Jasmin Kiranoglu (*1993, Hamburg, DE) grew up in Antalya, Berlin and Munich and has lived and worked mainly in Bern, CH since 2013.
Jasmin Kiranoglu is a performance artist who works around empathy, human vulnerability and psychological and physical resilience. She currently uses the orange as an organic, intermedial object, tool and symbol to explore these themes.
Together with sound artist Matthias Müller, she founded the collective Portakal Radikal. She is also active in performative theatre and dance contexts.
2013–2016: B.A. in Acting, Bern University of the Arts
2016–2018: M.A. in Expanded Theater, Bern University of the Arts
2021–2024: M.A. in Contemporary Art Practice, Bern University of the Arts
2022/23: Erasmus exchange in Modern Dance and Fine Arts, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
At the Plötzlich Tod Festival, she appears as Katza Nidra 7 with her fantasy therapy session and the cultural force Martin Schick, at Heitere Fahne, Bern (2025). In June (2024), Jasmin Kiranoglu completed her second Master's degree in Contemporary Art Practice with her performance PORTAKAL, the video installation Divided. Crushed. Brought Together., and her thesis Orangenresonanz at La Voirie, Biel (2024). During her stay in Istanbul, she performed UNCOVER at Previewarts Gallery (2023). Her performance Separation, Reparation, Vanishing was shown as part of the migma Performance Festival all i can carry at Kunstpavillon, Lucerne (2022). She performed DIVIDE as part of the Fluid Academy: Maximal Energy Minimal Time at Museum Tinguely, Basel (2022). Together with Hanna Röhrich, she appeared in KarteNoire 2502 #18 at Biotop, Biel (2024). In the performative theatre walk Stadt der Katzen, she played the cat lady Cleopatra in Bern and Burgdorf (2023/24). She was also part of the contemporary movement girlband The Bernese Yonis, performing at the BETA Festival at Tanzhaus Bern (2021/22).
She performed UNCOVER at Theater Stadelhofen, Zurich; Schlachthaus Theater and Greller Keller, Bern; HAJDE Festival, Novi Sad; and BAFF Festival, Basel (2019–2021). She also appeared with SHE SHE POP in Das Oratorium at Kaserne Basel (2018).
She maintains a close collaboration with sound artist and composer Matthias Müller, with whom she co-founded the collective Portakal Radikal. Together, they recently presented performances at the BONE Performance Festival, Bern (2024), Kulturesk Festival at Grosse Halle der Reitschule, Bern (2024), Stiftung JETZT KUNST at Zehendermätteli, Bern (2023), the former ToBe Gallery, Bern (2023), and the ACT Festival at PROGR, Bern (2023).
More about her work can be found under the WORK section, and information on upcoming projects is available on the HOME page.