From the early start of her career the focus of her artistic repertoire is the repeated discourse of space, the person in relation to space and the relation between space and light: drawings grow out of the plain and merge with sculptures and video projections into three-dimensional installations.
Zilla's works have been exhibited internationally since 1996. Past solo exhibitions were presented at Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen (2022); Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur (2021); Musée Jenisch, Vevey (2016); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2015); Centro de Arte Caja Burgos CAB, Burgos, Spain (2014) and Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, (2014), among others. Major group exhibitions include: International Drawing Biennial, National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina (2022); Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London (2021); "Fly me to the Moon", Kunsthaus Zürich and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria (2019); "The World on Paper", Palais Populaire der Deutschen Bank, Berlin (2018); "Interval in Space", Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong (2017) and Sydney Biennale (2014). Works by Zilla can be found in numerous public collections, such as Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau; Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela; Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Kunstmuseum Basel, Museion Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano; Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen and Goetz Collection, Munich, to name but a few. From 2014 to 2021, Zilla Leutenegger was a lecturer at the Architecture Department of ETH Zurich. Since 2022 she has been a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). In autumn 2022, she was awarded as "Honorary Companion ZHdK".
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Endless Pool, 2024
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Auf Besuch bei Mir Selbst, 2024
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Spitzbergen, 2023
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Kira, 2023
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Alice, 2023
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21. Sept. 2023 (Bio in rosa), 2023
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Die Lesende (Round the world), 2022
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Die Lesende (Cut) [The Reader (Cut)], 2022
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16. März 2022 (Saharastaub), 2022
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Moby Dick, 2022
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Moony, 2022
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Papa bear chair, 2021
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19. Mai 2021 (Redlight Corona), 2021
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5. Aug. 2021 (Landluft), 2021
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Katze, sitzend hoch (Cat, sitting high), 2020
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Twilight, 2020
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Bagno verde, 2020
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Lampenkopf, 2020
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Red Mini Bar, 2020
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Katze, frontal stehende, 2020
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Schwarze Küche, 2019
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Wilder Mohn, 2019
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Hallenbad, 2019
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Moondiver II, 2018
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As time goes by, 2018
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Lampe, 2015
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Rondo, 2008
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Goodbye, 2007
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Lucellino, 2006
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Rien de lourdGalerie Peter Kilchmann
11-13 rue des Arquebusiers, Paris
13 Jul - 5 Oct 2024Zilla Leutenegger Rien de lourd July 13 - Oct 5, 2024 11-13, rue des Arquebusiers, Paris Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of the Swiss...Read more -
Backstage Engelberg
Backstage EngelbergEngelberg (OW), Switzerland
23 Jun - 18 Aug 2024BACKSTAGE Engelberg A journey of discovery with 50 artists June 23 to August 18, 2024, Engelberg/OW The 'BACKSTAGE Engelberg' is an exhibition in predominantly hidden locations in the Alpine municipality...Read more -
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NZZGalerie Peter Kilchmann
Zahnradstrasse, Zurich
14 - 15 Oct 2023On Saturday, October 14, Zurich's leading newspaper, the NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) will be transformed into a work of art. Zilla Leutenegger is designing the upcoming issue, in which several...Read more -
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Not My Circus, Not My Monkey (Group show)Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland
16 Sep - 3 Dec 2023The first circus was founded in London towards the end of the eighteenth century, and over the following century this form of entertainment would go on to become a mass...Read more -
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The Spiral Stair to planta1Planta 1, Madrid, Spain
16 Sep - 28 Oct 2023The project refers to planta1’s first space in Madrid, located on the first floor of an industrial warehouse building, which the organisation continues to maintain, although it is now located...Read more -
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I Love You to the Moon and BackGalerie Peter Kilchmann
Zahnradstrasse, Zurich
21 Jan - 18 Mar 2023I Love You to the Moon and Back describes a journey of emotion and, in Zilla's case, is also an ode to the beauty of the everyday that we all...Read more -
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DOPPIO IVMuseum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
3 Sep - 30 Oct 2022Sandra Boeschenstein's artistic practice inspires with its combination of technical skill and conceptual complexity. Zilla Leutenegger fascinates with a medially versatile work full of playful lightness and fine humor. DOPPIO...Read more -
30 Years Anniversary Exhibition
Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Rämistrasse, Zurich
3 Sep - 14 Oct 202230 Years Anniversary Exhibition Rita Ackermann (*1968 Budapest), Francis Alÿs (*1959 Antwerpen), Maja Bajevic (*1967 Sarajevo), Hernan Bas (*1978 Miami), Armin Boehm (*1972 Aachen), Marc Bauer (*1975 Genf), Monica Bonvicini...Read more -
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Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
1 May - 1 Aug 2021The exhibition is set up as a large continuum and can be experienced as a whole: As a tour through interior and exterior spaces with various insights and views. It...Read more -
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MezzaninGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Rämistrasse, Zurich
16 Jan - 27 Mar 2021Zilla makes use of the new spatial situation with a carefully curated selection of works inspired by the special floor plan and the domestic old building character of the new...Read more -
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Casa BlancaGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse, Zurich
27 Oct - 15 Dec 2018In the past two years, this repertoire has been increasingly extended by the monotype as a medium, through whose technique the colour surface in its intensity and combination possibility becomes...Read more -
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Lights OutGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse, Zurich
7 Apr - 27 May 2017Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to present a new series of monotypes by Swiss artist Zilla Leutenegger in our project space. Zilla Leutenegger was born in 1968 in Switzerland and...Read more -
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Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland 2 Sep - 10 Oct 2016The Zurich artist thus continues her reflection on interior space, play and drawing. As usual, she plays with reality in the manner of a tightrope walker who would walk on...Read more -
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Ring My BellPinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
26 Jun - 4 Oct 2015The cycle Apartment, which passed to the Free State of Bavaria with the generous donation of the Goetz Media Collection, is now being presented for the first time in its...Read more -
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MoondiverGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse, Zurich
16 Jan - 28 Feb 2015These constellations are being reconciled playfully and with the utmost ease by the artist. Leutenegger depicts random moments of unexcited everyday situations in a poetic way full of atmosphere. Of...Read more -
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Rock the ChairGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse, Zurich
2 Sep - 29 Oct 2011There is a table and a chair. There is also a person, not really sitting on the chair, but rather leaning back on the rear edge as far as possible....Read more -
Die Nase des Michelangelo
Special location: Marktgasse 4 - 6, Zurich, Switzerland 10 - 19 Dec 2010Rita Ackermann / Francis Alÿs / Maja Bajević / Michael Bauer / Christoph Büchel / Valentin Carron / Urs Fischer / Peter Fischli & David Weiss / Bruno Jakob /...Read more -
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Off The WallGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Limmatstrasse, Zurich
16 Jan - 6 Mar 2010When comparing the two artists, we have a woman called Zilla Leutenegger, born in 1968 in Switzerland, who lives in Zurich and Jochen Kuhn, born in 1954 in Germany, currently...Read more -
Deux Pièces
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Limmatstrasse 270, Zürich 7 Jun - 24 Jul 2009Mario Comensoli / Trudi Demut / Karl Geiser / Emma Kunz / Adolf Wölfli / Rita Ackermann / Francis Alÿs / Michael Bauer / Raffi Kalenderian / Zilla Leutenegger /...Read more -
15 Jahre Galerie Peter Kilchmann 1992 - 2007
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Limmatstrasse, Zurich 30 Aug - 11 Oct 2008Rita Ackermann / Francis Alÿs / Maja Bajević / Michael Bauer / Willie Doherty / Bruno Jakob / Jochen Kuhn / Zilla Leutenegger / Jorge Macchi, Teresa Margolles / Fabian...Read more -
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Meet me in the Library (9 P.M.)CCA Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israël
8 Sep - 31 Oct 2007The classical drawing medium acquires new movement qualities in Leutenegger’s works. Via what she terms “video drawings,” she challenges the boundaries of the projected figure, which transpires within a delimited...Read more -
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Prada, Torch & AnderesGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Limmatstrasse, Zurich
26 Aug - 7 Oct 2006Apart from her two-dimensional drawings, moving images are an integral element of her video drawings and digitally manipulated animations, which are frequently combined with three-dimensional objects or mural painting. Since...Read more -
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How Can We Loose When We're so SincereGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Limmatstrasse, Zurich
20 Mar - 8 May 2004The installation ‚Ming‘ takes over the large space with a back projection on a mirrored pane of glass which leans on an electricity pylon. On the video you see a...Read more -
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It'll End in TearsGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Limmatstrasse (Löwenbräu), Zurich
18 Jan - 23 Mar 2002Die Arbeiten von Zilla Leutenegger sind - wie sie selber sagt - „wie Fenster, die sie manchmal öffnet, um andere in ihre romantische Welt hineinschauen zu lassen“ oder „pour avoir...Read more -
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Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Limmatstrasse (Löwenbräu), Zurich
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Zierp, ZierpGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Limmatstrasse (Löwenbräu), Zurich
10 Oct - 14 Nov 1998
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ZILLAGORILLA, 2021 Texts by Elisabeth Bronfen, Patrick Frey, Max Küng, Stephan Kunz, Juri SteinerBündner Kunstmuseum Chur
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Pianos & Melonen, 2019 Texts by Marina Porobic, Kathleen BühlerFondation l'Abbatiale de Bellelay
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Tintarella di Luna, 2016 Author: Stephan KunzSupported by: SUPPORTED BY Swisslos, Kulturförderung Kanton Graubünden Graubündner Kantonalbank, BEWE Stiftung Kulturförderung, Stadt Chur
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Z, 2015 Texts by Bernhard Maaz, Clemens Krümmel, Inka Graeve IngelmannPinakothek der Moderne, München
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Fairlady Z, 2013 Text by Anna Wesle, Michele RobecchiMuseum Morsbroich, Leverkusen & Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
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Zilla und das 7. Zimmer, 2008 Edited by: Christoph KellerText by: Dorothee Messmer
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Wichtiger Besuch, 2006 Editor: Saarlandmuseum Read more -
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2004 Claudia Spinelli, Manor Art Award, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur Read more -
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Welcome in my Dress, 2001 Texts by Christoph Doswald, Hans-Rudolf Reust, Antje Weitzel Read more