Franzisca Siegrist

CV

Born 1984 i Zürich, Switzerland / Raised in Spain / Lives and works in Oslo

Education (selected)
2009-2010 Master in Art Production, UPV, ES
2006-2007 Exchange year in Product Design, Høgskolen i Akershus, NO
2003-2008 Master in Fine Arts, Universidad de La Laguna, ES

Performance art / exhibitions / video screening (selected since 2012)

2025 Live Art DK, (performance), Copenhaguen, DK

2024 Together Elswhere (performance online), organized by PAB, NO & PANCH, CH
2024 BIDEODROMO Internacional Experimental Film and Video Festival (video), Bilbao, ES
2024 Høstutstillingen – The Autumn Exhibition (performance), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2024 Artic Action (performance), Longyearbyen, Svalbard, NO
2024 PAB Open (performance), Hotel Villa Terminus, Bergen, NO
2024 Performance festival Reihe Neu Oerlikon (performance), Zurich, CH
2024 Performance festival Acciones al Margen (video), Bucaramanga, CO
2024 EXTRA! Festival, (performance), Museum Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, MX
2024 Supermarket Art Fair with Small Projects (video), Stockholm, SE

2023 Sculptural Abstractions #Dreaming (video), AUSTRAL 2023, Buenos Aires, AR
2023 Sculptural Abstractions #Ringsveen, (video), Oplandia senter for samtidskunst, Lillehammer, NO
2023 Art D´, (performance), CCCC – Centro del Carmen de Cultura Contemporánea, Valencia, ES
2023 Sculptural Abstractions #Dreaming, (video), International Forum of Performance Art, Drama, GR
2023 Vevringutstillinga 2023, (performance), Vevring, NO
2023 Home is always somewhere else, (performance), Bærum Kunsthall, Fornebu, NO

2022 NADA Contemporary Art Fair (video & photography), Espacio Santa Clara, Sevilla, ES
2022 PEPA performance event, (performance), MT Art Space, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ES
2022 PEPA performance event, (performance), Museo La Neomudejar, Madrid, ES
2022 Galeria Ana Lama (performance online – filmed at ROM in Oslo), Lisboa, PT
2022 PAB Open, Performance Festival (performance), Bergen, NO

2021 Christmas Exhibition 2021, (photography), Oppland Art Center, Lillehammer, NO
2021 Sketchwork on TIME XIII, (installation & video), Mottaket, Ålesund, NO
2021 Midsommer performancefestival (performance online), Heimdal Kunstforening, NO
2021 Beyond the skin, folds, group show (performance online & photography), Studio K, Kvernaland, NO
2021 Group show (photography), curated by Ruben Barroso, SITIO de arte actual, Sevilla, ES

2020 Sketchwork on TIME (video), Group show “Timely Pieces”, curated by Small Projects, Galleri Verkligheten, Umeå, SE
2020 Archive exhibition, UP-ON Festival (photo-documentation), Chengdu Lushan Art Museum, CN
2020 Industri, group show (performance & installation), Trafo Kunsthall, NO
2020 PAB & PAO Performance Camp (2 performance), Finse, NO
2020 Non-present performance, (installation & sound), Performance Crossings 2020, Prague, CZ

2019 La imposibilidad del vacio, group show, (performance & photography) Sala Pepe Dámaso, ES
2019 Cuerpo a Cuerpo Performance Festival, (performance), La Regenta Art Center, Gran Canaria, ES
2019 PERNEO, (performance), Museo La Neomudéjar, Madrid, ES
2019 Sketchwork on TIME XII, (performance), Oslo Kulturnatt, NO
2019 Route of Roots (abstractions), Solo show (performance, installation & photography), Arteriet, Kristiansand, NO

2018 BONE Performance Art Festival, (performance), Bern, CH
2018 Encajada, pop-up photography exhibition, TEA – Museum for Contemporary Art, ES
2018 S/T Espacio cultural, (performance), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2018, ES
2018 Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale 2018, (performance), NO
2018 Route of Roots, (performance), Oslo Prosjektrom, Oslo, NO
2018 20th anniversary event, (performance), Nordisk Kunstnersenter, Dale i Sunnfjord, NO
2018 Acontencimento Festival, (performance), Zaragoza, ES
2018 Derivaciones, (performance), Centro Dados Negros, Ciudad Real, ES

2017 El Paisatge documental 2016 (photo-documentation), Museu de l’Empordà, ES
2017 UP-ON exhibition (photo-documentation), JZFZ Art Space, Chengdu, CN
2017 UP-ON International Live Art Festival, (performance), Sichuan University Art Museum, Chengdu, CN
2017 UNCONTAMINATED Festival, (performance), Mellomstasjonen / The National Museum, Oslo, NO
2017 Sketchwork on TIME XI, (performance & installation), Høstutstillingen 2017 – The National Art Exhibition, NO
2017 Route of Roots, Østlandsutstillingen 2017 (2 performance & installation), Østfold Art Center, Fredrikstad, NO
2017 CONTEXTS International Festival of Ephemeral Art, (performance), Sokołowsko, PL
2017 PAO@Steilene, (performance), Nesodden, NO
2017 Sketchwork on TIME X, (performance), Small Projects, Tromsø, NO
2017 Route of Roots, Solo show (performance, installation & photography), CELLARCUBE, Asker, NO

2016 Finissage, (performance), Galleri RAM, Oslo, NO
2016 Refugi Dada, (photography & props), Galeria Lola Ventós de Figueres, ES
2016 La Muga Caula (2 performance), Les Escaules, ES
2016 PAB and PAO Performance Camp, (performance), Finse, NO
2016 Abierto de Acción, (performance), Centro Párraga, Murcia, ES
2016 DADÁ Street, Festival Mucho Más Mayo, (performance), Cartagena, ES
2016 MVM EXCHANGE 4Y4, (performance), Museo Vostell, Malpartida de Cáceres, ES
2016 On the Floor, (performance), MODO, Córdoba, ES
2016 Sketchwork on TIME, (performance), Vadsø Kunstforening, NO
2015 Tonight, (performance), Gallery Augusta, Helsinki, FI
2015 Performancefestival, (performance), Kunstbanken Hedmark Art Center, Hamar, NO
2015 PAB-Open (2 performance), Bergen, NO
2015 Live Art Strömstad (2 performance), SE
2015 Miami performance international festival, (performance), Miami, USA
2015 Rosekill International Performance Art Festival, (performance), NY, USA
2015 NOosphere Arts, (performance), NYC, USA
2015 The Time it takes, (performance), Galeria Raczej, Poznan, PL

2014 PAO at Oslo Culture Night, (performance), Oslo, NO
2014 PAB and PAO Performance Camp, (performance), Finse, NO
2014 Poetic gestures, PAErsche, (performance), Orangerie, Cologne, DE
2014 Interval 3, PAErsche, (performance), Essen, DE
2014 Kulturpfadfest (performance), Essen, DE
2014 Exchange España-Norge, (performance), Atelier Nord ANX, Oslo, NO
2014 Le Generateur, (performance), Paris, FR
2014 Platforme, (props), Paris, FR
2014 Babel Art Space, (performance & installation), Trondheim, NO

2013 Grace Exhibition Space, (performance), NYC, USA
2013 PAB Open (2 performance), Bergen, NO
2013 Sketchwork on TIME, (performance), Halka Art Project, Istanbul, TR

2012 Lufthavna Performance Laboratory, (performance), Galleri 69, Oslo, NO
2012 Meeting Point, (performance), Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, NO
2012 RITES, (performance), Gallery Block B, Singapore, SG

Grants / project – and travel support (selected)
BKV, Vederlagsfondet (Norwegian Artist Association), 1-year working grant, NO – 2014, 2016, 2020, 2022, 2023
BKH, (The Relief Fund for Visual Artists), 1-year working grant, NO – 2017, 2019
Stikk.no / UD travel grant (performance) – 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2024
Project Support, Vederlagsfondet, NO – 2017, 2020, 2023
2024 International Grant, Cultural Agency, Oslo Municipality, NO
2021 State Artist Grant, 1-year working grant, Arts Council Norway, NO
2020 State Artist Grant – Temporary grant COVID-19, Arts Council Norway, NO
2019 Project Support for cultural events, Oslo Municipality, NO
2017 Establishing Grant, Cultural Agency, Oslo Municipality, NO
2015 State Artist Grant, 1-year working grant for young – newly established artists, Arts Council Norway, NO
2014 International Support, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), NO
2013 STEP Beyond Travel Grant, European Cultural Foundation, EU

Artist talks / seminars / workshops (selected)

2024 Presentation Introduction to Norwegian performance art, ArtSpace Mexico, Mexico City, MX
2024 Artis talk and video screening, Espacio Bromelia, Coatepec, MX
2024 Performance workshop, invited by Mona Pahle Bjerke, Oslo By Steinerskole, NO
2023 B*stard Art Book Fair with “Route of Roots (2016-2019)”, Oplandia
Art Center, Lillehammer, NO
2023 Book launch of “Route of Roots (2016-2019)”, conversation with Sofia M. Ciel, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2023 Online artist presentation/lecture, invited by Terese Longva, Ytre Kunstfagskole, Ålesund, NO
2022 Speaker in seminar: PERFORMANCE ART SCENE NOW – Streamed or Live?, PAB-Open, KiB, 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 “Norwegian Performance Art” (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 Speaker in seminar: Building Audiences, PAB-Open, Bergen Kunsthall, NO
2015 Artist talk, Art Center/South Florida, Miami, USA
2014 Artist talk, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV), Trondheim, NO

Bibilography & publications (selected)

2023 491 by Canibaal, printed magazine, images on page 32-35, Ediciones Canibaal, ES
2023 En Mano de Mujeres, publication about Spanish female artists, IAC, launched at Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, ES
2023 Jakob Weidemanns Ringsveen, one of 15 artists, interview & 13 images, Orfeus Publishing, NO
2023 Slef-published artists´ book Route of Roots (2016-2019), 236 pages, NO
2021 Editor (with Tanja Thorjussen) of the book PAO 7 Years, 436 pages. Supported by Fritt Ord & BKH
2018 NKD 20 år, images on page 152 & 153, published by Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, NO
2015 First Move Performance Art Bergen 2011-2015, (3 images), published by Performance Art Bergen, NO

AiR – Residency (selected)

2024 Stiftung Kunstdepot (1 month) with grant, Göschenen, CH
2023 Wergelandshaugen AiR (1 month), Eidsvoll, NO
2023 Kunstnarhuset Messen (1 month), Ålvik, NO
2022 Research residency with Y-events (3 weeks), Prague, CZ
2021-22 Ringsveen – Weidemanns former farm (11 month) with grant, Lillehammer, NO
2021 Kunstnarhuset Messen (2 month), Ålvik, NO
2019 Villa Ruffieux, Fondation du Château Mercier (2 month) with grant, Sierre, CH
2018 TEA – Museum for Contemporary Art (1 month), with grant, Tenerife, ES
2018 Leveld Kunstnartun (1 month), Leveld, 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) with grant, Dale i Sunnfjord, NO
2016 Guest studio in Vadsø (2 weeks), NO
2015 Guest studio at Utsira Lighthouse (1 week), NO
2014 Guest studio, LKV – Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (1 month), Trondheim, NO
2013 Halka Art Project (2 weeks), Istanbul, TR
2013 Prosjektrommet, Atelier Nord (1 week), Oslo, NO
2012 Ishiwata Residency (1 month), Yokohama, JP
2012 ComPeung, Village of Creativity (1 month), Doi Saket, TH

Cultural work (selected)

2023 Curator for performance program with Y-events, supported by EEA Grants, Prague, CZ
2012-22 Founder and chair, PAO – Performance Art Oslo, NO (Long-term support by Arts Council Norway 2017-20). Curator & organizer: over 20 events with over 200 artists. Support to PAO: Fritt Ord, Vederlagsfondet, Nordisk Kulturfond, Kulturetaten, Kulturrådet, BKH, KORO, Nesodden Kommune, The Spanish Embassy in Oslo.
2015 Jury for performance program, Østlandsutstillingen, NO
2011 Gallery assistant (1 year), 1857 aritst-run gallery, Oslo, NO