Jana Kießer
Germany
Biography
Jana Kießer, born in 1989, is a multimedia artist and photographer. A graduate of the Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin in 2018, she is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts, focusing on socially engaged art. Her work often explores feminist themes using plants as symbols. Jana's artistic approach translates feelings of sexist discrimination into abstract visualisations using photographs of plants. The project "Now laugh!" explores everyday verbal sexism through a participatory installation built from personal narratives. As part of the project, Jana Kießer established a feminist round table to combat sexism and foster connections among women. In collaboration with Annemie Martin, her photographic dialogue "On potato-roses and burning treetops" reflects personal narratives from the pandemic and received the German Photo Book Award.



