Helga Franz

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Helga Franz (* 1961 in Bamberg ) is a German artist and photographer.

biography

From 1980 to 1985 Franz studied painting and graphics with Per Kirkeby at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe , from 1985 to 1986 painting with Kai Sudeck at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg , from 1987 to 1988 at UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , from 1989 to 1990 as a postgraduate at MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Otto Piene and Paul Earls at CAVS, Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, Space Habitat Design in the Dept. of Architecture and optionally in the Dept. of Material Science and Engineering and in the Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. From 2002 to 2003 she studied digital media and architectural visualization at the Academy for Digital Media cimdata Berlin.

From 1993 to 2001 she was a teacher for special tasks at the Institute for Art Education at the University of Leipzig , where she developed the subject of sculpture / objects and the range of courses with teaching concepts for basic and advanced studies of three-dimensional design, with internal and external university offers at home and abroad Abroad as well as through further education courses for art teachers.

Since 1995 she has been involved in voluntary work and in non-university educational work, u. a .: Board member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin 2007 to 2009; Member of the Artistic Advisory Board, office for art in public spaces of bbk Berlin .

Franz is a member of the German Association of Artists . She lives in Berlin.

Scholarships, awards

  • Annual scholarship from the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs
  • Scholarship from the Council for the Arts, MIT, USA
  • Annual scholarship from the DAAD in Mexico City
  • two working grants from the Kulturfonds foundation
  • Pro Helvetia project grant
  • Project grant from the Berlin Cultural Education Project Fund

Art projects

Coming from expressive-gestural painting, Franz developed large poly- and monochrome formats. She translated material color into light and realized exhibitions and light events with homeostatic and kinetic installations that included people. Her installations with a variety of artistic means are often of a procedural nature.

With light productions that Franz was able to present at numerous exhibitions, she aims to “raise awareness of the visual phenomena of light refraction and the possibility of making time visible. (...) The oscillatory properties of kinetic light objects demonstrate in an abstract form the problems of existence and their mutual dependency. "

Editions and publications (selection)

  • Aesthetic approaches to memories (4 volumes, format 28 × 28 cm, texts and images, Verlag visuell.virtuell)
    • Volume 1. Lines. Real world episodes, forgotten, unfinished: other life's own. Fund and Fundus. Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-042257-7 .
    • Volume 2. Parallels. Things and verbal sketches. Childhood. Something that belongs there. The others. Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-042259-1 .
    • Volume 3. Tangents. Pictures and verbal sketches. Restlessness and catharsis. Chronicle of an early crisis. Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-047107-0 .
    • Volume 4. Asymptotes. mental sketches and images for language. Consideration. Beauty in and out of the whole. Berlin 2016/17, ISBN 978-3-00-055237-3 .
  • Projects for the public space 1982-2013 , Verlag visuell.virtuell, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-042258-4 .
  • Moire. Geometries 2008, spatial experience from the surface. Geometries and experiments , Verlag visuell.virtuell, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-042260-7 .
  • Painting. concrete. color interference. surface , Verlag visuell.virtuell, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-048686-9 .
  • Painting. informal. abstract expression. experiment , Verlag visuell.virtuell, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-048656-2 .
  • Research life. Aesthetic Approaches. The exhibition as a test field and laboratory , Verlag visuell.virtuell, Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-412-09700-4 .
  • Time and space in music and visual arts - music and visual arts in time and space , Böhlau-Verlag 2000, Ed. T. Böhme, K. Mehner, ISBN 3-412-09700-4 .

Works in collections (selection)

  • Senate of Berlin
  • City Museum Berlin
  • NBK New Berlin Art Association
  • MDC Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin-Buch
  • Jenoptik, Jena
  • Works in private collections in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Benelux.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helga Franz on Artfacts. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
  2. ^ Deutscher Künstlerbund, members , accessed on March 1, 2017
  3. ↑ Eugen Blume, Helga Franz. Matterless - matterless , light and processes. Objects and installations 1990–1996, self-published Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-00-001455-1

Web links


personal data
SURNAME Franz, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist (installation, painting, concept) and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg