Collection: Dzesik

Dzesik (*1995, Hof/Saale) is a contemporary artist whose work explores pain, menstruation, the societal perception of female-read bodies, and the female experience within the patriarchal system.
The starting point of her artistic practice is her personal experience with a diagnosis of endometriosis and suspected adenomyosis – chronic diseases that, despite their widespread prevalence, are still often trivialized and inadequately treated within the medical system.

For about five years, Dzesik has predominantly painted with an extraordinary yet deeply personal medium: her own menstrual blood.
This serves not only as material but also as a substance laden with meaning – a trace of time, suffering, and lived experience. Her symptom-oriented hormone therapy to treat endometriosis symptoms results in the absence of menstruation. As a result, menstrual blood itself becomes a limited resource for her, lending her works an additional existential urgency.
In her works, Dzesik combines a sensitive, often poetic yet radical visual language with a clear political stance.

She addresses the stigmatization and taboos surrounding menstruation, as well as the deeply ingrained societal structures of disgust and shame related to the non-male body. Her works consciously create a tension between aesthetic appeal and thematic confrontation – an irritation that compels viewers to question their own conditioning and defensive attitudes.
Dzesik demands attention for what is often overlooked, suppressed, or devalued. Her works do not merely invite contemplation; they confront – and at the same time open up spaces for reflection, empathy, and social change.