Karlheinz Wachsenegger | Zhang Dawo (1943–2023) | Donat Kamber
Three artists tracing the unseen forces beneath skin, script, and snow
Duration: 17 May – 13 June 2025 | Vernissage: 17 May, 7:00 p.m.
Pashmin Art Gallery is pleased to present Breathlines: Between Flesh, Form and Flow a tri-artist exhibition featuring the works of Karlheinz Wachsenegger, the late Zhang Dawo (1943–2023) and Donat Kamber. Spanning body-focused photography, abstract ink painting, and landscape imagery, these artists trace the subtle yet powerful currents that flow through the human form, spiritual self and nature.
Karlheinz Wachsenegger, a jazz musician turned fine art photographer, creates intimate, emotionally charged portraits of female musicians entwined with their instruments. In his imagery, the violin becomes a second skin—sound rendered visible in the sensual tension between body and string.
Zhang Dawo, a pioneer of contemporary Chinese ink art, dissolves the boundaries of traditional calligraphy. His abstract works—such as the Millennium Love Letter series—turn brush and ink into spiritual gestures, capturing the pulse of existence in rhythmic, transcendent motion.
Donat Kamber turns his lens toward the elemental drama of the Swiss Alps. His stark black-and-white photographs of glaciers and waterfalls offer a visual elegy to ecological fragility, capturing nature at the threshold of transformation and disappearance.
Together, their practices form a collective meditation on the invisible energies that animate form: the resonance of music, the breath within the strokes, the flow of water. The exhibition opens with a welcome by Nour Nouri, followed by a curatorial lecture by international scholar Dr. Davood Khazaie, illuminating the philosophical and aesthetic dialogue between these three visionary artists.
Join us at Pashmin Art Gallery in Hamburg for this profound cross-cultural encounter.
