Jasmin Kiranoglu (*1993, Hamburg) grew up in Antalya, Berlin and Munich and has been primarily based in Switzerland since 2013. She is currently establishing a second professional base in Berlin.
Kiranoglu is a performance artist, actress and theatre maker. In her work, she brings together body, space, objects and audience, exploring empathy as well as psychological and physical vulnerability. Alongside her work in performance and theatre contexts, she is currently building her on-camera material as an actress. She is co-founder of the collective Portakal Radikal together with sound artist Matthias Müller.
Kiranoglu studied Acting (B.A.), Expanded Theatre (M.A.), and Contemporary Art Practice (M.A.) at the Bern University of the Arts. She completed an Erasmus exchange at Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, studying modern dance and fine arts.
In 2026, Kiranoglu and Matthias Müller (Portakal Radikal) were artists in residence at Schlachthaus Theater Bern, where they developed their ongoing project Die Sonne zergeht auf der Zunge, later presented as a work-in-progress at the series Szenenfenster at Dampfzentrale Bern. The same year, she performed Out of an Orange at Rosabonheur Cabaret in Berlin and appeared in Besenkammerspiele at Kellertheater Winterthur. She also completed a six-week Camera & Meisner Intensive at Actors Space Berlin, further strengthening her focus on acting for the camera.
In 2025, she appeared as a Hamster-Wesen in the music-theatre piece Fibsi and the Edge of the Abyss in Zurich, directed by Sarah Noemi Brusi and composed by Stefan Kägi and Rita Jurt. She presented her performance gestülpt at Kunstraum Bern Bümpliz during the memorial exhibition for Norbert Klassen, took part in the collective performance Lasst uns Teilen with Anne Kersting at Paula Festival in St. Gallen, and presented her Fantasy Therapy Session Katza Nidra 7 with Martin Schick at Plötzlich Tod Festival in Bern. She also appeared in Duster in Uster and Stadt der Katzen with Back to Wollyhood.
Earlier works include collaborations at Stiftung JETZT KUNST (2024), BONE Performance Festival and Kulturesk Festival (2024), as well as DIVIDE (Museum Tinguely, Basel, 2022), Separation, Reparation, Vanishing (migma Performance Festival, Lucerne, 2022), and UNCOVER (Theater Stadelhofen Zürich, HAJDE Festival Novi Sad, BAFF – Basler Puppentheaterfestival, Preview Arts Gallery Istanbul, 2019–2021).