Franziska Reinbothe

Franziska Reinbothe studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig (HGB Leipzig), where she graduated in 2010 with a diploma in painting/visual arts with the grade «Very Good». She continued her studies with a masterclass at the same institution from 2010 to 2013. Her works are represented in renowned collections such as the Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany, the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. As a visual artist, her work is concerned with various strategies of image finding within painting. She is particularly interested in what normally remains hidden: the back of a painted picture and its edges. She makes these aspects visible by compressing canvases, exposing stretcher frames or dispensing with these elements. Her artistic process involves stretching, folding, breaking, cutting and/or sewing pictures after the painting process has been completed. She sees her work as a dynamic pictorial laboratory without restrictions and relies on making in order to explore new possibilities.