About
“Plain. Cold. Clinical. My work is sterile in its note.”
Dean Maassen is a German new media and conceptual artist who lives and works in Vienna.
He studied time-based arts in the class of Prof. Michaela Schweiger at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle in Germany and graduated in the Post-Conceptual Art class of Prof. Dr Marina Gržinić at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Austria.
In installations, graphic works, sculptures and photographs, he deals with the labour market, increasing resilience and psychological resources, as well as post-traumatic growth. Maassen's artistic work has been significantly influenced by his work as a care worker and temporary labourer.
Dean Maassen has been co-director of the off-space and studio Bitterer Ernst in Vienna with Michael René Sell since 2020.
In 2022 he took part in the art festival Smashing Wor(l)ds of the Belvedere 21 - Museum of Contemporary Art in Vienna. His works were shown in 2021 during the international art exhibition OSTRALE in Dresden, which is the largest East German biennial for contemporary art. In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Hungary, Maassen was invited to participate in the exhibition ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO LEAVE? at Art Quarter Budapest the following year. In 2019, Dean Maassen worked with curator Adam Szymczyk, director of Documenta 14, on the project Principal of Equality, which was shown at Vienna Art Week. In 2018, Maassen presented his work at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba.
Selected Exhibitions
2023
CONTACT ZONES I Facultat de Belles Arts I Group I Barcelona I ESP
PARCOURS. Diplomausstellung I Akademie der Bildenden Künste I Group I Vienna I AUT
in copore I Essingers Art Club im Essinger Haus I Group I Mödling I AUT
2022
Smashing Worlds I Belvedere 21 I Group I Vienna I AUT
ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO LEAVE? I Art Quarter Budapest I Group I Budapest I HUN
Never Go Back I XX Art Flanerie Festival I Group I Vienna I AUT
2021
OSTRALE 2021 I Ostrale Biennale I Group I Dresden I DEU
Bitterer Ernst 2 I Studio Bitterer Ernst I Group I Vienna I AUT
BILLAA ++ I Gallery AA Collections I Solo I Vienna I AUT
2020
Bitterer Ernst I Studio Bitterer Ernst I Group I Vienna I AUT
Xxxhibition I Studio Bitterer Ernst I Group I Vienna I AUT
Xxxhibition 2 I Studio Bitterer Ernst I Group I Vienna I AUT
2019
Wild Spoerri Rosenstein I Vienna Art Week I Group I Vienna I AUT
close to driving ban I Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf I Group I Dusseldorf I DEU
Bitte Seien Sie Achtsam… I Kunsthalle Wien I Group I Vienna I AUT
2018
Audio-vizuālās I Latvijas Mākslas akadēmija I Group I Riga I LVA
Trainability of experience I Altes Zollamt I Solo I Hamburg I DEU
Hay cosas y cosas I Instituto Superior de Arte I Group I Havana I CUB
2017
nicht mehr, noch nicht I Werkleitz Festival I Group I Halle I DEU
Large Panel System I notfoundgallery I Group I Moscow I RUS
Προβλήματα παρουσίασης / Eine Frage des Auftretens I Konservatorium I Group I Athens I GRC
Art Fair & Auction
2024
PARALLEL VIENNA I Art fair I Vienna I AUT
2020
20th Anniversary Charity Auction Contemporary Art I Dorotheum I Auction I Vienna I AUT
2018
Medienkunstmesse I Contemporary Art Ruhr I Art fair I Essen I DEU
Residences
2023
Residency auf Schloss Krasków I Stiftung Art 11 I Krasków I PL
2022
Kollegawochen am Mayerhof I Sensationsverlag I Zwettl I AUT
2021
Kollegawochen am Mayerhof I Sensationsverlag I Zwettl I AUT
2020
OFFSITE I Studio Calas I Sittersdorf I AUT
Scholarship & Awards
2023
Förderungsstipendium I Vienna I AUT
2022
Reisestipendium I Goethe Institut I Budapest I HUN
Lotichius-Preis Rubrik Kunst I EDITION 6050 Verlag I Wiesbaden I DEU
2018
Aufenthaltsstipendien des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt I Halle I DEU