Berlin-based artist and director Extraweg to headline this year’s Kinomural Festival

He created the title sequence for the acclaimed American series Severance, while his surreal 3D animations have quietly taken over the internet, galleries, and smartphone screens alike. His collaborators include The Beatles, Gorillaz and Valentino, and with every new project his international profile continues to grow. This September, Extraweg joins the line-up of Kinomural Festival in Wrocław, presenting a special two-night programme on 18–19 September.

Provocation, nonconformity, risk and attitude

Extraweg is the artistic identity of Berlin-based artist and director Oliver Latta. His work is instantly recognisable: bodies that stretch, morph and loop endlessly; human forms transformed into metaphors for pressure, contradiction and the absurdities of contemporary life. Today, Latta focuses on narrative-driven projects that merge art and design. His creative vision is rooted in making the invisible visible and creating works that leave a lasting emotional impact. Rather than following trends, he aims to produce work that is personal, meaningful and enduring. Provocation, nonconformity, risk and attitude define his artistic practice.

Asked what new media art means to him, Extraweg says: New media art is not defined by a particular technology—it is defined by the way artists respond to the world they live in. For me, digital tools are simply a language through which I explore human behaviour, emotions and the contradictions of contemporary life. As technology becomes increasingly embedded in our everyday existence, I believe new media art will only grow in importance. It allows artists to question our relationship with technology rather than merely celebrate it, making invisible systems, emotions and behaviours visible in entirely new ways.

From the very beginning, Extraweg has resisted easy categorisation. He is neither an internet artist who crossed over into museums nor a gallery artist who later "discovered" the web. Instead, he has always moved fluidly between both worlds, treating them as one shared medium. Combining visual art with storytelling, his personal experiments have reached millions online and led to collaborations with global cultural icons including Apple, The Beatles, Gorillaz, Mick Jagger, Travis Scott, Valentino and Vogue.

Ambiguity lies at the heart of his practice. Through unsettling, abstract imagery, Extraweg challenges social norms, most notably in the title sequence for Severance, where fractured identity becomes the central visual motif. The sequence earned him two Primetime Emmy Awards together with Apple for Outstanding Main Title Design, making Severance the first series ever to win the category twice. His works are simultaneously beautiful and unsettling. Their flawless animation captivates viewers before quietly confronting them with an uncomfortable question: why is it so easy to recognise ourselves in these distorted bodies? In Extraweg's universe, everything feels slightly too soft, too elastic and strangely familiar.

On the impact of new media art, he adds: Its greatest strength is its ability to move freely across disciplines and reach people in unexpected places. It can combine image, movement, sound, technology, architecture and public space without being confined to a single medium. At its best, new media art is not about technology itself—it is about how we perceive the world. It offers new perspectives that allow us to look differently at ourselves, our behaviour and the world we continuously shape together.

Two evenings of Human Patterns at Kinomural

In Wrocław, Extraweg will present Human Patterns, a specially curated programme bringing together works from across his career. It offers a journey through his distinctive visual universe, where the human body becomes a site of experimentation, metaphor and endless repetition.

Over two evenings, Extraweg will take over an entire monumental façade in the Nadodrze district, presenting a different selection of works each night. It is difficult to imagine a more fitting setting for his animations than a towering urban wall, where contemporary anxieties, absurdities and obsessions can finally unfold at their intended scale. Most of my work is experienced individually—on a small screen, often for just a few seconds. At Kinomural it becomes part of architecture and a collective experience. The characters will no longer be confined to a phone screen; they will become monumental and begin to shape the urban environment. I'm curious to see how this changes the way people experience them. The audience, the surrounding architecture and even the act of moving through the city will all become part of the work. I think this shift in scale makes the emotions more tangible and immediate.

While each piece explores a different subject, Oliver Latta is ultimately interested in the patterns we create both as individuals and as societies. Some are beautiful, some absurd, others deeply uncomfortable, yet each reveals something about the way we live together. Human Patterns explores the behavioural and emotional cycles that connect us—desire, pressure, isolation, conflict, repetition and the need to belong. Although the works often appear surreal or absurd, they are rooted in everyday experiences and observations of contemporary life. Rather than delivering one fixed message, I hope they encourage viewers to pause, recognise something of themselves and arrive at their own interpretations. If someone leaves looking at familiar situations from a slightly different perspective, then the work has done its job.