Peggy Franck

Peggy Franck


Peggy Franck is known for the photographs, taken inside her studio, of abstract still lifes made from everyday found objects. She variously hangs these images on the wall, leaves the prints rolled up on the floor as sculptures, or presents them alongside installations of similar arrangements. Franck’s compositions are careful constructions of abstract shapes and recognizable materials, gestural forms, and geometric arrangements. With these works, she began a train of thought that would extend through her other bodies of work: that of manipulating perceptions of space in two and three dimensions. In addition to photography, sculpture, and installation, her practice is ever-expanding to include new mediums. In a 2012 exhibition, Franck presented a suite of abstract drawings made on reflective paper.

Peggy Franck lives and works in Amsterdam (NL).


Solo Shows:

2015 Peggy Franck en Helen Vehoeven, Apophanie, De Nederlandse Bank, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Elastic Visions, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2013 ‘A Household Without Responsibilities’, OUTPOST, Norwich, GB
2012 ‘Sudden Parallels Between the Sky and the Concrete’, Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
2012 ‘A cat had got up and left the room’, Marion Scharmann, Cologne, DE
2011 ‘Drawing from a store of thought’, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2009 ‘At home a stranger’, Marion Scharmann, Cologne, DE
2009 ‘In Rocking Motion’, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, DE
2008 ‘The conversation you and I never had’, Klerkx, Milano, IT
2008 Liste 08, Basel, Laurin, CH
2008 ‘All the secret deaths I died’, Raum für zeitgenössische Fotografie, Coalmine, Winterthur, CH
2007 ‘Luxury is in the sky’, Kunstraum Marion Scharmann, Cologne, DE
2006 ACF Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, NL
2002 ‘Slave to the rhythm’, Extrapool, Nijmegen, NL

Group Shows:

2014 'How Soon is Now?', Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
2014 'The artist as producer 2' by Whatspace, Alpineum, Luzern, CH
2014 Peggy Franck & Freek Wambacq, Middlemarch, Brussels, BE
2013 Perm State Art Gallery, Perm, RU, 'Still/Life: Contemporary Dutch Photography'
2013 ‘It might as well rain until September’, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2013 ‘Still/Life: Contemporary Dutch Photography’, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, RU
2013 ‘Stand alone, by my side – Conference 1', Autocenter, Berlin, DE
2013 ‘False Optimism’, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, IE
2013 ‘Perspectives on Collage’, Photographers Gallery, London, GB
2013 Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, NL, Maarten Overdijk - Peggy Franck - Charl van Ark
2012 Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2012, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Point de vue, 's-Hertogenbosch, NL
2012 'Peggy Franck, Aukje Koks, Arjan van Helmond' Wolvecampprijs, Hengelo, NL
2012 ‘Bettina Buck invites Peggy Franck, Rokeby, London, GB
2012 'Secouer le cocotier' by Freek Wambacq with Peggy Franck,Nicolas Matrangas,Gert Verhoeven,(SIC), BE
2012 'Zippy Zippy', duoshow with Maria Zahle, Dorothea Schlüter, Hamburg, DE
2012 ‘Objects of dismissal’, Autocenter, Berlin, DE
2011 'Were all the stars to dissapear or die...', Bugada & Cargnel, Paris, FR
2011 ‘Still/Life’, FOAM, Amsterdam, NL

Press :

2013 Code Magazine #6, FR, Zoë Gray, 'Shape-shifter'
2013 Tubelight #84, NL 'Werk' Interview by Noor Mertens
2012 (H)Art, BE, Lilian Bense, 'Peggy Franck'
2012 Parool, NL, Kees Keijer, 'Tijd en ruimte worden even stilgezet'
2009 Kunstbeeld, NL, #6, Sandra Spijkerman, 'Signalement: Peggy Franck'
2009 Art Review, UK, Issue 29, Andrew Smaldone, ‘Peggy Franck. The Conversation You and I never Had’
2008 Süddeutsche Zeitung, DE, Catrin Lorch, ‘Eingestampfte Science-Fiction’
2008 Tagesanzeiger, CH, Feli Schindler, ‘Schneewitten im plexiglass'
2008 Landbote, CH, Iris Wolfensberger, ‘Orte der Kunst und Wirklichkeit’
2007 Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, ‘Die wäscher von Mumbai’
2007 Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, ‘Verhinderte Romantik’

CV :

Untitled

UNTITLED, 2018

Digital print on carpet
Peggy Franck

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UNTITLED, 2018

Digital print on carpet

Peggy Franck

Museum Hilversum (detail)

MUSEUM HILVERSUM (DETAIL), 2017

Painted wall, C-print
Peggy Franck

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MUSEUM HILVERSUM (DETAIL), 2017

Painted wall, C-print

Peggy Franck

Installation view Museum Hilversum

INSTALLATION VIEW MUSEUM HILVERSUM, 2017

Installation
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INSTALLATION VIEW MUSEUM HILVERSUM, 2017

Installation

Peggy Franck

Of naked ground IV (S&B)

OF NAKED GROUND IV (S&B), 2015

C-print
Peggy Franck

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OF NAKED GROUND IV (S&B), 2015

C-print

Peggy Franck

Installation view Lucebert House

INSTALLATION VIEW LUCEBERT HOUSE, 2016

Installation
Peggy Franck

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INSTALLATION VIEW LUCEBERT HOUSE, 2016

Installation

Peggy Franck

Gazes crossing (b,B)

GAZES CROSSING (B,B), 2017

Digital print on carpet, framed
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GAZES CROSSING (B,B), 2017

Digital print on carpet, framed

Peggy Franck

Her effort to escape

HER EFFORT TO ESCAPE, 2018

Digital print on carpet
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HER EFFORT TO ESCAPE, 2018

Digital print on carpet

Peggy Franck

Scarves, hats, a stuffed bird

SCARVES, HATS, A STUFFED BIRD, 2018

C-print, framed
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SCARVES, HATS, A STUFFED BIRD, 2018

C-print, framed

Peggy Franck

Installation view Stigter van Doesburg

INSTALLATION VIEW STIGTER VAN DOESBURG, 2018

Installation
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INSTALLATION VIEW STIGTER VAN DOESBURG, 2018

Installation

Peggy Franck

Sally sitting on a chair

SALLY SITTING ON A CHAIR, 2018

Chair, rubber, nylon thread
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SALLY SITTING ON A CHAIR, 2018

Chair, rubber, nylon thread

Peggy Franck

Someone, anyone: varieties in distance (M&F)

SOMEONE, ANYONE: VARIETIES IN DISTANCE (M&F), 2015

C-print
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SOMEONE, ANYONE: VARIETIES IN DISTANCE (M&F), 2015

C-print

Peggy Franck

Gazes crossing (all blue is precious)

GAZES CROSSING (ALL BLUE IS PRECIOUS), 2017

Digital print on carpet, framed
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GAZES CROSSING (ALL BLUE IS PRECIOUS), 2017

Digital print on carpet, framed

Peggy Franck

Someone, anyone: varieties in distance (P,G)

SOMEONE, ANYONE: VARIETIES IN DISTANCE (P,G), 2015

C-print
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SOMEONE, ANYONE: VARIETIES IN DISTANCE (P,G), 2015

C-print

Peggy Franck

A household without responsibilities

A HOUSEHOLD WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITIES, 2013

Bathtub and diverse materials
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A HOUSEHOLD WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITIES, 2013

Bathtub and diverse materials

Peggy Franck

Untitled

UNTITLED


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UNTITLED

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Reading and being read to

READING AND BEING READ TO, 2011


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READING AND BEING READ TO, 2011

Peggy Franck

The Castaways

THE CASTAWAYS, 2012


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THE CASTAWAYS, 2012

Peggy Franck

Waiting for the quiet moment to come,

WAITING FOR THE QUIET MOMENT TO COME,, 2009

Inkjet prints, pvc, spray paint, paper, perspex
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WAITING FOR THE QUIET MOMENT TO COME,, 2009

Inkjet prints, pvc, spray paint, paper, perspex

Peggy Franck

Repeating the event

REPEATING THE EVENT, 2008

C-print
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REPEATING THE EVENT, 2008

C-print

Peggy Franck

Elastic Visions

ELASTIC VISIONS

C-Print
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ELASTIC VISIONS

C-Print

Peggy Franck

Exhibitions