Born in 1963, Winterthur, CH. Lives and works in Zürich, CH.
In her expressive and fantastical pictorial worlds, Klodin Erb reacts like a seismograph to the tenor of the present day. Her core medium is painting. Often, the theme dictates the form: she tailors her techniques to her topic, highlighting and interweaving form and content to maximise the expressive power of painting. Formal influences come from popular and online culture and art history, combined with her love of experimentation and constant probing of the limits of painting.
A precise observer of her surroundings and the world at large, Klodin Erb is interested in how our social structures change and the challenges we face in the here and now. Just as people and society evolve, she constantly interrogates and renews her work as an artist, driving it forward, spinning a web where all is connected. Forays into other media such as film, installation, and collage prove to be highly inspiring and fruitful ways of generating new kinds of images, which she incorporates into her painting.
Klodin Erb holds an artistic professorship at the Department of Design, Film and Art at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. In 2022 she received the prestigious Prix Meret Oppenheim.
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.