Jazmin Rojas Forero 

B. 1995. Bogotá, Colombia.
Lives and works between Cologne and Bogotá.


Jazmin Rojas Forero is an artist and filmmaker. In her work she intertwines fiction, science, non-human perspectives and her personal experience to create sensuous and immersive poetic gestures. Through her images and narratives she seeks to rethink and restore our relationship between humans and non-humans, to imagine other ways of perception, as well as embrace non-western knowledge practices.


Jazmin Rojas Forero es artista y cineasta. En su trabajo entrelaza ficción, ciencia, perspectivas no humanas y su experiencia personal, para crear gestos poéticos sensoriales e inmersivos. A través de sus imágenes y narrativas busca repensar y restaurar nuestra relación entre humanos y no-humanos, imaginar formas de percepción, así como abrazar prácticas de conocimientos no-occidentales.

Education

2021 – present    Media and Fine Art. Postgraduate
                            Diploma II. Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Germany
2014 – 2019        BA Fine Art. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Other education (selected)

2020   Diplom in Sound Art.
            TSONAMI Arte sonoro, Valparaíso, Chile
2020   International symposium. Encounter of art, ecology and interdisciplinarity.
            MAC, Lima, Perú
2019   Symbiosis / inhabit and recognize.
            Plataforma Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia

Academic awards

2021 – 2024   Postgraduate studies scholarship in the Fields of Fine Art.
                        German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2018    Academic exchange scholarship.
            German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (ISAP) Germany

Prizes / Grants / Residencies

2023   Interference Summer Project residency. Tunis, Tunisia.
2021    Prize for artistic work in the field art/nature.
            National Stimulus Program, Ministry of Culture of Colombia.
2020    Prize XVII Regional Artist Salon 17 SRA.
            National Stimulus Program, Ministry of Culture of Colombia.
2020    Videoart creation grant for fulldome.
            District Institute of Arts (IDARTES), Bogotá, Colombia.
2020    National Artistic Residence Program. Clorofila Project.
            Barcú Fair, Bogotá, Colombia.
2019    Prize III Young Art Salon
            Distrital Stimulus Program, Distrital institute of Arts of Colombia.
2019    Nominated” XII Youth Art Award.
            Embassy of Spain Colsanitas, Bogotá, Colombia.


Group exhibitions / Screenings 

2024
-  Luna Festival - Media Art Friesland, Leeuwarden, Neetherlands.

2023   
-  Ghost at the feast.
    Welkunstzimmer, Düssedorf, Germany.
-  On pliny’s paths. Twin city associtation Cologne - Tunis. Studio
    Alterburger Wall 1, Cologne, Germany.
-  Not allowed to rot. LEAKY ARCHIVE.
    Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, Germany.
-  Water matters
    Kheireddine Palace, Tunis, Tunisia.
-  Ways of existing (becoming - ongoing)
    KunstWerk, Cologne, Germany.
-  Rundgang 2023 KHM. Art work: Crocodile Nest
    Minus 1, Cologne, Germany.

2022
-  Dismantling institutions through intimacy and fiction.
    Manifesta 14, Pristina, Kosovo
-  TALK TO ME Other Histories of Nature
    Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany
-  Rundgang „Außer der Reihe“ KHM. Art work: Bryophyta
    Trinitatiskirche, Cologne, Germany
-  Rundgang „Außer der Reihe“ KHM. Art work: Kospalang
    Trinitatiskirche, Cologne, Germany

2021
-  4 Full Dome Festival in Experimental Film (Group screening)
    Planetario de Bogotá, Colombia
-  Landscape and Transmission.
    Tsonami Radio, Valparaíso Chile (Online exhibition)

2020   
-  CLOROFILA.National Artistic Residence Program.
    Fería Barcú, Bogotá, Colombia (Online exhibition)
-  El comenzar
    LIA Laboratorio. ARTBO (Online exhibition)
-  Premio III Salón de Arte Jovén
    Fundación Gilberto Alzáte Avendaño, IDARTES, Bogotá, Colombia

2019   
-  XII Youth Art Award, Embassy of Spain
    Nueveochenta Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
-  18th International Image Festival: Art, science and technology.
    Manizales, Colombia
-  Symbiosis Laboratory.
    Plataforma Bogotá (space for art, science and technology), Bogotá, Colombia
-  XIXXX Exhibitions of degree projects
    Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia

2018   
-  Absurdo Programático.
    Claustro de San Agustín. Colombia
-  Resonanz als Spekulation.
    Deutschlandfunk, Cologne, Germany. 

2017
-  The land matters. Research and creation project.
    Manzana K Studio, Bogotá, Colombia
-  Bogosónica.
    Red Galería Santafe. Espacio Sin Sala, Bogotá, Colombia.

Curatorial projects

2016   
-  Situaciones en suma, IV Labotario Cano.
    Museo de arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.

Artistic writings and publications

2022    KURZE # 5 Fifth Anthology of Literary Writing of the Academy of Media Arts.             Cologne, Germany
2020    III Salón de Arte Jóven Catalog
            Fundación Gilberto Álzate Avendaño. Bogotá, Colombia.
2017    Ars 301. Faculty of Arts, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
2014    Maguaré Magazine Vol. 28.
            Faculty of Anthropology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 

Teaching experience

2020 – 2021    Teacher of Electronics Arts.
                        CREA Program. IDARTES, Bogotá, Colombia.