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ABOUT

I am an artistic researcher working at the intersection of art and urbanism.

My practice investigates how bodies, spaces, and architectures shape one another, with a focus on migration, displacement, and tourism, and on how cultural conditioning informs perception and behavior.

ARTIST STATEMENT 2026

In my artistic practice, I merge artistic and scientific methods to investigate the interactions between urban spaces, architecture, and the human body. I engage with cities, built environments, and public space, focusing on processes of migration, displacement, and tourism, and on how these conditions shape spatial dynamics and their immediate surroundings. I am particularly interested in culturally conditioned perceptions of architecture and space.

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The human body plays a central role in my research. I understand it as a mirror and carrier of social and cultural dynamics — shaped by cultural conditioning and expressing these influences through perception and behavior.

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Collaborations are a vital component of my artistic research, as I believe it is crucial to incorporate diverse perspectives. This is achieved through qualitative interviews and participatory projects, creating collective moments and space for shared reflection.

I employ a variety of tools and methods in my research, including qualitative interviews, cinematic data collection, mental mapping, cartography, and notation. The outcomes of my research materialize in a range of artistic media such as painting, installations, video projections, collages, and performances.

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I perceive artistic research as a systematic examination and exploration of questions, themes, or concepts within the artistic process itself. The focus is on considering the artistic process as a form of research to reflect on ideas through the use of different methods, including experimental processes, theoretical reflection, artistic interventions, and critical discussions.

Portrait of Janin Walter

ARTIST BIO 2026

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I studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin and art with a specific focus on spatial strategies at the Weißensee School of Art also in Berlin. Parallel to my studies, I worked for renowned artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Jorinde Voigt and Jeppe Hein. After completing my studies, I taught visual arts at the Institute of Architecture at the TU Berlin 2010-2015. As a visiting professor at RISEBA in Riga, Latvia, she taught courses on artistic methods in planning in 2013.

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Over the years, I have been fortunate to receive several grants, including one in 2011 for an artist exchange program through the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations. Additionally, I was awarded scholarships for artist residencies in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Riga in 2011 and 2013 and Muscat / Oman in 2017 by the Goethe-Institut. Since 2011, I have had the privilege of exhibiting my works worldwide, most recently in Los Angeles, New York and Tenerife, and I am delighted to have sold my pieces to collectors in cities such as Riga, Zurich, Breda, Rotterdam, Muscat, and Berlin.

 

In addition to my own artistic research work as a freelance artist, I also was part of the Collaborative Research Center 1265 "RE-FIGURATION OF SPACES" at the Technical University Berlin from 2018-2024. 

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Since 2016 I am running together with Monika Berstis, Lisa Gratzke, Annsofie Jonsson, Håkan Jonsson and Felicia Scheuerecker the project space STUDIO BAUSTELLE.

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I am a verified artist on Singulart since 2025.

Artist in residence in Muscat at Stal Gallery
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