Geeske Janßen

Geeske Janßen lives and works in Leipzig. She is a filmmaker and visual artist specializing in documentary and experimental film as well as photography. Her work explores the inaccessible aspects of everyday life: moments, places, and situations that often seem too small or supposedly unimportant to be noticed. She studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, as well as in Braunschweig and Valencia, and was a member of the Graduate School of Moving Image in Kassel. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and at festivals, including at the Kasseler Kunstverein, FOTOHAUS | PARISBERLIN in Arles, the Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, HALLE 14 in Leipzig, the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, as well as at the Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International and DOKfest Kassel. Among other honors, she received the award for best regional short film at the Lichter Filmfest, as well as grants from the Kunstfonds Foundation, the Greater Columbus Arts Council/ Ohio, the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, and the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki.