Eric Eberhard (born 1981) is an architect and artist. Born and raised amid the simplicity and stillness of the French Pyrenees, his path first led him to Germany to study architecture. Since 2009, he live and work in Chur, Switzerland. The mountains profoundly shape his life – aesthetically, emotionally, and spiritually. Deeply connected to the Bergell and the Engadine valley, he has experienced these landscapes over many years by walking, climbing, and observing.
Journeys and expeditions to distant mountain regions – in Nepal, Iran, Georgia, and Russia – have broadened this perspective. For him, mountaineering was never merely a sport; it was an attitude: an act of exposure, of listening, of entering into dialogue with what is. In the mountains, he found a tension between departure and return, between emancipation and reconciliation with the world around him.
This attitude defines his artistic work and serves as his means of expression. His drawings are simple and clear, ascetic, imbued with quiet rigor – abstract and pictorial at once. Often created using nothing but a pencil, they emerge from contours and shadows, line by line, until landscapes, rocks, and glaciers take form. Within them condenses what moves him most: the relationship between human and landscape, between weight and emptiness, between the visible and the invisible.
