linked to the medium of textiles: repulsion and desire, excess, obsession with materials and the intertwining of artificial matter
and nature. She looks at things that we cast off as disposable and illuminates the surreal in the seemingly everyday.
A graduate of the MA Textiles at the Royal College of Art London, her work has been featured in institutional exhibitions such as
Textile Manifestos — From Bauhaus to Soft Sculpture at Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (2025) and StrawGold at the Museum of
Cultures Basel (2016) and is part of the collections of both museums.
Contact +41 78 309 40 94
dominique.lanz@network.rca.ac.uk
Instagram @nique_lnzzz
Photograph by Georg Gatsas
Group exhibitions
2025: YTAT (5th edition of the Young Textile Art Triennial), Deconstruction - Reconstruction, Łódź, PL
2025: Textile Manifestos — From Bauhaus to Soft Sculpture, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich, CH
2024:Textiles Festival – Interrogating the Unseen, RCA Battersea Campus, Royal College of Art London (RCA), UK
2024: Textiles In The Making, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, RCA London, UK
2021: Beach Next Door, ÖFF (Artist-run space), Zurich, CH
Exhibitions
2022: Atelier Zanolli – Fabrics, Fashion, Craft, 1905–1939, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich, CH
2019: Werkschau, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, CH
2016: StrawGold, Museum of Cultures, Basel, CH
Solo exhibitions
2018: Bella (Artist-run space), Zurich, CH
Collections
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich, CH
Museum of Cultures, Basel, CH
Press
Bubblegum Club From Deadstock to Form: Dominique Lanz's textile transformations by Jamal Nxedlana
Textile Art Forum Schweiz Textile Manifeste – vom Bauhaus bis Soft Sculpture by Christine Läubli
Wohnrevue Kunst-Stoff by Irène Münger, March 2025 Issue ‘Mit voller Kraft’
MODULØR Textiles als Inspiration für Architekten by Christian Greder
Schweizer Illustrierte Diese 3 Ausstellungen gehen unter die Haut by Noémie Schwaller
Bernina Textile Manifeste – Von Bauhaus bis Soft Sculpture by Gudrun Heinz
Selvedge Royal College of Art Textile Graduate Highlights selected by textile designer Orla Kierly
Residencies
2026: Kokrobitey Institute (funded by Pro Helvetia), Accra, GH
2025: Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol, CH
2022: Pro Helvetia Residency at Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Venice, IT
Education
2023–2024: MA Textiles, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2016–2019: Bachelor of Arts, Textile Design, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), CH
2018: Exchange semester in Textile Art, HDK Göteborg, SWE
2015: Propaedeutikum (art foundation course), Zurich University of Arts (ZHdK), CH
Grants
2025: Amt für Ermöglichung – WWP (Work With Professionals)
2023: IKEA Foundation Switzerland Scholarship for the MA Textiles at the Royal College of Art London
2021: Fashion Revolution Switzerland & Pro Helvetia – Coaching Sessions: Sustainability in Fashion
2021: IKEA Foundation Switzerland, Design Work Grant
Nominations
2025: Competition of the YTAT (5th edition of the Young Textile Art Triennial), Category ‘Textile Art’, Łódź, PL
2019: Wilhelm-Lorch Stiftung advancement award, Frankfurt on the Main, DE
2019: Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Alumni Award for Design & Art