Johanna Kotlaris (*1988) is an artist based in Zürich and Berlin. Her work examines interpersonal relationship dynamics, the energies that result from these interactions and the ways in which we are responsible for ourselves and others in care and conflict practices. She often creates fictional characters to speak about physical and conceptual distances, social injustices and individual and collective traumas. Her work was shown a.o. at Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano; Sotheby’s, Berlin; Bally Foundation, Lugano; Performissima, Paris; Gessnerallee, Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich; Kunstmuseum Lucerne; Kunsthalle Bern; Les Urbaines, Lausanne; Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich; Kunsthalle Zürich.

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Johanna Kotlaris
Eve
During her residency at Tanzhaus, Johanna Kotlaris engages in character research for Eve. Eve is a hopeless escapist, caught in a compulsive loop of avoidance, which drives her toward one final, exuberant physical metamorphosis – a transformation framed here as a potential catalyst for personal and societal change.
Trapped in cycles of exhaustion, novelty, and withdrawal, she embodies the broader malaise of late capitalism, where the ways we experience and reproduce intimacy, care, and productivity are intrinsically influenced by precarity.
By and with Johanna Kotlaris
Dates / Booking
- This event is free of charge
Studio 2
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
8037 Zürich
- Duration: 30m
- English
- Wheelchair accessible