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Contemporary art gallery based in Zurich, Switzerland.

26/05/2026

Last days on view: Esther Mathis | Shapes of Tenderness / Shapes of Tension

For her third solo exhibition at Live Gallery, Esther Mathis (b. 1985) has created a series of works that encircle ideas of softness and strength, carapace and core. Each piece shows Mathis’s customary approach of metamorphosing commonplace industrial materials with light-handed yet assured gestures, into things of delicate beauty; carefully de-forming their functionality to create new forms in her ongoing inquiries into the nature of materials and the poetics of transformation.

On view until end of this week May 29 at Livie Gallery, Zurich.

Image: Installation view Esther Mathis, Shapes of Tenderness / Shapes of Tension, Livie Gallery, photo: Esther Mathis

21/05/2026

STEFAN KNAUF | AS HOPE IS LAST TO DIE
Hope has accompanied us ever since we have been able to imagine a future. It is not a modern invention but an anthropological constant — a quiet, often contradictory force running through myths, religions, political move-ments, and artistic expression. But why do we hope?
Hope is less a feeling than a particular way of orienting oneself toward the future. It arises where the present is experienced as insufficient without being considered closed. Embedded within it is the assumption that what is, is not all there is. This assumption is neither certain nor inevitable — more a posture we adopt in order not to remain fixed in what already exists. Especially in a time marked by crises and wars, where certainty erodes and political as well as ecological orders begin to falter, this attitude gains in weight. Not as a solution, but as the precondition for continuing to think at all. Hope shifts the gaze. It allows us to carry on, even when much remains unclear. It operates within the indeterminate, without resolving it. Therein lies its power — less in what it promises than in what it leaves open. It enables action in the face of uncertainty, engagement without any guarantee of success. At the same time, it carries within it a moment of excess: a not-yet that points beyond what is given and makes change imaginable in the first place.
Hope does not only keep possibilities open — it also holds onto them. Expectations persist even when their foundations have become fragile. Conditions endure even after they have long begun to waver. What promises movement can slide into a kind of stasis. In the works of Stefan Knauf, precisely this tension crystallises: resistance and rigidity converge, persistence tips into standstill. …

Read the full exhibition text by Marlene Marti Bürgi on our website liviegallery.com

Opening | June 11, 6-9pm
Livie Gallery, Zurich

Opening hours during
Friday 12 June 2026: 11:00 – 19:30
Saturday 13 June 2026: 11:00 – 19:30
Sunday 14 June 2026: 11:00 – 18:00

20/04/2026

We are delighted to announce our second participation with a solo booth by Vienna-based artist Sarah Bogner. The presentation will consist of a new group of work created for the fair and will elaborate the themes of her recent gallery show « Bouquet ».

Liste Art Fair Basel
June 15-21
Messe Basel

Image: Sarah Bogner, Kleines Schreckliches Paradies (Flora), 2025, 50 x 35 cm, photo credit Anaïs Horn

16/04/2026

Save the date for the opening of „As Hope Is Last to Die“, the first solo show at the gallery with Berlin-based artist opening on the occasion of Zurich Art Weekend on Thursday June 11 from 6-8pm.
During from Friday June 12 to Sunday June 14 just before and the gallery will be open all weekend.

09/04/2026

Join us for an artist talk with on the occasion of her current exhibition „Shapes of Tenderness / Shapes of Tension“ on Tuesday, May 12, 18:30 at Livie Gallery.

Esther Mathis (*1985, Winterthur, Switzerland) lives and works in Zurich. She studied photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan and received a scholarship to the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2015, she completed her Master’s in Fine Arts at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, where she later earned a PhD (2025) in cooperation with the University of Art and Design Linz, focusing on “Directing Light.”

Mathis has exhibited widely in Switzerland and internationally, with recent solo and duo exhibitions at Spazi Spescha, Trun (2024), Bella Art Space (2024), Livie Gallery (2021 and 2023) and BINZ39 (2021). Her work has also appeared in numerous group exhibitions, such as at Helmhaus Zurich, Kunst Museum Winterthur, and die Mobiliar in Bern. Her works are held in major private and institutional collections, including die Mobiliar, Zürcher Kantonalbank, and public collections in Zurich and Winterthur. She has received several grants and completed multiple art-in-architecture commissions across Switzerland.

Artist Talk with Esther Mathis
Tuesday, May 12, 18:30
Livie Gallery, Zurich

The exhibition will be on view until May 29.

26/03/2026

Esther Mathis’ new work group “Second Skin” will be on view in her new solo show “Shapes of Tenderness / Shapes of Tension” at our gallery from today.

Leila Peacock writes: … For «Second Skin» Mathis uses marble offcuts from a factory in Verona, small perfect cores of Carrera marble cut from the baseplates of Flos Arco lamps. In her hands these discarded pieces, remnants of an mass-produced aesthetic object, are reworked, permuted by processes that only Mathis could have imagined for them. Fascinated by nets, their pattens and uses, as intricate and malleable forms that impart strength, she wrapped the marble in nets of silver that she wove by hand. These she then oxidised, removing the nets to leave fragile green scrawls over the surface where the silver touched the stone, white stained with green, traces of a chemical embrace.
In the midst of this shifting geopolitical landscape, at a seemingly vertiginous historical moment where much of what was once considered stable is no longer to be relied upon, and old-fashioned ideas of strength are making a comeback, Mathis asks the question: What does it mean to be strong? Where do adaptability and gentleness become a strength?
…
Read the full exhibition text by Leila Peacock on our website liviegallery.com

Esther Mathis
Second Skin #01-21, 2026
Marble, silver oxidation
17.5 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm each
unique

26/03/2026

Opening Today: Esther Mathis
Shapes of Tenderness / Shapes of Tension

For her third solo exhibition at Live Gallery has created a series of works that encircle ideas of softness and strength, carapace and core. Each piece shows Mathis’s customary approach of metamorphosing commonplace industrial materials with light-handed yet assured gestures, into things of delicate beauty; carefully de-forming their functionality to create new forms in her ongoing inquiries into the nature of materials and the poetics of transformation.

Read the full exhibition text by Leila Peacock on our website liviegallery.com

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20/03/2026

Last day on view: Sarah Bogner | Bouquet

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07/03/2026

On view until this Sunday
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Booth 7C15 Hall 7

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06/03/2026

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