Teresa Wennberg – Technology, Time, and the Human

Teresa Wennberg is a pioneer in digital art, whose work moves between science and poetry. Since the 1980s, she has used the computer as her brush to explore time, movement, and perception – and how technology both reflects and shapes our human behavior.

Teresa Wennberg (b. 1944) is a Swedish artist and innovator who has worked at the intersection of art, technology, and science since the 1980s. She was one of the first to use computer graphics as an artistic tool and has exhibited internationally, including at the Centre Pompidou and CERN – the world’s largest particle physics research center.

With a background in both linguistics and painting, Wennberg has developed a practice where intuition and analysis coexist. Her works create dreamlike worlds, where people dissolve into pixels, spaces unfold over time, and movements take on a life of their own. It is art that both reflects and questions the digital age.

In Me You We – Exploring Human Behaviour, we turn our gaze to how technology influences our life choices, our thought patterns – and our bodies. Wennberg’s works don’t offer definitive answers, but open new ways of seeing our present and future.

On the research
Teresa Wennberg’s work echoes central questions in behavioral science, neuroscience, and psychology. Research shows that our brains are shaped by what we pay attention to – and that digital environments influence our behavior profoundly, often without us noticing. By visualizing these invisible forces through light, motion, and code, Wennberg makes the subconscious visible. Her art acts as a kind of mirror: not only of who we are, but of who we are becoming.

Work in the exhibition

• The video work Nuit Blanche (1983). Nuit Blanche is a collaboration between Teresa Wennberg and French artist Pierre Lobstein.