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Esther Mathis

Esther Mathis (*1985, Winterthur, Switzerland) lives and works in Zurich. She studied photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, where she was awarded a scholarship to the School of Visual Arts in New York, completing her Master’s in Fine Arts at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste 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, duo exhibition with Matias Spescha, at Spazi Spescha, Trun (2024), Correspondances, duo show with Abigail Reynolds, at Bella Art Space, Zurich (2024), solo show Fenster (2023) and Nightshades (2021) at Livie Gallery, Zurich, Luminaire at BINZ39 Foundation, Zurich (2021) and Underpressure, duo show with Riikka Tauriainen, at Oxyd, Winterthur (2021).

Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including CTRL+ALT+RELAX An exhibition to breathe at die Mobiliar, Bern (2025), 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), among others.

Mathis’ works are part of prominent private, institutional and corporate collections internationally and across Switzerland, among them die Mobiliar, Kanton Zürich, Stadt Winterthur, Swiss National Bank 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, Schulhaus Looren as well as the new police building in Aarau.

For inquiries, please contact us directly per email or phone:
Marie Livie | marie@liviegallery.com | +41 78 647 2122

Image: installation view, Esther Mathis, Fenster, 2023, Livie Gallery. Photo: Esther Mathis.

PUBLICATIONS

Esther Mathis, Fenster, Catalog, 2023

ESTHER MATHIS | FENSTER

Discover the catalogue which was published on the occasion of our second solo show with Esther Mathis titled Fenster, on view at the gallery from September 16 to November 15, 2023. With an exhibition text by Leila Peacock.
 
If you would like to receive the print publication, kindly contact us at marie@liviegallery.com.
 

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