Jasmina Kirsch

At the age of 17 Jasmina Kirsch moved to the Netherlands where she worked in different jobs to finance her studies, finished her apprenticeship to become a tattoo artist and studied fine arts from 2006 - 2010 at the AKV St.Joost.
Since then she has exhibited her work in different countries in Europe, NYC and LA.
She moved to Berlin Germany in 2012 , where she lives and works most of the time out of her atelier-apartment in the colorful multicultural district of Neukölln.

Her work has a strong focus on female sexuality, relationships and primal emotions.

She wants her photographs to be like life itself. Often bewildering, mostly rough and within this roughness, sometimes purely beautiful.
She photographed the series ‘strange touch’ during her 10 years in the Netherlands. Where she lived and studied fine arts at the AKV St.Joost.
The result is a series of photographs that depict a feeling of strangeness. They give a glimpse into the beauty and the struggle between the instinctive and the emotional aspect of every day situations.

In her paintings and drawings she researches femininity in all it’s facets. Fugaciousness and mortality is something she does not express by showing an aging process but she reference to it w...

Academy for fine arts; AKV St.Joost; Den Bosch, NL - 2006-2010, degree:2010

(a selection)

'the coaster show' 2/9 - 2/10.2016 La Luz De Jesus gallery Los Angeles, CA

'The story of the Creative' international exhibition NYC 25/07/2013 - 10/09/2013

‘Ongekend, auction @ young masters’ Rotterdam NL, Date: 09/02/2011 - 13/02/2011 Group-show
Selection of just graduated artists part of Art-Rotterdam

‘Young blood award’ Enschede NL, Date: 10/09/2010 - 12/09/2010, Group-show
Award competition for just graduated artists

‘As it sometimes goes’ PICTURa, dordrecht NL, date: 09/07/2010 - 18/07/2010
Exhibition with 12 just graduated students from different academies within the Netherlands.

‘Exposure, intimacy and the beauty of death’ zonder titel, Den Bosch NL, date: 12/12/2008 - 14/12/2008, Solo-exhibition with a selection of my photographic works from 2004 - 2008

‘There’s no sex in your violence’ zonder titel, Den Bosch NL, Date: 05/12/2008 - 07/12/2008 Solo-exhibition with a selection of my paintings from the second and third year of my study.

‘De tekenkamer’ RC de ruuimte, ijmuiden NL, date: 19/03 - 6/04/2008 Group-show
Groups exhibition with other students from the minor drawing.