SHORT BIO
Franziska Ostermann was born in 1992 in Kiel, Northern Germany. She got her
master´s degree at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design.
As a multimedia artist her main interests are contemporary photography,
video and writing as well as their intersection. In her work she explores virtuality,
matters of identity and the internet. She has been awarded by the British Journal
of Photography and was selected as a FRESH EYES european talent 2021 by GUP
Magazine. Her Selfportrait FIRN was published on the cover of ProfiFoto magazine.
She has been granted the award for uprising artist by the Bundesverband Bildender
Künstler Schleswig-Holstein as well as the The New Talent Award by Canon and ProfiFoto
magazine twice. Her poetry debut OSZIT was published by the Muthesius University
of Fine Arts and her poems were published in literature magazines such as Mosaik,
Signaturen or Archipel.
Franziska Ostermann has taken part in numerous exhibitions nationally and
internationally, for example in Korea, Hungary, the US, Paraguay, the Netherlands,
Italy, Russia, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden or France.
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2023
Agora Gallery, The Chelsea International Photography Competition, New York City, USA
2022
ImageNation international photo exhibition, Galerie Joseph Le Palais, Paris, France
Paratissima, Cavallerizza Torino, Ground control, Turin, Italy
How We Feel, digital curation, Misa.art, Internet
Triennal of Photography Hamburg, Satellite, Beyond Image, MeetFrida Art Space, Hamburg, Germany
Waterkant Festival, with misa.art, Kiel, Germany
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Just Women, Milan, Italy
Cowgirl Gallery, Connection, Malmö, Sweden
Haus der Statistik, with Pilotenküche Leipzig, Berlin, Germany
Pensiercorrenti Festival, Ground Control, Locorotondo, Italy
Atelierhaus im Anscharpark, Request, Kiel, Germany
2021
British Journal of Photography, Edition365, New Art City
PHOXXI Deichtorhallen, Jahresgabenempfang, Hamburg
Der Greif, Guest Room: Anika Meier
Gallery Khodynka, „Wow, fantastic!“, Moscow, Russia
PhEST- International festival of photography and arts, Monopoli, Italy
Arts & Culture Festival 21, Leipzig, Germany
Steirischer Herbst, parallel program, video art is distant, Austria
Goethe Institute Paraguay, day of German Unity, Asunción, Paraguay
Belgium Shows, Magnolia Collective, Kortrijkt, Belgium
Helmut Gallery Leipzig, Soloshow, on skin and screens, Leipzig, Germany
Treat Gallery New York, all the lights: virtual exhibition, New York City, United States of America
Kunsthaus Steffisburg, Communitas III, Steffisburg, Switzerland
Ruth Borchard Collection, curated digital display, United Kingdom
Volta Art Fair, Art Basel, AR-Gallery with MeetFrida, Basel, Switzerland
Lacuna Festivals, International Contemporary Art Festival: Distance, Lacuna Studios, Spain
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA), #social2021, Korea
Haute Photographie, Amsterdam, Netherlands – cancelled due to Covid-19
Videofensterprojekt, Cologne, Germany
SIILK Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Gallery PH21, Silence, Budapest, Hungary
A&O Kunsthalle, in escalation, Leipzig
Video art is distant, Graz, Austria
FRESH EYES Talents 2021, Keilestraat 9, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Kunstverein der Gegenwart, Liebe in Zeiten von Corona/ Love in times of Corona, Fliesengalerie, Leipzig, Germany
LoosenArt, Window into the Virtual, Rome, Italy
The Smallest Gallery, Soloshow, Graz, Austria
Inside Out Gallery, Project Cairn, Sacramento, United States of America
Florence Contemporary Gallery, far but close: virtual exhibition, Florence, Italy
Fotofestival Schiedam, Post Homo Sapiens, Netherlands
Gallery KUB, Score, with Pilotenküche Leipzig, Germany
IncuArts, force: virtual exhibition, Honolulu, United States of America
Photo Pop Up Fair #7, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Holy Art, rebirth: virtual exhibition, London, England
Fotoclub Kollektiv, Antihero, Berlin, Germany
Spongleheim Gallery, Them, virtual exhibition
Affordable Art Fair, presented by #MeetFrida, online/Hamburg, Germany
Photoszene Cologne, Portfoliowalk Sichtbar
Tebbs Contemporary Gallery, movement: virtual exhibition, London, England
Wendy.Network, hivemind: virtual exhibition, Vienna, Austria
Kulturfestival Schleswig-Holstein, reading of OSZIT, Germany
OT-Posterwall, othertypes, Hamburg, Germany
Flutgraben Berlin,Screening of „Can you hear me?“,Germany
Sequence Studio Vienna, Screening of „Can you hear me?“, Austria
Art Week Rotterdam, book release of FRESH EYES 2021, Netherlands
2020
PEP, New Talents, Berlin, Germany
Art Kolkhoz, The Dessous, Vienna, Austria
Photokina, Cologne, Cancelled due to Covid-19
Photo/Media Art Fair – Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.), Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany
Exhibition of the studio scholarships, Atelierhaus im Anscharpark, Kiel, Germany
2019
X-Pon Art Gallery, gemEinsam, Hamburg, Germany
Steam Machine Engine Learning- Digital Change; granted by the Hoepfner Association, Germany
Start Up 2, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Kiel, Germany
New Members exhibition, BBK, Brunswiker Pavillion, Kiel, Germany
Fotoudstiling, danish library, Sydslesvigs danske Kunstforening (SdK), Flensburg, Germany
Annual Fair of the BBK SH, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
2018
Journey to Kythera, Groupshow, Berlin, Germany
BILD WORT ZEIT RAUM, Soloshow, Plön, Germany
Photokina, with ProfiFoto Magazine and Canon, Cologne, Germany
Les Rencontres de la photographie Arles, The Family Of No Man, Arles, France
Foto-Reflexionen 06, Nothern Germany
Reading at the House of Literature, Kiel, Germany
2017
Kunsthaus Hänisch, Kappeln, Germany
Watch us grow, Erfurt, Germany
2012-2016
Freitagssalon Große Bleichen, Hamburg, Germany
Munich Contemporary Photography pt.3, First Page Gallery, IFOG Akademie, Munich, Germany
Foto-Reflexionen 05, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Photokina, Cologne, Germany
2011
German historical museum/ Deutsches historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Fotofestival Horizonte Zingst, Germany
STIPENDS/ RESIDENCIES/ AWARDS
2022
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, 2 minutes short film competition, winner, Stuttgart, Germany
Passepartou Photo Prize, category: catalog, winner, Rome, Italy
Photo Festival Athens: Shortlisted
2021
VG Bildkunst scholarship, Germany
British Journal of Photography, Edition365, Internet/England
FRESH EYES European Talent 2021, by GUP Magazine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pilotenküche Leipzig, international online residency, Leipzig, Germany
Kunstpreis Deutschland/ Art Prize Germany, Gallery Depelmann, nominee, Hanover, Germany
COCA Project 2021, nominee, Center of Contemporary Artists, Rome, Italy
Self-Portrait Prize of the Ruth Borchard Collection, longlisted, London, England
D31 Art Prize 2021, finalist, Doncaster, England
Fine Art Photography Awards: nominee categorie fine art, London, England
Fine Art Photography Awards: nominee categorie conceptual, London, England
2020
Scholarship by the Alfred Toepfer Association, residency at Gut Siggen, Germany
2019
Steam machine learning and digital change, nominee, Hoepfner Association, Germany
New Talent Award, Profifoto Magazine and Canon, winner, Germany
2018
Grant for emerging artistst, BBK, winner, Germany
New Talent Award, ProfiFoto Magazine and Canon, winner, Germany
Studio Scholarship, Atelierhaus im Anscharpark Kiel, Germany
2015
Birgitt Bolsmann Grant, winner, Germany
2011
Zoom Human Rights, The German Institute for Human Rights, winner, Germany
Without him, Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food, winner, Germany
2010
Aperture 2010, Youthaward, winner, Germany
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
British Journal of Photography, Edition365, exhibition catalog, 2021
Münchner Anthologie, Signaturen, Munich, Germany, 2021
FRESH EYES 2021, Photobook by GUP Magazine, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Aintbad Magazine, Generational Spirit 08/2021
Global Young Faculty, Grenzüberschreitungen, Photobook, 2021, Germany
Photonews, Hamburg, 4/2021, Germany
Archipel, Salzburg, 7/2021, Austria
Mosaik, Salzburg, 5/2021, Austria
Meeting Splinters of (Our)Selves, Article by Monique du Plessis, Pilotenküche Leipzig 2021
Am Flutsaum. Gegen das weiße Rauschen der Zeit, Interpretation by Birger Niehaus, Anser Anser, 2021
Q&A with Franziska Ostermann, The Flux Review, 2021
Les Nouveau Riches, Online Feature of Selfobservations, 2020
PEP New Talents, Cataloge following the PEP New Talents exhibition in Berlin, 2020
ProfiFoto Magazine, Issue 12 2019, Cover and Portfolio of FIRN
Steam machine learning – von der Dampfmaschine zum digitalen Wandel, cataloge following the exhibition, Hoepfner Association, 2019
OSZIT- Poetry Collection, published by MKH, 2018
ProfiFoto Magazine, Issue 5 2018, Portfolio of White Lettering
Neue Prosa 2017, New Prose in Schleswig-Holstein, House of Literature Kiel
Instant Images- photographic unica in the digital age, cataloge for the exhibition at Kunsthaus Hänisch
Fotoclub, Magazine for photography, published by Martin Fengel, 2017
HANT- Magazine for photography and literature, episode 05
Foto Reflexionen 05 and 06, cataloges following the exhibitions
SELECTED ONLINE FEATURES
Misa.Art Magazine, Interview, INTERNET ON MY SKIN: Franziska Ostermann in conversation with Margaret Murphy (DE/ENG)
Pilotenküche Leipzig, Feature „Meeting Splinters of (Our)Self“ (AUS)
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