Franziska Furter
1972*, Basel, Switzerland
Franziska Furter’s works range from small objects on plinths to extensive room installations, from pencil drawings or marblings on A5 sheets of paper to large-format ink drawings directly on the wall. Whether two or three-dimensional, she describes them all as drawings. Like materialized atmospheres, the works test different aggregate states of what has been seen, thought or remembered. A fascinating ambiguity arises when the sizes shift, times expand or implode and the shadows seem to move. Making, being at work, is central to Franziska Furter’s work. Through this process and the collaboration with coincidence and the acceptance of supposed ‚mistakes‘, unexpected and surprising things often emerge. Notions such as change, movement, shifting, the passing of time are omnipresent. The weather is one of the recurring, defining themes in her works, constantly shaping and changing them, just as it constantly shapes and changes our environment and our lives, is always present. Her works are created with unagitated consistency, humor, poetry and precision, which offer an opportunity for reflection, associations and emotions in her exhibitions. Franziska Furter has had solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums worldwide and her works are in public and private collections, including the Kunstmuseum Basel, Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau and MoMA, NY.