Jana Gunstheimer (*1974 in Zwickau) studied ethnology, art history and fine arts in Leipzig, Halle, Athens and Ohio/USA. She lives between Jena and Weimar. Since 2016, she has held a professorship for Experimental Painting and Drawing at the Bauhaus University, where she founded the Institute for Regional Reality Experiments (IRRE@bauhaus). In her artistic practice, she often combines drawings, paintings and objects to create complex overall installations, in which she "documents" something that could almost have happened using various artistic means. Language and text almost always play a role in the form of picture titles, quotations, fictitious interviews and newspaper reports. 
Jana Gunstheimer's works have been shown in solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the GEM Den Haag, the Galerie im Taxispalais and the Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen.