Francis Zeischegg was born in Hamburg and grew up in the south of Germany in Ulm. She studied social and educational science at the Technical University of Berlin and visual communication and fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts in the class of well-known painter professor Raimund Girke.
She is a concept-artist and has been teaching as a professor at various art colleges and universities in Germany (2003-2004 art college »Berlin Weißensee«, 2008-2010 art college »Burg Giebichenstein« in Halle (Saale), 2011-2013 Bauhaus University in Weimar). She is currently teaching art-practice and artistic design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar in the department of art and design and also at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Over the last 20 years, Francis Zeischegg had numerous solo-exhibitions and received awards and scholarships. She published limited editions, catalogues and artist-books. She also won competitions for site-specific projects in the urban environment.
Francis Zeischegg has initiated temporary projects and interventions in social and public spaces.*Her work focuses on the perception of space, examining its boundaries and limits through different perspectives. In her sculptures and installations are replicas or quotations of objects and everyday situations. They deal with the physicality of use and perception involving both, the participant and the observer. The artwork of Francis Zeischegg is part of public and private collections and can be seen in temporary exhibitions as well as in fixed installations in public and private spaces. Francis Zeischegg lives and works in Berlin.
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* These include projects in partnership with people from other disciplines, e.g. in 2006 the community-based urban space project »Permanent Moving« in Berlin, in cooperation with colleagues from the artist-group »Raumhopping«, the architect Raimund Binder and the sculptor Patrick Timm. As well, from 2002-2004, she headed the artist-group »Teamwork«, including the architects Gruber&Pop, the landscape architects STraum.a and visual artist Kai Völker, which realized the temporary interventions »Raumsituation« I, II and III in Berlin. From 2008-2010, as professor at the art college »Burg Giebichstein« in Halle (Saale), she realized the art school exchange-project »Raumbeziehungen«, in collaboration with the artist Susanne Lorenz, professor at the Hamburg Art College. Since 2007, together with the painter Juliane Laitzsch, Francis Zeischegg has been developing the ongoing drawing-project »Orientierung im Dialog« (orientation in dialogue), which was presented in several exhibitions. From 2009-2013 she was part of the artist-group Raum:Selbst, which conducted artistic projects about questioning the term »space« and realized several exhibitions (e.g. in the House of Arts in Brünn, Czech Republic). These various projects have been documented in several catalogues, documentaries and artistic videos.
- »View Control« Essential #11 zur Einzelausstellung, Magazin der Galerie Judtih Andreae, Bonn, 2018
- »Zwischenrevier« (Katalog) Deutsches Jagd- und Fischerei-Museum (Hg) mit Susanne Lorenz, München, 2016
- »Field of Vision«. Übersichtskatalog zu Einzelausstellung in der Galerie Judith Andreae 2013
- »Edge of Vision« 2tlg. Übersichtskatalog zu Einzelausstellung im Kunstverein Berlin Tiergarten, Galerie Nord 2012
- »Raumbeziehungen«, Burg Giebichenstein, Hochschule für Kunst und Design und Hochschule für Bildende Kunst Hamburg, Hrsg. Susanne Lorenz, Francis Zeischegg, Berlin 2009
- »Permanent Moving« sechs Interventionen zu Mobilität und Alltag im Stadtraum. Initiiert von Francis Zeischegg, Raimund Binder, Patrick Timm zusammen mit sechs bildenden Künstlern (Susanne Bosch, A. Lubic), einem Musiker (Thomas Gerwin), einer Tänzerin (Iris Sputh) und dem Architekten (Mathias Heyden) in Kooperation mit 15 jungen Erwachsenen aus dem Kiez.
- »Raumlegenden« Francis Zeischegg, Übersichtskatalog 2004
- »Maßstab der Erinnerung« Künstlerbuch erschienen Mariannenpresse/Literaturhaus, Berlin 2002
Text- und Bildbeiträge in Übersichtskatalogen
- Martin Oswald / Maximilian Eiden (Hg.). »Berliner Zimmer – Homecoming Artists« im Auftrag des Landkreises Ravensburg Kulturbetrieb – Schloss Achberg, 2020
- »Mobile Dachkammer...« in Ingo Fröhlich / Fritzi Kreller / Ulrike Seyboth (Hg) »Torstrasse 111- 20 Jahre Kunst- und Projekthaus, Berlin 2020
- Ute Bopp-Schumacher / Dr. Hanns-Simon-Stiftung Bitburg (Hg) »Wald, Wolf, Wildnis«, Galerie im Haus Beda, Bitburg, 2020
- Fritz Emslander, Gabriele John (Hg) »Jäger und Sammler in der zeitgenössischen Kunst« Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, 2014
- Francis Zeischegg (Hg) »Wahrnehmen« Bauhaus Uni Weimar, 2020
- Francis Zeischegg »Vermessung des Alltags – Kritischer Gedankengang Neuferthaus, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, 2020
- Susanne Lorenz / Francis Zeischegg (Hg): »Raumbeziehungen« Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg HfbK, Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst und Design, Halle, 2009
- Andrea Dreyer/ Francis Zeischegg (2019) (Hg.): Grund legen(d) - Identitäten in den Räumen der Kunst. 19 aktuelle Stimmen aus Kunst, Architektur, Gestaltung und Vermittlung (Beitrag zum Bauhausjubiläum), Textem Verlag, Hamburg 2019
- Francis Zeischegg (Hg) »Schnittstelle Kommunikation« Künstlerische Kommunikationsformen in sozialen Handlungsräumen – Institut für Kunst im Kontext der Universität der Künste Berlin, 2005/06
- »Connection« Artist in Communication mit Susanne Bosch, University of Ulster Belfast, 2007 with Contributions from Susanne Bosch (Ger/NI),Michelle Browne (IRE), Chrissie Cadman(NI), Ele Carbenter(UK), Fiona Larkin(IRE/NI), Christine Mackey(IRE), Ailbhe Murphy(IRE), Andrea Theis (GER/NI), Sabe Wunsch (GER), Francis Zeischegg (GER)
- Francis Zeischegg, Pina Lewandowski »Visuelles Gestalten mit dem Computer«– (rororo-Computer) Rowohlt-Taschenbuchverlag GmbH, Reinbek (1.Auflage) 2002
Textbeiträge
- »Vermessung des Alltags« in Andrea Dreyer/ Luise Nerlich (Hg.): Denkraum.Bauhaus. Oberhausen, (2019)
- »Vokabulare« in Andrea Dreyer/ Luise Nerlich/ Yvonne Graefe/ Ines Escherich (Hgg.): Kultur verstehen. Gesellschaft verändern. Zur internationalen Relevanz von Architekturvermittlung. Oberhausen, 2019
- »Ort am Limit« in Frank Hartmann, Pierre Kramann-Musculus, Konstantin Wolf (Hg) –»please show me how to do Bauhaus?« Bauhaus Universität Weimar, 2015