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Jens Semjan , concept artist as well as communication and media theorist, was born 1979 in Ulm, Germany. He studied fine arts from 2001 to 2006 as Master student of Joseph Kosuth at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He currently lives and works in Brussels, Belgium and Munich, Germany. Throughout his career, he works in different media to express his mostly political motivated approaches. In an exhibition at the Baumwollspinnerei in Leipzig, Germany, in 2008, he showed different of his screenprints on steel, which were exposed to the elements for several months and therefore corroded to develop a new picture language. The paper and cardboard modell of the Oval Office „Park View Office to Let“ (2007) is a reproduction of 16 sqm, which was exhibited at Art Brussels 2007 in a Solo show by Gallery Traversée. Semjan advocates for a critical survey of the budgetary situation and the priority of educational institutions like schools and kindergardens prior than theaters and art museums: „Also museums and theaters should be provided with the opportunity to sustain an economic acitivity.“ „The Grand Insolvency Show“ (2010) is a polemic exhibiton which focuses on a visionary and liberal idea of visual arts – Statistics. 320 slides with confronting statistics, across a range of global themes, are projected via four Kodak carousel projectors. The exhibition has been edited using publicly available data from global sources, but with the concept of turning serious statistical analysis into engaging art: The curves, columns and pie charts themselves are readymade pictures. Jens Semjan got grants from the Cultural Foundation of Allianz, Erwin and Gisela von Steiner-Foundation and the Karin Abt-Straubinger Foundation. His works are held in different collections including the Allianz SE and Alpine Bau Deutschland AG.