Ronny Hardliz

Ronny Hardliz is an independent practicing artist and researcher holding a Degree of Architect (Master of Arts MA) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Lausanne. He was teaching assistant at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, artistic member of the Swiss Institute in Rome, research assistant at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and associate member of the doctoral degree program SNSF ProDoc Art&Science at ETH Zurich. He is the inventor and curator of the World Ornamental Forum at the Kirchner Museum in Davos. Currently he is candidate for a mixed mode PhD at the Art & Design Research Institute (ADRI) of Middlesex University in London, and Swiss National Science Foundation DocMobility fellow at the doctoral degree program ‘Curatorial/Knowledge’, Department of Visual Cultures, at Goldsmiths University of London.

Research project: His PhD research in the cross field of art and architecture focuses on a practical, philosophical and curatorial questioning of the economic circular opposition of creation and destruction. In his dissertation entitled ‘wall sandwich’ – The Architectonic in Art Practices from Destruction to Non-Construction the neologism non-construction works as voiding rather than avoiding, as touching construction rather than opposing or completing it. He explores practices of writing, building, reading, and drawing, their relations to knowledge, and their political implications for contemporary cultures, with the aim of voiding (neoliberal) indifference, of making an indifference as such.