Franca Scholz
Kunstpraxis
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2017 – 2021
Participant of the postgraduate program at Academy of Media Arts, Cologne
2013 – 2016
Graduation as Meisterschülerin of Prof. Rita McBride Art Academy, Düsseldorf
2014 – 2015
Teaching Assistant of Prof. Rita McBride
2013
Intermediate examination at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (HfG)
2010 – 2013
University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe: Media Art (major subject, Prof Armin Linke and Prof Michael Clegg), Szenography, Art Research and Media Philosophy (minor subject)
2008 – 2010
University of Freiburg: European Ethnology (main subject) Eastern Slavonic studies and German Literature (minor subjects)
RESIDENCIES
2024
Residency at Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
2018
Residency in Palermo, Sicily; organised by the City of Düsseldorf
„Show Off“ Residency at Tanzhaus Zürich
2017
Summer Residency, Tanzhaus NRW
AWARDS AND STIPENDS
2023
Stiftung Kunstfonds, Neustart Plus Stipend
2022
Research Stipend, Fonds Darstellende Künste
2021
Research Stipend, Kulturamt Köln
2019
Peter Mertes Stipendium
2017
Project Funding, Kunststiftung NRW
2016
Travel award from Kunstverein Düsseldorf
2015
Award of the franco – german youth office
2014
ZKM – Award for the exhibition „The Walk“
2013
ZKM – Award for the exhibition „The new Jerusalem Project“
TEACHING AND WORKSHOPS
2021
Young to Young, Playshop International Curriculum, China Academy of Art
2019
SPINE at Strizzi Köln, Performance Workshop
Ausstellungen
PERFORMANCE
2022
Kreise ziehen, Kunstverein Siegen
2020
Passacaglia della Vita, Simultanhalle Köln
Cold and Soft and Strong Fresh Damp, Bonner Kunstverein
Gentle Collapse, Elbow Room, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
2018
Yes, it‘s personal, Show off, Tanzhaus Zürich
2017
Synthetic Memories, Tanzhaus NRW
2016
Last Night You Called Me Human, Good Forever, Düsseldorf
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Did you ever feel like a bag, fiebach, minninger, Köln
Keeper, RADAR, a cooperation between LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur Münster and Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster
2022
bone marrow, Galerie fiecbach, minninger, Köln
2020
Peter Mertes Stipendium, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
2019
A significant other, David‘s Song, Cologne
Unsteady State, Haus der Kunst, Palermo, Italy
2018
Unsteady State, Sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf
2017
Cabinet of Kaput, Kaputmag
Fictional Dull, Helmut, Leipzig
2016
We Can, Showcase Kunstverein Düsseldorf
2013
„Don‘t you underestimate the objects“, LOTTE, Stuttgart
Hausen , 45 cbm, Kunsthalle Baden – Baden
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Making Worlds, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
2023
strike a pose – Festival für Kunst, Mode und Style, Düsseldorf (upcoming)
2022
Über Brücken, Außenprojekt, Köln
Daily Business, Kunstverein Siegen
Let your ( ) do the talking, eyes knee whatever, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
Public Fictions, Außenprojekt, Leverkusen
2021
Cabinet of Caput, Galerie Mieke van Schajik, s‘Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
C‘est la vie, public space exhibition, Köln
Fête Permanente, Espace Voltaire, Paris
Research trip with Strizzi Space, Marseille
Galerie Fiebach Minninger, Köln
2020
The Voids, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
2019
Time Slip, Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf
The Voids, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
2018
Bergische Kunstausstellung, Kunstmuseum Solingen
The Voids, Museum Folkwang, Essen (travelled to Museum für Fotografie, Braunschweig)
Soft. Strands. Chicks. by Sarah Lehnerer, SOX, Berlin
2017
Digitale Narrationen, Raumstation, Zürich
Far Off, Cologne
Ressentiment – Kulturen des Dissens, Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst,
Eupen, Belgium
This is Work, Palermo Galerie, Stuttgart
2016
Escapism, Kö-Galerie, Düsseldorf
Mute Walls and Speaking Doors, Inga Thiele private space, Düsseldorf
K Hybrid, Symposium, Circuits and Currents, Athens
Radical Slackerism, Degree show, Art Academy, Düsseldorf
Open Studios, Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht
2015
General Exposure, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
K 2015, Symposium and Exhibition, Studio 2046, Berlin
2014
Don‘t steal my moment, KASK Gent, Belgien
The Walk – From Naples to Pompei, gta Austellungen, Zürich
Paneldiscussion, Exhibition class Rita Mcbride, Galerie M29, Cologne
2013
K 2013 Symposium and Exhibition, RGB Studio, Karlsruhe
The Walk – Naples to Pompeii and in between, HfG Karlsruhe
2012
Peripherie VII: Urwald, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg
Publikationen
2020
Kunstforum Bd. 267, Catalogue for the Peter Mertes Stipend
2017
And she was like BÄM – Magazine
Soft. Strands. Chicks. by Sarah Lehnerer
2013
LOSK – An Assembly of shifting spaces