Kirsha Kaechele

Kirsha Kaechele (born 1976) is an American contemporary art curator, artist, and practitioner of sustainable architecture. She is founder of KKProjects | Life is Art Foundation.

Kaechele was born in Topanga Canyon, California, and raised in Guam, Micronesia and Japan. Her father was a retired RAND Corporation aerospace engineer and early practitioner of Rolfing. In 1994, Kaechele began an informal education with travel over land to more than fifty countries in a seven-year period- a hands-on investigation of the idea that life designs itself. During this period, she met and mentored with a variety of thinkers, including Biosphere 2 creator John P. Allen, chemist Albert Hoffman, writers Tom Robbins and John C. Lilly, John Perry Barlow, Rodleen Getsic, psychiatrist Oscar Janiger, artist Peter Nadin, musician Mike Watt and a pair of German architects building sustainably in Maui, Hawaii. In 1999, Kaechele lived in remote southern Lebanon and worked with a group of leading writers, philosophers and historians in Sur (Tyre). In 1995, she worked with the Shipibo ayahuasca shamans in the Peruvian Amazon. In 1996, she performed with La Mama theater in New York City.

In 2007 she founded Life is Art Foundation | KKProjects, an art space composed of six abandoned houses in the St. Roch neighborhood of New Orleans. The foundation invites local and international artists to create site-specific installations utilizing the houses and surrounding ecological and social environment as medium. Exhibitions have included artists from emerging to Tony Oursler, Mel Chin, Keith Sonnier and Robert Rauschenberg.

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