About
A nomadic witness, the Swiss-Lebanese artist works at the borders of human authority, collapsing material and temporal distances on the banks of radioactive lakes in western Kazakhstan, in the darkness of abandoned coal mines, in Los Angeles skies, and at the edges of collapsing glaciers. While resisting prescribed narratives, he attends to the poetics of monuments and landscapes that bear witness to human striving.
Drawing from ongoing collaborations with scientists across disciplines, Berro's works oscillate between the highly technological and the dangerously crude, spanning a wide range of forms, including large-scale interventions in public space, film installations, sculptures, and laser engravings.
His recent solo exhibitions include BREATHE at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai in Shanghai, China (2025), at the main building of ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland (2024), 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). Berro has been a member of the Swiss Delegation for the Climate Ring Shanghai, a speaker on Planetary Thinking at Swissnex, and is a recurring guest speaker at the «bili»-Talks at the School of Design Zürich.