”Franziska Ostermann is one of the leading poets in the digital space.
She represents the future of crypto poetry.”
Trausch Hauser Art Foundation
28. January 2026, X
Franziska Ostermann: Between Camera and Code
In conversation on self-portraiture, voice, and care in synthetic image culture
20. January 2026
Merzmensch
Culturmag
on Versen
“Versen von Franziska Osterman ist grandios – eine Sammlung von Gedichten, deren Metaphorik das bloß Menschliche überragt und das gesamte Ecosystem einbezieht – Natur, Tiere, Menschen, Maschinen, Meerespflanzen: alles gehört zusammen, alles ist Teil des Ganzen. Diese Gedichte hacken Sie, werte Leser, sie decken Ihre latente Räume auf und sprechen Ihre neuralen Netzwerke an. ”
“ Das wunderschöne ist aber nicht nur der Stil, Sprachreichtum und Bildergewalt – sondern auch das Erweiterte: diese Gedichte haben die Macht, die gedruckten Seiten zu verlassen und über Papier emporzuschweben (wie dieses 3D-Gedicht von ihr). Fürwahr – sie hacken die Realität in der besten Art und Weise. ”
english
“ Versen by Franziska Ostermann is grandiose—a collection of poems whose metaphors transcend the merely human and encompass the entire ecosystem: nature, animals, humans, machines, sea plants. Everything belongs together, everything is part of the whole. These poems hack you, dear reader; they uncover your latent spaces and address your neural networks .”
“ The beauty lies not only in the style, linguistic richness, and imagistic power—but also in the extended dimension: these poems have the power to leave the printed pages and rise above the paper (like this 3D poem by her). Verily—they hack reality in the finest way.”
Rezension von Versen
zæsur. poesiekritik
von Tom Schulz
“Denn man wird unter den Debütbänden der letzten Jahre nichts Vergleichbares finden, so stilsicher und gleichzeitig enigmatisch sind diese Texte, die eine eigene Architektur der Worte und Sätze erfinden. Wie durch einen Spiegelsaal scheint man zu gehen, wenn man das Buch aufschlägt, das an sich ein Kunstwerk ist…”
“Hier ist alles Transparenz und gleichzeitig wie beim Schlittschuh laufen auf einem gefrorenen See: Findet man lesend die richtige Bindung, trägt das Eis.
english
“ For among the debut volumes of recent years, one will find nothing comparable—texts so stylistically assured and simultaneously enigmatic that they invent their own architecture of words and sentences. Opening the book feels like walking through a hall of mirrors; the volume itself is a work of art.”
“ Here everything is transparent and yet, like skating on a frozen lake: If reading reveals the right connection, the ice will hold.”
”Franziska Ostermann is one of the greatest woman artists working with AI"
Anika Meier in conversation with Catherine Mason
Computer Arts Society, 19.11.2025, Zoom
Why Are There So Many Great Women Artists in the Age of AI?
Could the Photographic Self-Portrait Exist on Its Own?
Interview by Anika Meier
The Role Of Curatorial Studios In The Digital Art Ecosystem
FORBES
article by Ana María Caballero
5 Takeaways From Art on Tezos Berlin´s Week of Code and Creativity
NOW MEDIA
article by Matt Medved
EXPANDED.ART Magazine
Interview
with Margaret Murphy
In conversation with Margaret Murphy, Ostermann discusses the selfie as a feminist act, the aesthetic power of the color white, and the connection between visual art and poetry.
studio international
Review on MATERIAL POETRY
by Catherine Mason
”Ostermann’s piece No Photographs of Reality challenges traditional notions of text, space and perception. This three-dimensional poem is conceived as a verse sculpture, she says, “inviting viewers to explore the physicality of language in a virtual environment”. The lines of text are in motion and can be turned and examined from various angles, the legibility of the text shifting and changing. This, the artist says, “mimics the way our understanding of reality can alter based on perspective. By playing with the idea of readability, you might see the back of a word, or catch a phrase from an unusual angle. It's a reminder that meaning isn't always straightforward or immediate.”
”Ostermann’s second work Can You Hear Me? seems more critical of the technology and reminds us that the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the increase in digitality that was already underway in society. This work involves the artist staging a Zoom call with versions of herself, each version attempting unsuccessfully to connect with the others. Familiar to all of us who struggle to connect in online meetings these days, phrases such as “Can you hear me?”, “Wait a minute … what about now?” are like modern-day aphorisms, spoken into the ether.”
Catherine Mason