Janina Janke, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1974, is a set designer and research-based artist. After training as a carpenter, she studied European Ethnology and Philosophy in Munich and Berlin as well as Stage Design at Berlin University of the Arts. She is a co-founder of the transdisciplinary music theatre formation OPER DYNAMO WEST, with which she developed documentary theatre projects, experimental music theatre and interventions in urban spaces from 2006 to 2016. Her artistic practice combines theatre, architecture and research and explores the social structures and processes of transformation of specific places. Her projects have taken place at locations including Berlin’s Zoologischer Garten railway station, Le Corbusier’s Unités d’habitation in Berlin and Marseille, and United Nations sites in Vienna, Nairobi, New York and Geneva. Janke has been a fellow of the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences at Berlin University of the Arts and the German Academy in Rome. She is currently a fellow at the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) in Potsdam. Since 2013, Janina Janke has been a member of the theatre and performance collective Turbo Pascal, designing sets and costumes for numerous productions by the collective. These include Unterscheidet euch!, Die Super-Wahl – Wie entscheidest du? and Regiert euch!. In the 2026/2027 season, she designs the set and costumes for Lügenparty by Turbo Pascal and Drama Control at Schauspielhaus Bochum.

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