Jan Giliam

 
 
Exploring shared authorship and the beauty of collective creation.

Collaboration is central to my practice. When painting together, brushstrokes vanish beneath others' and control dissolves. Each artist brings their own visual language, and styles merge into something none could create alone.

Networks become a mode of inquiry. My work operates on two levels: the singular and aesthetic, and the interactive and communicative. Between discovery and accident, something genuine emerges.


2022 - now: The Cabo Mondego Section of Portuguese Surrealism

2018 - 2022: CAPA 5 with Rik Lina

1991 - 2018: CAPA = Collective Automatic Painting Amsterdam

2000 - now: Glass Studio Amsterdam, with Bert Grotjohann

2014: Giliam & Geamperle Glasmalerei, with Daniel Gaemperle

2013 - 2021: Giliam & Mombers Design, with Jean-Paul Mombers

1990 - 1994: Giliam & Gort: Projects on Artistic Grounds, with Ben Gort. newspaper article