Janice Jensen (*1994) is a visual artist from Germany. She is mostly engaged with drawing and painting but also works with media such as video and painting in virtual reality. Among other things, Janice considers herself a walking artist and combines walking and drawing using her self-designed drawing machine to document landscapes. Janice graduated from Bielefeld university of applied Arts in digital, media and experiment in 2022 and also studied painting at Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2021. In 2019 she was one of the founding members of the feminist Naturtrüb collective and Magazine, which brings together female artists and researcher to release their work in a Magazine dedicated to different topics. Janice Jensen has also been participating in several artist residency programs in Sweden, Spain, Lithuania and Cyprus and exhibited her work in various places throughout Germany including Hamburg and Berlin. 

 

 

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residencies and projects

2024 - residency at BKN Björko Konstnod (Björkö, Sweden)

2023 - Shortlist Marŝarto Awards 2023 (https://walklistencreate.org/2024/01/30/depending-on-how-you-look-at-it/)

2023 - Walking As Practice (residency program at Björkö Konstnod, Björkö Island, Sweden)

2022 - project coordination Camping Campus für das Supergau Festival (contemporary art festival/Lungau/Salzburg, Austria) 

2022 - Research Assistant (graphic/organisation of culture events) at Zentrum für Ästhetik (Bielefeld University)

2022 - M.A. of Arts (Fachhochschule Bielefeld / Digital, Media & Experiment)

2022 - Work retreat Nida Art Colony / Project walkingwhiledrawing (Nida, Lithuania)

2020 - Erasmus Semester at Vilnius Art Academy M.A. Painting (Lithuania)

2020 - Artists residency arteventura (Aracena, Spain) 

2019 - Artist residency Kammari (Treis Elies, Cyprus)

2019 - Founding of Naturtrüb collective and Feminist magazin Naturtrüb (www.naturtrueb-magazin.de)

2019 - Bachelor of Arts (Fachhochschule Bielefeld für Gestaltung / Zeichnung)

2019 - student assistant (graphic/Organisation of culture events)  Zentrum für Ästhetik (Bielefeld University)

2015 - Studium an der Fachhochschule Bielefeld für Gestaltung (Studiengang Grafik- und Kommunikationsdesign). 

Ausstellungen / exhibtions

2024 - Filmrolle Lines Festival (group Exhibition, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany)

2024 - interweaving places (advanced cut (Duo with Lena Schäfferling, Rochdale Barracks, Bielefeld, Germany)

2024 - knowhername (group exhibition, lost place in cooperation with hase 29, Osnabrück, Germany)

2024 – wir gehen los und bringen was mit (mit alissa mirea weidenfeld, tmp Projektraum, Minden, Germany)

2023 - growingfragments (solo exhibition, atelier D, Bielefeld) 

2023 - verLAUFEN (group exhibition, xpon-art gallery, Hamburg)

2022 - Consuming places (advanced cut (with Lena Schäfferling) at Artists Unlimited e.V., Bielefeld)

2022 - Werkschau walkingwhiledrawing (Fachhochschule Bielefeld)

2022 - Nacht der Museen feat. Ostblock Bielefeld (Kunstverein Bielefeld)

2021 - The Inner Life of... (Goethe Institut, Nancy, France)

2019 - Treis Elies (with Serafima Rayskina und Lena Schäfferling treppenhausgalerie, Bielefeld)

2019 - Naturtrüb Release (group exhibition, Kulturhaus Bielefeld)

2019 - LessFace Serafima Rayskina feat. Janice Jensen (Bunker Ulmenwall, Bielefeld) 

2019 - Hamburger Bilderbuchpreis (group exhibition Shortlist, Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg)

 2019 - Werkschau der Fachhochschule für Gestaltung (group exhibition Bielefeld)

2018 - HIN gucken (Einzelausstellung in der treppenhausgalerie, Bielefeld)