Menu
About
Roger Weiss is a Swiss visual artist whose research explores the fragmentary construction of human identity in contemporary society through photography, video and installation.
Graduated with honors from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, he investigates the human being as a threshold between presence and abstraction, memory and fiction.
His practice is guided by a constant tension toward the archetype: an inquiry into the body as a primordial figure that precedes roles, time, and narration.
He has exhibited in galleries and art fairs across Europe and the United States, including Ohsh Projects (London, UK), Gallery Sébastien Lepeuve (Clichy, FR), Snap! Orlando Gallery (Orlando, US), Limonaia di Villa Strozzi (Florence, IT), Museo del Barocco (Noto, IT), Gervasuti Foundation (Venice, IT), StadtGalerie Brixen (Bressanone, IT), Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut (Heidelberg, DE), and Kulturzentrum Alte Kaserne (Winterthur, CH).
His works have been published in international art and photography books, including The Opéra (Kerber, DE), The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's (Josef Weiss Private Press, CH), and Doppelgänger – Images of the Human Being (Gestalten, DE), as well as in leading international publications such as WWD (US), L'Officiel (US, FR, IT), Vogue (UK, DE, IT), Numéro (FR), Marie Claire (FR), Schön! (UK), Interview Magazine (DE), Stern (DE), Carnale (IT), Digit! (DE), and Blink (KR). He has also been interviewed by Dazed (UK), i-D (UK), Exibart (IT), ArtsLife (IT), RSI (CH), Vogue Italia (IT), and NY Arts (US).
In parallel, he has collaborated with international brands such as Apple, Enterprise Japan, Amina Muaddi, and Wolford, developing projects that placed his artistic research in dialogue with fields of visual and cultural innovation.
From 2017 to 2020, he directed the artistic vision of Collectible DRY, an international English-language magazine distributed worldwide, contributing to its conceptual and editorial identity.
Contact
© 2026｜Roger Weiss
info(at)rogerweiss(dot)ch
X ｜ Insta
© 2026｜Roger Weissinfo(at)rogerweiss(dot)chX ｜ Insta
roger weiss
Roger Weiss works at the intersection of the archetypal and the systemic.Through photographic construction, temporal modulation, and spatial installation, his practice dismantles the human: body, gesture, habitat, to expose the structures beneath.What precedes identity is his subject. 3
2024-2025 | Hysteria
The Double as Structural Condition
Hysteria begins with a fracture: the subject does not coincide with itself. Identity is not a unity, but the unstable result of a continuous negotiation between internal impulse and social construction. The series does not seek synthesis. It holds this fracture open as its operative field.
Surface & Voice
Image and Voice as Independent Devices
Each work brings together a visual surface, photographic or video collage, and an audio testimony recorded with the portrayed subject. Image and voice do not illustrate each other. They operate as independent devices, exposing the gap between what is shown and what surfaces, between construction and exposure. The portrait extends beyond the visible without ever resolving into a coherent form.
The Double
Alter-Ego and Irreducible Tension
The series unfolds through paired portraits held in suspended relation. The two figures function neither as opposition nor as mirror, but as an unstable system in which proximity and distance, vulnerability and control, intimacy and resistance remain in continuous redefinition. Not a crisis, but a condition.
Installation View
#002_clg091225_27ph – hst241023_28-2ph, 2023-2025
Photographic collage with audio, 26'24''
262 × 311 cm
Blueback paper, 115 g/m²
Pelt
Curated by Henry Hussey and Sophia Olver
In collaboration with Maverick Projects
The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station
London, UK, 2026
The audio unfolds as an introspective monologue in which a man reflects on his difficulty in forming deep emotional bonds despite a generous and sensitive disposition. The narrative moves between the desire for intimacy and a recurring withdrawal marked by emotional detachment and subtle superiority. References to divorce and fatherhood reveal a fragile condition shaped by awareness of emotional limits and unresolved distance. Rather than resolving this tension, the voice settles into an acceptance of partial happiness, operating as an intimate counterpoint to the visual work and extending its investigation of vulnerability and contradiction.
Hysteria
Selected works
3.1
hst220821_21ph, 2021
3.2 hst_201123_20ph_002, 2023
3.3 hst171023_40ph, 2023
3.4 hst051123_26ph, 2023
3.5 hst210723_24ph, 2023
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.43.5Hysteria comprises 17 photographic works and 2 video works developed between 2021 and 2024, each accompanied by an audio testimony recorded with the portrayed subjects.
Complete archive available upon request.
Project Statement
Removing the mask does not restore authenticity. It restores vulnerability, [...]
[...]
disorientation, need. What surfaces is not a stable core, but an unstable matter that exceeds every form of representation.
Hysteria does not seek to explain or resolve. It maintains open the point at which the subject encounters its own instability, not as exception, but as permanent form. A threshold where what one is and what one shows remain in tension, without ever fully coinciding.
The title is not a diagnosis. It is a position. A condition in which the subject persists as divided presence.
Video work
hst110524_18vd (excerpt), 2024
Video, 8K Utra HD, 16:9, Col., 44'52" in loop