BIOGRAPHY

John Reuss is a self taught artist – born in Germany – now living and working in Denmark. While painting and exhibiting on the side, he has previously studied pattern development & design, taken a Bachelors in Computer Science and worked in various positions in the creative field, from teaching drawing and concept development classes to graphic design, media planning and marketing – before making art the main focus.

The world Reuss depicts is not a location in space and time. It is an inner world, a world where thought, emotion and raw cognition defines the figures and the space they inhabit.

For Reuss the creative process is a key to that inner, psychological world – balancing on the border of the conscious and subconscious and revolving around the main theme of alienation caused by how the outer reality, the development in the world and how we live our lives, disrupts or affects our inner life and existence.

His paintings are essentially depicting a disturbed inner reality or a self-perception, aiming to capture the existential struggle, doubts and alienation that comes in the wake of our modern life. This is why the figures and faces in his work look the way they do – fragmented, broken up and disintegrating.

Solo Exhibitions

2018 “Disruption”, Galleri NB, Viborg DK

2017 “Innuendo”, Galleri NB, Viborg DK

2016 “Fragmented Vision”, Galleri NB, Viborg DK

2015 “Please Destroy This”, in collaboration with Jacob Juhl, Galleri V58, Århus DK

2014 “Hide & Seek”, Galleri NB, Viborg DK

2013 “The Inside Angle”, NBeX, Viborg DK

2013 “Mind & Matter”, Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC, USA

2012 ArtStra Galleri, Copenhagen DK

2011 “Familie af fremmede”, Galleri Progres, Horsens DK

2009 “Grænseland”, Galleri Progres, Horsens DK

2008 Galleri Vibse, Vejle DK

2001 Galleri Inuit, Aalborg DK

2001 Kulturkøbmanden, Skørping DK

Juried Exhibitions

2010 Kunstnernes Sommerudstilling (KS10), Tistrup DK

2008  “INSIDE08”, Kunstpakhuset, Ikast DK

Group Exhibitions

2020 “Contemporary Human”, Galleri NB, Viborg DK

2019 “Christmas Stars”, Galleri NB, Viborg DK

2019 Art Miami, Miami USA

2019 Å-udstillingen, Odense DK

2019 “Waou”, Galleri NB, Viborg DK

2019 “Color & Form”, Robert Fontine Gallery, Miami USA, 2019

2019 Art Herning, Herning DK

2018 “Christmas Stars”, Galleri NB, Viborg DK,

2018 Art Vilnius, Vilnius LT

2018Art The Hague, The Hague NL

2018 “Depict The Mask”, CGK Centre For Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

2018 “Passion”, Galleri NB, Viborg DK

2018 Art Herning, Herning DK

2017 30 Year Jubilee Exhibition, Galleri NB, Viborg DK

2017 KunstRAI, Amsterdam NL

2017 NORTH, Aalborg DK

2017 Art Herning, Herning DK

2016 PrcjtOMNI, Traverse City, Michigan USA,

2016 Art Vilnius, Vilnius LT

2016 NORTH, Aalborg DK

2016 Art Herning, Herning DK

2015 Opening Exhibition, GRAFO Gallery, Vilnius LT

2015 “Christmas Event”, Galleri NB, Viborg DK

2015Pop-Up, Galleri NB, with Kristian Vodder Svensson, Copenhagen DK

2015Art Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK,

2015 “Trans-Figuration”, Galleri NB, Viborg DK

2014 Art Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK

2014Pop-Up, Galleri NB, Herning DK

2014 “REmantics”, Galleri V58, Århus DK

2012 “Christmas Event”, Galleri NB, Copenhagen DK

2012 “Christmas Event”, Galleri NB, Viborg DK

2012 “Samtidige hændelser”, ArtStra Galleri, Copenhagen DK

2012 Art Herning, Herning DK

2011 “Progres 2”, Galleri Progres, Horsens DK

2011 “Your Art”, Rundetaarn, Copenhagen DK

2011 “Optipism”, Gallery Dada Post, Berlin DE

2011 Art Herning, Herning DK

2009 Art Herning, Herning DK

2008 “Trust 100%”, Kulturspinderiet, Silkeborg DK

Collections, Institutions, etc.

Højskolen Hald Ege

Dio Sumagaysay Collection

Publications

2016 Arteviridea (The quest for a cure continues), Dio Sumagaysay,

2015 Bizarre Beyond Belief Magazine – THE COLLECTION, VOL1,