Gabriela Burkhalter
Curator and Urban Planner
Gabriela Burkhalter, curator. The Playground Project Melbourne, Incinerator Gallery, 2025 (install view with The Lozziwurm by Yvan Pestalozzi, 1972/2016). Photo Timothy Burgess/Image Play. Courtesy The Playground Project.
Gabriela Burkhalter is a Swiss urban planner and political scientist specialising in play, architecture, and public space through curatorial research and advisory work. Since 2008, she has documented the history of playgrounds through her open access archive, Architektur für Kinder: The Playground Project. She is also the curator and editor of The Playground Project travelling exhibition an exhibition catalogue (Park Books, Zurich, 2023, 3rd ed.), which debuts in the Southern Hemisphere in 2025.
