https://scherabon.com Herwig Scherabon Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:08:20 +0000 https://scherabon.com en https://scherabon.com/Home Sat, 14 Apr 2018 13:32:39 +0000 Herwig Scherabon https://scherabon.com/Home Herwig               Scherabon Media ArtistFollow on Instagram https://scherabon.com/About Sat, 14 Apr 2018 19:25:39 +0000 Herwig Scherabon https://scherabon.com/About 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. https://scherabon.com/Banner-3 Mon, 13 Jan 2020 19:37:26 +0000 Herwig Scherabon https://scherabon.com/Banner-3 Opium Or The Mesmerizing Beauty Of Being Half Awake, 2019 https://scherabon.com/References Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:43:08 +0000 Herwig Scherabon https://scherabon.com/References Features Online:The Guardian — «The art of gentrification: city data made beautiful»Co.Design — «To Tackle Big Urban Issues, This Architect Became A Data Designer» Eye Magazine — «Information is everywhere»Creative Review — «What gentrification looks like, in lines, dots, shapes and colours»Designboom — «Herwig Scherabon visually highlights the income inequality within large cities»Digital Arts — «Herwig Scherabon unveils harsh stories of inequality … »Nerdcore — «3D-Städte aus lokalisierten Einkommens-Daten»Design is kinky — «Taking info-graphics to a whole new level» 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 2017Computer Arts Magazine, issue 261, Future plc, January 2017El País Semanal, El País, January 2017The 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, PK12/2021 —Thailand Biennale, Korat, TH 07/2021 —Kiezkapelle, Solo Show, Berlin, GER 01/2021 —The 5th Floor, Tokyo, JP 02/2020 —Bethanien Creative Quarter, Berlin, GER07/2020 —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, AUT05/2019 – Artivive “Walkie Talkie”, Vienna, AUT03/2019 – Diagonale Graz, AUT 02/2019 — Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin, DE 01/2019 – Improper Walls Vienna, AUT05/2018 – Fondation EDF Paris, FR 09/2017 – Pratt Manhattan Gallery, USA08/2016 – Glasgow School of Art, UK12/2017 – Biotop, AUT Awards & Residencies 05/2021 – ADC Award08/2019 – LABVERDE Art Residency, Amazon, Brasil 05/2017 – European Design Award11/2016 – Information is Beautiful Award07/2016 – 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, SK06/2018 – Bauhaus, Weimar, GE 05/2017 – Universtity of York, York, UK https://scherabon.com/the-clinic-vid Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:08:20 +0000 Herwig Scherabon https://scherabon.com/the-clinic-vid https://scherabon.com/the-clinic Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:07:19 +0000 Herwig Scherabon https://scherabon.com/the-clinic The Clinic of The Unbodied Berlin, Gallery Week Dec 2021 – March 2022View Video with Sound 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 ^ AR Exhibition Gallery https://scherabon.com/nrnna-vid Wed, 26 Jan 2022 16:00:08 +0000 Herwig Scherabon https://scherabon.com/nrnna-vid https://scherabon.com/nrnna Wed, 26 Jan 2022 16:51:12 +0000 Herwig Scherabon https://scherabon.com/nrnna Not Really Now Not Anymore Thailand Biennale Korat Dec 2021 – March 2022View Video with Sound Not Really Now Not Anymore premiered at the Thailand Biennale Korat 2021 Mixed media 2-channel audiovisual installation (7:48 min loop) Enclosed ecosystem with plants and moss (40x40x50 cm); augmented reality animation with sound (2:00 min. loop) The work is a proposition in multiple realities, offering the viewer a rethinking of cartesian geography and an alternative to the notion of continuously flowing time. Instead what is being offered is a barely recognisable reality, something simultaneously in the uncanny valley between real and not-real. Disruptive events on species level, like pandemics and volcanic eruptions, make the mind reevaluate everything it thought it knew. Not Really Now Not Anymore is the memory of a displaced and distorted reality in digital space — it is the experience of change flattened into video format. Using different terrain and object scanning techniques, the artist spent a month on the island of La Palma in the Atlantic Ocean to record and document its landscape, ecosystem, and its fragile, volcano-riddled geography. The material, spanning 3D scans, sound-recordings and drone footage, was turned into a 2-channel audiovisual installation which holds all of the material essence of the place, its rocks, water and plants as holographic projections. This record was taken only months before the island was shattered by a series of volcanic eruptions. In the center of the installation is a terrarium and its extension into augmented reality.* The terrarium symbolises the object-like quality that humanity tends to attribute to all things nature-related. An enclosed form of otherness far away from human cognition and responsibility. The augmented reality (viewable on visitors phones) is a way to animate this otherness and bring it to life. In both pieces the question of evidence somehow naturally arises. What constitutes something as real and alive? Ultimately this also raises the question: how do we construct reality? How can we realize what is already real and right in front of us? How can we bear witness to ongoing ecological collapse? How can we provide evidence for species and ecosystems before they disappear? And more importantly: how can we adjust and create alternate utopias that involve the landscapes and plant life around us? Can the digital evidence we gather of still-living species help us build a sanctuary for them? * This part of the installation is an independent artwork called “A Strangling Fruit, A Radiant Vortex – Evanescent Flashes From The Luminous Other” (2021). The 2-channel audiovisual part is called “Memories of Change”. Both artworks combined constitute the ensemble of Not Really Now Not Anymore. Funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture, Civil Service and Sport AR App by Refrakt Human Voice by Erik Laidal ^ AR Exhibition Gallery https://scherabon.com/RYTCOl-video-1 Mon, 23 Jan 2023 19:01:06 +0000 Herwig Scherabon https://scherabon.com/RYTCOl-video-1 https://scherabon.com/RYTCOL-title-2 Mon, 23 Jan 2023 18:58:02 +0000 Herwig Scherabon https://scherabon.com/RYTCOL-title-2 Remembering You the City of Lights               Remembering You the City of Lights2-channel audiovisual installation, Full HD projectors, sculpture, 4:00 min.   ^