spaces & stories
SELECTED WORK
2024 yesterday’s plants (installations)
2024 yesterday’s plants (photos)
2024 fever
2023 ephemeral mountain
2022 DIY sunrise
2020 skies over embassies
ABOUT
spaces & stories
SELECTED WORK
2024 yesterday’s plants (installations)
2024 yesterday’s plants (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
2025
Ein Garten ist ein Garten ist ein Garten Group Show
Nidwaldner Museum, Winkelriedhaus
(28 June – 5 October)
Es ist ein pflanzliches Verb Group Show
Pudel Club Hamburg
(2 June)
Yesterday’s Plants
Exhibition of the Bourses déliées
HEAD / Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain Genève
(30 January – 2 February)
Yesterday’s Plants
Design Heads : Creation of Tomorrow
HEAD
(30 January – 2 February)
2024
Exhibition of the Swiss Art Awards
ArtBasel
(11 – 16 June)
Fever in the metro stops of Milan
Milano Arch Week 2024
(20 – 26 May)
The Greyhouse
Botanischer Garten Bern
(09 August – 22 September)
2023
Earth: A Retrospective by El Último Grito
Bombas Gens Centre d’Art Valencia
(7 July 2022 - 4 June 2023)
Fellowships / Residencies / Nominations
2024
Fellowship Bourse déliée HEAD / Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain Genève
Finalist Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Kunstpreis
Residency Program FOG MACHINE
organized by Triennale Milano & FOG Performing Arts Festival
2023
Finalist Prix d’Excellence de la Fondation Hans Wilsdorf
Work Experience & Project Participations
2025
Intern at Deutsche Oper Berlin
Stage- and Costume Design under the guidance of Nina Wetzel
in the production of LASH
2024
Assistant at Björn Beneditz Stage 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)