Bio
Venus likes to create multidisciplinary art projects; ultra-sensory spatial installations wherein grounded tactility meets playful mythological futurism. From sculptural mudscapes teeming with life to participatory performances, from ritual workshops to audiovisual pieces, from electronic soundscapes to vernacular sculptures — each creation invites audiences into a realm of exploration and introspection about both personal and planetary concerns. Highlights are their large solo exhibition EARTHSHRINE at MU Eindhoven (2022), the music-performance OAKBaLLZ and EELSKin at Rupert Lithuania (2023) and their detailed installation Mire of Melusine at Garage Rotterdam (2025).
Since recent years, Jasper's artistic work increasingly involves music production and the development of songs and invocations, alongside of a deepening sculptural practice that explores the artists relation to sacred swamps, (white-European) ancestry, and trauma. Venus is also assembling written work reflecting on neurodiversity, chronic illness and medicine practices. In 2025, Venus will attempt to wrap up and release their music debut Bzz Bzz, which is the result of a sonic explorations of dark emotions heated in the crucible of climate decay, rising fascisms, and the lethal death-spasms of Empire.
Be it through art, writing, curating or educating, Jasper's activities root in the interplay between feeling and knowledge, and explore the fields of queer ecology, environmentalism, land-based ways of knowing, rejected wisdom, activism, science fiction, the more-than-human, sex, gender, and identity.
Credentials
Venus Jasper holds an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) from the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam (2013) and is trained in Permaculture Design, Reiki, Somatic Psychotherapy, Speculative Writing, Music Production, and is currently part of Before We Where White by White Awake. Their work was presented at MU Hybrid Art House Eindhoven (NL), LungA Festival (IS), Rupert (LT), AIRIE Florida (US), TENT Rotterdam (NL), Garage Rotterdam (NL), Zone2Source (NL), 1646 (NL), Bonnefantenmuseum (NL), Tidens Krav (NO), Museum IJsselstein (NL), Mediamatic (NL), Lustwarande Tilburg (NL), IMPAKT Festival (NL), Odapark (NL), Melkweg Expo (NL), Onomatopee (NL), and MuHKA Antwerpen (BE), amongst other.
Besides their artistic work, they are a freelance curator for RE_NATURE and are/were a course tutor at BEAR ArtEZ Arnhem (2023), Ecology Futures MA MICV/St. Joost Den Bosch (2021-22), Scenography AHK Amsterdam (2024-25), and mentor at RE: Opera, Sandberg Institute (2024).
What can I do for you?
Get in touch for general inquiries, studio visits, and collaborations. Feel free to explore my other work and don't hesitate to reach out with your ideas; I am here to help enrich your project, program or plan.
A full CV is available.