Born 1984 in Switzerland, raised in Spain and lives mostly in Oslo, Norway.
francis.siegrist(at)gmail.com
NO: (+47) 99333120 // ES: (+34) 636105749
Education (selected)
2009-2010 Master in Art Production, UPV, ES
2003-2008 Master in Fine Art, Universidad de La Laguna, ES
Performance Art
2018 (Upcoming) Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale 2018, NO
2018 (Upcoming) BONE Performance Art Festival, Bern, CH
2018 Oslo Prosjektrom, Oslo, NO
2018 20th anniversary event, NKD, Dale i Sunnfjord, NO
2018 Derivaciones 2, Centro Dados Negros, Villanueva de los Infantes, ES
2018 Acontencimento, Zaragoza, ES
2017 UP-ON International Live Art Festival, Chengdu, CN
2017 UNCONTAMINATED Festival, Mellomstasjonen, Oslo, NO
2017 Høstutstillingen 2017 (The National Art Exhibition), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2017 Østlandsutstillingen, Østfold Kunstsenter (Østfold Art Center), Fredrikstad, NO
2017 CONTEXTS International Festival of Ephemeral Art, Sokołowsko, PL
2017 PAO@Steilene, "Echo Echoes", Nesodden, NO
2017 Sketchwork on Time, Small Projects, Tromsø, NO
2017 Route of Roots, CELLARCUBE, Asker, NO
2016 Finissage, RAM Galleri, Oslo, NO
2016 La Muga Caula, Les Escaules, ES
2016 PAB & PAO Performance Camp, Finse, NO
2016 NORWAY TO SPAIN, Centro Párraga, Murcia, ES
2016 DADA street, Mucho Más Mayo festival, Cartagena, ES
2016 MVM EXCHANGE 4y4, Museo Vostell, Malpartida de Cáceres, ES
2016 On the Floor, MODO, Córdoba, ES
2016 Sketchwork on Time IX, Vadsø Kunstforening, NO
2015 Tonight, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki, FI
2015 Performancefestival, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar, NO
2015 PAB Open, Bergen Kretsfengsel, NO
2015 Live Art Strömstad, SE
2015 Miami Performance International Festival, Miami, USA
2015 Rosekill International Performance Art Festival, Rosendale, NY, USA
2015 On The Floor, NOoSPHERE Arts, NYC, USA
2015 The Time it Takes, Galeria Raczej, Poznan, PL
2014 PAO at Oslo Culture Night, Oslo, NO
2014 PAB and PAO Performance Camp, Finse, NO
2014 Poetic gestures, PAErsche, Orangerie, Cologne, DE
2014 Interval 3, PAErsche, Essen, DE.
2014 Kulturpfadfest Essen, DE
2014 Exchange España-Norge, Atelier Nord ANX, Oslo, NO
2014 Le Generateur, Paris, FR
2014 Babel Art Space, Trondheim, NO
2013 Grace Exhibition Space, NYC, USA
2013 PAB Open, Bergen, NO
2013 Sketchwork on Time, Halka Art Project, Istanbul, TR
2012 Lufthavna Performance Laboratory, Galleri 69, Oslo, NO
2012 Performance event Meeting Point, Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, NO
2012 RITES, Gallery Block B, Singapore, SG
2012 ComPeung, Village of Creativity, Thailand, TH
2010 Una Papa with Susanne Irene Fjørtoft, Fredrikstad, NO
2010 Epipiderme encontros à volta da performance, Lisbon, PT
2010 Octubre Centre De Cultura Contemporània, Valencia, ES
2009 Action for Mari Ishiwata, ISHIWATA BIENNALE 2009, WIR gallery, Berlin, DE
2009 Global Communication Festival, Elektrownia, Radom, PL
2009 Gabinete Literario Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ES
2008 Performance Festival Arte en Predicado, Tenerife, ES
2008 Actions about fear, Theater Los Manantiales, ES
2008 Festival of Experimental Art Incubarte, Valencia, ES
2008 Tierra, performance in public space, Valencia, ES
2008 Fonetic poetry. Emitted at Radio Malvarosa, Valencia, ES
2008 Collective performance at Radio City, Valencia, ES
2008 Performance with Nefeli Mirtydi, at Ovni Cuadrado, Valencia, ES
2008 2nd Valetudo Artístico, at Círuclo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, ES
Exhibitions & video screening
2017 UP-ON exhibition (performance documentation), JZFZ Art Space, Chengdu, CN
2017 El Paisatge documental 2016 (performance documentation), Museu de l’Empordà, ES
2017 Route of Roots, CELLARCUBE, Asker, NO
2016 Refugi Dadá, La Muga Caula, Galeria Dolores Ventos, Figueres, ES
2014 Platforme, Paris, FR
2014 Babel Art Space, Trondheim, NO
2011 Video, Mini urban Kvae Festival with Susanne Irene Fjørtoft, Galleri 69, NO
2010 Video performance, PER-FORMATE 2010, Tarragona, ES
2008 Bons Tratments, Ca Revolta, Valencia, ES
2008 Emergencias, Vencill d´Art “La Llotgeta”, Valencia, ES
2007 Round Trip Ticket, Complex Exportiv cultural Petxina, ES
2007 Fair of Lillestrøm (Norges Varemessen), Høgskolen i Akershus, NO
2006 Esca-Parate, S/C de Tenerife, ES
2006 Economía de medios, Eólica, Internacional Festival of renewable energies, ES
Cultural work
2012-now Founding member, curator and chair of PAO - Performance Art Oslo, (3 year support by Arts Council Norway 2017-2019), NO
Curating & organizing: PAO Launch, PAO Festival 2013 - 2018, Exchange España-Norge, i.a.
PAO Festival has been supported by: Fritt Ord, Vederlagsfondet, Kulturetaten, Kulturrådet & Nordic Clulture Point.
2015 Jury for performance programme, Østlandsutstillingen, NO
2011 Assisting, Performancefestivalen Mellom himmel & hav III, Herdla, NO
2011 Gallery assistant, 1857 - artist run gallery, Oslo, NO
2011 Part of the core-team Never or Now performance art festival, Bergen, NO
Grants / project support
Stikk.no / UD travel grant (performance): 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
2017 Project support, Vederlagsfondet, NO
2017 BKH - Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond, 1 - year working grant, NO
2017 Establishing grant for artists (Etableringsstipend), Oslo Kommune, NO
2016 BKV - Norwegian Visual Artists 1- year working grant, NO
2015 Arts Council Norway (Statens arbeidsstipend) 1- year working grant for younger, newly established artists, NO
2014 BKV - Norwegian Visual Artists 1- year working grant, NO
2014 International Support, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), NO
2013 STEP Beyond Travel Grant, European Cultural Foundation, EU
2011 Argo Grant, ES - internship at 1857 artist-run gallery, Oslo, NO
2009 Grant workshop “Global Communication”, Elektrownia, Radom, PL
2008 Grant MEC 2008. Toronto, CA
2007-2008 Sicue, Grant Séneca. Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, UPV, ES
2006-2007 Sócrates, Grant Erasmus. Faculty of Product Design, Høgskolen i Akershus, NO
2006-2007 Grant of the Fundation Mapfre Guanarteme, ES
2006-2007 Grant for the 20 best academic files Erasmus, ULL and travel grant ULL, ES
2005-2007 Various local travel grants, ES
2003-2008 5 years study grant, MEC. (Spanish ministry of education), ES
Artist talks and seminars (selected)
2016 Artist talk, CENDEAC, Centro Párraga. Murcia, ES
2015 Participating in the performance seminar, Building Audiences, PAB-Open, NO
2015 Artist talk, Art Center/South Florida, Miami, USA
2014 Artist talk, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV), Trondheim, NO
2012 Artist talk, Ishiwata Residency, Yokohama, JP
AiR - Residencies
2019 (Upcoming) Villa Ruffieux, Fondation du Château Mercier, CH
2018 (Upcoming) TEA - Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, ES
2018 Leveld Kunstnartun, NO
2017 Vestfossen Kuntlaboratoriums guest studio, Vestfossen, NO
2017 Guest studio, Troms fylkeskultursenter, Tromsø, NO
2016 (July - August) NKD - Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, NO
2016 Guest studio, Finnmark fylkeskommune, Vadsø, NO
2015 Resiendcy at Utsira Lighthouse, NO
2014 Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV), Trondheim, NO
2013 Halka Art Project, Istanbul, TR
2013 Prosjektrommet, Atelier Nord, Oslo, NO
2012 Scenerommet, Vestfossen, NO
2012 Ishiwata Residency, Yokohama, JP
2012 ComPeung, Village of Creativity, TH
Memberships
NBK - Norwegian Visual Artists
UKS - Young Artists Society
BOA - Visual artists Oslo & Akershus
PAB - Performance Art Bergen
PAO - Performance Art Oslo
BONO - Visual artists copyright society
francis.siegrist(at)gmail.com
NO: (+47) 99333120 // ES: (+34) 636105749
Education (selected)
2009-2010 Master in Art Production, UPV, ES
2003-2008 Master in Fine Art, Universidad de La Laguna, ES
Performance Art
2018 (Upcoming) Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale 2018, NO
2018 (Upcoming) BONE Performance Art Festival, Bern, CH
2018 Oslo Prosjektrom, Oslo, NO
2018 20th anniversary event, NKD, Dale i Sunnfjord, NO
2018 Derivaciones 2, Centro Dados Negros, Villanueva de los Infantes, ES
2018 Acontencimento, Zaragoza, ES
2017 UP-ON International Live Art Festival, Chengdu, CN
2017 UNCONTAMINATED Festival, Mellomstasjonen, Oslo, NO
2017 Høstutstillingen 2017 (The National Art Exhibition), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2017 Østlandsutstillingen, Østfold Kunstsenter (Østfold Art Center), Fredrikstad, NO
2017 CONTEXTS International Festival of Ephemeral Art, Sokołowsko, PL
2017 PAO@Steilene, "Echo Echoes", Nesodden, NO
2017 Sketchwork on Time, Small Projects, Tromsø, NO
2017 Route of Roots, CELLARCUBE, Asker, NO
2016 Finissage, RAM Galleri, Oslo, NO
2016 La Muga Caula, Les Escaules, ES
2016 PAB & PAO Performance Camp, Finse, NO
2016 NORWAY TO SPAIN, Centro Párraga, Murcia, ES
2016 DADA street, Mucho Más Mayo festival, Cartagena, ES
2016 MVM EXCHANGE 4y4, Museo Vostell, Malpartida de Cáceres, ES
2016 On the Floor, MODO, Córdoba, ES
2016 Sketchwork on Time IX, Vadsø Kunstforening, NO
2015 Tonight, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki, FI
2015 Performancefestival, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar, NO
2015 PAB Open, Bergen Kretsfengsel, NO
2015 Live Art Strömstad, SE
2015 Miami Performance International Festival, Miami, USA
2015 Rosekill International Performance Art Festival, Rosendale, NY, USA
2015 On The Floor, NOoSPHERE Arts, NYC, USA
2015 The Time it Takes, Galeria Raczej, Poznan, PL
2014 PAO at Oslo Culture Night, Oslo, NO
2014 PAB and PAO Performance Camp, Finse, NO
2014 Poetic gestures, PAErsche, Orangerie, Cologne, DE
2014 Interval 3, PAErsche, Essen, DE.
2014 Kulturpfadfest Essen, DE
2014 Exchange España-Norge, Atelier Nord ANX, Oslo, NO
2014 Le Generateur, Paris, FR
2014 Babel Art Space, Trondheim, NO
2013 Grace Exhibition Space, NYC, USA
2013 PAB Open, Bergen, NO
2013 Sketchwork on Time, Halka Art Project, Istanbul, TR
2012 Lufthavna Performance Laboratory, Galleri 69, Oslo, NO
2012 Performance event Meeting Point, Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, NO
2012 RITES, Gallery Block B, Singapore, SG
2012 ComPeung, Village of Creativity, Thailand, TH
2010 Una Papa with Susanne Irene Fjørtoft, Fredrikstad, NO
2010 Epipiderme encontros à volta da performance, Lisbon, PT
2010 Octubre Centre De Cultura Contemporània, Valencia, ES
2009 Action for Mari Ishiwata, ISHIWATA BIENNALE 2009, WIR gallery, Berlin, DE
2009 Global Communication Festival, Elektrownia, Radom, PL
2009 Gabinete Literario Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ES
2008 Performance Festival Arte en Predicado, Tenerife, ES
2008 Actions about fear, Theater Los Manantiales, ES
2008 Festival of Experimental Art Incubarte, Valencia, ES
2008 Tierra, performance in public space, Valencia, ES
2008 Fonetic poetry. Emitted at Radio Malvarosa, Valencia, ES
2008 Collective performance at Radio City, Valencia, ES
2008 Performance with Nefeli Mirtydi, at Ovni Cuadrado, Valencia, ES
2008 2nd Valetudo Artístico, at Círuclo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, ES
Exhibitions & video screening
2017 UP-ON exhibition (performance documentation), JZFZ Art Space, Chengdu, CN
2017 El Paisatge documental 2016 (performance documentation), Museu de l’Empordà, ES
2017 Route of Roots, CELLARCUBE, Asker, NO
2016 Refugi Dadá, La Muga Caula, Galeria Dolores Ventos, Figueres, ES
2014 Platforme, Paris, FR
2014 Babel Art Space, Trondheim, NO
2011 Video, Mini urban Kvae Festival with Susanne Irene Fjørtoft, Galleri 69, NO
2010 Video performance, PER-FORMATE 2010, Tarragona, ES
2008 Bons Tratments, Ca Revolta, Valencia, ES
2008 Emergencias, Vencill d´Art “La Llotgeta”, Valencia, ES
2007 Round Trip Ticket, Complex Exportiv cultural Petxina, ES
2007 Fair of Lillestrøm (Norges Varemessen), Høgskolen i Akershus, NO
2006 Esca-Parate, S/C de Tenerife, ES
2006 Economía de medios, Eólica, Internacional Festival of renewable energies, ES
Cultural work
2012-now Founding member, curator and chair of PAO - Performance Art Oslo, (3 year support by Arts Council Norway 2017-2019), NO
Curating & organizing: PAO Launch, PAO Festival 2013 - 2018, Exchange España-Norge, i.a.
PAO Festival has been supported by: Fritt Ord, Vederlagsfondet, Kulturetaten, Kulturrådet & Nordic Clulture Point.
2015 Jury for performance programme, Østlandsutstillingen, NO
2011 Assisting, Performancefestivalen Mellom himmel & hav III, Herdla, NO
2011 Gallery assistant, 1857 - artist run gallery, Oslo, NO
2011 Part of the core-team Never or Now performance art festival, Bergen, NO
Grants / project support
Stikk.no / UD travel grant (performance): 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
2017 Project support, Vederlagsfondet, NO
2017 BKH - Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond, 1 - year working grant, NO
2017 Establishing grant for artists (Etableringsstipend), Oslo Kommune, NO
2016 BKV - Norwegian Visual Artists 1- year working grant, NO
2015 Arts Council Norway (Statens arbeidsstipend) 1- year working grant for younger, newly established artists, NO
2014 BKV - Norwegian Visual Artists 1- year working grant, NO
2014 International Support, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), NO
2013 STEP Beyond Travel Grant, European Cultural Foundation, EU
2011 Argo Grant, ES - internship at 1857 artist-run gallery, Oslo, NO
2009 Grant workshop “Global Communication”, Elektrownia, Radom, PL
2008 Grant MEC 2008. Toronto, CA
2007-2008 Sicue, Grant Séneca. Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, UPV, ES
2006-2007 Sócrates, Grant Erasmus. Faculty of Product Design, Høgskolen i Akershus, NO
2006-2007 Grant of the Fundation Mapfre Guanarteme, ES
2006-2007 Grant for the 20 best academic files Erasmus, ULL and travel grant ULL, ES
2005-2007 Various local travel grants, ES
2003-2008 5 years study grant, MEC. (Spanish ministry of education), ES
Artist talks and seminars (selected)
2016 Artist talk, CENDEAC, Centro Párraga. Murcia, ES
2015 Participating in the performance seminar, Building Audiences, PAB-Open, NO
2015 Artist talk, Art Center/South Florida, Miami, USA
2014 Artist talk, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV), Trondheim, NO
2012 Artist talk, Ishiwata Residency, Yokohama, JP
AiR - Residencies
2019 (Upcoming) Villa Ruffieux, Fondation du Château Mercier, CH
2018 (Upcoming) TEA - Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, ES
2018 Leveld Kunstnartun, NO
2017 Vestfossen Kuntlaboratoriums guest studio, Vestfossen, NO
2017 Guest studio, Troms fylkeskultursenter, Tromsø, NO
2016 (July - August) NKD - Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, NO
2016 Guest studio, Finnmark fylkeskommune, Vadsø, NO
2015 Resiendcy at Utsira Lighthouse, NO
2014 Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV), Trondheim, NO
2013 Halka Art Project, Istanbul, TR
2013 Prosjektrommet, Atelier Nord, Oslo, NO
2012 Scenerommet, Vestfossen, NO
2012 Ishiwata Residency, Yokohama, JP
2012 ComPeung, Village of Creativity, TH
Memberships
NBK - Norwegian Visual Artists
UKS - Young Artists Society
BOA - Visual artists Oslo & Akershus
PAB - Performance Art Bergen
PAO - Performance Art Oslo
BONO - Visual artists copyright society