Till Langschied
Till Langschied „A Sutbler Non-Randomness“ 2021, Exhibition view Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, CH
Image Credits: Chris Handberg
Till Langschied: “Erhabenheitsstürmer” 2024, Stones, Gems, Crystals, Metal, various sizes
Till Langschied: „Digital Infrastructures“, Exhibition view HEK, Münchenstein, CH
Image Credits: Franz Wamhof
Till Langschied “Tout Naturel“ 2025, Exhibition view Space25, Basel, CH
Till Langschied: „Leere und Fülle“ 2023, Exhibition view Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, CH
Image Credits: Jennifer Merlyn Scherler
Till Langschied: “Lan Party 1–5” 2023, Watercolor on paper, 24 × 30 cm, Series of 5
Image credits: Magma Maria
Till Langschied: „Don’t Be Afraid“ 2023, Exhibition view Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, CH
Image Credits: Jennifer Merlyn Scherler
*1987 in Frankfurt a.M., DE. Lives and works in Basel, CH
Artist Statement
Till Langschied is a visual artist and writer whose practice reflects on a contemporary condition of alienation within a globalised world defined by flows of goods, data, and infrastructural entanglements. This interest originates in his previous career in industrial textile production, where he experienced firsthand the role of the individual as a small gear within expansive systems of supply chains and data-managing software escalations.
Langschied reads the present as shaped by commerce, technology, and network structures, resulting in a condition of both personal and political destabilisation. Within his research, these observations are linked to an erosion of the chain of signification that, according to Lacanian philosophy, upholds a symbolic order. His work attempts to trace a feeling of disconnectedness from reality in a time characterised by hyperconnectivity.
His practice manifests across sculpture, video, poetry, installation, printmaking, and painting. Across these media, Langschied explores the continuously shifting relationships between virtual and analogue spaces, operating at the thresholds between these realms.
Recurring motifs in his work include chains, packages, and graph paper. His films and videos are populated by figures that can be described as variations of the fool—characters defined by loneliness and a dependency on systems they simultaneously attempt to critique. Through these figures, Langschied stages a tension between entanglement and estrangement within contemporary systemic life.
Biography
Till Langschied studied at AMD Düsseldorf, at Institut Kunst HGK in Basel, and at the Roaming Academy of the Dutch Art Institute. He currently lives and works in Basel, Switzerland.
He is the founder of the queer writing collective Q.U.I.C.H.E. (active since 2023), which has collaborated with various institutions and received grants from Abteilung Kultur BS and Fachstelle Gleichstellung Basel-Stadt. The collective’s website launched in 2026 as a platform for queer publishing in the Basel region.
His work has been shown internationally, including projects at: See You Next Tuesday (Basel, 2026), Landesmuseum Kunst und Kultur (Oldenburg, 2026), Cité International des Arts (Paris, 2025), Museo Hermann Hesse (Montagnola, 2025), Espace Formaline (Suhr, 2025), Space25 (Basel, 2025), b-05 (Montabaur, 2024), Radio28 (Mexico-City, 2024), Kunstkasten (Winterthur, 2024), Rubezh (Tbilisi, 2024), HEK (Münchenstein, 2024), Kunsthalle Palazzo (Liestal, 2023), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (Osnabrück, 2023), Helmhaus (Zürich, 2023), Centrale Fies (Dro, 2023), Kunsthaus Langenthal (Langenthal, 2023), Museum Tinguely (Basel, 2022), Centre Culturel Suisse (Paris, 2021), Zabriskie Point (Geneva, 2021), Ausstellungsraum Klingental (Basel, 2021), Kunstraum Niederoesterreich (Vienna, 2020), and Kunstverein Freiburg (Freiburg, 2019).
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Exhibitions & Projects
Available works
Till Langschied: “Lan Party 1–5” 2023, Watercolor on paper, 24 × 30 cm, Series of 5
Image credits: Magma Maria
Till Langschied: „Don’t Be Afraid“ 2023, Exhibition view Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, CH
Image Credits: Jennifer Merlyn Scherler
Till Langschied: “Erhabenheitsstürmer” 2024, Stones, Gems, Crystals, Metal, various sizes
Till Langschied: “ACCESS DENIED 50:5:0.1”, 2024, Assemblage, Steel, chains, beads, 80 × 50 × 3 cm
Till Langschied: “ACCESS DENIED 100:2:0.1”, 2024, Assemblage, Steel, chains, beads, 130 × 100 × 3 cm
Till Langschied: “ACCESS DENIED 100:3:0.1”, 2024, Assemblage, Steel, chains, beads, 130 × 100 × 3 cm
Till Langschied: “Don’t Be Afraid”, 2023, Collage of photoprints, based on digitally rendered image, 115 × 115cm
Image credits: Jennifer Merly Scherler
Till Langschied: “Cyber Commons”, 2023, Collage of photoprints, based on digitally rendered image, 100 × 100 cm
Image credits: Studio Huette
Till Langschied: “Paranoid Landscape 2”, 2022, chromalux on aluminum, 80 × 100 cm
Till Langschied: “Paranoid Landscape 1”, 2022, chromalux on aluminum, 80 × 100 cm
Till Langschied: “Tartarus Reflections – Spare Parts”, 2020, chromalux on engraved aluminum, 85 × 50 cm
Till Langschied: “L’ombre étalon”, 2025, Cyanotypes in brass frames, 28 × 9 cm each
Till Langschied: “Sputnik Tag Tag 92”, 2018, Scratched drawing and silk screen on chromed steel, 60 × 71 cm
Till Langschied: “Saturn V”, 2018, Scratched drawing and silk screen on chromed steel, 38 × 66 cm
Till Langschied: “Raumstudie I und II”, 2018, silk screen on chromed steel, 34 × 66 cm each
Till Langschied: “In 96 Minuten um die Erde”, 2018, Scratched drawings in acrylic on silk screen print on paper, framed, 50 × 40 cm
