Personal work

In her work, the artist Nina Kirste depicts situations that distinctly manifest her own perspective. Rather than the object itself, her subject is what she perceives within. Her analogue photographs are mostly taken while travelling and during extended stays abroad, helping to develop the characteristic aesthetic evident in her work. Encounters with the unknown provide the impetus for Nina’s quiet excerpt-like compositions, images that seek out moments in which perception remains undivided, before any act of interpretation.

“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

Her work has been shown in Paris, Munich, Mallorca and other European cities, and has been featured in magazines and journals. She currently works on a continuing project, Casa Majahua, Luis Barragán’s remote seaside house on Mexico’s Pacific coast, now in delicate decay and largely undocumented until recently.