Biografie
About Francisca Rosner
Francisca Rosner is a Dutch textile artist based in Amsterdam. Her practice centers on the sensory and mnemonic qualities of material, with a particular focus on textiles as carriers of memory, identity, and embodied experience. She creates spatial installations and sculptural works that investigate how matter records time, touch, and transformation.
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, variation, and reconfiguration. Older works are frequently revisited, dismantled, and reworked, resulting in a cyclical practice in which motifs return in altered states.
Her work is informed by her East German heritage, with visual references to Saxon folklore, the material culture of the former GDR (DDR), and the painterly sensibility of the Neue Leipziger Schule. Color functions as a central element in her practice, not as decoration but as a portal for sensation, resonance, and emotional memory.
In 2025, Rosner became a member of the European Textile Network (ETN), recognizing her commitment to textiles as both an artistic and research-based medium. Alongside her artistic practice, she is the founder of Art and the City, an educational platform for graphic design and visual arts, active since 2014 in multiple cities across the Netherlands.
Her work has been presented in museums, galleries, festivals, and community contexts, including collaborations with institutions such as CBK Amsterdam, the Van Eesteren Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum. Rosner’s installations are often site-responsive and temporary in nature, evolving in dialogue with architectural space, context, and audience.
Recent & past projects include:
- You Are So Welcome! – Galerie Sophie, The Hague (May–June 2025)
- CBK Zomersalon 2025 – Amsterdam 750 Years – CBK Amsterdam (July–August 2025)
- Blauwe Zone Festival – Amsterdam Nieuw-West (5–6 July 2025)
- The Blue Zone (2024) – in collaboration with the Van Eesteren Museum
- The Digital Forest (2009) – traveling installation with the Stedelijk Museum
- Groen (2010) – community project on the perception of green
- Radio Red (2004) – spoken word & visual research with Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
- Art and the City (2014–2025) – ongoing educational project across the Netherlands
Exhibitions & collections:
Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in museums, art fairs, and community contexts. Collections include Rijkswaterstaat, PWC, Oxxio, Be Informed, and various private collectors.
Upcoming projects:
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India, Jaipur — Textile Retreat & Material Research
February–March 2026
An immersive period of textile exploration, material study and embodied practice.
