Eliane Bertschi (*1990, Aarau, Switzerland) is a Zurich-based multidisciplinary artist working across film, performance, and theatre. She studied film at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Lucerne, where she co-directed the award-winning short film Opaque, and later completed an MA in Choreography and Arts at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
Her practice explores perception, time, and narrative, often creating hybrid structures that question fixed meanings. She is currently pursuing a PhD between ZHdK Zurich and Kunstuniversität Linz, researching imagination and landscape storytelling through a long-term hybrid project on tales of alpine Switzerland. She is also a research assistant in the Scenography Department at ZHdK.
Her work has been presented internationally at venues including Kanal Centre Pompidou Brussels, Kunstraum Aarau and SB34 in Brussels, Unanimous Consent in Zurich, and Grotto in Brussels, as well as in collaborative contexts at Kunsthalle Zurich, Munararte in Buenos Aires, VEEM House for Performance in Amsterdam, and Münchner Kammerspiele.
Bertschi currently co-runs the offspace Kunstraum Aarau and is part of the performance collective unspace, with which she developed the performance program for summer of something at Kunsthaus Zurich in 2023.