Josefine Reisch

Josefine Reisch is a Berlin-based artist born in 1987 in Berlin, Germany. She completed her BFA at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2013 and her MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2017. Reisch's artistic practice revolves around examining historical contexts and how they shape social hierarchies and aspirations in contemporary interpretations of history.

She reassembles historical moments and figures into jumbled compositions to question the value and validity of popularized cultural heritage, much like a musical medley. Her work often uses representational mediums such as trompe-l'oeil painting, portraiture, and textiles to explore the biography as a genre that illustrates the shape-shifting, ambivalent, and often fictionalized character of the past.

Reisch challenges the patriarchal subjectivity of mainstream and material culture, undermining conventional artistic depictions of femininity to trigger new readings and uncertainty within the déjà vu. Her work has been exhibited in various international exhibitions, including "Eifersucht" at Parliament in Paris, France in 2021, "Therein / Thereof / Thereto" at STANDARD in Oslo, Norway in 2021, and "Berlin Bins" at the Museum of Modern Shopping in London, UK in 2022. In 2023, her work will be shown at Klosterfelde Edition in Berlin, DE as part of the "No Hard Feelings" exhibition.