BREATHE WITH PILATUS | An Immersive Experience for the Slow
Mount Pilatus, Switzerland | 16. January - 26. April 2026
ART ON THE MOUNTAIN
With her award-winning, multi-sensory installation ‘Breathe with Pilatus’, experience designer Annabelle Schneider invites visitors into a breathing cloud of fabric – a walk-in space that slows down time and combines the forces of nature and the present.
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THE INSTALLATION
A living organism of light, sound and scent on Pilatus Kulm. In the heart of the Dragon Forum, a gently breathing, walk-in fabric cloud envelops visitors in an interplay of projection, sound and scent. A multi-sensory experience that invites you to pause and linger. Explore and experience the installation at your own pace: sit or lie down, surrender to the soundscape and world of scents, and find yourself. Every turn leads to a different mood and opens up new worlds.
The visual elements change like the seasons and show nature in a macro perspective: dripping water, moss, Swiss stone pine wood, snow. Images and patterns from nature are transferred in a surprisingly different, sometimes abstract way, in Annabelle's digital signature, onto fabrics that come into contact with the body and demand a second look.
The Grammy Award-winning and Lucerne based collective LAF composed the soundscape for the installation – a bridge between tradition and contemporary, made up of Swiss sounds, nature recordings and digital pulses.
The sensory experience is enhanced in collaboration with the Swiss fragrance house LUZI. The fragrance carries the pure, alpine essence of Mount Pilatus. It opens with cool brightness – clear mountain air, cold water on stone, a trace of snow heralding the awakening of the senses. Moss and damp earth anchor it, Swiss stone pine envelops it with quiet warmth. A fragrant backbone that expands the breath and centres the body.
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‘Breathe with Pilatus is a bridge between spirituality, nature, innovation, design, and art – a place that slows down the pace and sharpens perception.’
Annabelle Schneider, Artist & Experience Designer
