Christoph Pauschenwein
Go back to Artist IndexChristoph Pauschenwein (*1971, Switzerland) works at the intersection of analog painting, digital construction, and emotional perception. After more than two decades as a creative director, he shifted his focus entirely to artistic practice. His work has been exhibited internationally, including Aqua Art Miami, Art Expo New York, and shows in Zurich, Basel, and Milan. He lives and works near Zurich.
In Pauschenwein’s world the “Planets” oscillate between soft and solid, inviting a tactile sense of the uncanny, while his “Monsters”—furry, sneaker‑shod hybrids—linger between familiarity and otherworldliness, framed like baroque curiosities. In E-Motion, vibrations and visual soundscapes unfold in rhythmic abstraction; Cityofstripes maps urban geometries with a modernist precision. Together these series form a visual language that collapses micro and macro, analog and algorithm-free digital craft, drawing viewers into contemplative, human-made worlds.
His visual worlds arise from observation rather than algorithms. Each piece merges the organic language of nature with the precision of digital construction, exploring what happens when micro and macro collapse into one another - when structures dissolve into landscapes, and landscapes become forms that feel both unknown and strangely familiar.
Photography forms the starting point, with analog and digital tools layered step by step. Nothing is automated: compositions emerge through the dialogue of control and chance, resulting in movement, depth, and inner vitality. His art reflects the paradoxes of our time - technology and nature, rationality and emotion, chaos and order - while offering not explanations but invitations. In Pauschenwein’s hands, digital means do not dehumanize. They connect.
In Pauschenwein’s practice, every frame becomes an invitation to slow down. His layered compositions don’t resolve into tidy answers but linger as open-ended spaces where intimacy and abstraction converge. Here the digital does more than describe. It pulses, it resonates. His worlds don't claim to explain. They ask.
