Contact
francis.siegrist(at)gmail.com
NO: (+47) 99333120 // ES: (+34) 600728961
IG: @franzisca_siegrist
francis.siegrist(at)gmail.com
NO: (+47) 99333120 // ES: (+34) 600728961
IG: @franzisca_siegrist
Biography
Franzisca Siegrist is a visual artist born in Switzerland in 1984. She was raised in Spain in the Canary Islands and currently resides in Oslo, Norway, while working internationally. She has a Master’s (equivalent) in Fine Arts from the University of La Laguna (2008) and a Master’s in Artistic Production from the Polytechnic University in Valencia (2010). She studied performance art under the Spanish artist Bartolomé Ferrando, and has in addition pursued further performance courses with artists such as BBB Johannes Deimling and Roi Vaara.
She works primarily with performance art and has specialized in this art form for the past 15 years. She also works with installations, objects, photography, and video, often as part of a live performance or through a performative approach. Her performances are often physically demanding and highly visual. Frequently, the questions she poses through her work are related to issues around identity, belonging, migration, social norms, her background, and everyday life. Through these lenses, she invites the audience to reflect on how these issues impact specific facets of our society. She is interested in contemporary philosophical thought and questions related to how we humans live. At the same time, she is concerned with pure artistic and aesthetic forms of expression, such as abstraction, particularly in the aesthetics created by encountering different objects and the body. As a result, her works often evoke visuals that are both poetic and quite absurd.
Since 2016, she has been working on long-term projects that are structured as a series. The performances of these series share a common title, starting point, and conceptual foundation. Despite these commonalities, she never repeats her performances; instead, each performance is essentially a new work. Between 2016-2019 she worked on "Route of Roots”; followed by "Sculptural abstractions” (2019-2022), and since 2022 she is working on “Δx=xf−x0 (displacement)” were she explores the concepts of home, place identity and displacement.
Siegrist has received several working and production grants, including working grants from Art Council Norway, Norwegian Visual Artists or The Relief Fund for Visual Artists, and has shown her work in Europe, in Asia and the USA. She has participated in several art residencies such as NKD - Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale (NO), Villa Ruffieux, Fondation du Château Mercier (CH), Vestfossen Kuntlaboratorium (NO) or at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (ES). Between 2021-2022 she was the guest artist at Ringsveen, the former home of the Norwegian painter Weidemann. In 2023, she published “Route of Roots,” a book summarizing the performance project she carried out between 2016-2019.
She has shown her work at museums, galleries and art spaces, as well as artist-run spaces and international festivals, including the Museo La Neomudejar, Madrid (ES); Bærum Kunsthall (NO); Trafo Kunsthall, Asker (NO); Performance Crossings, Prague (CZ); La Regenta Art Center, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias (ES); TEA - Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (ES); Heimdal Kunstforening (NO); Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale 2018 (NO); Høstustillingen - The National Art Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (NO); UP-ON Festival, Sichuan University Art Museum, Chengdu (CN); Østlandsutstillingen - Annual East Norway Exhibition, Østfold Art Center, Fredrikstad (NO); Museo Vostell Malpartida (ES); NOosphere Arts, NYC (USA); Galeria Raczej, Poznan (PL); Le Generateur, Paris (FR); Grace Exhibition Space, NYC (USA) and Gallery Block B (Singapore).
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As an organizer and curator, she was co-founder and chair of PAO - Performance Art Oslo (2012-2022), an artist-run organization that created festivals, workshops and other events. She was artistic co-director and responsible for the program together with artist Tanja Thorjussen. Over the past ten years, the organization organized over 20 events and promoted and showed the work of over 250 artists. In 2021, the organization published the book “PAO 7 Years.”
Since 2022, Siegrist has been working as a freelance curator and advisor in performance art.
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Since 2009 Siegrist is also working together with Norwegian artist Susanne Irene Fjørtoft.
To see the duo work "Sketckwork on TIME" click HERE
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For more information, portfolio or full CV please contact me.
Franzisca Siegrist is a visual artist born in Switzerland in 1984. She was raised in Spain in the Canary Islands and currently resides in Oslo, Norway, while working internationally. She has a Master’s (equivalent) in Fine Arts from the University of La Laguna (2008) and a Master’s in Artistic Production from the Polytechnic University in Valencia (2010). She studied performance art under the Spanish artist Bartolomé Ferrando, and has in addition pursued further performance courses with artists such as BBB Johannes Deimling and Roi Vaara.
She works primarily with performance art and has specialized in this art form for the past 15 years. She also works with installations, objects, photography, and video, often as part of a live performance or through a performative approach. Her performances are often physically demanding and highly visual. Frequently, the questions she poses through her work are related to issues around identity, belonging, migration, social norms, her background, and everyday life. Through these lenses, she invites the audience to reflect on how these issues impact specific facets of our society. She is interested in contemporary philosophical thought and questions related to how we humans live. At the same time, she is concerned with pure artistic and aesthetic forms of expression, such as abstraction, particularly in the aesthetics created by encountering different objects and the body. As a result, her works often evoke visuals that are both poetic and quite absurd.
Since 2016, she has been working on long-term projects that are structured as a series. The performances of these series share a common title, starting point, and conceptual foundation. Despite these commonalities, she never repeats her performances; instead, each performance is essentially a new work. Between 2016-2019 she worked on "Route of Roots”; followed by "Sculptural abstractions” (2019-2022), and since 2022 she is working on “Δx=xf−x0 (displacement)” were she explores the concepts of home, place identity and displacement.
Siegrist has received several working and production grants, including working grants from Art Council Norway, Norwegian Visual Artists or The Relief Fund for Visual Artists, and has shown her work in Europe, in Asia and the USA. She has participated in several art residencies such as NKD - Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale (NO), Villa Ruffieux, Fondation du Château Mercier (CH), Vestfossen Kuntlaboratorium (NO) or at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (ES). Between 2021-2022 she was the guest artist at Ringsveen, the former home of the Norwegian painter Weidemann. In 2023, she published “Route of Roots,” a book summarizing the performance project she carried out between 2016-2019.
She has shown her work at museums, galleries and art spaces, as well as artist-run spaces and international festivals, including the Museo La Neomudejar, Madrid (ES); Bærum Kunsthall (NO); Trafo Kunsthall, Asker (NO); Performance Crossings, Prague (CZ); La Regenta Art Center, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias (ES); TEA - Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (ES); Heimdal Kunstforening (NO); Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale 2018 (NO); Høstustillingen - The National Art Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (NO); UP-ON Festival, Sichuan University Art Museum, Chengdu (CN); Østlandsutstillingen - Annual East Norway Exhibition, Østfold Art Center, Fredrikstad (NO); Museo Vostell Malpartida (ES); NOosphere Arts, NYC (USA); Galeria Raczej, Poznan (PL); Le Generateur, Paris (FR); Grace Exhibition Space, NYC (USA) and Gallery Block B (Singapore).
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As an organizer and curator, she was co-founder and chair of PAO - Performance Art Oslo (2012-2022), an artist-run organization that created festivals, workshops and other events. She was artistic co-director and responsible for the program together with artist Tanja Thorjussen. Over the past ten years, the organization organized over 20 events and promoted and showed the work of over 250 artists. In 2021, the organization published the book “PAO 7 Years.”
Since 2022, Siegrist has been working as a freelance curator and advisor in performance art.
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Since 2009 Siegrist is also working together with Norwegian artist Susanne Irene Fjørtoft.
To see the duo work "Sketckwork on TIME" click HERE
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For more information, portfolio or full CV please contact me.