biography
Luca Harlacher's artistic work is about the sensory overload, the complexity and chaos
in our inner and outer life in times of globalization and hybridization.
But he does not want to fall into cultural pessimism but to show that the coexistence
of heterogeneous elements, the simultaneity of non-simultaneities, "micro-macro shifts"
and the omnipresent combination of countless contrasts is not a burden
but can be fun.
EDUCATION
2016 - 2019
Bachelor of arts in fine arts, Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK
2018
Exchange semester at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes, UNA in Buenos Aires
2015 - 2016
Propädeutikum, ZHdK, Zurich
AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS
2022
Atelierstipendium Berlin (Stadt Winterthur)
Atelierstipendium AKKU Uster
2021
Artist in Residence, KUNSTpause, Zug
2020
Corona-Kulturprojekt Stadt Winterthur, Kunstpost, Winterthur
Artist residency, Toxi Space, Zurich
2019
JKON-award winner: Look@JKON 2019, Zofingen
2018
Fischer/Collegen Kunstpreis, Stuttgart
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
erstens: Frag den Schmetterling, Kunsthalle Schaffhausen (curation André Bless)
Land of a 1000 Dances, KeinMuseum, Zurich (curation Lara Vehovar, Lara Baltsch)
Fairy Tale Castle points to the Stars, Galerie Visarte, Zurich (curation Nadja Baldini)
Schaufensterkunst, Atelier62, Schaan (curation Ursula Wolf)
2020
Finissage Residency, Toxi Space, Zurich (curation Nemo Bleuer)
2019
Look@JKON 2019, Kunsthaus Zofingen, Zofingen (curation Claudia Waldner)
Fischer/Collegen Kunstpreis, Colorado Tower, Stuttgart (Jury Jörg Scheller)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
IL CIRCOLO DEL FRATTEMPO, Spoiler, Berlin (curation Mara Micciche)
Best of 2022 - Visarte Zürich und Gäste, Photobastei, Zurich ( curation Clare Goodwin )
Kunst Take Away, Kunstraum Baden (curation Maria Baenziger )
2021
Kunst im Max Frisch Bad, Freibad Letzigraben, Zurich (curation Rolf Zumstein)
ReA! Art Fair 2021, Fabricca del Vapore in Milano, Milano (curation Maria Myasnikova)
KUNSTpause Zug, Chollerhalle, Zug (curation Sam Heller)
The Touch of Things, Kunst im Thermalbad Zyklus,Bagno Popolare,
Baden (curation Manueala Luterbacher)
Make Art Happening, Plakatausstellung, Lucerne (curation Helen Eggenschwiler)
Coucoukunst, Büelpark, Winterthur (curation Corinne Jolliet, Franca Bernhart)
IKW Festival, public performance at the Walcheweiher, Winterthur (organizer Carolina Mazalesky)
Artworks for Messina, Oxyd, Winterthur (curation Eve Hübscher)
WHAT IS ART Second edition, Boomer Gallery, London (curation Cosmin Constatin)
2020
Phantastische Tierwesen - Winterthurs Versprechen, Oxyd, Winterthur (curation Eve Hübscher)
Intra Muros, Old Town of Winterthur (curation Merly Knörle)
A5, Mokka Rubin, Olten (curation Michael Sutter)
Kunst in der Stadt, Weriplatz, Brig (curation Marc Andereggen)
Kunstzimmer 2020, Hotel Wartmann, Winterthur (curation Lucia A. Cavegn)
2019
Jungkunst Winterthur 2019, Halle 53, Winterthur (curation Katja Baumhoff)
JKON, Junge Kunst Olten 2019, Schützi Olten (curation Nermina Serifovic)
Diplomausstellung, Toni-Areal, Zurich
2018
Inflables, Las Heras, Buenos Aires (curation Juan Reos)
Phantastische Tierwesen und wo sie wirklich zu finden sind, Toni-Areal, Zurich
2017
Fly Over, Hardbrücke, Zurich (curation Andres Bosshard)
MEDIA
2022
Reading Rämistrasse/ Website of the Kunsthalle Zurich
ZETT/ Magazine of ZHdK
2021
ArtTV
Junge Kunst/ Installationskünstler und Maler/ Luca Harlacher
Zuger Zeitung
Die Freude an der Reizüberflutung
Coucou Kulturmagazin Winterthur
2020
Der Landbote
2019
Der Landbote
Die Heiterkeit währt nicht ewig
Zofinger Tagblatt
Die Freude des Künstlers am Elfmeter
Winterthurer Zeitung