Anne-Jan Reijn’s practice is rooted in an ongoing investigation of risk, instability, and the human desire for control. Balancing between conceptual art and performative installation, his practice places the audience in direct confrontation with unstable situations that test comfort and expectation. Through these charged encounters, Reijn transforms danger into both an aesthetic spatial experience and a form of social reflection.
Working across a wide range of media and materials, he constructs multisensory installations that breathe, shift, and destabilize the boundaries between safety and threat. At the core of his practice lies a fascination with the Western denial of death and the cultural obsession with safety — a paradox where society seeks to eliminate danger while celebrating destruction through spectacle.
Combining real and imagined scenarios, Reijn uses both speculation and actual risk to expose the fragility of control and to question how we define safety, reality, and trust. His works reveal the subtle line between order and chaos, proposing alternative ways of relating to uncertainty — embracing dynamism, instability, and the inherently unstable.
Anne-Jan Reijn (1983, Amsterdam) studied electronic music at the HKU in Utrecht, fine arts at the UdK in Berlin and finished his Masters at the ArtScience faculty at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague and previously exhibited at Nieuw Dakota, Stichting NDSM, Vriend van Bavink, W139, Nuit Blanche Brussels and Gabriel Rolt.