Laura Badertscher

Laura Badertscher & Nici Jost: „Staged for Elsewhere“ 2025, Exhibition view Villa de Sein, Zürich, CH

Image credits: Nici Jost

Laura Badertscher & Nici Jost: „Staged for Elsewhere“ 2025, Exhibition view Villa de Sein, Zürich, CH

Image credits: Nici Jost

Laura Badertscher & Martina Böttiger: „Shifting Grounds“ 2025, Exhibition view See you next tuesday, Basel, CH

Image credits: Leah Studinger

Laura Badertscher & Martina Böttiger: „Shifting Grounds“ 2025, Exhibition view See you next tuesday, Basel, CH

Image credits: Leah Studinger

Laura Badertscher, based in Zurich, works in figurative painting and examines the human body as a site of tension between beauty, strangeness, and cultural representation. Drawing on sources ranging from historical art to popular media, she reflects on how visual habits, icons, and images shape perception and aesthetic judgement. Her work often juxtaposes the iconic with the banal or absurd, creating a visual language that is at once seductive, humorous, and disconcerting.

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 shown nationally and internationally, including Staged for Elsewhere (with Nici Jost, Villa de Sein, Zurich), Intimität im Alltäglichen (Waschraum, Zurich, 2025), Beyond the Closet (Anggrek Agency, Zurich, 2025), Einsichten 2025 (Kupper Modern, Zurich), as part of Zurich Art Weekend 2024 (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.

CV

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

2025

Shifting Grounds, Martina Böttiger & Laura Badertscher, see you next tuesday, Basel

Intimität im Alltäglichen, Waschraum, Zurich

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

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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

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

Exhibitions & Projekts

Laura Badertscher & Martina Böttiger
Shifting Grounds
7.12.2025–13.2.2026

Nici Jost & Laura Badertscher:
Staged for Elsewhere
Curated by Isabel Balzer
Villa de Sein, Zürich, CH
12.6.–6.7.25

Available works

Laura Badertscher: “Soft Panic Recline II” 2025, Oil on Linen, 140 × 120 cm

Image credits: Nici Jost

Laura Badertscher: “Pomegranate” 2025, Oil on Wood, 29 × 33 cm

Image credits: Nici Jost

Laura Badertscher: “de-stress” 2025, Oil on Linen, 140 × 120 cm

Image credits: Leah Studinger

Laura Badertscher: “Sweeter than heaven, hotter than hell” 2024, Oil on Linen, 80 × 70 cm

Image credits: Leah Studinger

Laura Badertscher: “Until it Slips” & “Déjà Vu”, 2025, Oil on linen, each 80 × 70 cm

Image credits: Leah Studinger