About
Through intensive field research in remote and precarious locations, poetic engagement, and collaborations with environmental and social scientists, his projects explore the sites, materials, and objects in control of the modern world, revealing uncertainties and complexities in humanity’s relationship to its habitat. Berro’s research has taken 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 reveals complex interdependencies; Berro treats these moments as allegories, decaying myths that expose the relationships required to produce not only reality, but also the illusion of human control and its consequences.
Employing sophisticated technologies alongside scientific expertise, Berro’s works oscillate between the highly technological and the dangerously crude, spanning a wide range of forms, from film installations, laser engravings, and sculptures to landscape interventions and public installations.
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).