About

Caitlin Franzmann is a Brisbane based artist who works with installation, sound, performance, and community-based projects. In reaction to the fast pace and sensory overstimulation of contemporary urban life, she encourages people to slow down and pay closer attention to their surroundings and interactions with nature. By creating thoughtful and engaging experiences in galleries and public spaces, she fosters conversation and reflection on local histories, ecosystems, and environmental issues.

Caitlin has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at National Gallery of Victoria, Kyoto Art Centre and Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia. She was included in Primavera 2014: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Passages at New Museum, New York in 2020, TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria and Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art at QAGOMA, Brisbane in 2022. She was recipient of the 2014 Churchie National Emerging Art Prize and was awarded the Metro Arts Visual Arts Pathfinder Program residency (2022-2023).

As a member of the feminist art collective LEVEL from 2013-2017, Caitlin collaboratively presented participatory works at Gallery of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. With LEVEL, she has also co-curated exhibitions and forums with a focus on generating dialogue around gender, feminism, social justice and contemporary art. She was on the management committee of Outer Space Contemporary Arts Organisation 2018-2019, and is currently member of Ensayos, a collective research practice centered on extinction, human geography, coastal health and peatland conservation. She originally trained as an urban planner before completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at Queensland College of Art in 2012.