Portfolio
Works
Large-format acrylics and mixed media organised by series. Each series begins with a literary or mythological source and arrives somewhere entirely different.
SERIES · 2023–2025
The Weird Sisters
The three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth are more than mere mystical figures: they embody the power of language and the blurred line between fate and free will. Their prophecies act like a mirror — do they shape Macbeth’s destiny, or merely awaken what already lurks within him?
This series interweaves the literary archetype with the historical and mythical fascination of the witch: from the wise female figures of the Alps to the demonised witch imagery of the early modern era. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. Exhibited in Bolzano, Galleria Artisiti, Via Bottai 4 – 29/06 – 11/07/2026; in Silandro 21/07 – 25/08/2026
SERIES · 2026
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
The canvas becomes the stage for an unpredictable game: colour, set in motion, defies control — dripping, flowing, merging, or fragmenting, driven by gravity and the impulse of rotation.
New paintings in black and white, with two figures: the apprentice, and the birds — a homage to Hitchcock’s The Birds.
PAINTINGS · 2023–2026
Paintings 2023 – 2026
solo exhibition · 2005
Dialogues With Water
Water is the foundation of all life. While we often take it for granted in our part of the world, elsewhere it has long become a scarce resource, a political issue, and a trigger for conflict. Whether along the Nile, the Jordan, or in the Indus Basin: dams, diversions, and climate change are intensifying struggles over distribution.
WORKS · 2000’S–PRESENT
Early Works
For as long as she can remember, Elisabeth has been leaving traces — with coloured pencils, brushes, palette knives, scissors. Every technique was like a new chapter: the patience of watercolour, the sensuality of oil, the immediacy of acrylic.
It was in Taiwan that a new dimension of painting opened up — working through workshops, courses, and countless experiments, always searching for authentic expression.
PHOTO SERIES · 2019
Non-House
Marc Augé coined the term “non-place” to describe transitional spaces such as airports, hotels, or shopping malls — places that exist physically but lack identity, history, or social connections.
In Non-House, Elisabeth Zwick explores this inner landscape. By photographing, distorting, and literally turning these spaces upside down, she transforms them. The images exist between reality and imagination.
