Franziska Furter
(*1972 in Zurich, lives and works in Basel) started her career as a draftswoman. The genre of drawing is still close to her but complemented over the years by sculptural work and installations. In her shows she develops constantly new groups of works. She always works meticulously: Like a researcher she experiments and expands her image making and invents objects. In her works she remains always tangible as an acting person. Art is for her the process of making, a credo she shares with Marcel Duchamp. Franziska Furter often creates in her exhibition installations, captivating the viewer through their precise disposition of different groups of works in manifold material. All works broach the issues of perception of time and play with the criteria of planning, concept and coincidence. Her exhibitions reveal an œuvre constantly growing with unexcited consistency, with humour and precision. Within a clearly defined system Franziska Furter creates works of great forcefulness and poetry, offering in her shows to the viewer a variety of associations and emotions.
Franziska Furter’s work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions in Europe. Her works are in the following public collections Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel; Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau; Museum of Modern Art, New York and in many private and corporate collections amongst others Zurich Cantonal Bank; Collection of the Deutsche Bank, Zurich and Frankfurt a/M; Credit Suisse Collection; UBS Art Collection; Bank Bär Collection; Roche Collection, Basel; Mobiliar and Helvetia insurance Collection and many others.
Franziska Furter – Ripples
28 October 2022 – 21 January 2023
Franziska Furter – Landscape with Landscape
with Ulrike Mohr, Timo Nasseri, Julia Steiner and Markus Weggenmann
4 September – 23 October 2021
Franziska Furter: Waves and Particles
10 November – 22 December 2018
Franziska Furter: Ich taumeltürme
27 August – 8 October 2016
Franziska Furter: Shapes, Traps and Spells
30 August – 18 October 2014
Franziska Furter: Hyle
21 May – 16 July 2011
Franziska Furter: Traces and Impressions with Anna Amadio & Edit Oderbolz
29 August – 17 October 2009
Le Grand Bleu: Group show with works by Anne-Lise Coste, Slawomir Elsner, Klodin Erb, Franziska Furter, Pierre Haubensak, Clare Goodwin, Sebastian Utzni and wiedemann/mettler
12 December 2020 – 23 January 2021
With Other Eyes, group show with works by Anna Amadio, Michael Bauch, Benedikte Bjerre, Anne-Lise Coste, Slawomir Elsner, Klodin Erb, Franziska Furter, Clare Goodwin, Pierre Haubensak, Alex Heim, Jamie Isenstein, Mamiko Otsubo, Athena Vida, wiedemann/mettler, Bill Woodrow
26 May – 26 July 2018
Diffusion: Anna Amadio, Klodin Erb, Franziska Furter, Pierre Haubensak
17 March – 12 May 2018
Drawing Now Art Fair – Presenting Franziska Furter
22 March – 26 March 2023
SPARK Art Fair Vienna presenting Klodin Erb and Franziska Furter.
24 – 27 March 2022
Franziska Furter. Monograph co-edited by Christoph Merian Verlag and L’APAGE
144 pages, ca. 70 colour illustrations, softbound, 17 x 24 cm German/French/English
This monograph is being published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Yverdon-les-Bains. It deals with her works of the past seven years. The essays by Nico Anklam, Fredrik Sjöberg and Karine Tissot highlight the nuances and essences in Furter’s work and facilitate discerning perspective on the artist’s oeuvre.