photo by Sarah Engelhard

Janis Pönisch is working as an interdisciplinary designer and artist. His field of work ranges from interior architecture in assignment through autonomuos interactive installation and objects to visual imagery. After finishing Abitur in Munich, Germany he produced a series of unique furniture prototypes. In the year 2000 he started his study on the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam specialized in the field of architectonic Design. In that period he worked out architectural concepts, maquettes and interactive interfaces and animations. During the study he worked as an intern at the company Yens & Yens that is specialized in the field of production of electronic art, exhibition design and software development. In the summer 2005 he graduated from architectonic design with winning the Rietveld design prize. Janis Pönisch is now working as a free artist and designer in Janisland searching for new forms and spatial infrastructures. He is visualizing three dimensional phantasies with the means of various media. The work has a focus on the relation between body and environment and perception. His motivation has an origin in the fact that humans create their own surrounding as an essential architectonic idea. Doing this in a concious way can only result in a wonderful world resulting in materialized desire.