Franziska Ostermann is a multimedia artist focussing on digital images, photography, word, video and performance. In 2018 she completed her studies at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in the departments of photography, technical image and language & figure. For her work she received grants from the Stiftung Kunstfonds or the VG Bild Kunst and awards from Profifoto and Canon as well as the BBK Schleswig-Holstein. Her video work was shown at Stuttgarter Filmwinter, the Goethe Institute in Paraguay, at Steirischer Herbst in Graz or at the Arts & Culture Festival in Leipzig. Her poetry debut OSZIT was published in 2018. Her texts appeared, among others, in Die Signaturen and in Mosaik. In 2024 her poems received the Liliencron Award for Emerging Poets, awarded by the Institute for Modern German Literature and Media at Kiel University, Germany Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Cine Paris Film Festival, in New York City at the Agora Gallery in Chelsea, at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Korea, and online with the British Journal of Photography at New Art City. In 2023 she received a residency grant from the Berlin Senate for young german-speaking authors at the Literary Colloquium Berlin. In the wwwforum of NRW Forum Düsseldorf she showed her exhibition “interverse: a virtual garden of words and form”. In 2024 she received the Liliencron Award for Emerging Poets, awarded by the Institute for Modern German Literature and Media at Kiel University. She is nominated for the poetry prize Meran 2024.
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
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
2024 Imagenation, One Art Space, New York City, USA 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
2024 nominated for 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
Vostok, your selfie, Seoul, Korea, 2023 Internet on my skin: Interview on Misa.Art, 2022 Passepartou Photo Prize, Cataloge, Rome, 2022 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, Hoepfner Association, 2019 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 Foto Reflexionen 05 and 06, catalogues following the exhibitions