Francesca Romana Audretsch
CURATION AND NETWORK
Francesca Romana Audretsch has a degree in exhibition design and scenography from the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. She lives and works in Vienna. She is a curious researcher, restless thinker and creative designer whose artistic practice and critical thinking deals with body reflection, gender politics and sustainable and solidary living spaces. She works enthusiastically in collective communities and develops new approaches to conscious, sustainable coexistence. Francesca Romana researches and develops practices of art mediation within exhibition spaces. She understands curating as a processual action that opens up new political spaces of possibility through an aesthetic and physical experience and critically questions social constructs.
How do we humans relate to our world and our human and non-human “partners in crime”? What do we expect from contemporary life? In a world marked by genocides, mass deaths, radicalization and violence, how can we enable a common, terrestrial world politics? How can we create an awareness and urgency to reorganize and recompose politics, science and art? How can art be practiced and experienced as an engine of research?
At a glance
About curiosities in mentalities of hospitality; testing and supporting everything that belongs to discursive, contentious, cultural, political, ecological, curiosity-generating formats! To get to know and understand the awareness of 'being in the world'; to develop and try out an aesthetic/artistic mediation practice and to repeatedly illuminate it processually, resiliently and critically; my companion species in the social struggle for an ecologically caring and communally thinking world of tomorrow: humor, courage, curiosity and confidence.
Can be requested for
Articles, radio contributions and radio plays, curatorial practice, communication, discussion moderation, press work, event management, reading sessions, Italian/German interpreter, dog-sitting
Vita
Francesca Romana lives and works in Vienna and Ventimiglia
Born in Düsseldorf (DE)
Education
Diploma in Scenography and Exhibition Design | University of Arts and Design | Karlsruhe (DE)
Erasmus semester in the Master’s program in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts | Vienna (AT)
Pre-diploma in Art Theory and Political Aesthetics | Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (DE)
Supplementary studies in Architectural Theory and Radio Journalism | ZAK, Centre for Applied Cultural Studies | Karlsruhe (DE)
Experience
Own podcast at RadioRudina featuring guests from the music industry, visual and performing arts, as well as interesting personalities from the adopted home city of Vienna (AT)
Conceptualization and implementation of art education programs for school classes and VIP groups in the Art Basel Parcours section during Art Basel (CH)
Development of the activation program and implementation of mediation methods during the exhibition Critical Zones: New Horizons of Earthly Politics by B. Latour and P. Weibel | ZKM Karlsruhe at the Goethe Institutes in Sri Lanka and India
Assistance to management, artistic production assistance, and exhibition organization
as well as community agendas | FLUCC - Center for Arts and Communities | Vienna (AT)
Curator of the two-part exhibition Sleepy Politics: How to Learn About Conviviality and Alternative Life Forms Through Sleep | Exhibit Galerie and FLUCC | Vienna (AT)
Seminar leader for Bodies of Sleep together with Lotti Brockmann and Jakob Krameritsch | Summer Semester 2023 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
Founder of the Network for Critical Approaches to Discrimination at German-speaking art universities and organizer of regular network meetings, as well as participant in conferences during and after the COVID pandemic
Member of the Critical Zones research project led by Prof. Bruno Latour | ZKM & HfG | Karlsruhe (DE)
Development and implementation of the Metabolic Museum-University under the direction of Prof. Clémentine Deliss | 33rd Graphic Design Biennale | Ljubljana (SI)
Senate representative for the student body | Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (DE)
Participation in the workshop Let’s Talk – Conversations in the Media led by Anja Brockert | SWR2 Wissen | Baden-Baden (DE)
Lecture performance: MAS super-editorial | 200 Years, ALLIANZEN 06 | Exhibition Readings | Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe (DE)
Narrator in the staged reading In der Grotte by Johanna Ziebritzki | HfG | Karlsruhe (DE)
Research assistant in press and public relations | ZKM, Center for Art and Media | Karlsruhe (DE)
Supervision of the "Mack-Office" | Galerie Beck & Eggeling | Venice Architecture Biennale (ITA)
Fair support/coordinator | Booths of the art magazine Monopol – Magazine for Art and Life | Art Karlsruhe, Art Cologne
Participation in the symposium ART HANDLING | Migros Museum | Zurich (CH)
Texts / Publications / Radio Contributions
Artikel »Auf der Suche nach einem schmutzigen Komplizen für ein nachhaltiges Zusammenleben« ZKM | Karlsruhe
Redakteurin von MAS (Materialien für Ausstellungsdesign & Szenografie) | Ausgabe 005: Gestures and Displays
Redakteurin der NULLNUMMER (erste Ausgabe des Theoriejournal des Fachbereichs Kunstwissenschaft und Philosophie)
Artikel »Spiegelbilder für selbstherrliche Malerfürsten« Portrait der Künstlerin Jiny Lan | Monopol Magazin
Redakteurin von MAS (Materialien für Ausstellungsdesign & Szenografie) Ausgabe 004: Jan van Toorn & Eels Kujipers
verschiedene Artikel im online Magazin guestbook-magazine.de
Redakteurin von MAS (Materialien für Ausstellungsdesign & Szenografie) Ausgabe 001: Judith Barry und Ausgabe 002: Stanislaw Zamecznik
Gründerin und Redaktueuin des hochschulübergreifenden Universitäts-Radio Campusradio Karlsruhe der Stadt Karlsruhe und Moderatorin zahlreicher Live-Stunden