Trained as a photographer with a degree from the Zurich School of Design, Janik Bürgin consistently interrogates the medium-specificity of photography. His ambition is to develop a body of work over time, grounded in processes that resist acceleration and unfold at their own pace.

Bürgin experiments with abstraction. The results are colour compositions that possess a painterly quality while being produced entirely through photographic means. His series recall the colour field paintings of the Abstract Expressionists, yet establish a distinct visual language of their own.

Employing a wide range of techniques, Bürgin engages sensitively and experimentally with the possibilities of photographic image-making. The fragmentary nature of his immediate surroundings continually inform and shape his artistic practice. He interrogates the self as an accumulation of narrative fragments overlapping across different temporalities. 

His current body of work explores a complex sequence of processes: from collage to screen printing, he creates large-scale, unique canvases. By combining a wide range of techniques, Bürgin develops a distinctive and highly individual approach to image-making and artistic creation.

Bürgin made his exhibition debut at Art Basel in 2021, followed by exhibitions at Fondation Fernet-Branca (FR), Die Mobiliar (CH), and Kunsthalle Palazzo (CH). His work has since been acquired by private and public collections internationally. He lives and works in Basel.
 

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Dr. Leena Crasemann, 2026​

 

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Bürgin does not verify or guarantee the authenticity of works that are unsigned and offered on the secondary market.