Jakob Schöning (b. 1992) is a painter based in Leipzig. His work grows out of a fascination with transformation and a distrust of fixed categories, stable identities, and definitive readings.

Working primarily through the human figure, Schöning uses painting as a space where forms, meanings, and relationships remain in motion. Images are built through layering, revision, and continual reworking, allowing unexpected connections to emerge over time. Human, animal, remembered, and imagined elements often coexist within the same work as states that influence and bleed into one another. For Schöning, a painting is a place where certainty begins to break apart, allowing new possibilities to emerge.