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Herwig              
Scherabon







Media
Artist








Herwig Scherabon is an award-winning visual artist, who is currently based in Berlin. He creates immersive audio-visual installations that explore themes of object oriented ontology, post-humanism, nature, ecology, and technology, as well as the agency and sentience of non-human beings. His art invites viewers to consider their place in the world and the role that technology plays in shaping our experiences.

Herwig’s background in graphic design and architecture has influenced his art in significant ways. His interest in the abstract interpretation of space, places, and objects, as well as his use of cartographic data and 3D scans as raw material, adds a unique layer to his work. By questioning ideas of reality and evidence and blurring the lines between the virtual and the real, Herwig’s art invites viewers to consider the ontological complexities of digital and physical realities.

In his work he often blurs the lines between the organic and the digital, inviting us to reconsider our relationship with the world around us. Utilizing a range of media, including digital art, CGI, and mixed reality, Herwig creates thought-provoking and otherworldly environments that challenge our preconceived notions about the world. Having grown up in the Austrian Alps, he has a long lasting relationship with landscapes and nature and is interested in the sublime qualities of large scale phenomena. This often manifests in his work through the use of meditative and immersive concepts.

Herwig Scherabon's art encourages viewers to consider the experiences and perspectives of beings other than ourselves. This can be a powerful way to challenge our own assumptions and biases, and to open ourselves up to new ways of thinking about the world. By inviting viewers to reconsider their place in the world in relation to non-human beings, Herwig’s art invites us to reflect on our own place in the larger ecosystem and to consider the impact that our actions have on the world around us. This kind of introspection and self-reflection can be transformative and can help us to better understand our place in the world and our relationship to other beings.

Recently Herwig has had exhibitions in Berlin, Paris, New York City and Seoul. If you are interested to collaborate do not hesitate to get in touch.
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Opium Or The Mesmerizing Beauty Of Being Half Awake, 2019
Print:
New Ecology and Art – Anthropocene as “dithering time”, 以文社, May 2022
Entkunstung III, January 2020
Vangardist Magazine #15, Robotic Love Edition, November 2019
GEO, issue 01/2017, Gruner + Jahr, January 2017
Computer Arts Magazine, issue 261, Future plc, January 2017
El País Semanal, El País, January 2017
The Scotsman, Johnston Press, September 2016

Exhibitions (Selection)

09/2023 —ARS Electronica, Linz, Austria
11/2022 —Art Basel, Miami, USA
11/2022 —Palais de Tokyo, Website, FR
10/2022 —Karachi Biennale, Karachi, PK
12/2021 —Thailand Biennale, Korat, TH
07/2021 —Kiezkapelle, Solo Show, Berlin, GER
01/2021 —The 5th Floor, Tokyo, JP
02/2020 —Bethanien Creative Quarter, Berlin, GER
07/2020 —Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach, AUT
01/2020—Kunstraum LLLLLL, Vienna, AUT
11/2019 — thescreenisnotthelimit, Online Biennale
11/2019 — S/O, Vienna, AUT
11/2019 — Museum Of The City Of NY, NYC, USA
10/2019 — Seoul Future Conf., Seoul, KR
07/2019 — Millepiani, Rome, IT
06/2019 – Espace EDF BAZACLE, Toulouse, FR
06/2019 — ISEA, Gwangju, KR
06/2019 — Spring Festival, Graz, AUT
05/2019 — Take Festival, Vienna, AUT
05/2019 – Artivive “Walkie Talkie”, Vienna, AUT
03/2019 – Diagonale Graz, AUT
02/2019 — Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin, DE
01/2019 – Improper Walls Vienna, AUT
05/2018 – Fondation EDF Paris, FR 09/2017 – Pratt Manhattan Gallery, USA
08/2016 – Glasgow School of Art, UK
12/2017 – Biotop, AUT
Awards & Residencies

05/2021 – ADC Award
08/2019 – LABVERDE Art Residency, Amazon, Brasil
05/2017 – European Design Award
11/2016 – Information is Beautiful Award
07/2016 – Print Futures Award


Teaching & Research

10/2022 – ongoing –  Professorship at University of Applied Science and Art, Digital Media & Experiment,
Bielefeld, GER

03/2022 – Karachi School of Art, Karachi, PK
05/2021 – Bauhaus, Weimar, GE
05/2021 – University of Presov, SK
06/2018 – Bauhaus, Weimar, GE
05/2017 – Universtity of York, York, UK
The Clinic of The Unbodied

Berlin, Gallery Week
Dec 2021 – March 2022
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The Clinic of The Unbodied presents ten sculptures and media works where animal remains appear alongside prosthetic structures, algorithmic signals, and clinical devices. These assemblages ar e not reconciliations of the organic and the synthetic. They operate as estranged anatomies that ask what bodies are, and how they are altered, managed, or remembered within systems of care and control.

The exhibition unfolds in a former veterinary clinic, a site marked by the ambivalence of healing and euthanasia. Within this charged setting, bones, circuitry, and prosthetic architectures are treated not as symbols but as active residues of larger economies: agriculture, inheritance, technological governance. Their conjunction exposes how care is inseparable from authority, and how the gesture of maintenance can also function as a form of domination.

Media installations extend these questions into the terrain of memory and affect. AI-generated images and machinic speech loops suggest how cognition circulates across networks of storage and code rather than remaining within the biological brain. The Clinic of The Unbodied invites viewers to confront the present conditions under which bodies are designed, technologised, and controlled, offering a diagnostic vision rather than a speculative future.




Credits:
Curation/Exhibition Design: Maria Basantes
Photography: Hannah Brandes
Graphic Design: David Rindlisbacher
Exhibition Design Assistance: Natalia De Leon

Funded by:
HSBI Bielefeld
DockDigital

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