Sanna Helena Berger

Berger works with site and situation-specific installations informed by critical agency and subjective narrative. Her auto-didactic position, manifests a reflexive discipline, perspectivising her encounters with the art industry, market and methods.

Experienced standards and norms vis-à-vis Berger’s critical position of the same, are thematised in a praxis which seeks to demystify her own production of art by applying a philosophical empiricism - treating her experiences as both content and reference. Berger’s installations consist of readymades and un-readymades, as well as the materialised contrast between the two concepts. She explores formalism, clear and present art objects in contrast to the repositioned and altered domestic object. Utilising strategies which prompt reflection on how we assign meaning and capital to art and the commodified experience which curtail our meeting with art. Her site-specific practice thematises the exhibition itself as artwork, where formal minimalism informs her ubiquitous aesthetics of aesthetics where objects act as collaborators, never autonomous from the extensive writing which contextualises Berger’s work by her ‘against Ohne titel’-method. Aesthetics, albeit acutely present, is never the raison d'etre of the work but a vernacular of its meaning. Whilst her performances deliver dense monologues narrativising situations of the art itself coupled by concrete critique, not only on the topic of art-at-large, but on the topic of her subjective and objective experience with art - as art.

Berger was born 1983, in Sweden and is based in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include at Rinde am Rhein (Düsseldorf, 2024); Centralbanken (Oslo, 2024); Kaiserwache (Freiburg, 2024); Cittipunkt (Berlin, 2024); Shahin Zarinbal (Berlin, 2023); Den Frie (Copenhagen, 2023); Baerum Kunsthall (Oslo, 2023); Galerija Miroslav Kraljević (Zagreb, 2023); Waf Galerie (Vienna, 2023); Skånes Konstförening (Malmö, 2023); Kunsthalle Bremerhaven (2022); Spazio ORR (Brescia, 2022); Hosêk Contemporary (Berlin, 2022) and Cell Project Space (London, 2020).

Sanna Helena Berger

Nicht-nur-Spekulativ

Apr 6 - May 11, 2024

We are thrilled to present the first solo presentation in Switzerland with Sanna Helena Berger. In Nicht-nur-Spekulativ, Berger creates an exhibition articulating two conditions, zwischen Haben und Sehen. Exploring standard...

Heroic Protagonists

Group Exhibition

Dec 8, 2023 - Jan 20, 2024

We are thrilled to present the exhibition, Heroic Protagonists. The artists included are brave and determined to create works, which are idiosyncratic, sensuous, and evocative. Moreover, they have the ability...