Abie
Franklin

Abie
Franklin

Artist

Abie Franklin

Abie was born in Jerusalem, and raised in Tel Aviv where he graduated from Thelma Yellin High School with the highest honours in the visual arts department, he moved to Berlin in 2015.

After finishing school he decided to decline the obligatory military service and worked in a children’s home instead. He’s made Berlin his home since 2015. His postgraduate diploma in Fine Arts from Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee (2016-2022) laid the foundation for his exploration of space, identity, and materiality. Assisting Professor Nader Ahriman’s class (2020-2022) deepened his understanding of colonial legacies within spatial constructs.

In 2022, Abie co-founded the “Solitudo Residency” in Croatia, fostering artistic collaboration and dialogue. Abie’s practice involves looking at archetypes of spatial relations as representations of power dynamics and narratives of conflict and desire. Wherein his main focus is the materiality of borders.

He is a junior lecturer at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee and Kunstakademie Trier (2024), and guest professor at KHB Weißensee (2025).