Franzi Kreis
is a young artist working with the medium photography, audio and film. Her exhibitions, “Finding Motherland” and “Father Earth”, have been drawing attention from Vienna to Sarajevo. Franzi Kreis is showing her narrative, artistic production in numerous presentations since 2015 and is based in Vienna. Projects for i.a. Wiener Festwochen performing arts festival, Brut, Landestheater Niederössterreich and Volkstheater Vienna complete her work. Her first coffee table book „Limelight“ has been published in 2020. Currently she is performing live on stage at the dark-room, Dunkelkammer at Volkstheater Wien in the piece Shame, by Annie Ernaux. Works created during the performances of Shame are presented at Lukas Feichtner Gallery.

Photo: Lukas Beck
Stage
Annie Ernaux – Shame, Live-Photo-Installation at Volkstheater Wien, 2022/23, 2023/2024
Exhibitions
Polster, Propaganda, Privatschule, Foto Wien / Wiener Amateurphotographen Klub, 2023
Dunkelkammer, Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Wien 2023
Überhaupt kein Lärm, ZUKKERstp, Stadtmuseum St. Pölten, 2022
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, Basiskultur Wien 2021
Finding Motherland, Museum of Literature and Performing Arts, Sarajevo, 2021
Finding Motherland, Galerija Portreta Tuzla, 2020
Finding Motherland, ZIL, Moscow, 2020
Finding Motherland, Basiskultur Wien 2019/2020
Clowns – Winterfest Salzburg, 2017/2018
Die Abfahrt verzögert sich um wenige Minuten – Freiraum Übersee, 2017
Clowns – Festival Novog Cirkusa Zagreb, 2016
Im Dschungel – Café Frame Vienna, 2015
Mit dem Zug von Traunstein nach Hanoi – Klosterkirche Traunstein, 2012
Movies
Überhaupt kein Lärm, Shortfilm, 10 Min., AT 2022,
Die Ballade vom Schöpfwerk, Shortfilm, 8 Min., AT 2022
Kopf hoch – Simon Mayer, Shortfilm, 28 Min. AT 2021
