Bio
Venus Jasper (Griepink) is a queer visual artist, singer-performer, educator, writer and curator - currently based between Amsterdam and Antwerp. In their counter-cultural and ritualistic work they envision spirited and sensuous post-capitalisms that spell the decolonization of the anthropocene, rekindle more-than-human kinship, and forward (neuro-)queer and trans-historic perspectives on ecology, folklore, contemporary culture, spirituality and the self.
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 durational performances, from ritual workshops to audiovisual pieces, from electronic soundscapes to vernacular totemistic sculptures — each creation invites audiences into a realm of exploration and introspection about both personal and planetary concerns. Within the context of each project, Venus often activates discourse via embodied alter-egos, shape-shifting as either a Pagan-Queer high-priestess in detailed artisinal costumes, host, caretaker, or otherwise. Highlights in their recent practice are the large solo exhibition EARTHSHRINE (2022) at MU Eindhoven, which was a speculative and contemporary sacred space for soils, and the bog-fury invoking music-performance OAKBaLLZ and EELSKin (2023) at Rupert Lithuania.
In recent years, Jasper's 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/Celtic) ancestry, and trauma — such as the object-based installation Mire of Melusine (2025) at Garage Rotterdam. Presented as a personal shrine, this work was populated by ceramics, aluminium-cast baths, and fish-leather bodysuits. Currently, Venus is assembling written work reflecting on neurodiversity, "sacred nature", chronic illness and contemplations on various traditional medicine practices, and are a resident at the European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC). Later this year, Venus is wrapping up and releasing their industrial-gothic electronic music debut Bzz Bzz — a sonic and lyrical exploration of dark emotions, heated in the crucible of climate decay, rising fascisms, and the lethal death-spasms of Empire.
Be it through art, music, writing, or educating, Jasper's activities always root in the interplay between feeling and knowledge, exploring 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, Estill Voice Training, and is currently part of Before We Where White by White Awake. Their work was presented at MU Hybrid Art House Eindhoven (NL), Museu Tàpies Barcelona (ES), Rupert Vilnius (LT), MuHKA Antwerpen (BE), Green Space Miami (US), Earthbound Symposium (DK), NEST Gallery Everglades National Park (US), LungA Festival Seyðisfjörður (IS), TENT Rotterdam (NL), Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht (NL), Museum IJsselstein (NL), Garage Rotterdam (NL), Zone2Source Amsterdam (NL), 1646 The Hague (NL), Tidens Krav Oslo (NO), Mediamatic Amsterdam(NL), Lustwarande Tilburg (NL), IMPAKT Festival Utrecht (NL), Odapark Venray (NL), Melkweg Expo Amsterdam (NL) and Onomatopee Eindhoven (NL), 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.