Having started her professional career as an architect, artist Janet Vollebregt (1969, Leiden, Netherlands) developed her artistic practice by waving the visible and the invisible, proposing forms and spaces whose purpose is to offer sensitive experiences. Anchoring her transdisciplinary research in a holistic perspective, Vollebregt’s works aim to establish harmony between individual and collective energies through the perception of subtle energy, an intermediate force between the physical and spiritual realms. Among the foundations of her investigations are traditional Eastern practices, deepened by the artist on recurring trips to Asia and through the continuous study of Jin Shin Jyutsu, a Japanese philosophy, as well as Shintoism and Buddhism.

Janet Vollebregt’s installations, interventions, sculptures, and interactive objects desire to provoke the self-awareness of the body’s energies. The use of crystals in her compositions points to a broad perspective on the aesthetics of the material, going beyond its visuality, investing the public in expanding their perception to establish a connection with the whole. Her practice articulates technical knowledge and philosophical propositions to articulate a broad understanding of our relationship with nature. One of the milestones of her research is the Refazenda project, in Alto Paraíso de Goiás, close to the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, in Brazil. In 2006, Vollebregt moved to the region, where she lived for almost a decade. There the artist developed her most ambitious projects, bringing together nature, architecture, art, and design to re-harmonize them.

Currently, Vollebregt lives and works between Brazil and the Netherlands. Among the artist’s recent solo exhibitions are: Nurturing Spheres, at the National Museum of the Republic (MUN), in Brasília, Brazil (2022); Nurturing Space, at Marktsteeg 10, in Leiden, Netherlands (2019); and Art.Chi.Textures, at Galeria Espaço Aberto, in Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Brazil (2016). Her works have been part of group exhibitions such as: A Celebration of the Golden Time, at Casa Fares, in São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Curva – Ponto, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACS), in Sorocaba, Brazil (2022); Imagine Intuition, at the Museum De Lakenhal, in Leiden, Netherlands (2022); Circular, at Praça Adolpho Bloch, in São Paulo, Brazil (2022); and Transformation, at the Est Art Foundation, in Leiden, Netherlands (2021).