
FRANZISKA KATHARINA
RÖHRS
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Franziska Katharina Röhrs works between painting, performance, and the physical trace. Her works emerge from movement, impulse, and a consistent willingness to question established forms. Color becomes trace, the body becomes a tool, and the image a site of condensation, memory, and release.
Her core interest lies in how experiences – relationships, fractures, emotions – inscribe themselves into bodies and materials. People leave marks on each other. Röhrs makes these visible – not illustratively, but through rhythm, layering, gesture, and fragmentation.
In the series Behind the Wheel, she drove a car over canvases prepared with paint – a performative exploration of control, risk, and the desire to leave a mark without holding on.
In 2024, Röhrs presented her first solo exhibition, followed by several group and duo shows in Hamburg and Berlin. In 2025, further solo and group exhibitions in both cities will follow. Her work has been shown in traditional art spaces, off-spaces, and public contexts.
After a successful career in business, Röhrs made a deliberate decision to pursue art – rejecting security in favor of expression. Together with Johannes Bube and Jonas Kirsch, she founded independent studio spaces. Not as a community project, but as a platform for friction, exchange, and visibility. Her aim: to build new connections between art, vacancy, economy, and radical self-responsibility.
For her, art is not decoration – it’s a space where everything starts to move. Her practice is physical, process-driven, uncomfortable – and precisely because of that, it invites us to pause, to feel, to rethink.
