SHORT BIO
Franziska Ostermann is a German multimedia artist focusing on digital images, photography, word, video, and performance.
In her work, she explores virtuality, the internet and matters of female identity. For the past ten years, she has exclusively worn white.
This non-color deeply reflects in her photographs, texts, and videos. Her own being, online and offline, is the starting point of her work.
In 2018, she completed her studies at Muthesius Academy for Fine Arts and Design. Her work has been shown internationally, including
New York City, Paris and Berlin. Most recently she exhibited with HEK Basel and Synthesis Gallery, NRW Forum Düsseldorf and EXPANDED.ART.
She received a residency grant from the Berlin Senate for young German-speaking authors at the Literary Colloquium Berlin and the Liliencron
Award for Emerging Poets.
Her work is, among others, part of the collection at the Francisco Carolinum Linz and was featured with DER GREIF, the British Journal of Photography,
EXPANDED.ART magazine and Studio International.
SOLO SHOWS
2023 NRW Forum Düsseldorf, wwwforum, interverse: a virtual garden of words and form, Internet
2023 Beyond, Meet Frida & Galerie Kollaborativ, Monat der Fotografie OFF, Berlin, Germany
2021 Helmut Gallery Leipzig, on skin and screens, Leipzig, Germany
2018 Gut Wittmoldt, BILD WORT ZEIT RAUM, Wittmoldt, Germany
READINGS + PERFORMANCES
2025 Literarischer März, Darmstadt, Germany
2024 Lyrikpreis Meran, Meran, Italy
2024 Haus für Poesie, Neues Licht finden, Berlin, Germany
2024 Literaturhaus Kiel, Liliencronpreisverleihungen, Kiel, Germany
2023 Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Hausgästelesung, Berlin, Germany
2023 Beyond Words, reading performance with Michael Nickel, Gallery Kollaborativ, Berlin, Germany
2021 Kulturfestival Schleswig-Holstein, Lesung aus OSZIT, Germany
2018 Literaturhaus Kiel, Neue Prosa II, Kiel, Germany
2017 Watch us grow, Erfurt, Germany
GROUP SHOWS + SCREENINGS
2025 VIRTUALLY YOURS, YOUR BODY, YOUR IMAGE. Curated by Anika Meier for The Second-Guess, during Gallery Weekend, Berlin, Germany
2024 MATERIAL POETRY, virtual HEK, HEK Basel x Synthesis Gallery
2024 Current #1, EXPANDED.ART, Berlin, Germany
2024 Kaugummi im Motherboard 2.0, Erratum Gallery x Gr_und, Berlin, Germany
2024 Imagenation, One Art Space, New York City, USA
2024 Corporeality: Tracing the Evolution of the Human Body in Art and Technology, Bastille Gallery, Paris, France
2024 The annihilation of time and space, UltraSuperNew gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2024 Poitera, Galerie Trittauer Wassermühle, Trittau, Germany
2024 Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein, Kunstraum B Kiel, Germany
2023 Agora Gallery, The Chelsea International Photography Competition, New York City, USA
2023 ImageNation Paris, Just Women, Galerie Joseph Le Palais, Paris, France
2023 Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
2023 Imagine Transparency, das Kurativ, Hamburg, Germany
2023 Photoszene Köln, Beiste Kunstraum, Satellite, PULSAR, Cologne, Germany
2023 Böse Kunst, Showroom Kunstverein Roter Keil, Graz, Austria
2023 Pinakothek der Moderne, Pavillion 333, Der Greif: Contextualise, Munich, Germany
2023 Cine Paris Festival, Paris, France
2023 Fairy Fountain, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, Germany
2023 Stockholm City Filmfest, Stockholm, Sweden
2023 Photopia Hamburg x Streetside Gallery, CURRENT/S, presented by MeetFrida, Hamburg, Germany
2022 ImageNation international photo exhibition, Galerie Joseph Le Palais, Paris, France
2022 Paratissima, Cavallerizza Torino, Ground control, Turin, Italy
2022 How We Feel, digital curation by Anika Meier, Misa.art by König Galerie, Internet
2022 Triennal of Photography Hamburg, Satellite, Beyond Image, MeetFrida Art Space, Hamburg, Germany
2022 Waterkant Festival, with misa.art, Kiel, Germany
2022 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2022 Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
2022 Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Just Women, Milan, Italy
2022 Cowgirl Gallery, Connection, Malmö, Sweden
2022 Pensiercorrenti Festival, Ground Control, Locorotondo, Italy
2022 Atelierhaus im Anscharpark, Request, Kiel, Germany
2021 British Journal of Photography, Edition365, New Art City
2021 PHOXXI Deichtorhallen, Jahresgabenempfang, Hamburg
2021 Der Greif, Guest Room: Anika Meier and Max Siedentopf
2021 Gallery Khodynka, "Wow, fantastic!", Moscow, Russia
2021 PhEST- International festival of photography and arts, Monopoli, Italy
2021 Arts & Culture Festival 21, Leipzig, Germany
2021 Steirischer Herbst, parallel program, video art is distant, Austria
2021 Goethe Institute Paraguay, day of German Unity, Asunción, Paraguay
2021 Belgium Shows, Magnolia Collective, Kortrijkt, Belgium
2021 Treat Gallery New York, all the lights: virtual exhibition, New York City, United States of America
2021 Kunsthaus Steffisburg, Communitas III, Steffisburg, Switzerland
2021 Ruth Borchard Collection, curated digital display, United Kingdom
2021 Volta Art Fair, Art Basel, AR-Gallery with MeetFrida, Basel, Switzerland
2021 Lacuna Festivals, International Contemporary Art Festival: Distance, Lacuna Studios, Spain
2021 Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA), #social2021, Korea
2021 Videofensterprojekt, Cologne, Germany
2021 Gallery PH21, Silence, Budapest, Hungary
2021 A&O Kunsthalle, in escalation, Leipzig
2021 The Smallest Gallery, Off Faces, Graz, Austria
2021 Video art is distant, Graz, Austria
2021 FRESH EYES Talents 2021, Keilestraat 9, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2021 Kunstverein der Gegenwart, Liebe in Zeiten von Corona/ Love in times of Corona, Fliesengalerie, Leipzig, Germany
2021 LoosenArt, Window into the Virtual, Rome, Italy
2021 Florence Contemporary Gallery, far but close: virtual exhibition, Florence, Italy
2021 Fotofestival Schiedam, Post Homo Sapiens, Netherlands
2021 Gallery KUB, Score, with Pilotenküche Leipzig, Germany
2021 IncuArts, force: virtual exhibition, Honolulu, United States of America
2021 Photo Pop Up Fair #7, Düsseldorf, Germany
2021 The Holy Art, rebirth: virtual exhibition, London, England
2021 Fotoclub Kollektiv, Antihero, Berlin, Germany
2021 Affordable Art Fair, presented by #MeetFrida, online/Hamburg, Germany
2021 Photoszene Cologne, Portfoliowalk Sichtbar
2021 Wendy.Network, hivemind: virtual exhibition, Vienna, Austria
2021 Flutgraben Berlin, Screening of "Can you hear me?", Germany
2021 Sequence Studio Vienna, Screening of "Can you hear me?", Austria
2021 Art Week Rotterdam, book release of FRESH EYES 2021, Netherlands
2020 PEP, New Talents, B-Part, Berlin, Germany
2020 Art Kolkhoz, The Dessous, Vienna, Austria
2020 Photokina, Cologne, Cancelled due to Covid-19
2020 Photo/Media Art Fair - Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.), Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2020 Exhibition of the studio scholarships, Atelierhaus im Anscharpark, Kiel, Germany
2019 X-Pon Art Gallery, gemEinsam, Hamburg, Germany
2019 Steam Machine Engine Learning- Digital Change; granted by the Hoepfner Association, Germany
2019 Start Up 2, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Kiel, Germany
2019 New Members exhibition, BBK, Brunswiker Pavillion, Kiel, Germany
2019 Fotoudstiling, danish library, Sydslesvigs danske Kunstforening (SdK), Flensburg, Germany
2019 Annual Fair of the BBK SH, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
2018 Reise nach Kythera, Groupshow, Berlin, Germany
2018 Photokina, with ProfiFoto Magazine and Canon, Cologne, Germany
2018 Les Rencontres de la photographie Arles, The Family Of No Man, Arles, France
2018 Foto-Reflexionen 06, Nothern Germany
2017 Kunsthaus Hänisch, Sofortbilder, Kappeln, Germany
2016 Freitagssalon Große Bleichen, Hamburg, Germany
2016 Munich Contemporary Photography pt.3, First Page Gallery, IFOG Akademie, Munich, Germany
2015 Foto-Reflexionen 05, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
2012 Photokina, Cologne, Germany
2011 Deutsches historisches Museum, Jahr des Waldes, Berlin, Germany
2011 Fotofestival Horizonte Zingst, Ohne ihn, Zingst, Germany
STIPENDS + RESIDENCIES +AWARDS
2025 Finalist at Leonce-and-Lena Prize for Poetry, Leonce- und Lena Preis für Lyrik, Literarischer März, Darmstadt, Germany
2025 Residency Scholarship at Woods Arts Institute EIN WORT + EIN WERK + EIN ORT, invited by Rik Reinking and Arne Rautenberg
2024 Finalist at Poetry Prize Meran, Lyrikpreis Meran, Italy
2024 Liliencron Award for Emerging Poets, awarded by the Institute for Modern German Literature and Media at Kiel University, Germany
2024 Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein, Spacial Poems nominated in the category Blickfang, Kiel, Germany
2023 Scholarship from the Berlin senate for young German-speaking authors at the Literary Colloquium Berlin, Germany
2023 Virtual Residency, nextmuseum.io / NRW Forum Düsseldorf, Germany
2023 Scholarship by the Alfred Toepfer Association, residency at Gut Siggen, Germany
2023 Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein, Can you hear me? nominated as best short-film, Germany
2023 Cine Paris Festival, Can you hear me? nominated as best experimental film, France
2023 City Filmfestival Stockholm, Can you hear me? nominated as best experimental film, Sweden
2022 Scholarship Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany
2022 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, 2 minutes short film competition, winner, Stuttgart, Germany
2022 Passepartou Photo Prize, category: catalog, winner, Rome, Italy
2022 Photo Festival Athens: Shortlisted, Athens, Italy
2021 VG Bildkunst scholarship, Germany
2021 British Journal of Photography, Edition365, Internet/England
2021 FRESH EYES European Talent 2021, by GUP Magazine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Pilotenküche Leipzig, international online residency, Leipzig, Germany
2021 COCA Project 2021, nominee, Center of Contemporary Artists, Rome, Italy
2021 Self-Portrait Prize of the Ruth Borchard Collection, longlisted, London, England
2021 Fine Art Photography Awards: nominee categorie fine art, London, England
2020 Scholarship by the Alfred Toepfer Association, residency at Gut Siggen, Germany
2019 New Talent Award, Profifoto Magazine and Canon, Germany
2018 Grant for emerging artistst, BBK, Germany
2018 New Talent Award, ProfiFoto Magazine and Canon, Germany
2018 Studio Scholarship, Atelierhaus im Anscharpark Kiel, Germany
2015 Birgitt Bolsmann Grant, granted by Prof. em. Kurt Haug, Germany
2011 Zoom Human Rights, The German Institute for Human Rights, winner, Germany
2011 Without him, Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food, winner, Germany
2010 Aperture 2010, Youthaward, winner, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2024/25, herausgegeben von Matthias Kniep und Karin Fellner, Schöffling Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2024
DAS GEDICHT, herausgegeben von Anton G. Leitner und Paul-Henri Campbell, München, 2024
Vostok, your selfie, Seoul, Korea, 2023
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, 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
OSZIT- Poetry Collection, published by the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, 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
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