ABOUT ROBERTA FAUST

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)


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