Franziska DEGENDORFER, CROSS PAPER PUZZLE
Exhibition from september 9 to october 29 2011*
*in collaboration with the gallery Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe
For the start of the artistic season, the gallery Kissthedesign goes on with its project of discovering young international artists, still little known in Switzerland.
Franziska Degendorfer (*1980) is a young german artist, graduated from the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, whose work has been awarded many times in Germany and quickly became part of numerous german public collections.
The artist develops an original and unusual work. She manipulates pieces of fabric that she recycles, paints, cuts, folds, sometimes even pads and then sews to create a sensual geometric abstraction. Franziska Degendorfer’s work penetrates the gallery space to convert it to a sensorial and fabulous environment.
BIOGRAPHY
Franziska Degendorfer born in 1980 in Ulm (D) graduated from the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe (D) in 2005 and in Stuttgart (D) in 2007, lives and works as an artist in Karlsruhe.
Her work, present in numerous german public collections, has been exhibited in Germany and internationaly, among other at the gallery Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station in Karlsruhe that represents her since 2007, Kunstverein Ettlingen (D), Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Preview, Berlin, ZONA MACO, Mexico City, Zenshi, Tokyo, etc. She has also been awarded by among other the Werner-Stober-Stiftung (2010), the Sparkasse Neu-Ulm, won the Schwäbischer Grafikpreis and benefited of a studio grant in shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld (CH) in 2009