Erich Berger

Erich Berger is an artist, curator, and researcher based in Helsinki. Throughout his artistic practice, he has explored the materiality of information - and information and technology as artistic material. Berger's artistic focus lies on issues of deep time and hybrid ecology, which led him to work with geological processes, radiogenic phenomena, and their socio-political implications in the here and now. In his fieldwork-based practice, Berger carries out extensive work on natural radioactivity, potential uranium and REE mining sites and nuclear infrastructure in Finland and abroad. As a curator he develops opportunities that create critical transdisciplinary encounters and work situations between professionals from art, science and technology, recognizing all of them as fundamental transformative powers of our life world. Berger currently works at the University of Oulu in Finland, where he conducts interdisciplinary research into how artists approach temporalities beyond human-centred time, combining cultural anthropology, geology, and art. Berger has exhibited widely in museums, galleries and major media-art events in Europe and worldwide.

 

Image: Spectral Landscapes exhibition at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, 2024.