Vita

Franziska Koch (born in Nuremberg in 1991) lives and works in Leipzig. From 2017 to 2024, she studied painting/graphic arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig under Christoph Ruckhäberle, Franziska Holstein, and Henriette Grahnert, graduating with a diploma in 2024. From 2021 to 2022, she completed an Erasmus stay at the Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse, funded by a scholarship from the German-French Youth Office.

Before studying art, she earned a B.Sc. in psychology and an M.Sc. in clinical psychology and psychotherapy at Dresden University of Technology (2011–2017). Her in-depth exploration of psychosocial dynamics and relationships forms the conceptual basis for her painting practice.

Koch is represented by the ASPN Gallery in Leipzig and exhibits both nationally and internationally. Her works have been presented at the Gunzenhauser Museum, the Kunsthalle Pfaffenhofen, and Art Karlsruhe, among others. Solo exhibitions such as “tingling fingers” (ASPN, Leipzig) mark the continuous development of her position in contemporary figurative discourse. Koch’s works are held in private collections in Germany and Austria, as well as in public collections at the G2 Kunsthalle Leipzig, the art fund of the Dresden State Art Collections, and the Montresso* Art Foundation in Morocco. In 2025, a promotional purchase was made by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony.

She has received international funding, including the Jardin Rouge artist residency (Marrakesh, 2025), a scholarship for the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg (2023) and a residency at Gutshof Biesenthal (Culterim Gallery, 2023). In 2011, she was awarded the Josef Peter Kleinert Prize; in 2026, she was nominated for the Eb Dietzsch Art Prize (final decision pending).