Andrey Berger is an interdisciplinary multimedia artist working at the intersection of art, science and new technologies. Born in 1986 in Barnaul (RU), he graduated from the Altai State Technical University with a degree in Design of the architectural environment. In 2011, he moved to Moscow to work and study contemporary art.
Through all his career Andrey Berger works in several fields of art: painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and digital art. The artist experiments with different mediums, expressive forms, and formulas of the material he uses in his practice. His works arecharacterized by a dynamic graphic structure with very detailed elaboration and a multilayered technique. Graphics are the starting point of Berger's creative process and the basic for the composition of his works. Hundreds of finely traced lines form objects, shapes, landscapes, and figures existing on the bord of figurative and abstraction, illusion and reality, movement and static. Sophisticated graphic compositions are characteristic of Berger, and an important part of the artist’s recognizable style. The works by Andrey Berger are characterized by their 3-dimentionality, which brings them into the space between painting, sculpture, and installation.
The artist experiences the reality by studying two different spaces: modern urban landscape and wild nature environment. In his practice he found a balance between both and creates large scale works for public spaces using his knowledge of nature’s elements and principles of its’ existence.
His works disclose natural’s elements in a different scale, he moves freely from the interpretation of biological and geological structures to the themes related to astronomy and astrophysics. In artist’s compositions macro and microcosm are shown in their interconnection and coexistence.
Andrey Berger is an author of multiple works of public art (murals, sculptures, and installations), for the artist the urban environment and city space are both a platform for art and a resource for data collection and research. “In my research I carefully study each of the elements of the urban system - social, cultural, landscape, political, logistical, etc. In the process of observing the interaction of these elements, I broadcast the development of the city and the features of the integration of human activity into it”, - the artist says.
Berger plays with urban environment using the existing visual forms (posters, advertising, structures of buildings, the surfaces’ texture) as a base and a starting point of his works.
The “Simulacrum series”, for example, is conceived as a street project that combines poster graphics and augmented reality. The objects from the posters overcame the plane of the wall and broke into the urban environment, approaching the viewer. This series also includes studio works created on wooden and metal boards and works with “augmented reality” images which can be activated with smartphone.
The poster from the "SIMULACRUM" series is activated and set in motion when the phone is pointed at the image. The viewer sees augmented reality with another layer of augmented reality. The image is not static and comes out of the two-dimensional space of the sheet at us and becomes almost tangible and three-dimensional.
"Rhythmically expressive abstraction continues the concept of post-graffiti. The basis for the textured linear structure is a wooden panel with glued fragments of urban posters. Berger rethought and reset the essence of the poster marker. Street posters that were previously subjected to violent destruction become an abstract part of the" message " and move into the exhibition space. The author consciously increases the tension of the visible and imaginable, using in this work plaster, facade paint and other compositions that usually destroy street art. From multilayering, a "dialogue between existing and virtual images" is born. The new object is likened to a simulacrum." Nadezhda Tsvetkovich.
The works by Andrey Berger are in the collections:
Ruarts Foundation (RU), ArtMosSphere Foundation, Moscow (RU), A.V. Shchusev Museum of Architecture, Moscow (RU).
Andrey Berger is a founder of the FGA street art platform. As a street artist he was exhibited extensively in the USA, Germany, Denmark. The artist worked in collaboration with Puma, BMW, Absolut, Adidas, Superdry, Xiaomi, Swatch, Hugo Boss and others.
Recent solo exhibitions include among others:
Urban Art Fair, solo show, Paris (FR), 2023; Dubai Art week- video project at the @artinspace, Dubai (AE), 2023; “La securité”, Microcredit, Paris (FR), 2023; Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow (RU), 2023; Cube Moscow, Moscow (RU), 2022; 1618 space, Saint Petersburg (RU), 2022; “Paradise Air”, art residency (solo show),Tokyo (JPN), 2022; Yandex museum, solo show, Moscow (RU), 2022.
Recent group exhibitions include among others:
“Atomic number”, group show, Murals Inc., Rotterdam (NL), 2023; Wall Works gallery, group show, Paris (FR), 2022; “Monsters under the bed”, Saint Petersburg (RU), 2022; Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow (RU), 2022; Ruarts Foundation, group show, Moscow (RU), 2022; Blazar Art Fair, with Triumph gallery, Moscow (RU), 2022; MaxArt Foundation, Moscow (RU), 2021; Uppa Winery, art residency, Cremea (RU), 2021; “New Ruins”, group show, Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Saint-Petersburg (RU), 2021; “Osmos”, Electromuseum, Moscow (RU), 2021; MaxArt Foundation, Artist residency, Moscow (RU), 2021; “The Bridge” - public art murals for Strelka Institute, Dmitrov (RU), 2021; Sort Winery - public art mural, Krasnodar (RU), 2021.
