About

Miranda Devita Kistler runs a photographic and artistic practice based between Den Haag, The Netherlands and Zürich, Switzerland.

Her practice is driven by a believe that true comprehension arises through sensory and emotional engagement. Her works, explores nature, the more- than- human, landscapes, and ecological perspectives, though sensorial engagement and emotions. By emphasizing wonder and ambiguity, her work encourages viewers to rediscover and foster new and profound connections with the environment.
The projects mostly find shape through immersive publications which reflect senses and feelings, but give hints to the broader context of the work. Additionally her works manifests in installations which transcends photographs into tactile and immersive objects.

In her most recent work „Batu dan Banjir“, she explores water as a force that destructs, but at the same time gives rise to new narratives and associations. Erosion is visible in the work not only literally, but also as a metaphor. It presents erosion, but rather encourages the viewer to read between the cracks and anticipate a new way of understanding and reading alternative narratives within the environment.
On a personal level, the work relates to cultural erosion and what it means in contemporary times. Drawing on her cultural background to explore her personal connection to the element of water and how it unfolds in the cultural and environmental contexts of her family history, the power of water and the process of erosion becomes a metaphor for cultural and geographical flux. She reflects on fragments of stories, history and culture, and how an identity can emerge from fragments.

︎ @mirandakistler
︎ miranda.kistler@gmx.ch


Photo by Almicheal Fraay

Exhibitions

(Upcoming) 2024 | OYO-8 
Group exhibition at Haagse Kunstkring
24 December - 05 January
The Hague, The Netherlands

(Upcoming) 2024 | A Letter from a Friend
International Group exhibition at Bacio Gallery
09 November - 08 December
Bern, Switzerland

2024 | Arty Party Photography Graduates 2024
Group exhibition at Melkweg
20 September - 13 October
Amsterdam, The Netherlands


2024 | UNFOLDING FUTURES
Collective Installation and Photobook Exhibition at FUTURES 
31. August
Amsterdam, The Netherlands


2024 | Best of Graduates 2024
Group exhibition at Gallery Ron Mandos
25 July - 15 September
Amsterdam, The Netherlands


2024 | Graduation Show 2024
Group exhibition at Royal Acamdy of Art
28 June - 2 July
The Hague, The Netherlands


2023 | AnafiFF 
International Film Festival
06 - 11 July
Anafi, Greece


2023 | As Above, So Below
Group exhibition at The Grey Space in The Middle
19 - 23 January
The Hague, The Netherlands


2022 | We Do/Are Photography
Group exhibitions at Internationale Photoszene Köln
20 - 22 October
Köln, Germany


2021 | Byob
Bring your own Book at ENTER ENTER
15 September - 15 October
Amsterdam, Netherlands


2020 | Art Blanche
Group exhibitions at Zürich Hauptbahnhof
20 February - 21 April
Zürich, Switzerland