Peter Schäublin

Force. Matter. Perception.

Peter Schäublin examines how elemental, material and human forces act upon the visible world, producing images in which perception becomes unstable.

Peter Schäublin’s work expands a single investigation across different domains. His images examine how forces, environmental, material and human, act upon matter, objects and bodies, shaping, eroding and transforming what can be seen.

Working with elemental conditions such as water, air, salt, ice and fire, alongside traces of labour and human presence, Schäublin isolates moments where structure becomes unstable and recognition begins to shift.

These works do not present landscape, object or figure as fixed subjects. Instead, they operate as encounters with processes: formation, disturbance and suspension. Matter accumulates, disperses and resists, while scale collapses and perception becomes active rather than passive.

Across these domains, Schäublin’s practice forms a continuous investigation into instability and change. The visible is treated not as a stable surface, but as a field shaped by pressure, time and interaction.

Residual, Surface Trace I - Pigment print on selected museum-grade fine art paper

80 × 120 cm / 120 × 180 cm, Edition of 8 (5 in medium, 3 in large) - 2024

Formation, Surface Trace III - Pigment print on selected museum-grade fine art paper

80 × 120 cm / 120 × 180 cm, Edition of 8 (5 in medium, 3 in large) -2026

Formation, Pressure Field I  - Pigment print on selected museum-grade fine art paper

80 × 120 cm / 120 × 180 cm, Edition of 8 (5 in medium, 3 in large) - 2025

Human - Handling - Interface I - - Pigment print on selected museum-grade fine art paper

80 × 120 cm / 120 × 180 cm, Edition of 8 (5 in medium, 3 in large) -2026

Schäublin’s practice developed over several decades of image-making across photography and film, following the founding of his studio, 720 Grad GmbH, in 1995. Originally grounded in applied and documentary contexts, his work has increasingly shifted toward a concept-led fine art practice, extending the photographic image and more into a broader investigation of perception and transformation.

Recent presentations include photoSCHWEIZ, Zürich (2024 and 2025), where his long-term photographic project Silencewas exhibited. His work has also been selected for editorial presentations by Leica Fotografie International / LFI Gallery. In 2023 he published the limited-edition photographic book Silence, now catalogued by the Swiss National Library. Schäublin is a member of the Swiss Association of Press Photography and Video Journalism (SPV).

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