Contact

Please contact us via:
eb@randomseed.org – Erich Berger
mari@mariketo.com – Mari Keto

Biographical notes

Erich Berger is an artist, curator, and researcher based in Helsinki. His 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, he carries out extensive work on natural radioactivity, potential uranium mining sites, and nuclear infrastructure, in Finland and abroad. Berger conducts interdisciplinary research into how artists approach temporalities beyond human-centered time, combining cultural anthropology, geology, and art.

As curator he develops opportunities that create critical transdisciplinary encounters and work situations between professionals from art, natural science, technology, and the humanities, recognizing science and technology as fundamental transformative powers of our life world.randomseed.org

Mari Keto explores the limits of artifacts by combining jewellery materials in her installations and portraits. In Keto’s works both the conceptual underpinning and a high degree of craftsmanship merge into an artwork. Keto’s work is strongly research-based. She engages with her subject matter from various perspectives in order to define her own. Keto explores the tensions and structures of our contemporary culture by portraying icons and symbols predominantly surrounding us. Deriving from cultural histories and pop culture her work examines the distinctions between value and consumption.mariketo.com