TRINKS Jenny, Glass, guest artist, Jardins invisibles

Biographical notes

Born in 1981 in Eisenach, Germany

Lives and works in Boutenac, France


2012 Master's degree in Glass, Fine Arts at Burg Giebichenstein University - Halle, Germany

2008 Diploma, Fine Arts at Burg Giebichenstein University - Halle, Germany


Experience and residencies

2025 Vitrigraph Demo Cerfav, Vannes-le-Châtel, France
2020 Artist-in-residence, CERFAV, Vannes-le-Châtel, France
2016 Research project at Bullseye Resource Center, Portland, Oregon, United States
2015 Glasmalerei Peters, Paderborn, Germany
2014 Artist-in-residence, Corning Museum of Glass, New York, United States 2011 Artist-in-residence, Artista Forum, Schott AG Grünenplan, Germany (and 2009, 2008)

AWARDS

2015 Winner of the International Strasbourg Glass Prize, Strasbourg, France 2015 Winner of The Glass Prize, Warm Glass, UK
2014 Nominee for The Glass Prize, Warm Glass, UK
2013 Finalist for the International Strasbourg Glass Prize, Strasbourg, France

Approach

Jenny Trinks works with glass, which she uses in large-scale murals and installations. She works exclusively with colored glass, which takes its final form through lengthy transformation processes. Fragment by fragment, layer by layer, the material approaches an inner idea. The marks, scratches, and apparent imperfections are not flaws, but carriers of condensed information and accumulated meaning. 
The material thus becomes a carrier of form, memory, tension, and silence.

The resulting works develop a multifaceted visual language. 
Their surfaces appear sedimented, organically formed, both controlled and open. Color gradients, inclusions, and tiny irregularities create structures reminiscent of geological cross-sections or cellular formations observed under a microscope. These are deep spaces where dreams, memories, and matter meet.  

The composition is rhythmic but not symmetrical, following an internal logic that the viewer's eye intuitively grasps. Up close, microscopic worlds appear; from a distance, an overall image emerges that evokes a landscape, a fossil imprint, or a seismic trace.

Her work evolves between conceptual rigor and sensitive openness. By combining ancient techniques with new approaches to thinking, she creates works that appear as silent witnesses to time, traces of life through the transformation of matter.