Janine Mackenroth (DE)
painting, Installation, Objects
artistic position
Janine Mackenroth (*1989) focuses on subjects relating to equality and sustainability. Based on the development of biodegradable paint for her installations in public spaces on environmental issues, 2015, she moved on to materials such as plant-based nail polish and make-up, which also serve as a commentary on a still male-dominated (art) world. She deals with the human smell and produces scent installations, questioning traditional gender roles. Her current plant-based nail polish edition in the colors of the EURO banknotes questions the social status and color codes in society. From shredded EURO banknotes of the Deutsche Bundesbank to shredded plastic waste she analyzes capitalisms material flows and the possibilities of redirecting them towards circularity.
As co-editor, she published “I Love Women in Art” in 2020, the first anthology of 100 works of art by female artists in Germany, which has since become a standard reference on women in art history. Since 2021 the artist continued on the research of her innovation for sustainable paint funded by the Federal Ministry of Energy and Climate in Germany. The prototype launch is planned for 2026. She is a winner of the first Ceu Art Award (2023) and a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Her works can be seen at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, the Olfactory Art Keller in New York and in public spaces i.e. as part of the New European Bauhaus project, for which she was commissioned as an artist in 2023. Mackenroth transforms icons, their form and function and turns them into building blocks for a new, if possible, better and more sustainable world.
Exhibitions in aquabitArt
2024 › PAR(I)TY WITH US, SALOON Berlin x aquabitArt Galerie, DE
2023 › POOL POSITIONS, aquabitArt Galerie, Berlin, DE
2021 › UNMASKED #2, Group exhibition, aquabitArt gallery Berlin
2020 › PAPER REALITY, Group exhibition, aquabitArt gallery Berlin
2020 › 11 years aquabitArt in Auguststrasse 35, ONLINE Group exhibition
2020 › PANGLOSSIAN
bio
Janine Mackenroth (DE)
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
*1989 in Munich, DE
EDUCATION
2010-16 Diploma, Honour as Master Scholar, painting and graphic studies, Prof. Axel Kasseböhmer, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, DE
2014-16 Painting and graphic studies, Prof. Anselm Reyle, Hochschule für Bildende Kunst Hamburg, DE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Stinks to Heaven, Olfactory Art Keller, New York, US
2024 POLISHED PARLEY, BMW Foundation, München, DE
2024 PAR(I)TY WITH US, SALOON Berlin x aquabitArt Galerie, DE
2023 POOL POSITIONS #2, GENIUS LOCI e.V., Munich, DE
2023 POOL POSITIONS, aquabitArt Galerie, Berlin, DE
2022 BABYLONIAN GAZE, NAILS projectroom, Dusseldorf, DE
2020 PANGLOSSIAN, aquabitArt Galerie, Berlin, DE
2019 PAINTENT, Federal Court of Patent, Munich, DE
2017 PARADOXAL PAINTING, Kunstraum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Ingolstadt, DE
2015 VIDEOKUNST.CH @ PROGR.ch, Zentrum für Kulturproduktion, Bern, CH
PUBLIC SPACE
2024 NEBourhoods, New European Bauhaus, EU
2021 SILVER LINING ON HORIZON, Galerienhaus Hamburg, DE
2020 DISTRICT OVERFLOW, Munich, DE
2019 100 years of women’s suffrage in Germany, Berlin, Hamburg & Munich, DE
2018 SILVER LINING ON HORIZON, Knockdown Center, New York, US
2013 ONE SECOND,Olympiapark, Munich, DE
2012 BREAKING BREAD, Siegestor, Munich, DE
GROUP EXHIBTIONS (selected)
2025 Nebourhoods for Tomorrow, Architekturgalerie, München, DE
2024 Cherries in the Snow, Grzegorzki Shows, Berlin, DE
2024 Für Alle!, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE
2024 Holy Dirty Money, Sammlung Haupt, Berlin, DE
2024 STINKS TO HEAVEN, streitfeld projectroom, DE
2023 ArtFlash x Knust Kunz, Munich, DE
2022 The Potato in Contemporary Art, Museum Brot und Kunst, Ulm, DE
2021 Ich bin das Brot, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, DE
2021 Messe St. Agnes, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, DE
2021 #UNMASKED, aquabitArt Galerie, Berlin, DE
2021 entFALTUNG, Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE
2021 100 Jahre Frauen an der Akademie, GEDOK, Munich, DE
2020 PAPER REALITY, aquabitArt Galerie, Berlin, DE
2020 Künstlerin!, Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz, DE
2020 Blaue Zipfel, Galerie der Künstler, Munich, DE
2018 COMMON PLACE, Silas von Morisse Gallery, New York, US
2018 KUNSTRAUM, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Ingolstadt, DE
2017 PIECE OF CAKE, Kulturbahnhof, Kassel, DE
HONORS (selected)
2024 – 26 Bundesministerium für Bildung & Forschung, DE
2024 Curt-Wills Stiftung, DE
2023 CeU loves Kunst – Art Award, Club of European Business Women, DE
2021 – 22 Bayern Innovativ, Bavarian State Ministry for Science & Art, DE
2021 – 22 IGP/WIPANO, Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, DE
2021 Stiftung Kunstfonds, DE
2021 – 22 Studio sponsorship, Bavarian State Ministry for Science & Art, DE
2020 Nominated for Soroptimist Deutschlandpreis 2021
2020 Cultural Department Munich, DE
2019 Prinzregent-Luitpold-Stiftung, DE
2019 Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, DE
2018 LFA Förderbank Bayern, DE
2018 Residency Unlimited, New York City, US
2017 Nominated for BLOOOM Art Award, Art Dusseldorf, DE
2017 Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Stiftung, DE
2017 – 20 Studio sponsorship, Cultural Department Munich, DE
2016 – 21 Studio sponsorship, Genius Loci e.V., DE
2015 – 16 Residency PLATFORM, DE
TALKS & LECTURES (selected)
2025 MAECENIA Stiftung, Frankfurt, DE
2025 Nebourhoods, Hochschule München, DE
2025 Kunstmuseum Pforzheim, DE
2025 Lehrauftrag: The Sustainable Art Academy, AdBK Munich, DE
2024 Constructive World Award, Focus Online/BURDA, Berlin, DE
2024 Lectureship: The Sustainable Art Studio, AdBK Munich, DE
2024 Money Pool, BMW Foundation, Glonn, DE
2024 Scent in Contemporary Art, streitfeld, Munich, DE
2023 Impact First Summit, Feuerle Collection, Berlin
2023 Where are the women artists?, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
2023 Constructive World Award, Focus Online/BURDA, Munich, DE
2023 Occupy spaces und break up structures, Neue Welt, Ingolstadt, DE
2022 Impuls The Assembly of Friendship, Saloon Dresden, DE
2022 We love women in art, Club of European Business Women, Hamburg, DE
2022 I Love Women in Art, GRASSI Museum, Leipzig, DE
2022 Women in science and art, Heusenstamm Galerie, Maecenia Stiftung, Frankfurt, DE
2021 Forgotten women artists, Liebermann Villa, Berlin, DE
2021 Beuys & Girls, Curated Affairs, Dusseldorf, DE
2021 Women Artists, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, Halle (Saale), DE
2021 KunstBewusst, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum/Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
2021 Women in Art, Galerie EIGEN+ART, Berlin, DE
2020 I Love Women in Art, Cultural State Foundation Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), DE
2020 I Love Women in Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE
2020 I Love Women in Art, Gallery Weekend, Soho House Berlin, DE
2020 I Love Women in Art,, Messe St. Agnes, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, DE
2020 Lectureship, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, DE
2019 Festival #sieinspiriertmich, Muffathalle, Munich, DE
COLLECTIONS (selected)
BMW, DE
Sammlung Deutscher Bundestag, DE
CHANEL, FR
Erwin und Gisela Steiner-Stiftung, DE
TTI Hong Kong, HK
Sammlung Rischart, DE
BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected)
2023 PARADOX, POOL POSITIONS, DE/EN
2023 I Love Women in Art, 100 Women Artists, EN
2022 12 years of aquabitArt, aquabitArt gallery, DE/EN
2021 100 years of women at art academies, GEDOK, DE
2020 I Love Women in Art, 100 Women Artists, DE