“Janik Bürgin exploits the medium of photography with a purposeful painterly endeavor: On the one hand, he engages with the traditional genres of painting, creating images of people, landscapes, and situations that spring from his own lived reality. In this respect, Janik Bürgin plays with the boundaries of the visible and the medial possibilities of photography. The photographic practice in the classical sense is not in the foreground of his work, but the creation of images and a reality associated with them.”

Vivienne Heinzelmann