Established in 2005, Random International is a postdigital art group exploring the impact of technological development on the human condition. Best known for their large-scale interactive installations, the group works across an array of media including sculpture, light, kinetics, video, print, and sound. Led by founders Hannes Koch (b.1975, Germany) and Florian Ortkrass (b.1975, Germany), the group works out of a studio in London and comprises a global team of complimentary talent.
Experimental by nature, Random International’s practice is fuelled by research and scientific discovery. The group aims to broaden the question of what it is to be alive today by experimenting with how we connect — to different kinds of life, to different views of the world, and to one another.
Their work Rain Room is in the collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and has been exhibited under the museum’s historic Art and Technology initiative. It has also been shown at London's Barbican (2012); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); and Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2015/2018). An edition of Rain Room has become the first permanently installed artwork at the Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2018), and is housed in its own building.
Selected Major exhibitions include Biomedia, (Group Exhibition) ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Germany, from December 2021 - August 2022, LUX (Group Exhibition) 180 The Strand, London, from October 2021 - February 2022, ‘No One is an Island’ a collaboration with Studio Wayne McGregor, (commissioned by BMWi and presented with Superblue), London, October 2021, Future / Self (with Studio Wayne McGregor) Ca’ Giustinian, Venice. On view for the duration of La Biennale Di Venezia Danza 2021, Body / Light I (temporary), Manhattan West, New York, May 2021,MirNs (group exhibition), New Media Gallery, 13 March 2021 — 1 August 2021.
Solo exhibitions of their work have been held at Lunds konsthall, Sweden (2014) and Yuz Musuem, Shanghai (2018). Their work is held in the collections of MoMA, Sharjah Art Foundation, Yuz Museum, LACMA and V&A, where their Swarm Study / III is on long-term display.