the artists

AROTIN & SERGHEI are collaborating since 2010 as an artists duo. Based between Berlin, Vienna, Paris and South of France, they are creating, producing and presenting transcendental art concepts, large-scale installations, immersive compositions, sound art, and intermedial paintings in various techniques, integrating scientific and philosophical questionings, and opening up new visons and horizons in our society.

The artworks are developed and presented in partnership with leading art institutions, such as Fondation Beyeler, La Biennale di Venezia, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Ars Electronica, Kraftwerk Berlin, Ircam and Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Their main project “Infinite Screen” explores the idea of the infinite beyond the visible surface of everything we see, in an evolving context of architecture and collective memory, and through the observation of the impulses, the vibration, the components and the resonance spaces of light, using screens as symbols and portals to infinity.

The artistic concept of AROTIN & SERGHEI includes also the interaction with public space, the work on the resonance spaces that arise from the impulses from their artworks, letting the universal questionings flow into society. Often the artists open their collaboration to other creative institutions, researchers, inventors, as well as to outstanding composers and musicians. The other important part of the artists work is the research activity and the transmission of the artistic experience through conferences and workshops.

ALEXANDER AROTIN (*1970, Vienna, Austria), grew up between Vienna and Paris. He studied composition, conducting, theatrical and cinematographic production, electronic music and new technologies of images in University of Music, and University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and followed masterclasses with Luigi Nono at Centre Acanthes, France.

SERGHEI VICTOR DUBIN (*1973 Chisinau, Moldavia), studied music, theater, art history, philosophy. and etymology of languages, in Chisinau, in Moscow, in Montpellier and in Vienna, where both artists met and started their collaboration in 1994

SInce 1990 they are publishing their creations as the duo with the name AROTIN & SERGHEI.

They are part of the European Platform for Digital Humanism, co-initiator of Ars Electronica Gallery Space, held seminaries and conferences on the development of creativity in the multidisciplinary context at the University of Luxembourg, they were artist representatives for The State of Fine Art – International Symposium, European Parliament Brussels, initiators of Metamorphosis – Art & Innovation Cycle, engaged with artist’s authors rights organisations, and creating research projects in collaboration with major scientific institutions, as the ALMA, world’s largest international platform for astrophysics.

The art book “AROTIN SERGHEI Infinite Screen” was published by Hatje Cantz and launched art Art Basel 2023. It resumes the artists concept, their vision and their pluri-disciplinary creations.
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AROTIN & SERGHEI in their Studio in Berlin Alexanderplatz

main creations & exhibitions:

Infinite Screen / Apokatastasis
KRAFTWERK Berlin
solo exhibition
2023, April-May

Infinite Light Columns
CENTRE POMPIDOU – Main Square
and Stravinsky Square alongside Ircam building
2021, June-Nov

Infinite Screen / Vertigo
CENTRE POMPIDOU – Big Hall
IRCAM / KLANGFORUM WIEN /
WDR / KONZERTHAUS WIEN
2021, June

Umbris Idearum (Shadows of Ideas)
Galerie Herve van der Straeten – Paris
2020, Feb-Nov
Galerie W&K Vienna
2021, Nov-Feb

Infinite Light Column 01
40 YEARS ARS ELECTRONICA
2019, Sept

Infinite Light Column 01
Kunsthalle Wien
2019, June

Impressions, Dialogue avec Monet
Arts Festival Vernon-Giverny
2019, July

Infinite Time Machine
Guerlain – FIAC Paris
2018, Oct–Nov

Gateways to Elysium
Palais Rasumofsky /
Vienna Contemporary
2018, Sept –January

Metamorphosis
Gallery W & K Vienna–New York
2018, February–May

Logical Structure of Color
Ars Electronica
2017, Sept

Prometheus
Fondation Beyeler
2016, Nov

The Tower of Babel
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
2016, Sept–Oct

Vers La Flamme
ARS ELECTRONICA
Radical Atoms / The Alchemists of our time
2016, Sept

LIGHTIMPULSE
Espace Muraille Geneva
2016, April

Infinite Screen / Mantegna / Klangforum Wien
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