Andrea Hasler

Andrea Hasler - ‘Perishable Goods’

Andrea Hasler is a Swiss artist who lives and works in London, UK. She holds an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design. Selected solo exhibitions include Burdens of Excess (Gusford, Los Angeles/US), Irreducible Complexity (Next Level-Projects, London/UK), Full Fat or Semi-Skinned? (Bon Gallery, Stockholm), and Verbier Time + Space (New York/US). She won the Arts Council England funded Greenham Common Commission, producing a large site-specific installation that received significant press attention. Hasler has been an Artist-in-Residence at Verbier 3D Foundation (Switzerland and USA), Next Level Projects (Bahamas), and Chisenhale (London/UK). She lectures at various institutions, including the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, MA Art & Luxury, London/UK. 

Her work has featured in many group exhibitions, notably Ethics, Excess and Extinction at the El Paso Museum, Texas/US, and Zabludowicz Collection’s Procreate Finalist exhibition in London/UK. Upcoming projects include a site-specific installation in Marfa, Texas/US (Autumn 2026)

Andrea Hasler’s work centres around the emotional body—a site of vulnerability, tension, and transformation. Through immersive installations and site-specific sculptures, she attempts to materialise the intangible: longing, shame, aspiration, and the duality of desire and repulsion. Her work depicts the emotional body, often working with skin as the physical element that divides the Self from the Other, as well as the potential container for both and the threshold where these identities blur.

Rooted in the psychology of the abject—as theorised by Julia Kristeva—Hasler’s work explores the aesthetics of contradiction: the push and pull between attraction and repulsion, glamour and grotesque, surface and exposure. 

Recurring themes include the emotional lure of luxury, the fetishisation of status, and the collective rituals of consumption. These glossy ideals are dissected—sometimes literally—in Hasler’s sculptures and installations, revealing what festers beneath the surface of aspiration. Through visceral textures and uncanny anatomies, her work challenges the myth of perfection and offers a counter-narrative: one of rawness, exposure, and emotional truth.

In an age obsessed with control and curation, Hasler’s work seeks to disrupt—to render visible what we work so hard to hide. The beautifully grotesque. The aspirationally abject. The emotional residue of what it means to be human.

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