Babette Walder (born 1999 in Zürich) lives and works in Basel. She graduated in 2024 with a BA in Fine Arts from the Basel University of Art and Design, Institute Art Gender Nature, after completing a year of study at the Bern University of the Arts in 2021. In 2020 she graduated from Zurich University of the Arts. Babette Walder has participated in many group exhibitions throughout Switzerland, and has worked as a curator on “Sincerely” at the HGK Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel University of Art and Design.

In her artistic practice, Babette Walder makes scurrilous, affectionate, bitter objects and narrations which stand in as political bodies and challenge notions around different modern identities. In dead serious idiocy, the works navigate the tension between bitter realities and playful expression. Employing a tactile formal language to attempt subtle forms of rebellion, her works push and pull interaction and draw closer to the precious and strange bodies of others.

So weit, so gut (So far, so good) 

Out of a daily practice of discovering Berlin by foot and collecting objects off the streets came an interest in the city‘s pavement and the shoes that grind on its surface day by day. Mundane cobblestones are reimagined as plinths carrying scaled down ceramic shoes, hard as stone themselves, on a surface seemingly polished down to a mirror finish. Evoking cliché images – steps on wet cobblestone, skin deep glamour of Berlin’s nightlife – „Die Grosse Frau“ is taking an equally unreal walk nearby, moving into dialogue through play on scale and visual language. „So far, so good“ marks only a stop-over in a long walk.