About

BIO

Swiss artist Laura Badertscher’s practice is rooted in figuration, with a strong focus
on the human body. Her work explores the tension between the beauty and
strangeness of human existence and the ways in which it has been portrayed
throughout art history, pop culture, and everyday media. Drawing on a wide range of
source materials – from newspapers and magazines to postcards and digitally
generated imagery – she engages critically and playfully with the iconography of the
body.
In recent years, Badertscher has increasingly focused on the genre of the nude and
its complex history of representation. By juxtaposing iconic imagery with banal or
absurd snapshots, she creates a visual language that can be seductive, humorous,
and disconcerting at once. Her painting reflects on the multifaceted tradition of
figuration and its ongoing relevance in contemporary art discourse.
Badertscher received her Master of Fine Arts from the National Art School in Sydney
in 2018. After several years in Australia, she returned to her hometown of Zurich in
2019. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at
Beyond the Closet (Anggrek Agency, Zurich, 2025), Einsichten 2024 (Kupper
Modern, Zurich), as part of the Zurich Art Weekend (Sihlquai 253), and in the duo exhibition Radi Kahlo and  Laura Badertscher at MATERIAL, Zurich. In 2023, she
presented her solo exhibition FRESH at Kabinett Visarte Zurich.
In 2019, she was a finalist in the Naked & Nude Art Prize Exhibition in Australia. In
2021, she received a grant from the Fondazione Silene Giannini, and one of her
works was acquired by the Historisches Museum Baden.
Badertscher lives and works in Zurich. (Text: Isabel Balzer | seeyounexttuesday.ch)

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EXHIBITIONS

2025

Einsichten 2025, VISARTE annual show at Kupper Modern, Zurich

Staged for Elsewhere | An exhibition by Nici Jost & Laura Badertscher, curated by Isabel Balzer @ Villa de Sein, Zurich

Beyond the Closet : exploring male nudity in contemporary art,  Anggrek Agency, Zurich

2024

Einsichten 2024, VISARTE annual show at Kupper Modern, Zurich

Radi Kahlo & Laura Badertscher, MATERIAL, Zurich

Zurich Art Weekend, Exhibition at Sihlquai 253, Zurich 

Villa de Sein, Zurich 

Werkdiskurs & Auktion, Sihlquai 253, Zurich

2023

Einsichten 2023, VISARTE end of year show at Photobastei, Zurich

Art Market with a-space gallery, Budapest

ReA! Art Fair, Milano, Italy

"FRESH" at Kabinett Visarte Zürich (Solo Show), Switzerland

Werkdiskurs & Auktion, Sihlquai 253, Zurich CH

WHATZ International Contemporary Art Fair Exhibition with a-space, Taipei, Taiwan

2022

Kunst Take Away, Kunstraum Baden, Baden 

Incognito Art Show, Sydney

James & Friends, Ambush Gallery, Sydney

2021

Grosse Regionale, *ALTEFABRIK/Kunstzeughaus, Rapperswil-Jona

Supermarket, Galerie Mayhaus, Erlach

(re)arrangements’, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney

2020

‘Fresh From Zurich’, Kulturhaus Helferei, Zurich

Badekult. Von der Kur zum Lifestyle, Historisches Museum Baden, Baden

2019

The Blooming Christmas Show, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Group Show at ArtShowRoom Q37, Rheinfelden

From Switzerland With Love (Solo Show), Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Art Market Budapest with a-space Gallery, Budapest

Naked & Nude Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Manning Regional Gallery, Taree

1919 salon, Galerie pompom, Sydney

New Now, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2018

Postgraduate exhibition, National Art School, Sydney

Wallpop.art, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney

2017

Wallpop.art, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney

Candour of Doubt, Scratch Art Space, Sydney

2016

Graduate Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney

Imitation Green Cordial, Library Stairwell Gallery NAS, Sydney

Small Works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

Breakthrough Festival, aMBUSH Gallery, Sydney

2015

Landscape Exhibition, Rayner Hoff Studio, National Art School, Sydney

2013

BROKE, Oddfellows Hall, Balmain

Nachtbetrieb, Bar Rossi, Zurich

2012

Playful Pop-up: StartledArt, The Space, Manly

POP Gallery, Stocklands, Forster

Out of the Box, Great Lakes Art & Design School, Tuncurry

Winner Sydney Water Design Award, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney


EDUCATION

2018  Master of Fine Art, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Australia

2016  Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Australia

2014  Bachelor of Fine Arts (Exchange Semester) Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland

 

COLLECTIONS & PRIZES

Winner Artsted Grant at REA Art Fair Milano (2023), Grant Fondazione Silene Giannini (2022), Collection Historisches Museum Baden (2021), Finalist Naked & Nude Art Prize (2020), Winner Sydney Water Design Award (2013), Private Collections in Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Germany