Jasmin Kiranoglu, born in Hamburg in 1993, grew up in Antalya, Berlin, and Munich, and has lived mainly in Switzerland since 2013. The performance and performing artist connects body, space, object, and audience. She explores empathy as well as psychological and physical vulnerability and the relationship between inside and outside. She is active in theater and dance contexts and co-founder of the collective Portakal Radikal with sound artist Matthias Müller.
Kiranoglu studied acting (B.A.), Expanded Theater (M.A.), and Contemporary Art Practice (M.A.) at Bern University of the Arts. During an Erasmus stay in Istanbul, she deepened her focus on modern dance.
Recently, she presented her performance gestülpt at Kunstraum Bern Bümpliz in the memorial exhibition for Norbert Klaasen (25) and took part in the group performance Lasst uns Teilen at the Paula Festival, St. Gallen (25). She performed the 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 theatrical city walk Stadt der Katzen in Bern and Burgdorf (23/24). With Hanna Röhrich, she performed at KarteNoire 2502 #18 in Biotop, Biel (24). She was also part of the contemporary movement girl band The Bernese Yonis, which performed at the BETA Festival, Tanzhaus Bern (21/22).
With Portakal Radikal, she performed at the BONE Performance Festival (24), Kulturesk Festival in the Große Halle of the Reitschule (24), at Stiftung JETZT KUNST in Zehendermätteli (23), and the ACT Festival at 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).
In November (25), she will appear as a hamster in the music theater piece Fibsi and the edge of the abyss by Sarah Noemi Brusi in Zurich.