Rune Bering

Rune Bering (b.1984) is a Danish artist educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He has exhibited extensively both solo and in group shows in Austria, Belgium, Cuba and Denmark.

Bering’s works Harddisk Archive 1+2 (2020) (graphite, plaster, pigments, gravel, cable tray, heavy duty (trolley) wheels) are represented in Augustenborg Collection. The large disks are archives of an alternative past. Their surface is covered in the imprints of the physical components of discarded digital devices, and future butterfly fossils. The artist understands nature as an ecosystem that is infiltrated by the effects of technology. Here, all technical and organic lifeforms leave cues and traces for their successors to decipher.

Rune Bering is interested in connections between the physical and digital worlds. In addition to their immediate function, media affect our perception of physical nature. If we want to understand the structural changes that are happening in our time and the directions in which we are heading, we must relate to the media that surround us and the underlying logic, which sneaks in through the back door, impacting connections between people, nature and technology. Attempting to understand these correlations can lead to a less black-and-white picture of the concept of sustainability.

In his work, the artist renegotiates established notions of the things with which we surround ourselves inviting us to take a long, hard look at the prevailing ideas about boundaries and divisions between technology and nature. Everything around us is connected and part of nature’s cycle.