Kirsten Wilmink recently graduated from the ArtEZ AKI Academy of Visual Arts in Photographic Design and is continuing her studies at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. As a cross media designer Wilmink’s main focus is staged photography. Her graduation project, The Truth About Germans, depicts stereotypes and the existing prejudices about German people in which she used her own family members as models. Of her work she says, ‘With drinking beer and eating bratwurst with potato salad the family Meier from Meppen spends its daily life. Just like every other German family, they are always in a bad mood, members of the local football and shooting club and proud owners of a garden plot. Internationally they are well-known for their narrow-minded petty bourgeois mentality and their very special dress style: socks, Birkenstock sandals and traditional Bavarian Lederhosen’. Her work is currently on view at Cabinodd Collections in Amsterdam.
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Very interesting works, and beautiful light