Birgit und Peter Kainz

Birgit and Peter Kainz are human beings.

Birgit and Peter Kainz are among the first socially critical digital photographers. They stand for freedom and equality and invite free thinking.

Today they work as an artist and an image scholar at the intersection of analogue and digital art. In their work they combine handcraft with contemporary techniques.

At the centre of their work stands HUMAN, a thinking sculpture (and not only that) of the human. It embodies a human stance that comes under increasing pressure between empathy, social change and technological development, yet keeps righting itself with resilience.

Their art sees itself as a visual narrative and an invitation to dialogue. They ask what it means to be human, what empathy is, and what defines the human being in the age of artificial intelligence.