Jenny Michel

Jenny Michel is a Berlin-based visual artist working at the intersection of drawing, installation, and conceptual architecture. Educated in Fine Art and Media Design at the Academy of Arts Kassel and as a postgraduate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, her practice investigates spatial structures, organic systems, and utopian constructions through a poetic and critical lens. Michel develops intricate networks, diagrams, and imagined landscapes that oscillate between nature and artifice. Her installations and expanded drawings activate exhibition spaces through suspended lines, architectural fragments, and spatial constellations reminiscent of maps, gardens, spiderwebs, or speculative ruins. Recurring motifs such as paradise, ecological fragility, and cultural memory shape her reflection on the relationship between humanity, territory, and systemic order. She has presented solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Dahlem (Berlin), Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, Kasseler Kunstverein, and Kunstverein Augsburg, among others. Her work has been shown at Berlinische Galerie, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, and apexart (New York). Her works are held in collections including Berlinische Galerie and the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. She is the recipient of the HAP-Grieshaber Prize and the Kassel Art Prize.