Crap Pipe 2014
Style Trophy 1996 & Gian Simmen 2002
Markus Keller 2006 & Bjorn Mortensen 2002
Sani Alibabic 2005
Travis Rice 2006
Gigi Ruef 2008 & 2001
Burton European Open 2014
Jake & Donne Burton 2009
Chandro Capin & Martin Rutz 2000
Riders Hotel 2002
Fadri Jecklin 2000 & Gian Simmen & Dani Costandache 2000
Alex Schauwecker 2000 & Gian Simmen 2002
Gian Simmen & Danny Larsen & David Benedek & Dimitri Fesenko & Shaun White 2006
Eero Ettala & Drew Stevenson & Ed Leigh & Filip Kratter & Jamie Lynn 2006
Nicolas Mueller & Jonte Edvardson & Markus Keller & Michi Albin & Terje Haakonsen 2006
Terje Haakonsen 2019
Christian Haller 2016
Shaun White 2008 & Nicolas Mueller 2008
Markus Keller 2014
AIR
exhibition at Riders Laax, is presenting a collection of work shot in Laax from 1996 to the present day.
We breathe, we live. We strive, we dream. We hope, we doubt. Every idea is a little spark that may start a fire – or simply burn out.
We breathe, we walk. A life path full of coincidences. It takes us to places, connects us with people,
opens up countless possibilities. We have found snowboarding. It makes us fly. It gives us friendships, opportunities, experiences, and
skills.
We now know things we would never know. We now see things we would never see. Snowboarding made us catch some Air – and so much more.
AIR.
It is the blazing light of the sun that floods the icy air. It refracts, glittering, in snow crystals that cover majestic mountain landscapes. The interplay of climate, temperature, precipitation, and topography creates magical places that spark people‘s imaginations.
IMAGINE.
Snowboarding is a fantasy. Born from the idea of mastering the elements playfully. Driven by the youthful desire to transcend the ordinary and redefine the limits of the possible. What is thinkable is doable. The dream is reality.
CONNECT.
Snowboarding connects us. It creates spaces for inspiration, but also for staging. It is a cultural sounding board that responds to the most diverse social vibrations. Outdoor, urban, sports, culture, music. City. Country. Local. Global. Snowboarding is a universal energy.
CREATE.
Creativity is not a skill. It is a state of mind. A perspective on the world that surrounds you. A realization that enables the creation of new horizons. Snowboarding grants the freedom to discover creativity. Snowboarding is a constant experiment, a search between inspiration and expression. A learning of the new, an interpretation of the tried and true. Snowboarding is a process.
LIVE.
Introverted and extroverted. Loud and quiet. Shrill and silent. Solo and collective. Everything is possible, everything is allowed. Snowboarding is its own corrective, the context determines the excess.
INSPIRE.
Style is the awareness of the effectiveness of one‘s own actions and being – on oneself and on others.
Live Snowboarding.
Text by Bene Heimstädt
Longtime Publisher Pleasure Mag