Trespass 2019, photograph on the
traditional territories of the Hupačasath and c̓išaaʔatḥ First Nations, Port Alberny, BC, Canada
Carolina’ s work investigates precarious, fluid, and ecological histories through found objects. She considers these objects artifacts within a world of industrial human rationalization, whose stories and systemic contexts she aims to creatively play with and reveal. She intervenes through support, by giving life to objects of destruction. Her work is informed by a humanities background and scholarly focus on literary criticism and critical theory. She considers her experiences of living abroad and on a sailboat, of having lived in seven cities in various countries (in the West and in the East), as much as her deeply felt connections to the land, water, air and mountains around the Salish Sea an essential part of her life and work. C’s art employs a variety of media, from drawing to sculpture to painting to video works to walking.
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carolina franzen
is an emerging multi-disciplinary conceptual artist.* in Munich, Germany, in 1983, she lives as a Permanent Resident of Canada on the unceded traditional territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation in Gibsons, BC. She has lived in 7 cities, 4 countries and on a sailboat. And she sidestepped into the arts from a scholarly career in the humanities.
Carolina holds a PhD in Germanic Studies from UBC, Vancouver, Canada (2021), and a MA in History of Art and Newer German Literature from FU Berlin in Germany (2012). She has shown her work in four solo shows and various group exhibitions, including at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery, the Sunshine Coast Arts Center, and the Deer Lake Art Gallery.
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solo shows
+ Helena Wadsley, Traversing the Tip of the Iceberg, SCAC - Sunshine Coast Arts Council, Sechelt, BC, Canada, March 27 - May 2, 2026
Man Made Cloud, GPAG - Gibsons Public Art Gallery - Main Gallery, Gibsons, BC, Canada, April 3-27, 2025 (short docu)
Timely Cloud, GPAG - Gibsons Public Art Gallery GPAG - Joe’s Lounge, Gibsons, BC, Canada, May 2-26, 2024
Salmon, Rockwood Lodge - Art Space, Sechelt, BC, Canada, October 18-20, 2023
Untitled, The Gibsons and District Public Library, Gibsons, BC, Canada, July 7-30, 2023
participationsTropical Cafe, CCA - Center for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 26-December 17 2022
ReVision – The Art of ReCycling, Deer Lake Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 17-October 22 2022
White Cube, BLAH - Benjamin Lumb Art House, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 15-May 5 2022
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