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
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, Milan, Italy
Cowgirl Gallery, Connection, Malmö, Sweden
Haus der Statistik, with Pilotenküche Leipzig, Berlin, Germany