| Artist | Jasmina Kirsch | Resides | Germany |
| Website | jasminakirsch.art | Medium | Oil Acrylic Pencil Ink Watercolor |
| Print Shop | jasminakirsch.art/shop | info@jasminakirsch.art | |
| Follow the Artist | Instagram | Facebook | Ko-fi | Themes | Figurative Art Surrealism Female Sexuality Nature (Flora, Fauna) Anatomy (Skeletons) Mythology (Goddesses, strong/wild Women) Spirituality Transience Mortality |
| Press | jasminakirsch.art/blog |
About the artist
Jasmina Kirsch (b. 1985, Germany) is a figurative artist whose work explores the fragile balance between life and death, transience and immortality. Growing up in Alfeld, Germany, and later moving to the Netherlands, she studied at AKV St. Joost Academy of Fine Arts, specializing in painting, drawing, and photography, while also completing an apprenticeship as a tattoo artist — an early expression of her fascination with bodies, symbols, and the permanent marks we carry.
Since 2012, Jasmina has lived and worked in Berlin, Germany, creating from her studio in the lively and inspiring neighborhood of Neukölln. Over the years, her work has been exhibited internationally, including in New York, Los Angeles, and across Europe.
Her artistic practice is deeply personal, driven by an inner compulsion to give form to instinctive emotions and desires. She draws on her lifelong fascination with human relationships, female sexuality, and the complex paradoxes of the psyche. Jasmina’s paintings and drawings often explore femininity and intimacy through surreal, intimate compositions where skeletons, goddesses, mythical creatures, flora, and fauna become recurring symbols of mortality, desire, and enduring spirit. In her photography, Jasmina captures life’s raw, bewildering beauty with unfiltered honesty, reflecting her own lived experiences. At the heart of her practice is an ongoing dialogue between the vulnerability of the body and the resilience of the soul — a space where beauty, decay, desire, and mythology intertwine
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
For Jasmina Kirsch, life is an ongoing flirtation with death, culminating in consumption. This delicate tension between vitality, decay and mortality determines the essence of her work.
From a young age, Jasmina was fascinated by the dynamics of human relationships, emotional complexity, and the unspoken power of primal instincts. Her art serves as a mirror into these primal spaces, blending intimate storytelling with bold symbolism. Female figures emerge as central archetypes — not as idealized forms, but as powerful carriers of vulnerability, strength, and transformation.
Her paintings and drawings are rich with metaphor: skeletons speak of transience; goddesses embody the eternal feminine; flora and fauna breathe life into the cycle of creation and dissolution. In many works, Jasmina explores the evanescent moment of physical beauty while alluding to the immortality of the soul. Bodies become both subject and canvas, simultaneously fragile and defiant, sensual and mortal.
While her two-dimensional work often plunges into surreal narratives, her photography offers a different but complementary perspective: raw, candid, and unvarnished glimpses of real life. Both mediums share an emotional honesty, revealing a fascination with beauty in its most vulnerable, fleeting moments.
At its essence, Jasmina’s work invites the viewer into a liminal space — where death flirts with desire, where the physical dissolves into the mythical, and where instinct, vulnerability, and mystery coexist.
Press
Jasmina Kirsch’s works have been featured in notable international and national magazines, art books, and online platforms, including Curated by Girls, BK-informatie, Contemporary Art of Excellence Vol. 2, and — for the second consecutive year — this very directory.
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Education
2020 IHK Degree in Graphic Design & Photography, Germany
2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts, AKV St. Joost, Academy for Fine Arts, Den Bosch, Netherlands
Projects, Performances & Publications
2019
Realization and self-publication of limited edition photography book Paul
2010
Co-founder of atelier-complex for emerging artists and creatives, Utrecht, Netherlands
Studio visits and interviews with artist Ronald Ophuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008
Performance in Orgien Mysterien Theater with Hermann Nitsch at Incubate Festival, Tilburg, Netherlands
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013
Drop Dead Gorgeous, Derde Wal, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2012
Exposure, Intimacy and the Beauty of Death, Zonder Titel, Den Bosch, Netherlands
2011
There’s No Sex In Your Violence, Zonder Titel, Den Bosch, Netherlands
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Greenhouse, Berlin, Germany
2022
Pepney-Gallery, Cavan Town, Ireland
2015
The Coaster Show, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. United States
2013
The Story Of The Creative, Angel Oresanz Foundation For Contemporary Art, New York, NY. United States
Blanc Noir Art Exhibition, Greenhouse, Berlin, Germany
2012
WALLS Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011
Ongekend, Young Masters, Rotterdam, Netherlands (part of ART Rotterdam)
Young Blood Award, Gogbot Festival, Enschede, Netherlands
2010
As It Sometimes Goes, Pictura, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Lijfwacht, TAC Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2009
De Tekenkamer, RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden, Netherlands
