Till Langschied is a visual artist, writer, curator and GIF-enthusiast. His artistic practice focuses on the collapse of signifier systems in an age shaped by technology and network structures. He asks himself how our psyche can handle the oversaturated moment of a constantly expanding “now” without any anchors to hold up a chain of meaning.
Fascinated with the relation between humans and the technology they invent, build, and use, he has been focussing on the emotional echoes vibrating off these manifestations of tech-society. Somewhere between the attention economy and self-care apps there is something happening to our species: Till tries to trace this feeling of disconnectedness from reality, in a time when everything is hyperconnected.
This research manifests in a variety of media, including sculpture, video, poetry, installation and painting. Within all these different works Till explores the constantly evolving relationships between virtual and analogue spaces, operating at the boundaries of these realms.
In 2019, Till founded the independent art space Pleasure Zone in an erotic shop located in the old town of Basel. Since 2021 he has worked as a curator for DOCK art space in Basel. Additionally, he is part of the ∑ SUMME collective that represents Basel’s off-space culture. He curates the digital online window sigma_space for ∑ SUMME.
Till also founded the queer writing collective Q.U.I.C.H.E. with which he has been publishing texts since 2023. Q.U.I.C.H.E. works with ooo.place and other publishing platforms.
He was invited to Lago Mio residency in Lugano in 2020 and was granted a residency stay in China by Pro Helvetia and Fundaziun Nairs in 2021. In 2024 he received the Radio28 residency in Mexico-City and was awarded the Atelier Mondial residency at Cité internationale des Arts in Paris for 2025. He studied at AMD Düsseldorf, at Institut Kunst HGK in Basel and the Roaming Academy of the Dutch Art Institute, ArtEZ. He currently lives and works in Basel, Switzerland.
Till’s work has been shown internationally, including projects at b-05 (Montabaur, 2024), Kunstkasten (Winterthur, 2024), HEK – Haus der elektronischen Künste (Münchenstein, 2024) Kunsthaus Langenthal (Langenthal, 2023), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (Osnabrück, 2023), Centrale Fies (Dro, 2023), Kunsthalle Palazzo (Liestal, 2023), Fondation Beyeler (Riehen, 2022), Museum Tinguely (Basel, 2022), Centre Culturel Suisse (Paris, 2021), Ausstellungsraum Klingental (Basel, 2021), Zabriskie Point (Geneva, 2021), Kunstraum Niederösterreich (Vienna, 2020), Kunstverein Freiburg (Freiburg, 2019) and Binz 39 (Zurich, 2019).