FRANZISKA OSTERMANN
Franziska Ostermann is a German multimedia artist focusing on digital images, photography, word, video, and performance. In her work, she explores virtuality, matters of identity, and the internet. 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. For her work, she has received grants from the Stiftung Kunstfonds and VG Bild Kunst, as well as awards from Profifoto and Canon, and the BBK Schleswig-Holstein. Her video work has been shown at Stuttgarter Filmwinter, the Goethe Institute in Paraguay, at Steirischer Herbst in Graz, and at the Arts & Culture Festival in Leipzig.
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 and with HEK Basel. 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".
Her poetry debut OSZIT was published in 2018. Her texts have appeared in publications including Die Signaturen and 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. She was nominated for the poetry prize Meran 2024.
