Franziska Nori

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
Director

Franziska Nori is director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany, where she has been working since 2014. Previously, she was director of the Center of Contemporary Culture Strozzina at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy from 2007 to 2014, headed the department for digital art and culture at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany from 2000 to 2003. As a freelance curator between 1996 and 2006, she worked with the Transmediale Festival, the Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain, the Museum für Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany. Since 2011, she is Honorary Professor of Museology and Curatorial Practices of Contemporary Art at Marist College, New York /Lorenzo de Medici, Florence. She has curated numerous exhibitions with contemporary artists such as Forensic Architecture, Jeremy Shaw, Thomas Feuerstein, Trevor Paglen, Melanie Bonajo. With a focus on art and science, she has conceived thematic exhibitions on changing human perception in virtual worlds and the perspective of learning algorithms and artificial intelligence. In cooperation with scientific research institutes, she presented Trees of Life (2019) and Intelligence of Plants (2021).

Franziska Nori was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2021.

Franziska Nori. Photo: courtesy of the curator.