Andreas Werner studied Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna and Graphics and Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts. He lives and works in Vienna and Unterolberndorf. In his works, Andreas Werner utilises elements from architecture, landscape and outer space and confronts complex futuristic aesthetics with classical architectural components. In the process, the architectural repeatedly mutates into the mechanical; machines become robots, sometimes with human features. In his series, the fusions dissolve again, the motifs revolve around structures: machines, laboratories, cyborgs on the one hand and mythical figures and deities on the other. A definite categorisation remains unclear, yet we can read the drawings. They play with a vocabulary of forms that is familiar to us and surrounds us.

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The title of the work is borrowed from the novel ‘Solaris’ by Stanisław Lem. ‘But what am I going to see? - I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you.’

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Andreas Werner