b. 1998 in Germany

Jannik Senium is a german painter and craftsman creating works which aim to show quiet moments of introspection, transformation and melancholy, often told through the faces of figures out of myths and folklore.

Jannik grew up in the black forest of swabia. In stark contrast to the unique beauty and atmosphere of the surrounding nature stands the city of Pforzheim in which he was raised in. Once known for its goldsmithing and craftsmanship, it was almost entirely destroyed, left in ruins and quickly rebuilt after the second world war. This environment and it’s lack of beauty and remaining connections to its past left him and many growing up there with a sense of unease and aimlessness.

It was in the neighbouring city during a school trip at the age of 14 in which he encountered works of art and craft for the first time, both of old and modern masters. It was one painting in particular, „the seven deadly sins (1933)“ by the painter Otto Dix, which has etched itself into his memory with its skilfully painted, grotesque and ghoulish figures and its use of strange symbolism and storytelling.

This encounter sparked a sudden and lasting curiosity about art and its purpose in our lifes and its quiet strength to express things most words can‘t reach.

After practicing drawing for many years in his adolescence and around the time of the worldwide Pandemic in 2020 he started to research, study and practice the techniques and materials of oil painting. Following two years of intensive self-teaching he left germany and sought out mentors and colleagues in Norway and Italy.