2008
MA Animation, Royal College of Art, London
2002
Meisterschüler degree in Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Berlin
Courses, Lectures, Talks
2024
Thinking (in) Motion. Comics and Film
drawing motion. sequential image making practice in drawn animated author’s films
lecture at the international conference at
Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin
2024
guest lecture and workshop animated collage
Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar
since 2022
guest tutor for drawn animation
Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin
since 2022
guest tutor design fundamentals animation 4D.prozess.strategie.interaktion
Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
2022
Intervention through Drawing: Experimental Drawn Animation and the Cinematic Space as Documentary, lecture as part of the conference Dimensions of Animation, CAGA 2020: 6th Conference of AG Animation, HSLU Luzern, CH
2022
guest tutor for the course Animation as Documentary
FH Graubünden, CH
2021
Digitale Dynamiken: Stadtraum im zeitgenössischen Experimentalfilm
lecture as part of the workshop and conference Wiederaufnahme der Avantgarden: Fokus Stadt, Faculty of Media Studies, Universität Paderborn
2020
guest tutor for the course Me Myself and I (character design), Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2020
guest lecture Zeichnen zur Zeit at the experimental narration course, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
2019
workshop Visual Storytelling, Kunsthochschule Kassel
2019 – 2020
guest professor Multimedia Narration, Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus University Weimar
2017 – 2018
lecturer Multimedia Narration, Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus University Weimar
2016 – 2017
guest professor Multimedia Narration, Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus University Weimar
2011 – 2016
künstlerische Mitarbeiterin, Multimedia Narration, Faculty of Art & Design, Bauhaus University
2011
künstlerische Mitarbeiterin for drawing, BTU Cottbus, Architecture Department
2010 – 2011
guest teacher for drawing and animation, KUVA Helsinki, Fine Arts Department
2008 – 2011
visiting tutor for drawing, University of the Arts Berlin, Faculty of Fine Arts
2008 – 2010
guest teacher for experimental drawing and animation, Royal College of Art, London
2005 – 2006
teaching assistant, University of the Arts Berlin, Faculty of Fine Arts, seminar Bewegungsgestaltung zwischen Dynamik und Konstruktion
Professional Practice
2024
FASSADEN animation for the documentary film by Alina Cyranek, hug films Production
2022
Who cares? – Wen kümmert’s dass wir uns kümmern? animation for the documentary film by Stephan Witthöft and an Mirko Hempel
2020
How are We Designing the Wintersemester 1920/21?, three infotainment clips commissioned by the Bauhaus-University Weimar (concept&animation)
Beethoven’s Scherzo Symphony Nr. 3, visual music video commissioned by the WDR (concept&animation)
Saka sy Vorona, animation short film by Franka Sachse (character animation)
2018 – 2019
animation for the animated feature film La Traversée by French director Florence Miailhe
2018
Psycheground by Calibro 35, music video (direction & animation)
2017 – 2018
Chichinette by Nicola Hens, documentary feature film (art direction & animation)
2017
Die Geschichte der Medien, MDR infotainment film (direction & animation)
2016
Collagistas Festival Trailer (direction & animation)
Selected Festivals and Screenings
2024
Video Art Screening Janssen ANIMIERT as part of Petra Lottje: So sieht Sie der Kunde, Jarmuschek + Partner Berlin
drawing in motion #3, curated short film screening, z-bar Berlin
2024
LitCollage, short film screening curated for the 9th Poetry Filmtage Weimar
2023
official selection Mecal Barcelona, j.J. (junger Janssen)
official selection Filmfest Bremen, j.J. (junger Janssen)
official selection Kurzsüchtig Festival Leipzig, j.J. (junger Janssen)
Zeichnung in Bewegung, curated short film screening in collaboration with lines.fiction,
tmp gallery Minden
2020
Life in the Cities, Finissage Gudrun Kemsa: New York, New York, Osthaus Museum, Hagen
Perlinale Screening, Die Perle, Berlin
Secure the Lines!, Scotty Enterprises, Berlin
2019
Night of Animated Shorts, MDR (TRANSIT)
Moving Collage, IndieCork Festival, Cork (TRANSIT, Psycheground)
Architecture of Mind, TOP, Berlin (TRANSIT)
2019
Moving Collage, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin (TRANSIT, Psycheground)
The Salient Point: Film Screening, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin (16:9 diagonal clockwise-anticklockwise)
VKunst Frankfurt, Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt am Main (Destrukt)
2017
SPECTRUM 3, Galerie Eigenheim, Berlin (g)
Lines Fiction, Galerie Netuschil, Darmstadt
RAM Rotterdam GIFFestival, Schouwburg, Rotterdam
Girona Film Festival, Girona (TRANSIT – Best Experimental Art Film)
CyBorg Film Festival, Umbria (TRANSIT)
backup_festival, Weimar (TRANSIT)
International Short Film Festival, Ljubljana (TRANSIT)
International Motion Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus (TRANSIT)
Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin (TRANSIT)
Filmfest Dresden, Dresden (TRANSIT)
Athens Animfest, Athens (TRANSIT)
Traverse Vidéo Festival, Goethe Institut, Toulouse (TRANSIT)
Boddinale, Berlin (TRANSIT)
Trieste Film Festival, Teatro Miela,Trieste (TRANSIT)
2016
CutOut Fest, Festival Internacional de Animación y Arte Digital, Querétaro (TRANSIT)
The Gifer, GIF Art Festival, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin
C.A.R. video lounch, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen (TRANSIT, STILLNESS)
London/Leipzig Film Night, The Museum, Leipzig (TRANSIT)
Kumu Art Film Festival, Tallinn
Respect my GIF, Fantoche 14th International Animation Film Festival, Baden/Switzerland
Collections by TeststripFILMS, Deptford Cinema, London (58 Pages)
2015
Usurp Zone5 Film Festival, Usurp Art Gallery, London
Fringe Arts Bath, Bath
2014
sound and silence | teststrip 2014, A.P.T.Gallery, London
27th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille (Mme Andalou)
programmiert/gezeichnet, Galerie Parterre, Berlin (Mme Andalou)
ANIMASIVO, Foro de Animación Contemporánea, Mexico City (Mme Andalou)
2013
See and be seen, Media facade HTW, Berlin (Augenkosmetik)
Shaping Public Space, Screen City Moving Image Festival, Stavanger (Destrukt)
Filmlecture More Than Rough Animation as part of Linear 2, Kunsthaus Dresden (Destrukt)
Lines Fiction screening at Symposion Linienscharen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (58 Pages)
Lines Fiction in association with Neue Linien, Galerie oqbo, Berlin (58 Pages)
2012
Drawing Space in Motion as part of The Big Draw Berlin, UferHallen, Berlin (bus ride)
Mutierte Linien in association with Neue Linien – Neuerwerbungen grafischer Kunst für die Kunstsammlung des Bundestages, Kunst-Raum des Bundestages, Berlin (58 Pages)
Lines Fiction in association with Geschichten zeichnen – Erzählung in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Museum Folkwang, Essen (Destrukt)
Animated Drawings, Parasol Unit Foundation, London (58 Pages)
THE END, Emmanuel Walderdorff Galerie, Cologne (Destrukt)
2011
Set in Concrete, PvonK Project Room, Chic Art Fair, Paris (Destrukt)
Whistling in the Dark, Shoreditch Town Hall, London (Destrukt)
v_kunst III, la vie en général, Frankfurt/Main (Destrukt)
2008
Eat Our Shorts, National Film Theatre, London (pavement)
2007
15. International Animation Film Festival, Stuttgart (pavement)
rencontres internationales, Paris/Madrid/Berlin (Destrukt)
2006
Late Night Fridays, White Chapel Arts Gallery, London (Destrukt)
Forming Motion, Rote Loge, Berlin (Destrukt)
soundsunusual, Darwin/Australia (Destrukt)
Directors Lounge, Berlin/Poznan (Destrukt)
transmediale, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (Destrukt)
2005
22th Kasseler Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel (Destrukt)
urzula, Gallery Pankow, Berlin (Destrukt)
2003
Kunstfilmbiennale, Cologne (reanimation)
Munich Filmfestival, Munich (reanimation)
Selected Exhibitions
2023
Glueheads – a Berlin odyssey into the unreal, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium
2023
Kaleidoskop, Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden
2022
Eine Sache der Freundschaft, Horst-Janssen-Museum, Oldenburg
2021 – 2022
Janssen Animiert, Horst-Janssen-Museum, Oldenburg (g)
2019
6th Collagistas Festival, Maison du Peuple de St- Gilles, Brussels (g)
Architecture of Mind, TOP, Berlin (g)
2018
Materealität, Galerie Waidspeicher, Erfurt (concept)
2017
4th Collagistas Festival, La Stecca 3.0, Milan (g)
KUNST.ORT.KINO, Kunsthalle Erfurt (g)
Bardo, Aquabit Art Gallery, Berlin (g)
Cutting Edge – Release Prophit Art Zine II, coGalleries Fata Morgana, Berlin (g)
2016
FUTURE VINTAGE PROPOSALS, Direktorenwohnung Alte Staatsbank, Weimar (g)
100 years after DADA, R. Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin (g)
3rd Collagistas Festival, Kelderman en van Noort, Eindhoven (g)
2015
Release Prolog X5, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin (g)
Need and Error., APT Gallery, London | ZSenne Art Lab, Brussels (g)
2nd Collagistas Festival, TABYA Art Space, Thessaloniki (g)
2014
Backlight Photo Festival, Video Factory, Tampere (g)
FußBALLet, ZK/U, Berlin
TIME BEEING TIME – contemporary drawing in motion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka
Zuflucht ins Andere, Strandhalle, Ahrenshoop (g)
2013
Schöne Blätter, Schau Fenster, Berlin (g)
2012
Wochenende, Open Studios Schulstraße e.V., Münster (g)
2011
Agter die Berge – The Joburg Fringe Video, 7hours HAUS19, Berlin (g)
2010
Dynamik der Großstadt as part of Die Ungarn am Bauhaus – Versuch einer Neudefinierung, CHB, Berlin
terrain, kunstraum t27, Berlin (g)
everybody learns from desaster, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin (g)
Reading Room #4: FUKT, Nomas Foundation, Rome (g)
2009
Solid Flux, Hongkong Arts Centre & Beijing Today Art Museum (g)
Schwarz Kunst – neue Medien, Zeughaus Schweinfurt (g)
Perpetuum, SAKAMOTOcontemporary, Berlin (g)
Transfixed Motion – Transitory Still, Sheffield Institute of Art and Design, Sheffield (g)
2008
Talent 2008, Design Huis Eindhoven, Eindhoven (g)
Off Topic, Ada Gallery, London (g)
Solid Flux, Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art and Design, London (g)
2007
18th Foreign Students Exhibition, Kyoto Art Centre, Kyoto (g)
Flowing Times, Schüppenhauer Gallery, Cologne (g)
2006
Filmkanal IX, Asperger Gallery, Berlin (s)
Dynamik der Großstadt in association with László Moholy-Nagy: Color in Transparency, Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin (g)
2005
Heimspiel: Filmkanal I, Asperger Gallery, Berlin (g)
2003
Wundermaschine, Museum of Photography, Braunschweig (g)
2002
UdK Club, C|O Gallery, Berlin (s)
1999
Junge Zeichnung, UdK in association with the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin (g)
(g) group exhibition, (s) solo exhibition
Selected Grants and Prizes
2023
short film grant cast & cut, Hannover
2022
research grant for drawing at Horst-Janssen-Museum, Oldenburg
2021
NEUSTART KULTUR grant for the online platform motion-drawing, funded by Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V.
2019 – 2020
Bauhaus Kreativfonds grant for the project WHEREAFTER in collaboration with Rutter&Bennett
2011
artist residency at Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop, awarded by Berliner Senat
2008
Japan travel grant, awarded by RCA London and KCUA Kyoto
Man Group Drawing Prize
Desmond Preston Drawing Prize
2007 – 2008
DAAD scholarship
2003 – 2004
NaFög scholarship
Selected Publications
2020
Documentation of WHEREAFTER in collaboration with Chris Rutter and Evelyn Bennett
2019
Rebeka Elizegi: Collage by Women, Promopress
2016
Kurt Kren: Structural Films by Nicky Hamlin, Simon Payne and Rees (ed.), intelect Bristol. UK ((written article Time Splits: 4/61 Mauern pos.-neg. & Weg and 31/75 Asyl)
2015
Poetryfilmmagazin #1, Guido Naschert, Aline Helmcke (ed.)
2014
Viivan Filosofia by Martta Heikkilä and Hanna Johansson (eg.), Kuvataideakatemia Helsinki (written article ‚Viiva ja Liike‘, p. 35 – 60)
Der überforderte Patient by Robin Haring, C.H.Beck Verlag (19 hand-drawn diagrams)
2012
Innere Musik by Tom Schulz, Berlin Verlag (cover illustration)
2011
Prolog 7, magazine (illustration)
lauter niemand, magazine (illustration)
2005
Großes Kino by Björn Kuhligk, Berlin Verlag
2001
Traumstadtbuch, Bönt/Vaihinger/Sasse (ed.), Rowohlt Verlag