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 exhibtion (photography & performance online), Studio K, Kvernaland, NO
2020
Industri, group exhbition (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
2022
(Upcoming) PEPA, ABM Confecciones, 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)
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
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)
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 exhibtion (photography & performance online), Studio K, Kvernaland, NO
2020
Industri, group exhbition (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
2022
(Upcoming) PEPA, ABM Confecciones, 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)
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
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)