Franziska von Stenglin was born in Munich and grew up in the Czech Republic, Senegal, India and Germany. She studied photography in London and art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main. She lives and works in Berlin. Her work spans photography, film, and installation, often weaving elements of her own biography with local myths and the personal histories of those she encounters during her travels and residencies. Archives play a central role in her practice, which is deeply humanistic and concerned with memory and lived human experience shared across cultures and borders. She lives and works in Berlin.
UPCOMING
Thursday 26th of March 15:30 pm
Screening of Bahar Biss at Pêcheurs du monde Film Festival
https://pecheursdumonde.org/portfolio/just-sea/
CURRENT
Die Herrschende Ästhetik Ist Die Ästhetik Der Herrschenden (in development)
feature length film supported by Hessen Film & Film Fernsehfond Bayern
Feb 2026
Screening of Baħar Biss at the Blue Hall/ German Embassy, New Delhi India supported by The German Embassy New Delhi, ICAS:MP and the High Comission of Malta you to followed by a conversation “WHAT THE SEA REMEMBERS” moderated by Pallavi Paul with Franziska von Stenglin
Group show at Kholstumer, Footnotes curated by Mauricio Guillén & Julia Krufni with Virginia Ariu, Monika Baer, Natalia Berzunsa, Timothée Calame, Chilpa (Fernando Lopéz Jimenez), ZuN Halpern, Ellen Hodakova Larsson, Lorenza Longhi, Dominic Michel, Hamish Pearch, Valentina Sierra Villareal, Rachel Anna Simon, Franziska von Stenglin / Ana Paula, Rafal Skoczek, Aida Tariq Rebull, Lucas Turnbull, Rose Vidal, Arnaud Wohlhauser, Joshua Abelow, Méxcio City, México
Baħar Biss, Artist Film Screening at the 6th Kochi Muziri Biennale For The Time Being, curated by Nikhil Chopra & HH Art Space, Goa India
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUh1yixCX8v/?hl=en&img_index=1
Jan 2026
Residency and screening of Baħar Biss at 1Shantiroad, Bangalore India
Dec 2025
Residency at HH Art Space, Goa India supported by Ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Baħar Biss at Mares del Mundo International Film Festival
https://maresdafindomundo.gal/
Nov 2025
Baħar Biss at the 8th Sharjah Film Platform hosted by the Sharjah Art Foundation November 22nd 10 am
https://ticket.sharjahart.org/Home/Details?E=MTA0MTU~EQ~&L=NA-1
Baħar Biss at Porto Post Doc
https://www.portopostdoc.com/home-en/festival/2025/view?id=1805
Baħar Biss at Gijón International Film Festival
https://ficx.tv/en/peliculas/bahar-biss_eng/
Baħar Biss at Duisburger Filmwoche
https://duisburger-filmwoche.de/programm/
September 2026
Best Director Award for Baħar Biss Bistre Reke Festival, Serbia
https://www.instagram.com/p/DOneQ6zDdaN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
August 2025
Baħar Biss at Cinema Galleggiante
https://www.cinemagalleggiante.it/it/edizione-2025/autrici-e-autori
Water Line curated by Rachel Micallef Somerville and Giulio Rasi
Laurence Favre, Marcos Nacar, Chilli Carney, Florinda Camilleri, Valeria Solari, Yao Su, Franziska von Stenglin
May - July 2025
Artists in residence, Vila 31 x Art Explora, Tirana
https://www.artexplora.org/en/les-residences-dartistes-tirana-residents
Screening Baħar Biss at Beldocs Film Festival, Belgrade
http://beldocs.rs/en/product/just-sea/
Group show at Kholstumer Shaman Of The Blind Country
with Luis Bautz, William S. Burroughs, Victoria Colmegna, Azul Ehrenberg, Manuel Gonzales Serrano, Mauricio Guillén, Gary Indiana, Nathalia Levy Villa, Michael Optiz, Christopher Ora, Alice Rahon, Franziska von Stenglin, Cumi Tamayo, Raphaela Vogel, Elisabeth Wild, Amélie von Wulffen, Wols
Opening Sat 26th of April 12-6pm
Benito Juarez 238 Tlalpan CP2400 México City, México
https://www.instagram.com/kholstumer/
2025
https://www.cinemadureel.org/films/bahar-biss/
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/ba%c4%a7ar-biss
2024
Pa Va Hêng, The Dust of Modern Life screening in Xa Dak Sao, Saigon & Hanoi and workshops at TPD Centre Hanoi and Hoa Sen University Saigon, Vietnam
https://www.goethe.de/ins/vn/vi/kul/fim/sdz/pvh.html
Baħar Biss (Just Sea) screening at Dok Leipzig International Film Festival German Competition
https://www.dok-leipzig.de/en/film/bahar-biss/programm
Baħar Biss (Just Sea)
, 25 min, 16mm, colour 5.1, commissioned by the Malta Biennale 2024 artistic director Sofia Baldi Pighi, curators: Emma Mattei, Elisa Carollo
www.artnews.com
www.artforum.com
2023
Lecture at Kunstverein Nürnberg: Herman Kaspar, Die herrschende Ästhetik ist die Ästhetik der Herrschenden
Beiträge zur Künstlerischen Forschung
kunstvereinnuernberg.de
2021
Pa Va Hêng, The Dust of Modern Life, 82 min 16mm, colour and black & white 5.1
www.screendaily.com
www.ica.art
2018
Johnny‘s Bar, Malta Contemporary Art, Valletta, Malta
www.moussemagazine.it
2016
I’m a stranger here myself, 12min, digital cinema 1.85 colour 5.1
www.unifrance.org
2017
Tilting at Windmills, Roberta Frankfurt am Main curated by Anna Goetz
roberta-projects.tumblr.com
2014
Steirischer Herbst, Parallel Borders, Monuments & Shrines to Capitalism
archiv.steirischerherbst.at
2014
Béchamel Mucho/ Hunger und Liebe, Salon Kennedy, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
archive.salonkennedy.de