Benjamin Francis
Benjamin Francis
update: 2026.4.6
Profile
Born in Rotterdam in 1996. Lives and works in Amsterdam. Graduated with a BA in Fine art from Artez Arnhem in 2020.
His work reflects on his lived experience of being corrected for spelling mistakes due to dyslexia. These dissonances or errors are carefully
corrected in our current-day society, as anything outside the norm is deemed unproductive and therefore excluded.
Recent exhibitions
2025 "For your own good," DE SINGEL, Antwerpen
2025 "Solo presentation," June art fair, Basel
2025 "Am, i an object?," Christine könig galerie, Vienna
2025 "A foot between the door," No man's art gallery, Amsterdam
2025 "Traces We Keep," BRUTUS, Rotterdam
Awards
2025 Stichting Stokroos Seed grant
2024 Best Booth Prize Art Antwerp
2024 Mondriaan fonds Jong talent
About works
Through installations, videos, and performances, he creates site-specic environments like bathrooms,
classrooms, autopsy rooms where care becomes coercion. Projects like Am I, an object use satire to
question authorship and originality within death rituals, while The Smell of Boundaries confronts cleanliness
as a ritual of separation.
His work stages environments of discomfort and repetition to uncover the hidden power structures that
shape how we learn to distinguish right from wrong. By foregrounding linguistic errors, bodily mess, and
systemic rigidity, his practice challenges dominant binaries and asks: Who decides what is correct and what
is excluded in the process?
For your own good, 2026, One channel 4K video with sound, 22 min
Death Bed, 2024, Twigs, vaseline, mirror and glass, 205 x 188 x 65 cm
Photo: Ilya Rabinovich
Am I, an Object?, 2024, One channel 4k video with sound, 16 min
The smell of boundries, 2025, Mirror, glass, kit, petroleum, jelly, fish eyes, wood, and latex, 242 x 184 x 10 cm
Guard gates, 2021, Mirror, metal, aluminium, laundry detergent 30 lTower itself is 1.20m x 1.20m x 2.20m (space around it is 4m x 5m)
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