Janina Janke
Janina Janke (* 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German research artist, director and set designer.
Life
Janke initially trained as a carpenter and then studied European ethnology and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2000 to 2005 she completed a degree in stage design at the Berlin University of the Arts .
Since she co-founded the artist formation OPER DYNAMO WEST in 2006, Janke has been grappling with striking buildings and spaces in Berlin and international contexts. She designs and implements spatial interventions, documentary theater and artistic research projects at the interface of art, architecture and science. Janke works regularly with the American composer Bill Dietz and the musician and transdisciplinary artist Maurice de Martin . From 2011 to 2015 she was a participant in the project other spaces - knowledge through art , which was funded by the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF). In addition to her art projects on striking architecture and public spaces, Janke works as a freelance stage and costume designer for theater and opera, most recently regularly for the performance collective Turbo Pascal .
Janke's works include: a. with the Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten Berlin (2007), the Europa Center Berlin (2007), the Digital Media City in Seoul, South Korea (2008), the Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Shipbuilding Berlin (2010), Le Corbusier's Unités d`habitation in Berlin and Marseille (2012/13), the Ethnological Museum in Berlin-Dahlem as part of the Humboldt Lab Dahlem (2012/2013), the headquarters of the United Nations in Vienna, Nairobi, New York and Geneva (2011-2016) as well as the urban transformation of Bernau near Berlin (2016–2018).
She lives in Berlin .
Scholarships and Awards
- 2008/09 scholarship holder of the pilot phase of the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences at the Berlin University of the Arts
- 2010 scholarship from the German Academy of Rome (Casa Baldi)
- 2009 project scholarship from Akademie Schloss Solitude
- 2012 Artist in residence at the United Nations in New York
- 2012 residency grants (Goethe-Institut) for New York and Nairobi
- 2013 residency (GMEM) for Marseille
- 2014 scholarship from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris
- 2015 Artist in residence in quartier 21 - Museumsquartier Vienna
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Janina Janke (Ed.): The city as a stage / Opera Dynamo West. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2010. ISBN 978-3-7757-2625-2 .
- ↑ http://www.spaciergang.org/about/
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.humboldt-forum.de/humboldt-lab-dahlem/projektarchiv/probebuehne-2/wissen-erzaehlen/projektbeschreibung/
- ↑ http://unknownspaces.org/welcome.html
- ↑ http://www.stadtgefaehrten-bernau.de/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Janke, Janina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German researching artist, director and set designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |