TILL STEINBERGER
Till Steinberger (b. 1988) is a Vienna-based visual artist and composer working across digital and physical media, including photography, algorithmic image production, print, textile, installation, sound, and distribution formats such as editions and merchandise.
His practice is not bound to a single medium. Tools change, but the underlying drive remains the same. Images, sound, prints, woven surfaces, frames, and installations are treated as temporary states of a single ongoing process, existing only as long as they remain useful.
His work often appears precise and controlled, yet it emerges from movement rather than intention. Pieces are uncovered before decisions of scale, material, or format are made. Reproduction, seriality, cataloguing, and framing function as structural components rather than secondary steps.
A long-standing involvement with underground music cultures including metal, electronic, and experimental sound, shapes the work’s relationship to intensity, circulation, and identity. Images and sound move fluidly between art object, product, performance, fragment, and residue.
Digital constructions are slowed through material resistance, compressed, weighted, and stored. Frames sharpen rather than neutralize. Sound and video introduce time where images refuse to stand still. Coherence is not promised. Consistency is.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“All things start in movement. I experience the world as something that is constantly forming itself, never really fixed. Nature is the real author, everything else is rearranging. When I look at plants, sound, code, music, or images, I keep seeing the same structures repeat. Fractals, loops, rhythms, patterns. The same logic moving through different materials.
My work grows out of that way of seeing. I move with the current and build along the way. Sometimes I shape things carefully, sometimes I let them stay raw. Sometimes the work lives on screens, sometimes on paper, in sound, in fabric, in space. The tools keep changing, but the movement underneath stays the same.
I don’t try to lock anything down too tightly. A piece appears, it transforms, it moves on. I stay open to that. What matters to me is freedom in the process, no fixed methods, no fixed roles, no loyalty to any one system. If something feels alive, I move with it. If it doesn’t, I leave it behind. You don’t force the direction. You stay present with what’s happening and keep working with what’s there. That’s the space I want to stay in.“ – Till Steinberger