In the past I have described this video work as a study or reportage that hinges on the places in which I live, or think I live, both physically and mentally. Real places, imagined places, places on which I have left a mark, places which have left a mark on me, places near mountains, places with background sounds of the sea, places for concentration, gathering and sifting through images … And in purely personal terms it’s a kind of meditation on the three places in the world that I think of as my possible homes: Prackfolerhof, here in Southern Tyrol where in fact we live; the Island of Kythera, which we often visit, in the Ionian Sea, midway between the Peleponnesus and Crete; and the city of Venice.

Berty Skuber works with a wide variety of media from drawing to collage, video, photography, painting, objects, artist’s books and installations. She has remarked that her work “consists of loose accumulations and subtle events that are pulled together over extended periods of time, and which slowly interweave with one another.” She has also described her work as an attempt to create a personal, fantastic encyclopedia.

Since 1970, she has regualarly exhibited both in Europe and America and her work is to be found in numerous public and private collections both in Italy and abroad, among others: Museion, Bolzano; MUMOK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Vienna; Museum Albertina, Vienna; Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Bibliothèque National de Paris; Getty Museum, Malibu; Sackner Archive, Miami; Center of Contemporary Art, Warsaw; MART, Rovereto; Fondazione Mudima, Milano; Heinrich W. Risken Stiftung, Bad Rothenfelde; Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde; Parkhotel Laurin, Bolzano; Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt; Harlekin, Wiesbaden; the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/South Tyrol; The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York and Venice.

Born in Bolzano, she currently divides her time between Prackfolerhof (a farm in Southern Tyrol) and Venice.