Showcase 8: Pamela Rosenkranz
Healer Scrolls (Amphimore), 2025.
Kirigami cut membrane, tension, pigments, perspex frame.
Courtesy of the artist and Karma International, Zurich.
Photo credits: Sebastian Lendenmann
Text by Leopold Weinberg
What fascinates me most about Pamela Rosenkranz’s work is how it always feels alive—fluid, layered, and open-ended. Every piece I’ve encountered seems to exist in multiple states at once: in its materials, its forms, and the way it invites interpretation. That sense of openness is rare; her work never settles into a single meaning, but keeps evolving in the mind long after you’ve left the room.
Being a collector of her work feels like being part of an ongoing dialogue between art, science, and perception. She navigates ideas about light, color, and the human body with such nuance, yet the experience is never purely intellectual—it’s deeply sensory, poetic, and often surprising. Her art dissolves boundaries between nature and culture, human and machine, physical and digital, creating a space where contradictions coexist and new connections emerge. Having her work in our collection isn’t just about possession—it’s about witnessing that constant unfolding, and feeling privileged to return to it again and again, discovering new layers each time.
About
Pamela Rosenkranz (born 1979 in Uri, Switzerland; lives and works in Zurich) works across painting and sculpture, as well as installation, sound, and light. She explores how the human body perceives the world and how nature, technology, and culture shape that experience. Known for iconic works such as Old Tree, a large-scale sculpture installed on the High Line in New York, Rosenkranz creates artworks that are immediately engaging while unfolding deeper layers over time. Another central work is Healer, a robotic snake with a reflective surface that draws on ancient symbols of healing and danger. This exploration continues in the Healer Scrolls, kirigami-cut and hand-painted membranes inspired by snake skin, which are on view at Hotel Helvetia. Rosenkranz has created public installations such as the light work at Fraumünster Zurich and has had solo exhibitions at world-leading institutions including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Kunsthalle Basel, and Kunsthaus Bregenz. Her works are held in major collections, such as MoMA New York, Centre Georges-Pompidou, and Kunstmuseum Basel, and are known for their rare combination of beauty, immediacy, and conceptual depth.
Healer Scrolls (Pattern Reunion), 2024. Kirigami cut membrane, tension, pigments, perspex frame.
Healer Scrolls (Westside), 2022 Watercolor, tension, perspex frame.
Courtesy of the artist and Karma International, Zurich.
Photo credits: Flavio Karrer
Artist Talk der Bechtler Stiftung mit Bice Curiger und Pamela Rosenkranz