how close is still okay?

once I'm pregnant, I am going to quit smoking

2009-04-24T11:58:00.001-07:00

once I'm pregnant, I am going to quit smoking
or
becoming me

halbes haus 3

2009-04-08T06:15:00.000-07:00

home - honey - safe - can I cook for you love -

sleep - sheets - blankets - rest - morning -

you can take your shoes off - sun wakes me up

halbes haus 2

2009-04-08T06:13:00.000-07:00

halbes haus 1

2009-04-08T06:10:00.001-07:00

there is always a small chance of rain getting into your house.

morgen/heute

2009-04-07T08:37:00.000-07:00

morgen mach ich vielleicht wieder mit,
heute nicht-
heute bin ich schlauer,
morgen überwiegt vielleicht wieder die unvernunft,

vielleicht, aber auch erst übermorgen,
oder den tag darauf,

ich hoffe es - hoffe es nicht,
warte - kann es nicht abwarten,
bis morgen-
übermorgen,
oder nie,

das hoffe ich -
nicht.
morgen schon.

2009-04-07T06:35:00.000-07:00

thanks for lying!

2009-03-23T10:12:00.000-07:00

if I ask you to leave - would you - even though, you know I don't mean it?

can you read my mind?

2009-03-23T09:53:00.000-07:00

can you read my mind? from janna banning on Vimeo.

bildersuche_

2009-03-23T09:43:00.000-07:00

bildersuche_ from janna banning on Vimeo.

make a room

2009-03-19T12:24:00.000-07:00

it worked out pretty good, everybody who was in the room got a really strange, unconfortable or unsecure feeling.

performance

2009-03-07T08:18:00.001-08:00

de overblijfsels van de performance/

actually it wasn't as bad as I expected...maybe I even start to like performances.

portrait.

2009-03-03T13:06:00.001-08:00

2009-03-03T12:09:00.001-08:00

linien finde ich schön,
linien, keine fragen,
ich bin hier,
du bist nicht hier -
entspann dich,

so schön.
keine frage,
klarheit,
strich -
striche,
meine,
viele,

ich verschiebe einen.

grenze.
grenzeinladung.
kaffee im gazastreifen.

2009-01-22T03:28:00.001-08:00

datenuntersuchung

2009-01-22T03:20:00.000-08:00

das bild gibt es, weil ich mich nicht/noch nicht getraut habe meine daten an wildfremde menschen zu verteilen. es ist teil von meiner 'datenuntersuchung', genauso wie der film: do you think you know me now.

'zeit oder so'

2009-01-05T11:42:00.000-08:00

they are going to screen this animation at the international film festival in breda on thursday, march 26th and on friday, march 27th. it is part of the 'shorts A' - onderdeel van 'beyond cinema'.