Jasmin Kiranoglu (*1993, Hamburg) grew up in Antalya, Berlin and Munich and has been based primarily 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 Theater (M.A.), and Contemporary Art Practice (M.A.) at the Bern University of the Arts. During an Erasmus stay in Istanbul, she deepened her training in modern dance.
In November (25), 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 the Kunstraum Bern Bümpliz during the memorial exhibition for Norbert Klaasen (25) and took part in the group performance Lasst uns Teilen with Anne Kersting at the Paula Festival, St. Gallen (25). She presented her fantasy therapy session Katza Nidra 7 with Martin Schick at the Plötzlich Tod Festival, Heitere Fahne, Bern (25). With Back to Wollyhood, she appeared as the witch Esbetha Bünzli in Duster in Uster (25) and as the cat lady Cleopatra in the theatre walk Stadt der Katzen in Bern and Burgdorf (23/24). With Hanna Röhrich, she performed at KarteNoire 2502 #18 at Biotop, Biel (24). She was also part of the contemporary-movement girl band The Bernese Yonis, which played at the BETA Festival, Tanzhaus Bern (21/22).
With Portakal Radikal, she performed at the BONE Performance Festival (24), the Kulturesk Festival in the Grossen Halle der Reitschule (24), at Zehendermätteli for Stiftung JETZT KUNST (23), and at the ACT Festival, PROGR Bern (23). Earlier works include DIVIDE (Museum Tinguely, Basel, 22), Separation, Reparation, Vanishing (migma Performance Festival, Lucerne, 22), and UNCOVER (Zurich, Bern, Basel, Istanbul 19–21).