Louisa Gagliardi CH, b. 1989

Education

2012 Bachelor, Graphic Design, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL)

2011 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Erasmus 

 

Awards & Honors

2025 DIstinction Jacqueline Oyex 2025

2022 (shortlisted) Swiss Emerging Artist Prize

2021 (shortlisted) Swiss Art Awards2021

2020 Swiss Art Awards

2020 (shortlisted) Werk- und Atelierstipendien Stadt Zürich

2019 Prix culturel de la Ville de Sion 2019

2018 Zürich Kanton Prize, Werkschau

2018 Shortlisted Swiss Art Awards

2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 List, category: Arts

2016 6 months residency at Fondation Suisse in Paris, Kanton Wallis 

2015 Pullman × Wallpaper* Prize, Pullman Hotels

2014 Swiss Design Award 

2012 Wallpaper*: See the future now! Student directory Canton Bank Prize (BCV) — Best Diploma Project 

2009 Excellency award, basic year, ECAL 

 

Solo & partner exhibitions 

2026 Merger and Acquisition (with Adam Cruces), Ferme Asile, Sion, CH (Forthcoming)

2025 Haunts (with Adam Cruces), Orthunga, Vordinborg, DK 

Hard Pressed, Galerie Eva Presenhuber x Faubourg 75, Paris, FR 

Reunion, Art in the Salon, Baur au Lac, Zurich, CH 

Then and Only Then (with Adam Cruces), Spazio Sassetti, Florence, IT 

Many Moons, MASI (Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana), Lugano, CH

2024 Whereabouts, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, AU 

Deep Breaths, CC Strombeek, Brussels, BE 

Hard Feelings, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Seoul, KOR

2023 Moment’s Notice, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, CH

2022 Reasonable Doubt, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, PL 

Around the Clock, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, CH 

Fool’s Gold, with Adam Cruces, LEMME, Sion, CH 

Louisa Gagliardi, Yves Scherer, with Yves Scherer, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, US

2020 Wishful Thinking, Antenna Space, Shanghai, CN 

Raincheck, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, PL

2019 Fruits of Nature, with Adam Cruces, Berlinskje Model, Prague, CZ Side Effects of Satisfaction, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, BE 

Force of Circumstance, McNamara Projects/ Antenna Space, Hong Kong, CN 

Under the Weather, MOSTYN, Wales, UK 

2018 Deleted Scene(s), with Adam Cruces, Joseph Tang, Paris, FR 

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, US 

Over and Under, with Adam Cruces, monCHERI, Brussels, BE

2015 Madrugada, with Fay Nicolson, Tomorrow Gallery, New York, US

 2014 The New Guy, Galerie Ephemere, Hublot, Verbier, CH

 

Selected Goup exhibitions 

2025 Niklaus Stoecklin | Liselotte Moser | Louisa Gagliardi, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, CH 

Elevation 1049, Luma Foundation, Gstaad, CH

2024 Energies, Swiss Insitute, New York, US 

Landschaft, Galerie Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, PL 

Hot Shots, Espace d’Art Contemporain, La Chaud-de-Fonds, CH 

There I lost myself, I lost myself, Blue Velvet, Zürich, CH

2023 Monotypes, Kunsthalle Zürich, CH 

Print is a Battlefield Museo Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona, CH2022 (Un)certain Ground: aktuelle Malerei in der Schweiz, Kunsthaus Pasqu’art, Biel, CH Swiss Emerging Artist Prize, Centre d’art contemporain de Genève, Geneva, CH 

Group Show, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, CH 

Digital Intimacy, National Gallery Prague, CZ

2021 Lemaniana, Centre d’Art contemporain de Genève, Geneva, CH 

Lugari, Rudimento, Quito, Ecuador

2019 La Métamorphose de l’Art imprimé, Verein für Orgininal Graphik, Zurich, CH 

Observer of the Techniques, Wallriss, Fribourg, CH 

The Kind Stranger, UN Art Center, Shanghai, CN 

Dog Days, C-L-E-A-R-I-N-G, Brooklyn, NY, US 

FOAF, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, PL

2018 drawings, 650mAh, Hove, UK 

On the Road, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH 

Tronc Mental, Centre d’art contemporain de Neuchatel, Neuchatel, CH 

No Fear of Fainting in a Gym, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Sankt-Gallen, CH 

2017 birds, cigarettes, guitars, eyes and trees, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, BE 

Being There, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK Mount Analogue, Platform, Stockholm, SE 

Werkschau 2017, Museum Haus Kontruktiv, Zurich, CH 

Cul-de-Sac, Antenna Space, Shanghai, CN 

Sans-Titre 3, Paris, FR 

Tastes like headaches, with Adam Cruces, kim?, Riga, LV

2016 Hinter jedem Berg, Helmhaus, Zürich, CH 

La Vitesse des Images, Instituto Svizzero, Roma, IT 

Hypnic Jerk, Smart Objects, Los Angeles, US 

Exercices in Style, Suprainfinit, Bucharest, RO 

Surreal, König Galerie, Berlin, DE 

Over and Under, monCHERI, Brussels, BE

2015 A perfect Lie, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Brussels, BE Filter Bubble, Luma Foundation, Zurich, CH 

Madrugada, Tomorrow Gallery, New York, US