Raffaella Yacar lives and works between Zurich and São Paulo.

She is a Brazilian artist based in Zurich, working primarily across painting, calligraphy, drawing, and installation. Before becoming a full-time artist, she worked for more than a decade as an architect.

Her work has been exhibited in institutions and galleries in Zurich, Venice, Singapore, and New York.

Her practice explores camouflage, feminine eroticism, intimacy, and mystery. The paintings emerge from gestural asemic writing and unfold between veiling and revelation, where bodies and landscapes blur into one another.

Guided by the sense that every landscape is first formed inwardly before becoming image, her works give material presence to subtle states of perception and to forms of the erotic that exist just before language emerges.

Her installations result from a critical engagement with forms, collected materials, and their inherent meanings. They evolve through research into philosophical, anthropological, and linguistic theories.

Raffaella holds degrees in Architecture and Philosophy from Universidade de São Paulo and a Master's degree in Urban Anthropology from ETH Zurich.