Gunilla Jähnichen - Smile

Gunilla Jähnichen is a German-Swedish painter and illustrator who lives and works in Berlin.

Your works move between figuration and abstraction and are characterized by multi-layered, often luminous, translucent color fields, combined with restrained lines and gradients that intuitively reveal emotional states.

Education & Career

Studies in Fine Arts at the University of Applied Sciences Hannover (1993–1994)

Continuation at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts with Prof. Stanley Brouwn and Prof. Werner Büttner (1995–2001), with an Erasmus scholarship in Reykjavík.

Collections of renowned art experts are among those who collect Jähnichen's works — yet she is regarded as a magical insider tip of the contemporary art scene.