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 post-conceptual multimedia artist her main interests are contemporary photography and writing as well as their interaction. In her work she explores hyperreality, virtuality and matters of identity. 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. She has been selected as a FRESH EYES european talent 2021 by GUP Magazine. Her poetry debut OSZIT was published by the Muthesius University of Fine Arts. Franziska Ostermann has taken part in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally. Furthermore Franziska Ostermann works as a lecturer in the fields of artistic photography.
STUDIES
2012-2018 Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design B.A. & M.A.
EXHIBITIONS AND READINGS (SELECTION)
2021 Gallery Khodynka, „Wow, fantastic!“, Moscow, Russia Arts & Culture Festival 21, Leipzig Treat Gallery New York, all the lights: virtual exhibition, New York City, United States of America Ruth Borchard Collection, curated digital display, United Kingdom Lacuna Festivals, International Contemporary Art Festival: Distance, Lacuna Studios, Spain Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA), #social2021, Korea Haute Photographie, Amsterdam, Netherlands SIILK Gallery, Berlin, Germany Gallery PH21, Silence, Budapest, Hungary 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, 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 Tebbs Contemporary Gallery, movement: virtual exhibition, London, England Wendy.Network, hivemind: virtual exhibition, Vienna, Austria Art Week Rotterdam, book release of FRESH EYES 2021
2020 PEP, New Talents, Berlin 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 Exhibition of the studio scholarships, Atelierhaus im Anscharpark, Kiel
2019 X-Pon Art Gallery, gemEinsam, Hamburg Steam Machine Engine Learning- Digital Change; granted by the Hoepfner Association Start Up 2, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Kiel New Members exhibition, BBK, Brunswiker Pavillion, Kiel Fotoudstiling, danish library, Sydslesvigs danske Kunstforening (SdK), Flensburg Annual Fair of the BBK SH, Schleswig
2018 Journey to Kythera, Groupshow, Berlin BILD WORT ZEIT RAUM, Soloshow, Plön Photokina, with ProfiFoto Magazine and Canon, Cologne 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
2017 Kunsthaus Hänisch, Kappeln Watch us grow, Erfurt
2012-2016 Freitagssalon Große Bleichen, Hamburg First Page Gallery, Munich Foto-Reflexionen 05, Schleswig-Holstein Photokina, Cologne
2011 German historical museum/ Deutsches historisches Museum, Berlin Fotofestival Horizonte Zingst
STIPENDS/ RESIDENCIES/ AWARDS
2021 FRESH EYES European Talent 2021, by GUP Magazine Pilotenküche Leipzig, international online residency COCA Project 2021, Center of Contemporary Artists, Rome Self-Portrait Prize of the Ruth Borchard Collection, Longlisted D31 Art Prize 2021, Finalist Fine Art Photography Awards: Nominee Categorie Fine Art Fine Art Photography Awards: Nominee Categorie Conceptual
2020 Scholarship by the Alfred Toepfer Association, residency at Gut Siggen
2019 Steam machine learning and digital change, Hoepfner Association New Talent Award, Profifoto Magazine and Canon
2018 Grant for emerging artistst, BBK New Talent Award, ProfiFoto Magazine and Canon Studio Scholarship, Atelierhaus im Anscharpark Kiel
2015 Birgitt Bolsmann Grant
2011 Zoom Human Rights, The German Institute for Human Rights Without him, Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food
2010 Aperture 2010, Youthaward
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
FRESH EYES 2021, Photobook by GUP Magazine, Rotterdam, Netherlands Global Young Faculty, Grenzüberschreitungen, Photobook, 2021 Photonews, 4/2021 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