photo by Lili Huston-Herterich
based between Amsterdam & Jakarta
fransiscangela@gmail.com
Fransisca Angela (b. Indonesia) is a photographer and visual artist, working across film, installation, publishing, and collective programming. Her practice is rooted in lived experience and shaped by intergenerational perspectives. She engages with both endorsed and erased histories, exploring how memory is transmitted through language, material processes, oral traditions, and everyday rituals. Through personal narratives, she invites people to experience life's fragments, allowing them to reimagine a new reality that stands in for what is often overlooked or forgotten. Central to her practice is creating spaces for collective reflection through reading and performance. Fransisca initiated Terang Press in 2026 as part of her publishing practice and to amplify works of artists and writers within Asian diaspora communities.
Alongside her artistic practice, she works professionally as a photographer, undertaking editorial and commissioned projects for brands, publications, and organizations worldwide.
For inquiries / just want to say hi, please get in touch: fransiscangela@gmail.com
Residency, Grant, Fellowship
2026 Troubling Pigments (after Polke), Athanor NOW, Anna Polke-Stiftung, Köln
2023-25 Resident Artist, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
2022-2023 Heritage in Focus, World Monuments Fund & Magnum Foundation, New York
2022 Photobook As Object Workshop with Yumi Goto, Jakarta
2021 Magnum Foundation Photography & Social Justice Fellowship, New York
2019 Angkor Photo Workshop, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Screening
2026 The Magnolia Grows at Night, Two Places at Once, An Crùbh, Isle of Skye
2026 The Magnolia Grows at Night, New Year/New Work, The Film-Makers’ Coop, New York
2026 The Magnolia Grows at Night, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick
2025 Have you called mom?, When My Mother Laughs, Mayday Rooms, London
2025 petals, skin, turning, Six Minutes, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
2024 prosperity, luck, joy, Het Documentaire Paviljoen, Amsterdam
2022-2023 Heritage in Focus, World Monuments Fund & Magnum Foundation, New York
2022 Photobook As Object Workshop with Yumi Goto, Jakarta
2021 Magnum Foundation Photography & Social Justice Fellowship, New York
2019 Angkor Photo Workshop, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Screening
2026 The Magnolia Grows at Night, Two Places at Once, An Crùbh, Isle of Skye
2026 The Magnolia Grows at Night, New Year/New Work, The Film-Makers’ Coop, New York
2026 The Magnolia Grows at Night, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick
2025 Have you called mom?, When My Mother Laughs, Mayday Rooms, London
2025 petals, skin, turning, Six Minutes, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
2024 prosperity, luck, joy, Het Documentaire Paviljoen, Amsterdam
Exhibition
2026 (forthcoming solo) The Magnolia Grows at Night, Tokyo Arts & Space (TOKAS), Tokyo
2026 Voices for Transparency, The Guild Church of St Katharine Cree, London
2025 Remembering and Solidarity-Making: 60 years after 1965, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
2025 Zomer in zwart-wit, Schietbaan, Marineterrein, Amsterdam
2025 Then, The Orchids Turned Grey, Woven Stories, Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam
2025 La Uma / Our Home (photo), Heritage in Focus, Photoville, New York
2025 The Magnolia Grows at Night, Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam
2024 Live 16mm projections, SPECTRAL Showcase, Rotterdam
2024 La Uma / Our Home (photo), Heritage in Focus, Paris Photo, Paris
2024 La Uma / Our Home, In The Field 2, London
2024 La Uma / Our Home (video installation), Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam
2023 9 Acts of Remembering, 17th Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap
Reading Performance
2026 The Weight of Blue, Troubling Pigments (after Polke), Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2026 Between Pages and The Convent’s Garden, Typewronger Books, Edinburgh
2025 petals, skin, turning, Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam
2025 Reading Group Host, on Memory #3, De Appel, Amsterdam
2024 Under the Poetree, Read My World, Amsterdam
2024 350,000 Leaks by Aram Lee, Wereld Museum, Amsterdam
2024 and she couldn’t hide from the sun, Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam
2024 (Unseen) War & Conflict, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2023 A Mic of One’s Own: My Oma, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam
Text & Publication
2025 The Magnolia Grows at Night, Terang Press
2025 Indies, Words: Artist Writing, Rijksakademie
2024 Indies, Gully Magazine issue 1
Select Client Airbnb / Airbnb.org / World Monuments Fund (WMF) / Red Ventures / Lonely Planet / Mercy Corps / Shell / British Embassy / The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) / VCCP London/ Select Editorial Monocle / National Geographic Traveller UK / Wall Street Journal / UNESCO Courier / Design*Sponge / DestinAsian Indonesia / L'Officiel / ELLE Decoration /