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Congratulations @esthermathis on the participation in the group show «Ozeane Fliessen Aufwärts» at EWZ Unterwerk Selnau Zurich, the former building of Haus Konstruktiv. The exhibition is curated by 6 ½, Hotel Tiger, Die Diele, Papillarya, volumes, Material and zwischentext. It is also on view during @zurichartweekend until June 13 and it is only a 10 minute walk from our gallery. «Ozeane Fliessen Aufwärts» 8 May – 13 June 2026 EWZ Unterwerk Selnau (formerly Haus Konstruktiv) Selnaustrasse 25a, 8001 Zurich @esthermathis #esthermathis @6einhalb @die_diele_die @hotel.tiger @material_zh @zwischentext @papillarya @volumeszurich #zurichartweekend

Join us for a conversation with Zurich-based artist @esthermathis Tuesday May 12 at 18:30 on the occasion of her current show „Shapes of Tenderness / Shapes of Tension“ at our gallery. For her third solo exhibition at Live Gallery, Esther Mathis 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 The exhibition will be on view until May 29. Installation view: Esther Mathis #esthermathis #artisttalk #artinzurich #artinswitzerland #contemporaryart

Join us for an artist talk with @esthermathis 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, Zurich (2024), Livie Gallery (2021 and 2023) and BINZ39, Zurich (2021). Her work has been included 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. #esthermathis #artisttalk #artinswitzerland #zurichgallery

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 @esthermathis #esthermathis

Opening Today: Esther Mathis Shapes of Tenderness / Shapes of Tension For her third solo exhibition at Live Gallery @esthermathis 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 @leilaleilapeacockpeacock on our website liviegallery.com #esthermathis #artinswitzerland @kunstbulletin.ch

With a beautiful text by @leilaleilapeacockpeacock 🤍

Save the date for the opening of the third solo exhibition by the Zurich-based artist Esther Mathis at our gallery on Thursday, March 26 from 6-9pm. Mathis will present an installation with new work groups. Image: Esther Mathis Liminal Bone, 2025 polyester corregated sheet, aluminum, chrome steel, plexiglass 250 x 31 x 31 cm detail @esthermathis #esthermathis #soloexhibition #artinswitzerland @kunstbulletin.ch

ArtGenève is open now! Come visit us at our booth C34 to see the focus presentation by Dimitra Charamandas and new works by Esther Mathis, André Butzer, Ralph Bürgin and Michael Sailstorfer. ArtGenève through February 1 Palexpo Geneva @artgeneve #artgenève @dimitra.charamandas @esthermathis @andrebutzerarchive @ralph_buergin_studio @michaelsailstorfer

Studio Work - Autumn Light

We are excited to share that @esthermathis is included in the September issue of @numeroswitzerland @numeromagazine with an article highlighting her work. @esthermathis @numeroswitzerland @numeromagazine @numeroart #EstherMathis #artistportrait #NumeroSwitzerland #contemporaryart @zurichartweekend #artinswitzerland