Benedikt Terwiel
Artist
Benedikt Terwiel
Visual artist exploring landscapes and their transformations
Benedikt Terwiel is an artist based in Berlin. His practice focuses on images of landscapes and the cultural and historical narratives associated with them. He explores how these can be reconsidered within contemporary environmental and political contexts.
In Land Before Last, he examines the technological processes and methods through which humans cultivate, appropriate and transform land, as well as the ways in which it is represented.
He has presented his work at the European Media Art Festival at Kunsthalle Osnabrück and the IMPAKT Festival in Utrecht. He has also exhibited at the cultural centre gnration in Braga, Skulpturenpark Köln and Kunsthalle Bielefeld.
