Klara KIRSCH

Profile

Born in 1995 in Speyer, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin. Graduated with a BA in fine arts from the class for performance and time based media at UdK Berlin in 2022.
Interested in the appropriation of pop cultural aesthetics, collage and role playing as strategies to deconstruct the mechanisms and human abysses of (post) capitalist systems.

Recent exhibitions and activities
2024 “Fighting 4 Fear,” Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
2023 “Resort,” Magma Maria, Offenbach, Germany
2023 “B3 Biennial of the Moving Image,” OOOO, Frankfurt
2023 “Casino Real,” former city casino, Berlin
2023 “Won’t you get your big machine,” Spoiler, Berlin

Awards and residency
2023 "Rotraut Pape Inspiration Award" at "B3 Biennial of the Moving Image," Frankfurt
2023 BUDA Residency, Kortrijk, Belgium
2021 3rd prize at "Verstärker Kunst Film Festival," Dresden

About works

By detaching social and cultural phenomena from their context, Kirsch’s works give viewers the opportunity to reflect and reposition themselves in relation to them. Of particular note is the ongoing work with the alter ego, former fitness influencer Stacy Walker, which since 2019 has been critically engaging with the online self-optimization industry. Besides her solo projects she regularly works as a duo with Milena Bühring and in changing group constellations, most recently for the performance Fighting 4 Fear. Currently, she is focusing on how the commodification of private information, knowledge and desires is reflected in online hate speech and the entertainment industry.