Janneke Leenders was born in 2003 in Roermond, the Netherlands. She comes from a scientific background and has experience in the theatre in dance and set design. After moving to Rome in 2021 she has been active within the art world; moving all the boundaries of what she has known and exploring new grounds. In 2025 she finished the BA in Fine Arts at RUFA (Rome University of Fine Arts).
In her practice she explores the traces of life that hide in the absurdity of the lifeless abstract by the use of different mediums in an alleged way to create a distant sense of something vital.
She does so by using the immersive values that installation offers in combination with the reapplication of more traditional mediums through a contemporary lens.
Exhibitions and screenings
2025 Mary, Parco Delle Stelle (Rome), curated by Alessandro Martina
2025 Marco Polo, Acquario Romano (Rome)
2024 Nobody Is Dancing, Mercato Tufello (Rome), curated by Canova22
2024 Impressioni, Stamperia X (Rome)
2024 TAU, Rufa Space (Rome)
2024 Have You Seen Paolo Miller?, Pianobi Arte Contemporanea (Rome)
2024 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Kino im Walzenlager (Oberhausen)
2024 Beyond The Pale, Rufa Space (Rome)
2023 Just Sleeping, Galleria Gilda Lavia (Rome)
2023 The Realness, SOHO House (Rome), curated by FYAH
2023 Fave Vol 1, Circolo Degli Illuminati (Rome), curated by Katerina Sopielkina
2023 Forof Essenza, Forof (Rome), curated by Giovanna Caruso Fendi
2023 Incubi, La Società Lunare (Bossano in Teverina), curated by Andrea Fogli
2023 Ànemos, Rufa Space (Rome), curated by Giulia Vitiello
2023 Performance Cluster, Rufa Space (Rome), curated by Marta Jovanović
2022 Kougart X Fave, Defrag (Rome), curated by Katerina Sopielkina
2022 The Cigarette Is Over, Inside Art Fondamenta Gallery (Rome), curated by Fabrizio Pizzuto