ARTGENÈVE 2025

ART GENÈVE 2025
SOLO PRESENTATION ESTHER MATHIS
JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 2
BOOTH D35
Livie Gallery is delighted to participate at Art Genève for the second time with a solo booth by Esther Mathis (*1985 Winterthur, Switzerland, lives and works in Zurich).
Esther Mathis’ practice examines light, and how it inspires human perception to create specific memories, combining both scientific inquiry with poetic expression. Her practice navigates the interplay between natural and artificial light, often incorporating elements of architecture and alchemical processes, while challenging conventional notions of how these elements shape our sensory experiences. Her works often show an interplay between constructed forms and organic processes, balancing control with spontaneity. Esther Mathis’ work resonates with current discourses on perception, memory, and the sensory impact of modern environments.
For artgenève 2025, Esther Mathis is presenting new sculptural works in continuation of her Shifting Structures series, first shown at her institutional show at Spazi Spescha in Trun in the summer of last year as well as at the group exhibition Verbinden at Helmhaus Zurich end of 2024. The aluminum structures are in a dialogue with glass works from Mathis’ Fenster group. Shifting Structures are rectangular modular aluminum sculptures that vary in size and echo geometric grids of industrial windows. Their surfaces reflect and distort the surrounding environment. As Seraina Peer, the curator of the exhibition at Spazi Spescha writes, the material properties such as density and weight, of the aluminum sheet determine the form of the sculptures, lending a flowing note to the work. For Mathis, engaging with the material and reacting to it is also central: the structure of the sculptures is stable because it is not rigid, but can adapt. Stability is achieved through flexibility. Themes such as adaptability, support and security through structure and movement also resonate on a personal level and are expressed in the title Shifting Structures.
Leila Peacock writes about Mathis’ Fenster or window works: “Esther Mathis has recreated from memory windows of particular significance to her. Windows that she has spent many hours looking out through, and where she has watched the light come dancing in. These works evoke the remembered atmosphere of those window-lit spaces. Memory is often conceived of as a kind of glass through which we watch refractions of our previous selves as they fade into the distant past. And yet, it is hard to recall memories that specifically relate to light, and those we have are almost always related to windows we have known.“
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Esther Mathis
Shifting Structures #7, 2024
Aluminium
180 x 100 x 20 cm
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Esther Mathis
Shifting Structures #9, 2024
Aluminum
130 x 90 x 20 cm

Esther Mathis
Fenster: Atelier Binz39, 2023
mineral pigment fluid on glass
147 x 95 cm

Esther Mathis
Fenster, Nacht 1, 2023
mineral pigment fluid and ink on glass
145 x 75 cm
6 parts, each part 45 x 35 cm
Esther Mathis
Fenster, Regen 1, 2023
mineral pigment fluid and glue on glass
145 x 75 cm
6 parts, each part 45 x 35 cm
180 x 100 x 20 cm
Esther Mathis
Fenster, Nacht 3.4, 2023
mineral pigment fluid and ink on glass
45 x 30 cm
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Esther Mathis
Fenster, Nacht 2.3, 2025
mineral pigment fluid and ink on glass
75 x 50 cm
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Esther Mathis
Fenster, Nacht 2.4, 2025
mineral pigment fluid and ink on glass
75 x 50 cm
Esther Mathis
Fenster, Nacht 2.5, 2025
mineral pigment fluid and ink on glass
75 x 50 cm
Esther Mathis
Fenster, Wagnergasse 2, 2025
mineral pigment fluid on glass, 75 x 50 cm
Esther Mathis
Fenster, Nacht 2.6, 2025
mineral pigment fluid and ink on glass
75 x 50 cm
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Installation views : Linda Inconi-Jansen
Esther Mathis (*1985 Winterthur, Switzerland) lives and works in Zurich. She studied photography at the IED in Milan, where she was awarded a scholarship to the SVA in New York, completing her Master’s in Fine Arts at ZHdK in Zurich in 2015. She is currently working on her PhD at the ZHdK in cooperation with the University of Art and Design Linz on the subject of “Directing Light”.
Mathis has presented solo and two-person exhibitions both in Switzerland and internationally. Her most recent shows include Espaces Imaginaires, Spazi Spescha, Trun (2024), Correspondances, duo show with Abigail Reynolds, Bella Art Space, Zurich (2024), Fenster at Livie Gallery, Zurich (2023), Luminaire at BINZ39 Foundation, Zurich (2021); Underpressure, duo show with Riikka Tauriainen,Oxyd, Winterthur (2021), Nightshades at Livie Gallery, Zurich (2021), Phaenomena Materiae, duo show with Brigham Baker at Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Germany (2017); Angles of Coincidence at Kunsthalle Arbon, Switzerland (2017). Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Verbinden at Helmhaus Zurich (2024), Focus and various other group exhibitions at Kunst Museum Winterthur (2011–2024); EVI Lichtungen, Hildesheim, Germany (2022), Werk- und Atelierstipendien der Stadt Zürich at Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland (2021), Weit at Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil, Switzerland (2020), the sculpture biennial Weiertal: Paradise Lost in Winterthur, Switzerland (2019); The Big Rip, Bounce, Chill or Crunch? at Last Tango (2019); the Werkschau at Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland (2016, 2017,2019), the Shenzhen Photo Biennale, China (2016), and DOings & kNOTs at Kunsthalle Tallinn, Estonia (2015), among others. Mathis’ works are part of prominent private, institutional and corporate collections internationally and kacross Switzerland, among them Stadt Winterthur and the collection of Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB). Esther Mathis received a grant of the city of Winterthur in 2014, and in 2019/20 she was awarded a grant for Visual Arts by UBS Kulturstiftung as well as the work grant of the canton of Zurich. The artist has been commissioned with several art-in-architecture projects in Switzerland, including permanent installations at Kantonsschule im Lee, Winterthur, Berufsschule Rüti, Schulhaus Hofmatt as well as the new police building in Aarau.