Klodin Erb

Klodin Erb (1963, Winterthur, Switzerland) is one of the most renowned current Swiss painters. In her expressive, fantastic pictorial worlds, she explores the boundaries of painting and simultaneously questions definitions of gender and identity. In an effort to combine topicality and timelessness in her paintings, the artist uses various techniques to ‘sample’ borrowings from art history with motifs from the contemporary world.

Klodin Erb (b. 1963, Winterthur) lives and works in Zurich and holds an artistic professorship at the Department of Design, Film and Art at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
Her works are represented in the collections of various museums, including the Kunstmuseum Bern; Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen; Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, as well as many private collections. A major survey exhibition will open at the Kunstmuseum Aarau in the Fall 2025, following her impressive solo show at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome “A Different Kind of Furs” in 2023.
Recently she had important solo exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/Bienne; Gluri Suter Huus, Wettingen; Helvetia Art Foyer, Basel; and was included in group exhibitions, amongst others “Die Augen der Bilder – Porträts von Fragonard bis Dumas”, Museum Langmatt, Baden; “Docking Station”, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau; “Un(certain) Ground. Aktuelle Malerei in der Schweiz”, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/Bienne; “After Bob Ross: Beauty is everywhere”, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens.