Claudia Larcher
Recontemporary, Turin, Italy
26 November – December 2025
Founded in Turin in 2018, Recontemporary aims to explore the impact of digital technologies on contemporary art, and make them accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Claudia Larcher’s exhibition Extinction Story takes as its point of departure a collection of more than 5.000 birds' eggs that the artist inherited from her grandfather. His passion for birds and obsession with collecting led him to raid birds' nests, often recorded in diaries and photographs. Larcher will focus on the extinction of species, which her grandfather documented but also contributed to. In this way, she will shed light on the complex relationship between human obsession and the destruction of biocultural diversity. By transforming the space with video installations and wall tapestries, the boundaries between nature and artificiality will be blurred and the consequence of human intervention in nature emphasized.
Claudia Larcher (born 1979 in Bregenz, Austria) is an artist, filmmaker and AI researcher. She graduated in 2008 from the University of Applied Arts and works primarily with photography and film. Thematically she is interested in architectural spaces, and the abstract spaces of memory and imagination. She views photography not only as a technical medium but as a globally interconnected practice with social and political significance. Her work translates digital concepts into physical spaces and explores the interweaving of photography and artificial intelligence. Her work has been shown at Engländerbau, Vaduz; Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna; Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz; Festspielhaus Bregenz; Galerie 22,48m2, Paris; Galerie Marenzi, Leibnitz; L’Art Pur Gallery, Riyadh; Francisco Carolinum Linz; Galerie beim Feuerle, Feldkirch; Tokyo Tower Arts Festival; Gray Area Festival, San Francisco; Atelier Basfroi, Paris; Kunstraum Dornbirn; Le109, Nice; Mixer Arts, Istanbul; Belvedere 21, Vienna; Neuer Kunstverein Vienna and Mobius Gallery, Bucharest.
This is her first collaboration with Phileas.
