Karolin Braegger: Mortals & Models

Karolin Braegger (b. 1993, Zurich) is based between Vienna and Zurich. She works across visual art, fashion, and performance. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Zurich University of the Arts and a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she studied with Heimo Zobernig. Furthermore, she holds a Diploma in Fashion Design from the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Her practice explores the intersection of sculpture, costume, installation, and display. Braegger creates hybrid objects that oscillate between sculpture, prop, garment, fashion item, and scenographic element. Often rooted in textile forms, her works incorporate installation and performative strategies. They evoke bodily presence without necessarily requiring activation through use, functioning at once as sculptural forms, bodies, props, and support structures.

Central to her work is an interest in supportive and relational roles, often examined through collaboration, delegation, and shared authorship. Through these shifting positions, Braegger investigates forms of visibility, labor, intimacy, and staging.

Recent solo and group exhibitions include Third Space/City, Vienna; Heckmannufer, Berlin; Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna; City Galerie Wien at Liste Art Basel; Kunstforum, Vienna; Medium P/Borgenheim Rosenhoff, Basel; City Galerie Wien at Miart, Milan; All Stars, Lausanne; Cabanon, Paris; PROVENCE Pavillon, Zurich; Pina, Vienna; Kunsthaus Wien; Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich; Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna; Exile, Vienna; and Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin. She was a resident at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2023, provided by the Canton of Zurich, and completed a residency in Genoa in 2025, provided by the City of Zurich.

This is Karolin Braeggers first Solo at City and we are so proud and excited about it!

The exhibition will include an edition, that came to live through a collaborative effort between Karolin Braegger and Clara Maria Joy a London based interdisciplinary consultant and a co-created press text by Sabina Gmür and Antonia Lia Orsi.

We share the opening night with Linda Bilda Archiv (7-8pm) at Secession!
And also Layr, Croy Nielsen, and Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman.
After the openings we will all be hanging out in Café Milano.