Personal work

Nina Kirste’s work emerges from her engagement with places, architecture, and people. Her 2024 series The Gospel of Serenity, produced in Mexico, explores the spatial and atmospheric experience of Luis Barragán’s architecture. In the exhibition Heimat (2026), she presented for the first time works that arose from her close relationships with people and her own immediate surroundings. These works form the starting point for further exploring the personal as an independent dimension of her photographic practice.

Her work has received international recognition and has been exhibited in Munich, Palma de Mallorca and Paris.

“Perhaps it really is what I see, and getting to know it would only blur the truth.
Knowing and seeing are not very compatible. Sometimes knowing is even a worse method of finding out what is.
Is it possible to leave out knowing altogether and only see, like a film?”
Sten Nadolny, The Discovery of Slowness