Erika Kassnel-Henneberg (*1973) is a conceptual and media artist. At the center of her interest is the search of a new humanism in a world in which man, as the crowning glory of creation, is increasingly occupied by something artificial.
Kassnel-Henneberg’s working techniques and means oscillate between the digital and the analog, thus creating aesthetic interweavings as a mirror of our time: video, artificial intelligence, CGI, Polaroid, collage and more.
Erika Kassnel-Henneberg studied restoration at the University of the Arts Bern / CH and Interactive Media at the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg / DE. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in exhibitions and festivals, such as in the Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus of the Augsburg Municipal Art Collections and Museums with her solo exhibition Uncanny Valley, as well as in FILE – Electronic Language International Festival in Sao Paulo / Brazil.
In 2013, she received the Krumbach Art Prize for her work Home is Somwhere Else. In 2022, she was honoured with the Augsburg District Art Prize for her complete oeuvre. In addition to her artistic work, she is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and the Free Art Academy Augsburg. She is a member of various jury committees.
