Dreizehn
Janina Wick
2006-2008 — Hamburg, Germany
About this series
The work Dreizehn is a series of 13-year old girls. Physically almost grown up, they still have to grow into their roles. In a state between childlike innocence and feminine self-assertion, they try things out, search for their own identity. „Some of the girls appear to have a tentative grip on the women they might one day become, experimenting with personal style in the form of jewelry, makeup and fashion. Others still cling to outward signs of childhood: a “Hello Kitty” T-shirt here; star-and-crescent-moon decals on a bedroom wall there.“ (Michael O’Sullivan, Washington Post).
Provocative, distant, or bored in their body language, they remind us of that time of youth when great expectations and ignorance, euphoria and uncertainty were so close together.
Photographer: Janina Wick
Nationality: German
Based in: Hamburg, Germany
Website: www.janinawick.com
Instagram: @janinawick
Janina Wick was born in Hamburg in 1976.
Education
2021-2024 2006-2007 2000-2006
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU Kiel) Studies in Art History
University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (HfBK)
Studies in Photography under Jitka Hanzlová University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover Studies under Gosbert Adler
Exhibitions (selection)
2025 Documentary in Flux, C/O Berlin
sicher-lich, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
2022 Eylbrook, c/o Schocke, Hamburg (E)
2020 Portraits II, Schloss Neuhardenberg (G)
2019 Schöneweide, Galerie im Marstall Ahrensburg (E)
Konterfeis, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg (G) 2018 Portraits, Kunstraum Düsseldorf (G)
2017 Portraits II, Oldenburger Kunstverein
2015 Dziewczyny/Mädchen, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg
2014 Dziewczyny/Mädchen, Fundacja Salony, Zielona Gora, Polen
Drei Annen, Schauraum der Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt 2012 Spargelspitzen, Bühlers, Fürth
Fremde Heimat, DZ Bank, Frankfurt am Main
2011 Phosphor Forever, Janina Wick & Katrin Connan, Skalitzer 140_temporary, Berlin
Berlin Blicke, Haus am Kleistbark, Berlin
2010 20 Jahre Salon Salder, Städtisches Museum Schloss Salder, Salzgitter 2009 Dreizehn, Goethe Institut Washington D.C.
Knospen wollen explodieren, Palais für aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt 2008 Dreizehn, Talents 12, C/O Berlin, Berlin