Jan Jedenak

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Jan Jedenas - Artist & Performer - Profile of Jan Jedenak, a Germany-based artist and performer. He is involved with Mediamatic's Olfactory History of Oosterdok upcoming exhibition, through the ongoing 'Private Dreams and Public Nightmare' research experiment. For more info, check out his online portfolio .

Profile of Jan Jedenak, a Germany-based artist and performer. He is involved with Mediamatic's Olfactory History of Oosterdok upcoming exhibition, through the ongoing 'Private Dreams and Public Nightmare' research experiment. For more info, check out his online portfolio.

Jan Jedenak was born in Goslar/Germany and has lived in Stuttgart since October 2012. He studied puppetry at the Figure Theatre Department of State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. While studying Theatre-, Film- and Media sciences at University of Vienna he worked as trainee and director's assistent for Festival Schloss Neersen (GER), Max Reinhardt Seminar Vienna (AUT), Landestheater Coburg (GER), Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen (GER) and several other institutions. In 2008 he founded the theatre collective Dekoltas Handwerk with whom he staged „No exit“ by Jean-Paul Sartre (2009), „Under Milk Wood“ by Dylan Thomas (2011), the object theatre play „Creation of uncanny matter“ (2012) and /SÉANCE/ Sequences interpreting the invisible (2015) Trickster -Catch me if you can! (2017) IMPRINT [imagine absence] (2019).

Since 2011 he has continued working as a freelance theatre director and puppeteer collaborating with artist of various backgrounds such as music, dance, performing arts and puppetry creating productions for national and free theater. Guest performances at Internationales Figurentheater Festival Erlangen (GER), Int. Figurentheater- Festival Imaginale (GER), LES GIBOULÉES (F) Westflügel Leipzig (GER), Fidena Festival Bochum (GER), Theaterfestival figura Basel (CH), Int. Figurentheaterfestival Blickwechsel Magdeburg (GER), Unidram Potsdam (GER), Jerusalem Puppet Festival (ISR),  Spectaculo Interesse (CZ) and Laterna Magica Festival Klaipada (LIT)

Since 2017 he constantly works together with Jonas Klinkenberg with whom he developed and designed several theater shows & immersive projects. For example "Private Dreams & Public Nightmares" an immersive installation in 2019 at the Westflügel Leipzig.

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