biography
photo: Jonathan Labusch
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.
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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
2023
OMNI Buenos Aires (BSM Art Building)
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
2025
wake up! the birds are singing
HeLai Art Gallery, Zurich (curation Miao He)
111 screws to unscrew in space
Eleven Ten Studio, Basel (curation Aleksandra Cegielska)
2024
after work mood & beach ball
CoinCoin Offspace Zurich (curation Sarah Reyes)
few times around some islands
Kulturhaus Chäslager Stans (curation Anja Roth, Michael Leuthold)
2023
free swimming lessons for everyone
Kunstkiste Akku Uster (laudation Luca Gurtner)
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
2025
(upcoming) Dezemberausstellung
Kunst Museum Winterthur (curation Lynn Kost)
sad generations with happy pictures
Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Warsaw (curation Aleksandra Cegielska)
ReA! Art Fair 2025
OPOS, Milano (curation Maria Myasnikova)
Back to the Roots
Kulturort Weiertal, Winterthur (curation Maja von Meiss)
Art International Zurich
Puls 5, Zurich (curation Miao He)
2024
Playground Legends
Galerie 710, Winterthur (text: Joshua Amissah)
Bilder eines Lebens
Lager 14, Baar (curation Laura Hürlimann)
25th anniversary Swiss Prime Site
Prime Tower/ Maag Areal Zurich (curation David Bär)
A SIDE - B SIDE
CoinCoin, Zurich (curation Sarah Reyes)
2023
Yarlajrrot
BSM Art Building, Buenos Aires (curation Carolina Magnin)
Mikrokosmos, Mättelipark Badenfahrt, Baden
(curation Brooke Jackson, Lara Vehovar, Ilka Glückselig)
Konfrontation
Galerie Kulturort Weiertal, Winterthur (curation Adrian Mebold)
Heimspiel
Photobastei, Zurich (curation Rolf Zumstein)
Plakatausstellung
Kunstkasten Winterthur (curation Antonella Barone & Tanja Breulio)
Jetzt Kunst N°14
Max Frisch Bad Freibad Letzigraben (curation Rolf Zumstein)
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
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
Walcheweiher, Winterthur (organizer Carolina Mazalesky)
Artworks for Messina
Oxyd, Winterthur (curation Eve Hübscher)
WHAT IS ART
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
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)
