Artist Biography
Francisca Rosner
is a textile artist living and working in Amsterdam. Her practice explores textile as a carrier of memory, time and embodied experience. Through weaving, stitching and layering, she develops works that move between structure and vulnerability, repetition and disruption. Rather than aiming for fixed outcomes, Rosner approaches her practice as an ongoing investigation in which material responses guide the work.
Artist Statement
“Textiles are inherently relational materials. They fold, stretch, resist and remember.
Every crease or frayed edge records an encounter:
a body leaning, a weight applied, time passing.”
The Practice
Rosner’s working process is both intuitive and research-driven. She collects, combines, deconstructs, and reassembles textile fragments—often sourced from personal archives, family history, and found materials—allowing new forms to emerge through repetition and variation.
Her work is informed by her East German heritage, with visual references to Saxon folklore and the material culture of the former GDR. Color functions not as decoration, but as a portal for sensation and emotional memory.
Selected Projects
2025: You Are So Welcome! — Galerie Sophie
2025: Zomersalon — CBK Amsterdam
2024: The Blue Zone — Van Eesteren Museum
2014-25: Art and the City (Founder)
2009: The Digital Forest — Stedelijk Museum
Affiliations & Collections
Member of the European Textile Network (ETN).
Her work is included in the collections of Rijkswaterstaat, PWC, Oxxio, Be Informed, and private collectors throughout Europe and Asia.