Jana Schröder

When it comes to painting, Jana Schröder has always imposed rules on herself. The new works in her Perlasynthic, Neusec, and Hawo series, however, which are now on view for the first time at Meyer Riegger, are different: Schröder works more freely, there are no longer any fixed rules. As the artist herself says, “I tried to do everything possible with colour here. The one rule here was probably that I was allowed to do anything.”

Before Schröder began the Perlasynthic series in 2021, she tended to work with oil paints. The paintings shown in the exhibition, however, are in acrylic. With this decision, she presents her painterly oeuvre from a completely new perspective.

Jana Schröder (b. 1983, Brilon) was a student in Albert Oehlen’s class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 2005 to 2009. She has recently had solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein Reutlingen, the Kunststation Sankt Peter in Cologne, the Kunstverein Heppenheim, and the Kopfermann-Fuhrmann Stiftung in Düsseldorf. In 2019/2020, her works were part of the group show Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland. In addition to this, Schröder’s work has been presented in group exhibitions at international venues including the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; and the Yves Klein Archive, Paris. VIBR ANX 80 is her first solo exhibition at Meyer Riegger.