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Neymashe – Textile Statements: Between Art and Encounter

Under the artist name Neymashe, Ulm-based artist Janina Magdalena Röhrich creates large-scale textile works at the intersection of textile art, drawing, typography and installation. The starting point for her artistic practice is her direct encounters with people. She became particularly well known for her ‘blind portraits’, which are created without looking at the surface being drawn on and thus convey a special sense of immediacy and authenticity.
In her work, Neymashe combines textile materials, fragments, text and drawing to create multi-layered visual spaces. Her banners straddle the line between works of art, symbols of protest and public communication. They explore themes such as identity, community, memory, visibility and transformation, and raise the question of how art can bring people together.

Janina Röhrich (born in Augsburg in 1983) is an artist, master tailor and textile designer. After studying fashion and textile design, she completed a Master of Arts in Artistic Conception at Reutlingen University in 2025. As a freelance artist and lecturer, she works at the intersection of craftsmanship, art and social participation. Her works have been exhibited, amongst other places, as part of the ‘Kunst-am-Bau’ project at Reutlingen University of Theology, at the Ulm School of Design (HfG Ulm) and at the Reutlingen Art Association.
Neymashe sees art as an open space for encounter. Her work stems from a desire to bring people from different backgrounds into dialogue with one another and to make art accessible outside traditional institutions. The focus is not on perfection, but on the process, the shared experience and the belief that art has the power to bring people together.