Collection: Dzesik

Dzesik (born Jessica Wach) is a contemporary artist, born in Hof/Saale in 1995 and raised as the child of Polish migrants. In rural Bavaria, she encountered sexist and racist experiences early on. Her loving home taught her to build strong self-esteem. Dzesik attended the humanistic-linguistic-musical Jean Paul Gymnasium, where she learned to play the violin and discovered her love for visual and socially critical art. Driven by the desire to improve the world, she chose a career in special education. There, among other things, she deepened her knowledge of art didactics. Her work as a qualified special education teacher focuses on the most vulnerable members of society: people with disabilities. As a project manager at Lebenshilfe, she now promotes inclusion and equality.
As Dzesik grew older, she experienced increasing problems with extreme period pain, heavy and long bleeding, pain during and after intimacy, and other symptoms. Despite countless specialist visits, emergency doctor interventions, and hospital stays, Dzesik received feedback from doctors for about 6 years that her body was perfectly healthy and that the severe pain was normal.
Inspired by a good friend, she began to paint with her menstrual blood. This painting developed into a form of self-therapy to process the pain she was left alone with. She shared her art made from menstrual blood online, polarizing opinions. From massive hate to death threats, she experienced firsthand how stigmatized the female body is and how deeply misogynistic thoughts are embedded in society. In 2025, Dzesik finally received a diagnosis through laparoscopy that explained her long-neglected symptoms: endometriosis. A chronic disease that is widespread yet extremely under-researched. Many sufferers share a similar journey of years of neglect and lack of medical help. Dzesik recently founded a self-help group for people affected by endometriosis and adenomyosis.