ABOUT ME
Franziska Greber is a Swiss artist
For the past four decades, she has been devoting herself to studies and projects related to domestic and other forms of violence, gender equality and legal issues.
In 2016 she put her focus on Women’s Rights – with using art – and initiated the international art project ‘WOMEN IN THE DARK’.
She worked as a psychotherapist mainly with survivors of violence, was Co-Head of the Intervention Center against Domestic Violence at the Directorate of Justice and Home Affairs, Canton of Zürich, counseled many organizations at home and abroad, taught at universities and colleges and wrote numerous articles in academic journals and books. She was a speaker at UN events in Geneva and Vienna.
Franziska Greber was involved in many theater projects (one in a Swiss prison), worked as a script-consultant for a documentary movie about depression and for a fictional movie about domestic violence.
Her artworks are based on a variety of media, including installations, photography, videos and texts.
EXHIBITIONS
2020
Solo Exhibition, Superblock, Winterthur, Switzerland
Group Exhibition, Baturu (Online) Cultural Festival, Beijing & Hongkong, China
2019
Group Exhibition, 117 Art Center, Ningbo, China
Solo Exhibition, Aapravasi Ghat World Heritage Site & Cerne Docks, Port Louis, Mauritius
Solo Exhibition, Anna Göldi Museum, Ennenda/Glarus, Switzerland
Group Exhibition, Art Museum Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
2018
Group Exhibition, Geely University Art Space, Beijing, China
Group Exhibition, Bond 27, GIH, Shanghai, China
Group Exhibition, Meixi Hall Art Space, Changsha, China
Solo Exhibition, Sisir Mancha Theater, Kolkata, India
2017
Solo Exhibition, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, India
Solo Performance, Crossroads Center Art Space, Beijing, China
2016
Group Exhibition, Crossroads Center Art Space, Beijing, China
Visiting Artist, the pARTage Residency Program, Flic en Flac, Mauritius