Erik Arkadi Seth

– 2025

Portfolio

Hi, I work as a data solutions specialist at CHEEX.
I studied art, art sciences and photography.
I’m a pastry chef.
I do research in the field of art.
You can also find and reach out to me on Instagram and LinkedIn.

Latest works

  • White wagtail (2025)
  • mountainside // bw + raw,ooc (2025)
  • Stack of Wood (2025)
  • Algarve (2025)
  • Thermal instant camera (2025)
  • Collage #1 (2024)
  • Beruvíkurbæir, iceland buoy (2024)
  • Inkjet Ink Tests #1 (2024)
  • Hofsstadaskogur (2024)
  • Sigöldustöð (2024)
  • Animals #1 (2024)
  • Walk2 – Harz (2024)

Works –2024

On Postproduction (2018)
Walk1 (2024)
A Group of Cats, Roadside (2023)
In Neuem Gewand (2023)
Dynamic Field of Art (excerpt) 1950-1995 (2020)
Data Dancing (2020)
Generated Landscapes (2023)
re::color (2023)
Tiltshift (2023)
Fugloy (2023)
Foucault dancing with Nietsche (2022)
“{Philosophers} eating a burger” (2022)
Extended Photography (2021)
Fragmented Texts ()
Full Spectrum (2021)
Instant Trees (2020)
Anamorphic resin (2020)
Suffer, Buffer, Surfer (2019)
transit.tours (2018)
spybug (2018)
Silvercatcher::reproduction (2019)
Brushwood (Louisiana, Angola Prison) (2019)
Fern::Fern (Wakulla Springs, FL) (2018)
Sicilia::Fragments (2018)
Alps::Midnight (2018)
DIS-PLAY #1_ #1_08172018 – Can we ever be free? (2017)
#DoYourFitness::soloshow (2017)
Cross A Lion (2018)
Gefüge Crawford (2018)
Narita-Tokyo (2011)
hylē (2015)
a line made by printing (2015)
Ritzebüttel (2015)
Firenze (2011) (2015)
Flowers as exhibition contribution (2015)
Road Trip (2011) (2015)
The Final Frontier (2013)
Edited Landscapes::Alps (2017)
Extended Photosites (2014)
Contactprints (2013)
Sorted – Sorted (2011)
Einrad (2010)
Insert coin and press the button (2010)
Tokyo (2012)
4 monitors (2011)
Erodet – Eroded (2011)
Absence – Presence (2011)
Jet lag (2011)
Scanned Lines (2009)
Smile (2010)
Fishlake National Forest, Utah (2015)
Idle (2015)
projectroom::soloshow (2016)
Silvercatcher (Silberfänger) (2016)
bergen::soloshow (2017)
Swiss Balls (2017)
Silvercatcher::Cast (2016)
Santiago de Chile (Solaris) (2016)
machine washed (2016)
Tisá (2016)
Grain – High ISO Noise (2014)
Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C. (2011)
Laboratory (2010)
Large moor (2009)
Flea market, London 2009 (2009)
Polaroids 2009 to 2010 (2009)
Finland (2009)
Nuclear power (2009)
Seth’s work reflects a deep engagement with photography as a democratic medium. By inverting the roles of documentation and staging, he challenges conventional ideas, emphasizing that the creative process of photography is just as important as the final image. It is an invitation to explore the hidden processes behind, within, and in front of the camera, and to reconsider the significance of photography in a digital world shaped by generative algorithms.

Work

Data Solutions

01-2025 — today
Mix & Match GmbH, Berlin

Technical Operations Manager

02-2023 — today
Mix & Match GmbH, Berlin

Junior IT Project Manager

08-2021 — 02-2023
Mix & Match GmbH, Berlin

Working Student Platform/IT

08-2020 — 03-2021
Mix & Match GmbH, Berlin

Tutorial: Introduction to Art History

10-2019 — 03-2020
University of Fine Arts, Brunswick

Internship Curatorial Assistance

10-2018 — 12-2018
Kunstverein Braunschweig

Independent projects & consulting

2017 — today
Freelance

Training

Art science, Master

— 2020
Braunschweig University of Fine Arts

with Prof. Dr. Annette Tietenberg and Dr. Thomas Becker

Liberal arts, master student

— 2016
Braunschweig University of Fine Arts

with Raimund Kummer and Sean Snyder

Fine Arts, ISAP Scholarship

— 2015
Art Center College of Design Pasadena

with Nicole Miller and Mungo Thomson

Liberal arts, diploma

— 2015
Braunschweig University of Fine Arts

in the photography class, with Dörte Eißfeldt

Exhibitions

2025 
Fußfassen/Unterwegssein (Thomas AP. van Leeuwen | katrinem, Louisa Schrimpf)Allgemeiner Konsumverein e.V. – Braunschweig (DE)Allgemeiner Konsumverein e.V. – Braunschweig (DE)
2024 
RenaissanceKunstraum 53 – Hildesheim (DE)Kunstraum 53 – Hildesheim (DE)
2024 
Trick 8One Trick Pony – Braunschweig (DE)One Trick Pony – Braunschweig (DE)
2023 
freiRaum (Jahresausstellung)einRaum e.V – Braunschweig (DE)einRaum e.V – Braunschweig (DE)
2023 
In Neuem GewandProjektraum – Braunschweig (DE)Projektraum – Braunschweig (DE)
2023 
Launch, Lunge, Lounge.ArtˣPlace.social & TheWrong – (WWW)ArtˣPlace.social & TheWrong – (WWW)
2023 
IN OUR SECOND HOME, WE ARE ALL POETS (with Society of joint responsibility / d.u.o.)Allgemeiner Konsumverein e.V. – Braunschweig (DE)Allgemeiner Konsumverein e.V. – Braunschweig (DE)
2021 
Extended Photography – Erweiterte FotografieKufA Haus – Braunschweig (DE)KufA Haus – Braunschweig (DE)
2020 
Diary EntriesDIS-PLAY.xyz – (WWW)DIS-PLAY.xyz – (WWW)
2019 
Suffer, Buffer, SurferKonnektor e.V. – Hannover (DE)Konnektor e.V. – Hannover (DE)
2019 
Open Studios, Open WorkshopsHBK Braunschweig – Braunschweig (DE)HBK Braunschweig – Braunschweig (DE)
2019 
30 Under 30 – Young EntrepreneursStädtische Galerie Braunschweig – Braunschweig (DE)Städtische Galerie Braunschweig – Braunschweig (DE)
2019 
Kunstpreis 2018/19 Ausstellung der NominiertenAlbert-König-Museum – Unterlüß (DE)Albert-König-Museum – Unterlüß (DE)
2018 
Inzenierte WirklichkeitKeller III – Hannover (DE)Keller III – Hannover (DE)
2018 
Gefüge CrawfordGarage Johnny Guitar – Winden im Elztal (DE)
2018 
DIS-PLAY #1_ #1_08172018 – Can we ever be free?DIS-PLAY.xyz – (WWW)DIS-PLAY.xyz – (WWW)
2018 
Cross A LionSchnittraum – Braunschweig (DE)Schnittraum – Braunschweig (DE)
2017 
#DoYourFitnessDer Satellit – Braunschweig (DE)
2017 
The Wrong BiennaleThe Wrong Biennale – (WWW)The Wrong Biennale – (WWW)
2017 
bergenScope Galerie – Hannover (DE)Scope Galerie – Hannover (DE)
2017 
CEEHIILNPSSWZ. ACH MENSCHMuseum für Photographie – Braunschweig (DE)Museum für Photographie – Braunschweig (DE)
2017 
Realism, Reality, Real (360 Degrees)Galerie Mario Kreuzberg – Berlin (DE)Galerie Mario Kreuzberg – Berlin (DE)Gallery Ч9 – Murmansk (RU)Gallery Ч9 – Murmansk (RU)
2016 
Art SafientalArt Safiental – Tenna (Schweiz)Art Safiental – Tenna (Schweiz)
2016 
projectraum::soloshowArtmax HBK – Braunschweig (DE)
2015 
TAUCHERTREFFGalerie vom Zufall und vom Glück – Hannover (DE)Galerie vom Zufall und vom Glück – Hannover (DE)
2015 
The Smart View / Photo Triennial HamburgThe Smart View // Triennial of Photography – Hamburg (DE)
2015 
»Junge Fotografie«Schloss Ritzebüttel – Cuxhaven (DE)Schloss Ritzebüttel – Cuxhaven (DE)
2014 
OTHER SHOTSFlur 11, Braunschweig – Braunschweig (DE)
2013 
HEUTE KEIN PLENUMStädtische Galerie Braunschweig – Braunschweig (DE)Städtische Galerie Braunschweig – Braunschweig (DE)
2013 
»jees, I’ve never seen that before«Internet & Tacos – Hildesheim (DE)Internet & Tacos – Hildesheim (DE)
2011 
GoldDaBurnGallery – Mexico City (MX)DaBurnGallery – Mexico City (MX)

The photographic work of Erik Seth deliberately operates in the gray area between documentary photography and conceptual art. His images explore the transformation of image production in the digital age and reflect on the aesthetic, technical, and social conditions of contemporary photography. Seth’s practice engages with central discourses in contemporary art, particularly around authorship, media critique, and the relationship between indexicality and staging.

In an era increasingly shaped by AI-generated art (artificial intelligence art), his photographs subtly question the boundaries between human authorship and machine-based production. Erik Seth uniquely combines artistic photography with the critical approach of conceptual art, offering a form of modern art that does not deny the democratic accessibility of images, but instead takes it as a starting point for reflection.

Seth works at the intersection of photography, conceptual art, and digital image aesthetics, always with an awareness of the social conditions of artistic production. His work is part of a broader dialogue about the interplay of technology, perception, and reality in the field of contemporary visual art.