Franziska Fennert is a German artist, born in the former socialist East Germany, who lives in Indonesia since 2013. She works mainly with sewn objects and paintings in which she seeks healing from her Wendetrauma(German-German Reunification). The takeover of the former GDR by the Federal Republic of Germany had deeply shaken her family and indirectly led to the death of her father years later. Her stay in Indonesia enables her to reflect on a value system other than capitalism and to search for spiritual roots.

Through her work, she seeks to understand human behavior, economic constructs, and social structures in a global context. Since participating in the Nature Art Residency, Tsukuba, Japan in 2018, she sees the emancipated environment as a necessary part of a progressive social system.

Joining the Indonesian Upcycle Forum the following year, she investigates circular economy and Javanese spirituality as an alternative to capitalism.

In 2020, Franziska initiated the construction of a temple made of plastic scraps melted into stones next to the Piyungan garbage dump, Yogyakarta, which then collectively evolved into Monumen Antroposen. The goal is to transform global society in terms of social and ecologically oriented circular economy that honors the respective ancestors of a country/place.

Franziska graduated as a master student at the Dresden University of Fine Arts in 2011 with the state scholarship of the Free State of Saxony. Four years earlier, the solo exhibition Everything is Rites/Semua adalah Upacara at Museum Affandi, Yogyakarta, was the culmination of her Darmasiswa Fellowship.

As chair of the German-Asian association cover e.V. from 2012-13, she organized international exhibitions in Dresden and Shanghai.

For the occasion of the project in public space Vision of a social Evolution, sponsored by Lawangwangi, Artsociates Bandung and the German Foreign Office she moved back to her chosen home Indonesia.