Franziska Aigner works at the intersection of music, performance, and philosophy. After studying at P.A.R.T.S., the school for choreography and dance in Brussels directed by Anne  Teresa De Keersmaeker, she worked with Anne Imhof on the performances Deal, Rage, Angst and  Faust (awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale 2017) and Natures Mortes, as well as performing for William Forsythe, Mette Ingvartsen, Alexandra Bachzetsis and others. Her own works  have been shown at Kunstenfestivaldesarts/Brussels, Die Liste/Basel, Theatre de la Bastille/Paris,The  Place/London, brut/Vienna, HAU/Berlin etc. 

In 2019 the music for Faust (by Anne Imhof, Billy Bultheel, Franziska Aigner and Eliza Douglas) was  released on the Berlin label PAN. Furthermore, Franziska Aigner was part of the Holly Herndon vocal  ensemble, with whom she toured internationally. She performs her solo project (cello and vocals)  under the name FRANKIE. Her solo EPs STYX (2022) and HEAVEN/HELL (2023) were released on Shadow World, and ANGELWHACK, an EP with the violist Battle-Ax (Beatrix Curran) was released in 2025 on Superpang. A full-length album with Domenican-American producer Kelman Duran is forthcoming. She stars in  the feature film City Child (2025), directed by Austin Jack Lynch.

In 2021, Franziska was awarded the Jahresstipendium in Performance and Darstellende Künste by  Land Salzburg. In 2022 she was a recipient of the studio scholarship in Paliano/Italy by Land  Salzburg. In 2023, she was the recipient of the studio scholarship at USF Verftet Bergen/Norway, by  the Austrian Ministry of Culture, before being awarded a scholarship by the German Akademie der Künste  in 2024. 

Franziska completed her PhD in philosophy at the CRMEP, Kingston University London in 2020. She is  currently a lecturer in philosophy at the New Centre of Research and Practice, teaching seminars  on Modern European philosophy and philosophy of technology. Her monograph on Kant and  technics was published with Bloomsbury Press in November 2024, with a new monograph on technics set to be published by Metzler Verlag in 2027.

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photo 1 & 2 (c) Nadine Fraczkowski