April 2026
⤷ New upcoming collaboration with Public Food and Mensa Mensa. Generously supported by the Stimuleringsfonds.
⤷ New upcoming collaboration with Public Food and Mensa Mensa. Generously supported by the Stimuleringsfonds.
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⤷ Last year Dr. Hanna Baumann and me won a Marsh Award for Excellence in Visual Arts Engagement and an UCL East Engagement Awards - Excellence in Cocreation for our collaboration Another Provision.
⤷ My practice is structurally supported by the Mondriaan Funds Artistic Basic Stipend('24-'28)
⤷ Last year Dr. Hanna Baumann and me won a Marsh Award for Excellence in Visual Arts Engagement and an UCL East Engagement Awards - Excellence in Cocreation for our collaboration Another Provision.
⤷ My practice is structurally supported by the Mondriaan Funds Artistic Basic Stipend('24-'28)
Autumn 2026
⤷ We are working on our Municipal Kitchen publication based on the 7-weeks programme with the same name at nGbK, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst in Berlin
My contribution is supported by Culture Moves Europe
⤷ We are working on our Municipal Kitchen publication based on the 7-weeks programme with the same name at nGbK, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst in Berlin
My contribution is supported by Culture Moves Europe
⤷ Johann Arens works with installation and video to survey how shared infrastructures impact our communal life and shape civil behaviour. These site-related installations take place in facets of the public domain; at community centres, schools, hospitals, digital learning centres, internet cafes, local markets as well as art spaces and are tailored to be platforms to celebrate and mushroom forms of communality.
He has realised public art commissions with Arnolfini Bristol, Bold Tendencies London, Kettle’s Yard Cambridge, Jerwood Space London and UCL Culture, and works since 2020 with researcher Dr. Hanna Baumann on the long-term project Another Provision.
His work has recently been shown at Manifesta13 Marseille; Pump House Gallery London; IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin; P/////AKT Amsterdam, IFFR Rotterdam and Neuer Aachener Kunstverein.
Johann has been visiting lecturer at various art schools, amongst others at the Royal College of Art London; Goldsmiths University of London; EKA Estonian Academy for the Arts; UDEM University of Monterrey Mexico; Manchester School of Art; AHK Amsterdam University of the Arts; ArtEZ University of the Arts Zwolle and University of Liverpool.
He has realised public art commissions with Arnolfini Bristol, Bold Tendencies London, Kettle’s Yard Cambridge, Jerwood Space London and UCL Culture, and works since 2020 with researcher Dr. Hanna Baumann on the long-term project Another Provision.
His work has recently been shown at Manifesta13 Marseille; Pump House Gallery London; IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin; P/////AKT Amsterdam, IFFR Rotterdam and Neuer Aachener Kunstverein.
Johann has been visiting lecturer at various art schools, amongst others at the Royal College of Art London; Goldsmiths University of London; EKA Estonian Academy for the Arts; UDEM University of Monterrey Mexico; Manchester School of Art; AHK Amsterdam University of the Arts; ArtEZ University of the Arts Zwolle and University of Liverpool.