About

Hello! I am a Vienna based storyteller working in the fields of photography and documentary filming. I like getting lost. During endless classes in school I was drawing comics on insects, Cleopatra and my shaggy dog. At the age of 14 I produced an excessive amount of selfies with my first camera, a Digicam. And then it started, as soon as I was accompanied by my camera, curtains and doors opened and I got intrigued by the idea of wandering this whole wild world and it’s hidden corners.
I love the smell of my knees, itchy questions and the loneliness of lakes and rivers in stormy weather. And I love Vienna, my personal place to be, including the nearby Balkans. Regarding my black backpack I feel best when carrying my camera, a sketchbook, nuts or even better chocolate, a blue bottle of water, this laptop, a 5TB hard-drive, an orthopedic mousepad, a mouse, watercolors and an ink pen.
- :: Exhibitions
- PUR – Photos von Franzi Kreis & Lukas Beck, WAK Wien 2022
- Franzi Kreis, Galerie Feuerbachl, Neunkirchen 2022
- Mein Glück interessiert mich nicht, SOHO-Studios, Vienna 2021
- Father Earth, Vienna 2021
- Finding Motherland, Museum of Literature and Performing Arts, Sarajevo, 2021
- Finding Motherland, Galerija Portreta Tuzla, 2020
- Finding Motherland, ZIL, Moscow, 2020
- Finding Motherland, Vienna 2019/2020
- Stillsitzen – Gruppenausstellung initiiert von Donhofer, 2020
- P für Party – Fotografien von Lukas Beck & Franzi Kreis – WAK, Vienna, 2018
- Clowns – Winterfest Salzburg, 2017/2018
- Clowns – Upside Down – Circus & Space Münster, 2017
- Clowns – Cirkopolis Festival Prague, 2017
- Die Abfahrt verzögert sich um wenige Minuten – Freiraum Übersee, 2017
- Clowns – Festival Novog Cirkusa Zagreb, 2016
- Parken – Fotografien von Lukas Beck & Franzi Kreis – WAK, Vienna, 2016
- rampenlicht – KosmosTheater, Vienna, 2016
- Magier/Magicians – La Strada Graz, 2015
- Arbeitsprobe – Dschungel Wien, MQ Vienna, 2015
- Im Dschungel – Café Frame Vienna, 2015
- Mit dem Zug von Traunstein nach Hanoi – Klosterkirche Traunstein, 2012
:: Movies
- Die Ballade vom Schöpfwerk, AT 2022
- Kopf hoch – Simon Mayer, AT 2021
:: Collaborations
- Belvedere Museum Wien
- Börse für landwirtschaftliche Produkte in Wien
- Brut Wien
- CeMM
- Donaubühne Tulln
- Dschungel Wien – Theaterhaus für Junges Publikum
- Edition A
- FALTER
- Goethe Institut Bukarest
- ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
- IKEA
- Im_flieger
- Kulturlabor Gemeindebau
- MUK – Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien
- New Plays from Europe, Europäische Theaterbiennale Wiesbaden
- Der Spiegel
- tanz ist – Spielboden Dornbirn
- They Shoot Music
- Universität Münster
- Vienna Maker Faire
- Welt der Frauen
- Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
- Wiener Festwochen
- Wiener Sängerknaben
- Wiener Staatsoper
