Tobias Bärtsch (b. 1993 in Walenstadt, Switzerland) is a Swiss-Polish artist and writer living and working in Zurich, Switzerland.

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As an interdisciplinary artist, I work with text, installation, and digital media to explore narratives that move between local folklore and global myths.

I am interested in how folkloric legends, urban myths, and conspiracy theories function as collective desiring-production. They process social fears, desires, and experiences of loss within a fragmented present. These narratives often feel like ghosts that continue to circulate in the digital sphere, somewhere between escapism and ideological hardening.

My work questions what memory means today, when technology is no longer just a tool, but actively shapes spaces for action. Where fact and fiction increasingly blur, I see these narratives as symptoms of cultural exhaustion but also as possible ways out of it.