About

Elias Kurth is a Swiss artist, choreographer, performer and architect based in Aarau (CH) and Marseille (F). Working across these disciplines, Elias Kurth explores the tensions between fictional and factual spaces, between individual fantasies and societal realities.
The projects vary in scale, duration and media, and always draw from the human body as a source of knowledge. Using movement as a thinking tool, Kurth develops intersections between performance, architecture and visual arts. His curiosity for the yet unknown and a strong sense for spaces and emotions create situational poignant experiences. The work, ranging from sensitive gestures to brute physical acts, reveals his playful reading of internal and external realities and their conflicts.

Elias Kurth graduated from ‘The Place’ (London Contemporary Dance School) and worked with several choreographers such as Lea Anderson, Requardt&Rosenberg, Compagnie Shifts or KiloHertZ/Vidal Bini. He graduated as an architect from the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin where he studied amongst others with Jean-Philippe Vassal, Enrique Sobejano, and Alexandra Ranner. He has worked as an architect for Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. His work has been shown in the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany and Switzerland.