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Switzerland - Above and Beyond: Traces of Home
Tom Hegen, Patrick Lambertz, Peter Andrew Lusztyk
Exhibition Dates: 4 October 2025 – 21 February 2026
Location: Petra Gut Contemporary, St. Moritz
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In Switzerland - Above and Beyond: Traces of Home, Petra Gut Contemporary in St. Moritz presents three artists Patrick Lambertz, Tom Hegen, and Peter Andrew Lusztyk whose photographic visions uncover, abstract, and reframe the idea of Switzerland itself.
Through architecture, aerial perspectives, and symbolic still lifes, they explore the visible and invisible frameworks that define Swiss identity. Their works range from secluded chalets and serpentine mountain roads to meticulously arranged emblems of culture. Together they reveal a portrait of a nation built as much on imagination and craftsmanship as on geography.
Patrick Lambertz - The architecture of memory
Chalets and the Spirit of Stillness
Patrick Lambertz turns his lens toward the alpine homes that have sheltered generations. In his series Chalets of Switzerland, he photographs traditional wooden houses in winter, stripped of romantic context and surrounded by silent expanses of snow. These buildings stand alone - stoic, minimal, and monumental.
Each image tells a story of resilience and modesty. Rather than showing Switzerland as postcard perfection, Lambertz evokes the quiet dignity of survival in remote terrain. His compositions feel suspended in time - fragments of a national memory that resist the spectacle of tourism.
Hotel Belvédère - A Frozen Icon
Lambertz’s fascination with built heritage continues in Hotel Belvédère, perched above the Rhône Glacier. One of Switzerland’s most photographed landmarks, it even appeared in Goldfinger (1964). While its façade has long served as a cinematic and social-media icon, Lambertz ventures inside, where wallpaper peels and furniture stands frozen in elegant decay.
Shot with cinematic precision, these interiors recall the symmetrical worlds of Wes Anderson - saturated with colour, nostalgia, and serenity. Lambertz invites us into a parallel reality where the past remains quietly alive.
Tom Hegen - Systems of Control and Design
Aerial Perspectives of Precision
If Lambertz looks inward, Tom Hegen looks down - from above. His Swiss Pass Series offers an aerial view of the country’s engineered landscapes, where roads, tunnels, and avalanche barriers weave through snow-covered slopes. Using drone photography, Hegen transforms infrastructure into geometry: ribbons of asphalt tracing elegant arcs across white silence.
From this height, nature and design merge. The mountain becomes both stage and structure, shaped by human precision and natural force. Hegen’s photographs are meditations on control and coexistence - on how a nation defined by its terrain has learned to master, respect, and redesign it.
Engineering Meets Aesthetics
The subtle gradients of snow and rock and the disciplined curvature of man-made lines evoke the poetry of order - a visual rhythm mirroring Switzerland’s relationship with design, precision, and harmony. His bird’s-eye views of the Bernina, Julier, and Maloja passes transcend documentation, becoming metaphors for connection - roads as arteries linking remote valleys and lifelines between isolation and civilisation.
Peter Andrew Lusztyk - Swiss Symbols, Rethought
Precision as Identity
Peter Andrew Lusztyk turns to the icons of Swissness. His minimalist still lifes feature passports, postage stamps, gold coins, and tins of caviar - photographed with the APLA SWISS Focus Stacking Camera, a system of extraordinary resolution and clarity.
Presented with clinical precision, these objects become symbols of national pride, alpine identity, and discretion. In St. Moritz - where style and tradition meet ritual - Lusztyk’s work becomes a meditation on authenticity and aspiration.
Objects as Cultural Codes
A Goldvreneli coin becomes a study of value and permanence; a passport a reflection of belonging and control. His compositions challenge us to consider how culture is encoded in design and how meaning resides in the everyday artefacts that define a nation.
A Dialogue Between Form and Meaning
Together, Lambertz, Hegen, and Lusztyk offer three vantage points on Switzerland - physical, cultural, and emotional. Lambertz finds home in stillness, Hegen in elevation, and Lusztyk in precision.
Switzerland – Above and Beyond is not a postcard view of mountains and lakes. It is a dialogue between permanence and change - between what is preserved and what evolves.
In St. Moritz, where architecture, nature, and luxury converge, the exhibition invites viewers to look again - closer, higher, or from within - and to discover that Switzerland’s essence lies in the interplay between design and desire, precision and poetry.
Exhibition Details
Exhibition: Switzerland – Above and Beyond: Traces of Home
Artists: Patrick Lambertz, Tom Hegen, Peter Andrew Lusztyk
Venue: Petra Gut Contemporary, Via Dal Bagn 13 (Entrance Via Chavallera 1A), 7500 St. Moritz
Dates: 4 October 2025 – 21 February 2026
Opening Hours
13 Nov – 12 Dec 2025 Thu - Sat | 2 pm – 6 pm
13 Dec 2025 - 3 Jan 2026 Mon - Sun | 11 am - 1 pm & 2 pm – 6 pm
Contact
Petra Gut Contemporary | gallery@petragut.com | +41 81 422 40 69
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