about

Jasmin Schaitl is an internationally active visual artist, performer, organizer, lecturer, and graduated in 2012 at the University of applied Arts, Vienna. Since 2019 she is part of the working group at the Angewandte Performance Laboratory in Vienna at the same University.  She shares her practice and research through leading workshops in universities, institutions and festivals all over Europe since 2014. From 2021 to 2022 she was co-leading the INTRA Research Project WITHDRAWING THE PERFORMER together with Charlotta Ruth at the University of applied Arts Vienna. Currently, in 2024 she is co-leading, together with Daria Lytvynenko, the international cross-border project Narrative Presences, funded by Culture-Helps (co-funded by the European Union), through her association CPAP.  The project facilitates communication and artistic exchange between displaced Ukrainian communities in Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine), Vienna (Austria) and Olomouc (Czech Republic), with collaborating institutions in each country. The project stems out of the artistic urge to respond to the current deconstruction of the role of art during war and the art’s potential to support Ukrainian communities internationally.

Since 2020, she has been developing participatory, performative methods that combine the sense of touch, the theme of memory and contemplative practices. Her focus has been on participatory, multi-sensory formats for exhibitions/performances that allow people to actively engage in co-creating what they experience. Her target groups are people of all backgrounds, ages and with and without an artistic background. The motivation for Jasmin to create art shifted to the creation of low-threshold frameworks. The primary desire is to initiate processes of reflection that enable a re-experiencing of past, positive, individual experiences (memories) in the viewers and participants. Her practice includes contemplative methods based on neuroscientific research as well as somatic methods. Her interest lies in activating the inner power of imagination, and positive thinking, that lies within each persons mind, and can be trained and strengthened by practice. Her artistic formats invite the activation and promotion of individual agency.

Jasmin Schaitls work has been supported through several national and international Institutions e.g.: ZUSA (Culture Helps), Austrian Federal Chancellery Section Art, MA 7 City Grant of Vienna, various Austrian Cultural Forums worldwide, KAAI Theater Brussels, workspacebrussels, SeMA Nanji Artist Residency Seoul (KR), Ex Teresa de Arte Actual (Mexico), Bludny Kamen (CZ), klub solitaer e.V. (DE), WUK Vienna, Bildrecht GmbH (AT), Tanz*Hotel | Artist at Resort (AT), im_flieger (AT), Neiro – Association for Expanding Arts (CZ), KOÏNZI-Dance e.V. Hamburg, and others.

Her Duo-Monography “Entering Continuities” was published together with Matěj Frank by ATHENA-Verlag (co-published by the Academy of Art and Design, Wroclaw) in 2019. It includes numerous solo- and duo works of both artists in picture and texts, as well as articles from six international authors about their duo- and solo-works.

She presented her work at: Olomouc Museum of Art (Olomouc CZ), Ujazdowski Castle CCA (Warsaw), Galeria Entropia (Wroclaw PL), Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund (Berlin), EXIT Gallery (Wroclaw), Gallery Szklarnia of the Film School Łodz (PL), KINDL – Center for contemporary Art Berlin, BAINS Brussels, Künstlerhaus (Vienna), BRUT (Vienna), frei_raum (Vienna), zeitraumexit (Mannheim), Pragovka Gallery (Prague), HaMiffal (Jerusalem), das weisse Haus (Vienna), Matični Dum (Opava CZ), Fabrica – Center for contemporary Art (Brighton UK), Galerie M. Stock (Vienna), Klub Solitaer e.V. (Chemnitz DE), Bildraum Bodensee (Bregenz AT), PLATO Gallery (Ostrava CZ), KUMU Art Museum (Tallinn EE), Tartu New Theatre (Tartu EE), TENT (Rotterdam), Forum Landi (Belém BRA), Sanatorium Gallery (Istanbul), MIXER Gallery (Istanbul), VOX Populi Gallery (Philadelphia US) among others.

She participated in international festivals, such as PERFORMATIK Brussels Biennial of Performance Art (BE), FNAF – Festival of Naked Forms (CZ), Pelzverkehr Festival für Tanz und Performance (Klagenfurt AT), Konteksty Festival of ephemeral Art Sokolowsko (PL), Interakcje Festival (P. Trybunalski PL), ZABIH International Festival of Performance (UKR), Venice Performance Art Week (IT), CREatURE (Kaunas LT), Draw to Perform Symposium (UK), Begehungen (Chemnitz DE), Tempting Failure Festival (Bristol UK), MPA – Month of Performance Art (Berlin), Tinderbox Series at Mobius (Boston US), Dimanche Rouge (Tallinn and Helsinki), IPA – Platform for Young Performance Art (Istanbul), among others.