Erika Kassnel-Henneberg (*1973) is a German-Rumanian based conceptual and media artist. Her works reflect the tension between humans, technology and society. At the center of her artistic practice is the question of a new humanism in a world in which humans are increasingly being displaced by artificial systems. Her works address the transformation of our perception, identity and memory in a digitalized reality.

Erika Kassnel-Henneberg‘s works combine digital and analog techniques, creating aesthetic and conceptual interfaces between different media. Among other things, she uses video, CGI, artificial intelligence, Polaroid, collage and mixed media. She uses these media to critically scrutinize social developments and make them visually tangible. Her art always moves between reality and simulation, documentation and construction.

Kassnel-Henneberg studied restoration at the University of the Arts in Bern (Switzerland) and interactive media at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. Her work has been shown at numerous national and international exhibitions and media art festivals – including at the Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus of the Augsburg Municipal Art Collections and Museums, where she was represented with her solo exhibition Uncanny Valley. Further presentations took place several times at the FILE – Electronic Language International Festival in São Paulo (Brazil).

In 2013, she received the Krumbach Art Prize for her work Heimat ist anderswo. In 2022, she was awarded the Augsburg District Art Prize for her complete works. In addition to her artistic work, Erika Kassnel-Henneberg is a lecturer at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Freie Kunstakademie Augsburg. She is also active on various jury committees and is involved in the promotion of contemporary art and media culture.