Description

Jasmin Meirose, born in Munich, lives and works in Cologne. After studying Fine Arts with a focus on painting at the Free Art School in Cologne, she developed a distinctive visual language marked by expressive gesture, emotional directness, and a deliberate rejection of aesthetic smoothing. Her series PAINT IT LOUD exemplifies a form of painting that is not only a mode of expression but also a form of resistance—against societal conventions, dominant art historical narratives, and silence itself. Meirose’s works emerge from an immediate, physical action: application of paint, traces of the painting process, layers and ruptures remain visible. In this painterly immediacy lies an existential concern: the desire for visibility, for control over one’s own image, and for liberation from expectations. Her works are often raw, contradictory, loud—and that is where their power lies. Central themes include power and powerlessness, identity and attribution, self-assertion and collective memory. One striking strategy is her “image rewriting”: icons of art history—Susanna in the Bath, the Van Gogh artist myth, the muse motif—are not merely quoted, but disempowered, transformed, and recoded. This is not about rejecting tradition but about reclaiming it. In her works, the female figure no longer appears as an object of contemplation but as a subject of action. Formally, her work moves between Neo-Expressionism, Art Brut, and an aesthetic reminiscent of political muralism and street art. The colors are loud, the strokes direct, the compositions exuberant. Yet they never feel arbitrary—everything is an expression of attitude, a personal and political message. The irony running through some pieces is never banal but sharp and reflective. It breaks pathos without losing seriousness. Jasmin Meirose sees painting not as a contemplative act but as performative protest. Her art invites friction and confrontation with the present. Statement: "I don’t paint to please. I paint so that something speaks. A painting shouldn’t explain, it should demand. PAINT IT LOUD is my call for visibility."