Louisa Gagliardi
Louisa Gagliardi was born in 1989. She studied in Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne ECAL(BA, 2012) and Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2011).
Lives and works in Zurich.
Works in collections
Collection Banque Pictet, Geneva, CH
Collection FRAC, Normandie, FR
Fondazione Sandra e Giancarlo Bonollo, Thiene, IT
Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, NO
MAMCO, Geneva, CH
MASI, Lugano, CH
Sammlung Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, CH
Sammlung Ringier, Zurich, CH
Sigg Art Foundation, Le Castellet, FR / Jeddah, SA
TANK, Shanghai, CN
The Julius Baer Art Collection, Zurich, CH
VandenBroek Foundation, Sassenheim, NL
X Museum, Beijing, CN
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2025
- Louisa Gagliardi: Many Moons, Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, CH
2024
- Whereabouts, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, AT
- Hard feelings, Galerie Eva Presenhuber x TAXA, Seul, KR
- Deep Breaths, CC Strombeek, Grimbergen, BE
2023
- A Moment’s Notice, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
2022
- Reasonable Doubt, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, PL
- Around the Clock, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, BE
2021
- Permission, Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH
2020
- Raincheck, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, PL
- Wishful Thinking, Antenna Space, Shanghai, CN
2019
- Side Effects of Satisfaction, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, BE
- Force of Circumstance, McNamara Art Projects, Hong Kong, HK
2018
- Adam Cruces & Louisa Gagliardi, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris, FR
- Under the Weather, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales, UK
- Holdings, Openforum, Berlin, DE
- On a day like this, Plymouth Rock, Zurich, CH
2017
- Whispers in the Shade, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
- Cold Sweat, with Manon Wertenbroek, La Plage, Paris, FR
- Notes for later, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, BE
2016
- Walking Errands (with Adam Cruces), The Cabin, Los Angeles, US
- La Belle Heure, Tomorrow Gallery, New York, USA
2014
- The New Guy, Galerie Ephemere, Hublot, Verbier, CH
2013
- Professor Space Phase, White Squat, Zurich, CH
Group Exhibitions
2023
- MELENCOLIA, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
- Print is a Battlefield, Museo Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona, CH
- MONOTYPES – Edition VFO, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, CH
- Galerie Eva Presenhuber x TAXA, Seoul, KR
2022
- EARTHING, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
- TÊTE-À-TÊTE, Art Unlimited, Basel, CH
- Jean-Marie Appriou, Amy Feldman, Louisa Gagliardi, Kris Lemsalu, Conny Maier, Sofia Mitsola, Tobias Pils, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
- Louisa Gagliardi, Yves Scherer, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, USA
- Sausage Party, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, BE
- Fool’s Gold, COUPLE (Louisa Gagliardi & Adam Cruces), Lemme, Sion, CH
- Post-digital intimacy, National Gallery, Prague, CZ
- Lemaniana. Reflets d’autres scènes, Enquête sur la production artistique actuelle en région lémanique, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, CH
- Lugari, Rudimento, Quito, EC
2020
- Collection as Poem in the Age of Ephemerality, X Museum, Beijing, CN
2019
- Fruits of Nature, with Adam Cruces (COUPLE), Berlinskje Model, Prague, CZ
- La métamorphose de l’art imprimé, Edition VFO, Zurich, CH
- The Kind Stranger, UN Art Center, Shanghai, CN
- Observer of the Techniques, Wallriss, Fribourg, CH
- DOG DAYS, CLEARING, New York, USA
- drawings, 650mAh, Hove, UK
2018
- On the Road, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH
- Tronc Mental, Centre d’art de Neuchâtel CAN, Neuchâtel, CH
- No Fear of Fainting in a Gym, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, CH
- Deleted Scene(s), with Adam Cruces, Joseph Tang, Paris, FR
- birds, cigarettes, guitars, eyes and trees, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, BE
- Mount Analogue, Platform, Stockholm, SE
2017
- Being There, Louisiana, Humlebæk, DK
- Werkschau 2017, Museum Haus Kontruktiv, Zurich, CH
- Cul-de-sac, Athenna Space, Shanghai, CN
- Sans-Titre 3, Paris, FR
- Tastes Like Headaches, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV
- Cold Sweat, with Manon Wertenbroek, La Plage, Paris, FR
2016
- Painters? Painting?, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
- Hinter jedem Berg steht noch ein Berg, Helmhaus, Zurich, CH
- Mostly viewed by cows, Art Safiental, Tenna, CH
- La Vitesse des Images, Instituto Svizzero, Roma, IT
- Hypnic Jerk, Smart Objects, Los Angeles, US
- Exercices in Style, Suprainfinit, Bucharest, RO
- For Granted, Hole of the Fox, Antwerp, BE
- Design & Crime, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, FR
- Surreal, König Galerie, Berlin, DE
- Mirrors, DUVE, Berlin, DE
- Over and Under, monCHERI, Brussels, BE
- Walking Errands, with Adam Cruces, The Cabin, Los Angeles, USA
2015
- A perfect Lie, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Brussels, BE
- For Granted, Hole of the Fox, Antwerp, BE
- Filter Bubble, Luma Foundation, Zurich, CH
- Madrugada, Tomorrow Gallery, New York, USA
- Cookie Gate, Ellis King, Dublin, IE
- A Form is a Social Gatherer, Plymouth Rock, Zurich, CH
2014
- World Music, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
- Swiss Design Award, Art Basel, Basel, CH
- The Reframing of Loss, Jon Rafman, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA
2013
- Beauty Shop, Up–State, Zurich, CH
- Doom, Taylor Macklin, Zurich, CH
- Bücher Temporär, Zurich, CH
- Agata Pyzik, Louisa Gagliardi, Artforum, 2020
- Ellen Mara de Wachter, Painter Louisa Gagliardi’s Surreal Satisfactions, frieze, 2019
- Near the Weather, Louisa Gagliardi in conversation with Adam Carr, Mousse Magazine, 2019
- Andrew M. Goldstein, Louisa Gagliardi on How She Became a Rising Star of Painting—Without Ever Touching a Can of Paint, Artspace, 2016
- Louisa Gagliardi – Why I Paint Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow’s artists today – as featured in Vitamin P3, Phaidon, 2016
- Louisa Gagliardi, Reasonable Doubt, 29.09-29.10.2022
- Louisa Gagliardi, Raincheck, 28.02-30.05.2020