spaces & stories
SELECTED WORK
2024 after all (installations)
2024 after all (photos)
2024 fever
2023 ephemeral mountain
2022 DIY sunrise
2020 skies over embassies
ABOUT
spaces & stories
SELECTED WORK
2024 after all (installations)
2024 after all (photos)
2024 fever
2023 ephemeral mountain
2022 DIY sunrise
2020 skies over embassies
ABOUT
Roberta Faust, born in 1996 in Hamburg, is a designer and artist trained in the creation of objects, visuals and spaces. In her work she investigates the border between the lasting and the ephemeral, as well as the collision of the human-made with the natural.
She has worked with / for :
The German Embassies
Milano Arch Week
Comune di Milano
Triennale di Milano
Harvard University Herbaria
New York Botanical Garden
Botanischer Garten Bern
Conservatoire et Jardins Botaniques de Genève
MNHN Paris
Björn Beneditz Stage & Set Design
Education
2021-2023
MA Design for Spaces & Communication
HEAD Haute École d’Art et de Design Genève, Switzerland
2016-2020
BA Product Design
UniBZ Libera Università di Bolzano, Facoltà di Design e Arti, Italy (2020)
ENSAD École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs Paris, France
Exhibitions
Upcoming:
Ein Garten ist ein Garten ist ein Garten Group Exhibition
(28 June – 5 October)
2025
Yesterday’s Plants (after all)
Open Day HEAD Campus
(18 January)
Yesterday’s Plants (after all)
Exhibition of the Bourses déliées
HEAD / Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain Genève
(30 January – 2 February)
Yesterday’s Plants (after all)
Design Heads : Creation of Tomorrow
HEAD
(30 January – 2 February)
2024
Selected for the Bourses Déliées
HEAD / Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain Genève
Selected for the FOG MACHINE residency
Teatro della Triennale di Milano
For a Fern (after all)
Swiss Art Awards Exhibition
ArtBasel
(11 – 16 June)
Selected finalist in the Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Kunstpreis
Fever
in the metro stops of Milan
Milano Arch Week 2024
(20 – 26 May)
The Greyhouse (after all)
Botanical Garden of Bern
(09 August – 22 September)
2023
Earth: A Retrospective by El Último Grito
at Bombas Gens Centre d’Art Valencia
(7 July 2022 - 4 June 2023)
Awards
2024
finalist Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Kunstpreis
Bourses Déliées HEAD / Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain Genève
2023
finalist Prix d’Excellence de la Fondation Hans Wilsdorf
Work Experience & Project Participations
2024
Assistant at Björn Beneditz Stage & Set Design
2022
Scenography for Clermont-Ferrand in the competition of European Capital of Culture 2028,
under the direction of Matali Crasset,
in collaboration with Pénélope Barraud, Tristan Bartolini, Camille Belmas, Elisa Bonami, Ankita Das, Linda Forestieri, Vincent Grange, Sonya Isupova, Giona Mazzucchelli, Tanguy Troubat, Marileni Vourtsi
2020 - 2022
Research Project Towards the Realm of Materiality – Designing Philip K. Dick’s Non-Existing Devices at UniBZ,
under the direction of German A. Duarte, Andrea Facchetti, Secil Ugur Yavuz
link to the publicatioin at Nero Editions
2020
Intern at Klaus Hackl Produktdesign in Munich, Germany
2016
Intern at Villa Romana, Artists Residency in Florence, Italy
Texts and interviews
Text aboutYesterday’s plants by Scott Longfellow, curator at mudac Musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains
link to the text
Interview with Radio Raheem about FOG MACHINE
link to the interview
Languages
German (native speaker)
Italian (C1)
English (C1)
French (C1)