Herwig Turk lives and works in Vienna. His projects investigate possibilities for interconnecting the fields of art, technology, and science.

Since 2017 he has been conducting artistic research on river systems across Europe. Since 2021 he leads the development of the project Rift//Landscape//Read with Zdravko Haderlap and the multidisciplinary Art and Research Group in Lepen/Carinthia Austria.

In the last years his work has been shown at venues such as the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; the Seoul Museum of Art; the Neues Museum Weserburg / Bremen, Museum Sinclair Haus / Bad Homburg, Lungomare / Bolzano, Listasafn Árnesinga – LÁ Art Museum / Iceland, Lentos Kunstmuseum /Linz, Gallery rauminhalt_haraldbichler / Vienna; the Gallery Georg Kargl / Vienna, and the Transmediale / Berlin, among others.

From 2014 – 2022 he worked as Senior Artist at the department Social Design at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.