Franziska Goes
Born 1971 in Berlin, Germany, where she currently lives and works.
Works
About
Goes’ abstract paintings navigate the tension between the organic and the artificial, the tactile and the digital, offering a nuanced reflection on contemporary life. Her approach to abstraction is inherently poetic—rooted in a desire to offer a visual language that captures both the fragmentation and the unity of the present. She invites the viewer into a space where the familiar and the unfamiliar harmonize, where visual cues from nature, architecture, and technology are transmuted through the medium of paint. Her works are not merely exercises in formal abstraction; they are rich, textured explorations of how color, form, and texture can evoke a range of emotional and sensory responses. Her paintings ask the viewer to suspend their usual expectations of representation and engage with the visual world in a more immediate, visceral way.
Franziska Goes (b. 1971, Berlin, Germany) received a master’s degree in painting from the UdK Berlin in 1998. Her works have been the subject of exhibitions at Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles (2026) ,Axel Obiger, Berlin (2025), Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles (2024 & 2022), Knust Kunz Gallery Editions, in Munich (2023 & 2021) and in Belgium (2022), Bode Projects, Berlin (2021), Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (2019), Kommunale Galerie, Berlin (2016), Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall (2015), Ballhaus Ost, Berlin (2013), Kunstruimte 09, Groningen (2012), General Public, Berlin (2012), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2011), Columbus Art Foundation, Ravensburg (2006), Galleri Udengaard, Arhus (2005), Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg (2004), raum 2, Kunstverein Mannheim (2004) and at Loop - Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin (2004).
In 2013 she was nominated for the Berlin Art Prize and had fellowship residencies (Karl-Hofer Gesellschaft) in Switzerland and Germany.
From 2015-2018 she taught at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Summer School. Since 2017, she has taught at SRH University, Campus Berlin. Her works are held in private and public collections in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, England, Sweden and the United States.