about

FRANZISKA WINDISCH

Franziska Windisch is an artist and lecturer based in Brussels. Her work moves between the areas of performance, text, composition and installation. She composes scores for performative acts which interrogate notions of trace, medium, sound and listening and which she then incorporates in linguistic, sculptural and installative arrangements. Her work has been presented internationally in art spaces and at festivals. She has taught at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, European Postgraduate in Arts in Sound (KASK) Gent and Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (UDK) Berlin, at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Justus Liebig University Gießen. Currently she is subsitute professor for "Klangskulptur und Klanginstallation" at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig.

EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS (Selection)

2022   Meakusma Festival, Eupen (BE)
2022   Kemnade Klingt! 2022 - Sounding Bochum (DE)
2022   Allgemeiner Konsumverein (solo), Braunschweig (DE)
2022   De week van de klank, MIM, Brussels (BE)
2021   Radio Total. Festival of Visual Arts On Air, Gdansk (PL)
2021   Walking from scores, CIVA, Brussels (BE)
2021   Klangkunstfestival Intraregionale, Barsinghausen (DE)
2020   VideoStage, Kunstverein Bochum (DE)
2019   Sound Art 2109, WDR, Cologne (DE)
2019   SOUNDSEEING, DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst (DE)
2019   oscillations festival, Q-O2, Brussels (BE)
2019   act, Q18, Cologne (DE)
2018   KIKK Festival of Digital and Creative Cultures, Namur (BE)
2018   Dachkammerklang, Ludwigshafen (DE)
2018   Tuned City, Messene (GR)
2018   Sound it out, Department of Culture Studies, University Tilburg (NL)
2018   Schwebungen, LWL-Haus, Münster (DE)
2017   Acts of Listening, Tsonami Festival de Arte Sonoro, Valparaiso (CL)
2017   On Random Walks, Centrale for Contemporary Arts, Brussels (BE)
2017   Corrosion (solo), Moltkerei Cologne (DE)
2016   Open fields, RIXC Art Science Festival, Riga (LV) (with Haag/Rumori/Windisch/Zeller)
2016   territoires par contact, Galerie Stephanie Jaax, Brussels (BE)
2015   No song to sing, ADN Platform, Barcelona (ES)
2015   Lodgers #3 Apparent Extent, M HKA Antwerp (BE)
2015   Friche, LaVallee, Brussels (BE)
2015   Convergence (a laboratory on the open field), OKNO, Brussels (BE)
2014   interpretations, QO-2, Brussels (BE)
2014   lab30, Augsburg (DE)
2013   Abtragung (solo), Boutique - Raum für temporaere Kunst, Cologne (DE)
2013   Tuned City, Brussels (BE)
2013   Performatik, Drawing Music, QO-2, Brussels (BE)
2012   silence vert, Oudeis, le Vigan (FR) (with Haag/Rumori/Windisch/Zeller)
2012   galeries nomades, art-cade, Marseille (FR)
2012   new talents biennale, Cologne (DE)
2012   borderlines, Kunstraum Morgenstrasse at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
2011   FILE 2011, FIESP Cultural Center, Sao Paolo (BR) (with Haag/Rumori/Windisch/Zeller)
2011   Brückenmusik 17, Cologne (DE)
2011   File Games Rio 2011, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro (BR) (with Haag/Rumori/Windisch/Zeller)
2011   5 days on, Cloud Sounds, Melkweg Amsterdam (NL) (with Haag/Rumori/Windisch/Zeller)
2010   Asphalt (solo), Moltkerei, Cologne (DE)
2010   coopeARTive, Photo Taipeh (TW)
2010   Funware, MU Eindhoven (NL) (with Haag/Rumori/Windisch/Zeller)
2010   Fun with software, Arnolfini Bristol (GB) (with Haag/Rumori/Windisch/Zeller)
2010   Franziska Windisch (solo), GLASMOOG, Cologne (DE)
2009   Landschaft 2.0, Edith-Russ Haus, Oldenburg (DE) (with Anselm Bauer and David Hahlbrock)
2009   Kunstmeile Sued, Deutschlandfunk, Cologne (DE)
2009   projekt compone, Kunstpraxis Cologne (DE) (with Steffen Krebber)
2008   Plan08, Cologne (DE) (with Anselm Bauer and David Hahlbrock)
2008   Ars Electronica, Linz (AT) (with Anselm Bauer and David Hahlbrock)
2007   make art festival, Poitiers (FR) (with Haag/Rumori/Windisch/Zeller)
2007   Feldstaerke, PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE)

TEACHING

2021 - 2022 Substitute professor „Klangskulptur und Klanginstallation" at Hochschule für
Bildende Künste Braunschweig
2022   Teaching module "composing / performing in public space" at ESA- École Supérieure d'Art du Nord-Pas de Calais / Dunkerque - Tourcoing
2021 Visiting professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Justus Liebig University Gießen
2021 Mentoring and workshop at sonotopia - sonic explorers, bonn hören, Bonn
2020 - 2022 Lecturer, guest faculty at Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, Universität der Künste Berlin
2019 Teaching module "performative sound installations" master project mentoring at EPAS, KASK & Conservatorium, Gent
2016 - 2019 Guest professor at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (exMedia / Sound)
2018 Lecture at "Sculptures performatives – Expérimenter la forme, former l'´expérience" at    Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles
2012   artist talk at Goethe-Institut Shanghai
2012 “rock boat rumor” workshop at at China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
2010   “invisibility & (echo)location”, re-active platform, KHM, Koeln
2007   "offener schaltkreis" Linux Audio Conference, Berlin

GRANTS

2021   Development grant, Musikfonds Germany
2016 Development grant, Kunstendecreet Vlaanderen
2014   Project grant, Kunststiftung North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
2010   Foerderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen fuer junge Kuenstler(innen)
          Medienkunst (Advancement Award for Media Art, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany )
2010   Grant Landesmusikrat NRW (Music Council North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

RESIDENCIES

2021   CAUS - Content Analysis of Urban Sound, Gdansk (PL)
2020   werkplaats Walter, Brussels
2018   Acts of Listening at Tuned City Messene (GR)
2017   Acts of Listening at Tsonami Festival de Arte Sonoro, Valparaiso (CL)
2016 - 2017 production residency, overtoon, Brussels (BE)
2013 - 2015 ALOTOF - A laboratory on the open field" OKNO, Brussels (BE)
2012   QO-2, Brussels (BE)
2012   Interface 2 / Werkstatt fuer experimentelle Sound-Art / FFT Duesseldorf (DE)
2007   feldstaerke / pact Zollverein Essen (DE)

COOPERATIONS