Franzisca Siegrist
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Born 1984 in Switzerland, raised in Spain and lives mostly in Oslo, Norway.

francis.siegrist(at)gmail.com
NO: (+47) 99333120 // ES: (+34) 600728961
@franzisca_siegrist


Education (selected)
2009-2010       Master in Art Production, UPV - Universitat Politècnica de València, ES 

2006-2007       Exchange year in Product Design, OsloMet (former Høyskolen i Akershus), NO
2003-2008       Master in Fine Art, Universidad de La Laguna, ES

Exhibitions with performance 

2021
Beyond the skin, folds, group exhibition (photography & performance online), Studio K, Kvernaland, N
O
2020   
Industri, group exhibition (performance & installation), Trafo Kunsthall, NO

2019
La imposibilidad del Vacio, group exhibition (performance & photography), Sala Pepe Dámaso, ES
Route or Roots (abstractions), solo exhibition (performance, installation & photography), Arteriet, Kristiansand, NO
2017
Høstutstillingen 2017 - The National Art Exhibition, (performance & installation), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
Østlandsutstillingen (performance & installation), Østfold Kunstsenter - Østfold Art Center, Fredrikstad, NO
Route of Roots, solo exhibition (performance, installation & photography), CELLARCUBE, Asker, NO 
2014 
Babel Art Space (performance & installation), Trondheim, NO

Performance Art
2023
(Upcoming) Bærum Kunsthall, Fornebu, NO

2022

PEPA, MT Art Space, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ES
PEPA, Museo La Neomudejar, Madrid, ES
Galeria Ana Lama (online), Lisboa, PT
PAB Open 2022, Hotel Villa Terminus, Bergen, NO

2021   
Midsommerfestival 2021 (online), Heimdal Kunstforening, NO


2020   
PAB & PAO Performance Camp (2 performance), Finse, NO
Non-present performance, Performance Crossings, Prague, CZ

2019
Cuerpo a Cuerpo Festival, La Regenta Art Center, ES
PERNEO, Museo La Nemudéjar, Madrid, ES
Sketchwork on TIME XII, Oslo Kulturnatt, NO

2018
BONE Performance Art Festival, Bern, CH
S/t Espacio Cultural, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ES
Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale 2018, NO
Oslo Prosjektrom, Oslo, NO
20th anniversary event, NKD, Dale i Sunnfjord, NO
Derivaciones 2, Centro Dados Negros, Villanueva de los Infantes, ES
Acontencimento, Zaragoza, ES

2017               
UP-ON International Live Art Festival, Sichuan University Art Museum, Chengdu, CN
UNCONTAMINATED Festival, Mellomstasjonen, Oslo, NO
CONTEXTS International Festival of Ephemeral Art, Sokołowsko, PL
PAO@Steilene, "Echo Echoes", Nesodden, NO
Sketchwork on Time, Small Projects, Tromsø, NO


2016               
Finissage, RAM Galleri, Oslo, NO

La Muga Caula, Les Escaules, ES
PAB & PAO Performance Camp, Finse, NO

NORWAY TO SPAIN, Centro Párraga, Murcia, ES
DADA street, Mucho Más Mayo festival, Cartagena, ES
MVM EXCHANGE 4y4, Museo Vostell, Malpartida de Cáceres, ES
On the Floor, MODO, Córdoba, ES   
Sketchwork on Time IX, Vadsø Kunstforening, NO

2015               
Tonight, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki, FI

Performancefestival, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar, NO
PAB Open 2015, Bergen Kretsfengsel, NO

Live Art Strömstad, SE
Miami Performance International Festival, Miami, USA
Rosekill International Performance Art Festival, Rosendale, NY, USA

On The Floor, NOoSPHERE Arts, NYC, USA     
The Time it Takes, Galeria Raczej, Poznan, PL

2014               
PAO at Oslo Culture Night, Oslo, NO
PAB and PAO Performance Camp, Finse, NO
Poetic gestures, PAErsche, Orangerie, Cologne, DE
Interval 3, PAErsche, Essen, DE.
Kulturpfadfest Essen, DE
Exchange España-Norge, Atelier Nord ANX, Oslo, NO
Le Generateur, Paris, FR

2013               
Grace Exhibition Space, NYC, USA
PAB Open 2013, Bergen, NO
Sketchwork on Time, Halka Art Project, Istanbul, TR

2012               
Lufthavna Performance Laboratory, Galleri 69, Oslo, NO
Performance event Meeting Point, Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, NO
RITES, Gallery Block B, Singapore, SG
ComPeung, Village of Creativity, Thailand, TH

2010               
Una Papa with Susanne Irene Fjørtoft, Fredrikstad, NO
Epipiderme encontros à volta da performance, Lisbon, PT
Octubre Centre De Cultura Contemporània, Valencia, ES

2009               
Action for Mari Ishiwata, ISHIWATA BIENNALE 2009, WIR gallery, Berlin, DE
Global Communication Festival, Elektrownia, Radom, PL
Gabinete Literario Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ES

2008               
Performance Festival Arte en Predicado, Tenerife, ES
Festival of Experimental Art Incubarte, Valencia, ES
Tierra, performance in public space, Valencia, ES
Fonetic poetry. Emitted at Radio Malvarosa, Valencia, ES
Collective performance at Radio City, Valencia, ES
Performance with Nefeli Mirtydi, at Ovni Cuadrado, Valencia, ES
2nd Valetudo Artístico, at Círuclo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, ES

Exhibitions & video screening

2021   Juleutstillingen 2021 / Christmas exhibition 2021, Oppland Kunstsenter, Lillehammer, NO
2021   TIME for a new Sketchwork, Installation, Mottaket, Ålesund, NO
2021   Sculptural abstractions (photography), SITIO de arte actual, Sevilla, ES
2020   Sketchwork on TIME (video), group exhibition “Timely Pieces”, curated by Small Projects, Galleri Verkligheten, Umeå, SE
2020   Archive exhibition UP-ON Festival (documentation), Chengdu Lushan Art Museum, CN
2018   Encajada, pop-up photography exhibition, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Museum for Contemporary Art), ES
2017   UP-ON exhibition (performance photo documentation), JZFZ Art Space, Chengdu, CN

2017   El Paisatge documental 2016 (performance photo documentation), Museu de l’Empordà, ES
2016   Refugi Dadá, photography and objects, La Muga Caula, Galeria Dolores Ventos, Figueres, ES
2014   Platforme, objects, Paris, FR
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
2023    Guest curator for performance, Y - events, supported by EEA grants, Prague, CZ
2021    Editor (with Tanja Thorjussen) of the book "PAO 7 Years", 436 pages. Supported by Fritt Ord and BKH.

2012 - 2022 Founding member, curator and chair of PAO - Performance Art Oslo, (Long-term support by Arts Council Norway 2017-2020), NO
Curating & organizing: PAO Launch, PAO Festival 2013 - 2019 & 2021, Exchange España-Norge, i.a.
PAO Festival has been supported by: Fritt Ord, Vederlagsfondet, Kulturetaten, Kulturrådet, BKH, KORO & 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 & travel support
Stikk.no / UD travel grant (performance) - 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
BKV - Norwegian Visual Artists 1- year working grant, NO - 2014, 2016, 2020, 2022

BKH - Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond, 1- year working grant, NO - 2017, 2019
Project support, Vederlagsfondet, NO - 2017, 2020
2021   Arts Council Norway (Statens kunstnerstipend) 1- year working grant, NO
2020   Arts Council Norway (Statens kunstnerstipend), Temporary grant COVID-19, NO

2017   Establishing grant for artists (Etableringsstipend), Oslo Kommune, NO
2015   Arts Council Norway (Statens kunstnerstipend) 1- year working grant for younger, newly established artists, 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   Sicue, Grant Séneca. Exchange to Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, UPV, ES
2006   Sócrates, Grant Erasmus. Exchange to Faculty of Product Design, Høgskolen i Akershus, NO
2006   Grant of the Fundation Mapfre Guanarteme, ES
2006   Grant for the 20 best academic files Erasmus, ULL and travel grant ULL, ES 
2005   Various local travel grants, ES
2003 - 2008 5 years study grant, MEC. (Spanish ministry of education), ES

Artist talks - seminars - workshops (selected)
2022   Speaker, PAB Open Seminar, PERFORMANCE ART ACENE NOW, Streamed or Live?, KIB Kunstskolen, Bergen, NO
2021  
Torsdasscene, presentation of Sketchwork on TIME, Mottaket, Ålesund, NO
2021   In conversation with Øyvind Rongevær Kvarme, Midsommerfestival 2021 (online), Heimdal Kunstforening, NO
2021   Presentation of PAO (online), Accion Lab - Dialeg Obert, Valencia, ES
2019   Workshop, "The Institute of the Unexpected" invited by Rodrigo Ghattas, Oslo, NO
2019   Artist talk and PAO presentation, Amerbach Studios / VIA, Basel, CH
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
2023   Kunstnarhuset Messen (1 month), Ålvik, NO
2022
  Research residency with Y - events (3 weeks), Prague, CZ
2021 - 2022 Ringsveen (11 month), Lillehammer, NO
2021   Kunstnarhuset Messen (2 month), Ålvik, NO
2019   Villa Ruffieux, Fondation du Château Mercier (2 month), Sierre, CH
2018   TEA - Tenerife Espacio de las Artes - Museum for Contemporary Art, (1 month), ES
2018   Leveld Kunstnartun (1 month), NO
2017   Vestfossen Kuntlaboratoriums guest studio (1 month), Vestfossen, NO
2017   Guest studio, Troms fylkeskultursenter (2 weeks), Tromsø, NO
2016   NKD - Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale (2 month), Dale in Sunnfjord, NO
2016   Guest studio, Finnmark fylkeskommune (2 weeks), Vadsø, NO
2015   Resiendcy at Utsira Lighthouse (1 week), Utsira, NO
2014   LKV - Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (1 month), Trondheim, NO
2013   Halka Art Project (2 weeks), Istanbul, TR
2013   Prosjektrommet - Atelier Nord (1 week), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2012   Scenerommet (2 weeks), Vestfossen, NO
2012   Ishiwata Residency (1 month), Yokohama, JP
2012   ComPeung, Village of Creativity (1 month), Doi Saket, TH      

Memberships
NBK - Norwegian Visual Artists (NO)
UKS - Young Artists Society (NO)
BOA - Visual artists Oslo & Akershus (NO)
PAB - Performance Art Bergen (NO)
PAO - Performance Art Oslo (NO)
BONO - Visual artists copyright society (NO)
VISP - Resource and networking organisation (NO)

AICAV - Visual artists Canary Islands (ES)
MAV - Women in the Visual Arts (ES)

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