Franziska Goes
Born 1971 in Berlin, Germany, where she currently lives and works.
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BIOGRAPHY
Goes studied painting at University of the Arts, Berlin, and graduated with Masters in 1998. She was a lecturer for painting at Bauhaus University Weimar/Summer School from 2015 to 2018, since 2017 she is a lecturer at BSDC – Berlin School of Design and Communication – SRH University of Applied Sciences.
CAMILA McHUGH ABOUT GOES'S WORK IN 2023:
"While the Berlin-based artist’s visual vocabulary is resolutely abstract, affinities with the natural world and the realm of technology are also present throughout. She painted landscapes early in her career, and traces of this sensibility emerge as the expanse of a horizon, the slant of a mountain, the dense greenery of a forest come to the fore like formal memories. These are not abstracted landscapes, but rather abstract shapes that might contain the possibility of a landscape in the loose connection by which a cloud resembles an animal a glinting gaze can be found in the moon. A reflection on technology is also present in these hyper-flat, acrylic surfaces, as Goes often employs a screen-like blur as well as multicolored pixels. While she remains wholly committed to painting as a medium, she integrates a kind of digital imagining into her process by manipulating her sketches or photographs of her paintings in a program that allows her to try out new configurations. Her practice is, on the other hand, emphatically tactile, as she employs a wide range of brushes, rolls and tools to create her works’ wide medley of textures."