About
Franziska Dörfel is a contemporary German painter.
She was born in Rostock in 1982. Her artistic exploration focuses on the superimposition, condensation and transparency of colour.
In her painting, she refers to an oldmasterly approach, but breaks through this with contemporary elements and disruptive factors. She consciously uses these techniques to reinforce her pictorial themes, which she works out layer by layer, changes, refines and also destroys again and again. This intuitive working process in the development of her paintings is the essence of her artistic work, which is characterised by depth of content and painterly complexity.
Franziska Dörfel lives in Lower Saxony in northern Germany and is a member of the Westwendischer Kunstverein and the artists' group "Rosa Garage".
Exhibitions
Franziska Dörfel has taken part in regional exhibitions and her works are in private collections in Germany. In her studio, she works intensively on exploring the boundaries between abstraction and figurative painting.
Awards
2025 - Nomination for the German Art Prize
2024 - First Place award winner for the "Open Theme" Competition, Cross Currents Gallery, US
Group exhibitions
2024 - KLP, Gr. Wittfeitzen, Germany
2024 - Lines and curves, ATH, India
2024 - Interchange, Florence Contemporary Gallery, Italy
2024 - Antique, Saint Louis Art Gallery Oxford, GB
2024 - Open theme, crosscurrentsgallery, US
2023 - KLP, Gr. Wittfeitzen, Germany, Wagen und Winnen, Gr. Wittfeitzen, Germany
2022 - KLP, Gr. Wittfeitzen, Germany, Wagen und Winnen, Gledeberg, Germany
2021 - KLP, Gr. Wittfeitzen, Germany, Wagen und Winnen, Salzwedel, Germany
2020 - KLP, Lübelner Mühle, Germany
2006 - Annual Tour, university of art Burg Giebichenstein, Halle/ Saale, Germany
2003 - Wir, Prora, Germany
2002 - Das Leben, Galerie Wollhalle, Güstrow, Germany
Education
2005 - Studied Painting, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle/Saale, Germany
2001 - Teaching degree in Art & Philosophy, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany
2000 - Training in wood sculpture, Thuringia, Germany