Based on collage, Salomé Berger combines plant and body fragments with landscapes and organic forms in her works. This creates new worlds that seem familiar on the one hand and have surreal features on the other.
The sometimes paradisiacal, sometimes dystopian-looking illusionary space shows a play of alternately loosening and condensing compositions. The screen becomes an intimate stage on which everything follows an immanent rhythm and at the same time oscillates between naturalism and synthesis.
Exhibitions
2024:
– Salt for the eyes, Forum Kunst, Rottweil, Germany
– DIE GROSSE 2024, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
– Academy Selection – Encounters with Nature, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf, Germany
2023:
– Magma, Kunstverein Greven, Germany
– shift, Kunstraum franz*, Dorsten, Germany
– New Places, Burg Foyer, Altena, Germany
– Promotional prize exhibition of the Friends of the Münster Art Academy, Kunsthalle Münster, Germany
– Young painters exhibition with January pool party atmosphere in old car dealership surroundings, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022:
– POP UP 2022, Volksbank Münsterland, Münster, Germany
– Perseverantia, Examensausstellung, Kunstakademie Münster, Germany
2021:
– Sino-German Art Exhibition, Hismoon Gallery, Taicang, China
– Im Gegenteil, Werkstatt e.V., Gelsenkirchen, Germany
2020:
– Not without effort, but full of dignity, Kunstverein Ibbenbüren, Ibbenbüren, Germany
– Temporary Joined Presence, Kunstverein Duisburg, Germany
2019:
– Cheese that is so ripe that it starts to crawl inside, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany
– THE BIG ONE, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
– With Droste in the Glasshouse III, Titanickhalle, Münster, Germany
– Breakthrough, eCAPITAL, Münster, Germany
2018:
– Double Happiness, Kunstverein Duisburg , Germany
– Out of Peace, Akademie Franz Hitze Haus, Münster, Germany
– Aviation, Galerie Hovestadt, Nottuln, Germany
– Art in the Region, Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel, Germany
– Painting 18, Kunstverein Ahlen, Germany
2017:
– Never Mind Exploring, Kunstverein, Hamm, Germany
2016:
– Mare’s milk, Kunstverein Ibbenbüren, Ibbenbüren, Germany
2015:
– 8765 km, 75m2, 20 Artists, Oh La Art Space, Shanghai, China
Awards and scholarships
2023:
– Artist in Residence, Werkstatt Altena e.V., Altena, Germany
2022:
– DAAD graduation scholarship from the Münster Art Academy, Germany
2021:
– Valentine Rothe Prize, Bonn Women’s Museum, Germany
– Travel scholarship from the Münster Art Academy, Germany
2020:
– Studio scholarship, Werkstatt e.V., Gelsenkirchen, Germany
– Artist in Residence, Kunstverein Duisburg, Germany
2018:
– 3rd place, Andreas Art Prize, St. Andreasberg, Germany
Salomé Berger was born in Bern in 1990 and now lives and works in Düsseldorf. From 2013 to 2022 she studied fine art at the Art Academy in Münster under Prof. Cornelius Völker and obtained the academy certificate. Since 2022 she has been a master student of Prof. Cornelius Völker.
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