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Dr. med. dent. Mag.a art.
Jana Ehls

*1996 in Hagen (DE) graduated in dentistry and studied fine arts in the classes sculpture – transmedial space (Gelitin) and artistic photography (Stahl) in Linz, Jerusalem and Leipzig (Heidi Specker).

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2026               Diploma of Fine Arts, graduated with honors, Linz (AT)
since 2024     photography (Heidi Specker), HGB, Leipzig (DE)
2023 - 2026   artistic photography (Lucie Stahl), Kunstuniversität Linz (AT)
2022 - 2023  fine arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (ISR)
2021 - 2022   fine arts: sculpture – transmedial space (Gelitin), Linz (AT) 
2019 – 2022   PhD student, medical faculty, University Leipzig (DE)
2015 – 2020   dentistry, University Leipzig (DE)



SCHOLARSHIPS / AWARDS

2026       Würdigungspreis für die besten Diplomarbeiten des Bundesministeriums für Frauen, 
                Wissenschaft und Forschung (AT)
2025       Ö1 Talentestipendium for Fine Arts (shortlist)
2024       scholarship of merit, Kunstuniversität Linz (AT)
2024       scholarship for the spring school, Bauhaus University, Weimar (DE)
2023       scholarship for the international summeracademy, Salzburg (AT)
2019       ZAD-scholarship Dentists for Africa e.V., Nyabondo, Bungoma, Kenya 
2017        program 'art and medicine', University of Otago, New Zealand (NZ)



PUBLICATIONS

2026       Spuren der Nähe - Käthe Kollwitz im Dialog mit zeitgenössischer Fotografie, 
                 Begleitheft, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (DE)
2025       Propeller IV, Fotogalerie Wien, 2025
                 BestOFF 2025 (AT)
2024       Old News, Linz
                 Kammerspiel, Leipzig / Berlin (DE)
2023       Concrete paradise, Vienna / Vinschgau Venosta (I)
                 Radical Collective, Linz
2022       Noise, Jerusalem (ISR)
                 BestOFF 2022(AT)

SHOWS

2026  Re: Kollwitz, Kollwitz-Museum, Cologne (DE), ahead
           Alignment, Vinzenz, Solo Show and Diploma, Vienna (AT)
           Spuren der Nähe - Käthe Kollwitz im Dialog mit zeitgenössischer Fotografie, 
           Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (DE)
           Same Distance, MURA, Guadalajara (MEX)
2025 Tender Matters, MQ Wien (AT)
          BestOFF2025, Linz (AT)
          Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Glauchau (DE)
          Parallel Vienna, Wien (AT) 
          Late Check-Out, Plast, Leipzig (DE)
          this, whatever this is, WHA-Galerie, Linz (AT)
          Propeller IV, Fotogalerie, Wien (AT) 
          Ok, aber was will der Apparat?, HGB Leipzig (DE)
          C-21 Atelierhaus, Wien (AT)
2024 Kammerspiel, Heit, Berlin (DE)
           film screening, Circolino malpensata, Bergamo (I)
           faire de la perruque, underpass, Linz (AT)
           Rundgang HGB, Leipzig (DE)
           Old News, publication, Linz (AT)
           Opening the archive, residency Weimar (DE)
2023 Radical collective, Lentos Museum of modern Art, Linz (AT)
           The Un-sceen - capturing absence, Fortress Hohensalzburg, Salzburg
           Concrete paradise, Basis Vinschgau Venosta, South Tyrol,(I)
           BestOFF collective, Gmunden (AT)
           Unortiges Kino, Linz (AT)
           Collections of, Jerusalem, (ISR)
2022 BestOFF 2022, Splace, Linz (AT)
           Globalisierung – Deglobalisierung, Bad Schwanberg (AT)
           BestOFF Sommerfrische, Die Galerie, Gmunden (AT)
           en passant, Galerie im Arkadengang, Linz (AT)
           fake truths, Postkeller, Linz (AT)
           Rundgang, University of Arts, Linz (AT)
           We have a Situation here – art in public (inter-)space, STWST, Linz (AT)
2021  stage design, Theater in der Innenstadt, Linz (AT)
           SITuation here, postcard project, Linz (AT)
2017  exhibition for medics, SIHK, Leipzig (DE)