Sabrina
Jäger

Sabrina Maria Jäger (b. 1998, Germany) is a self-taught artist currently based in Barcelona. Her artistic language emerged early: as a child she created spontaneous, abstract works full of movement and intuitive energy. At thirteen, she stepped away from art and spent over a decade pursuing stability through academic and professional paths, completing both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in design and business.

In 2025, during a period of severe depression, drawing returned no longer as a pastime, but as necessity. What began in stillness and despair became a physical process of remembering: a way to reconnect with the body, with sensation, with something unspeakable. Her works now emerge instinctively and without sketches, shaped by gesture, repetition, and emotional urgency.

Jäger’s practice explores themes of trauma, disconnection, and psychological rupture - yet not from a distance. She works from within these states, using oil pastel and acrylic on canvas to create visceral, symbolic compositions that speak from the nervous system, not about it. Organs, figures, and emotional systems appear not as metaphors, but as embodied traces of internal experience.

She is currently developing a series that visualizes the lived experience of depression, how it distorts perception, silences the body, and alters one’s ability to receive care. Through these works, she hopes to offer a more sensory, embodied understanding of emotional suffering, not only for those who have never experienced it, but also for those who have. For those who might recognize themselves in these images and feel seen. In a time of growing psychological strain and emotional disconnect worldwide, she believes that visual language can create space where words often fall short.