Bio:

PATH — an artistic practice by Janine Grosche

Janine Grosche is a multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in Berlin, working at the intersection of experimental fashion, soft sculpture, and material innovation.

Her practice evolves from the ongoing Skin Series into OMEN — a body of work composed of intuitive latex installations and garments conceived as temporal vessels for the body. Each piece is handcrafted from highly translucent latex skins, developed from a rare grade of natural liquid latex through a distinctive artisanal process that approaches couture as material research.

OMEN unfolds as a prophecy — a rupture and a summoning. Part sculpture, part fashion, part confession, it marks a material and emotional reckoning, where liquid latex becomes alchemical: a conduit and second skin.

Grosche’s work explores latex as a living material, transforming natural resources into bio-fabricated, wearable forms that challenge conventional associations. Her skins absorb human and environmental traces, existing as intimate, sensorial surfaces — at once protective, vulnerable, and charged.

Drawing on organic structures and natural patterns, she reimagines systems of transient materiality through intricate casting techniques. Her work considers garments as temporary bodies and ephemeral artefacts, engaging with themes of mythology, ecology, and transformation — proposing clothing as ritual, relic, and a new cultural form.

She has dressed artists such as FKA Twigs, COBRAH, and Biia, and has recently collaborated with Nike and UGG Europe. Her work has been featured in i-D, Vogue, Coeval, Sleek Magazine, among others.

Her experimental latex work is collected in the archive of the Future Materials Bank of the Jan van Eyck Academie , an archive of materials that supports and promotes the transition towards ecologically conscious art and design practices.

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Other works extend into wax objects for PATH Lab, exploring wax sculpture and candle-making through ethereal forms and site-specific installations. Each piece is meticulously hand-sculpted, evoking ephemeral yet sacred energies and ritual.