About
His process begins not with a concept, but with a journey, collaborations with scientists, dedicated field research in remote and precarious locations, materialized through methods that range from the highly technological to the dangerously crude. Berro’s research has led his work deep into Arctic coal mines, across chemically-cleared Indonesian palm oil fields, atop Alpine peaks, launching rockets into clouds to seed artificial rain, and to the banks of radioactive lakes in western Kazakhstan. Each encounter brings its own ambivalence, its own revelation about the dynamics between humanity and its habitat.
Through film, photography, sculpture, and installation, Berro stages these tensions, making them palpable. His images disorient, proposing new ways of sensing what has always been there, challenging established environmental and cultural realities.
His recent solo exhibitions include BREATHE at the main building of ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland (2024), at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai in Shanghai, China (2025), at NOI in Bolzano, Italy (2024), at the Swiss Embassy in Washington, D.C., USA (2024); The Fires We Started at Casa Bedretto in Bedretto, Switzerland (2024); Floral Assembly at Swiss Hanok in Seoul, South Korea (2023); as well as public installations such as Borderline Nature in St. Moritz, Switzerland (2024), and research projects in Sumatra, Indonesia (2024–2026), and in Western Kazakhstan (2025).