Till Langschied is a visual artist and writer whose practice reflects on a contemporary condition of alienation within a globalised world defined by flows of goods, data, and infrastructural entanglements. This interest originates in his previous career in industrial textile production, where he experienced firsthand the role of the individual as a small gear within expansive systems of supply chains and data-managing software escalations.
Langschied reads the present as shaped by commerce, technology, and network structures, resulting in a condition of both personal and political destabilisation. Within his research, these observations are linked to an erosion of the chain of signification that, according to Lacanian philosophy, upholds a symbolic order. His work attempts to trace a feeling of disconnectedness from reality in a time characterised by hyperconnectivity.
His practice manifests across sculpture, video, poetry, installation, printmaking, and painting. Across these media, Langschied explores the continuously shifting relationships between virtual and analogue spaces, operating at the thresholds between these realms.
Recurring motifs in his work include chains, packages, and graph paper. His films and videos are populated by figures that can be described as variations of the fool—characters defined by loneliness and a dependency on systems they simultaneously attempt to critique. Through these figures, Langschied stages a tension between entanglement and estrangement within contemporary systemic life.
He is also the founder of the queer writing collective Q.U.I.C.H.E., through which he has been publishing texts since 2023. The collective has collaborated with various institutions and received grants from Abteilung Kultur BS and Fachstelle Gleichstellung Basel-Stadt. Its website, launched in 2026, is conceived as a tool for queer publishing in the Basel region.
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 See You Next Tuesday (Basel, 2026), Landesmuseum Kunst und Kultur (Oldenburg, 2026), Museo Hermann Hesse (Montagnola, 2025), Topic (Geneva, 2025), Espace Formaline (Suhr, 2025), Space25 (Basel, 2025), 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).