Artworks from Peggy Berger
Beyond the classic genre
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| The place of life and work of the self-proclaimed "hunter & collector", born in 1971, is Dresden. Peggy Berger follows her mission statement "measure - disassemble and reassemble" in every respect. Armed with a smartphone, scenes of everyday life are captured on the retina and later on canvas in the studio. In her light-flooded Dresden studio, the artist creates new spaces on large-format canvases that extend seamlessly into real space. A confusion of proportions and perspectives. As in a search picture, the viewer has to decipher what is actually being shown. |
Whether it is a macro-figurative representation, an architectural-landscape composition or imaginative circus scenery: Peggy Berger finds her forms of expression and themes beyond the classical genre.
"When the dialogue bears fruit" is what the artist calls her cycle of paintings. A subjectively experienced picture carousel of abstract landscape shaping over collage-like figurative painting. On the one hand, cool restraint and a sparse colour palette - on the other, exuberantly ecstatic in form & pigment lust. Her passion is oil painting, which, in contrast to what one might expect, is often applied in a breathy way instead of opaque. This gives the works something floating and even fragile. One can distance oneself and at the same time fully immerse oneself in the pictorial worlds. The joy of playing within the existing format is evident in the works. One can be curious when oversized subjects take over the space.
The graphic designer realised her destiny at a very early age and studied from then on. During her studies at the HfBK in Dresden (Professor Max Uhlig), the focus was always on the theme of landscape. Within the last 10 years, the transition of landscapes to figuration and the combination of both types of play in collage-like medium and large formats has been pushing her. Her working method is largely serial and bound to current themes. Urbanity - strangeness - coolness. And despite everything ... her homeland is often the recurring subject.
Exhibitions (excerpt)
2018 Outeside 'Au Cherie`
Deep salty water, lounge exhibition at Vienna House QF Dresden
KOLLABORATION, Peggy Berger (painting) & Olaf Stoy (plas?k), Annenkapelle, Görlitz
frozen diary part II, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden
2017 faces in the city, painting gallery 2nd floor in the city hall, Dresden
Oil fields, artists' association blaueFABRIK e.V.
ENDE AUF@Zentralwerk, Studio Opening
365degrees exhibition
KUNZTRAUM, group exhibition
2016 5th Dresden Artists' Fair 2016
Köpfe IV InArteWerkkunstgallery, Berlin
visit my world, Architekturbüro Rabaschus, Dresden
2015 Handwritings of young female artists, KreativenWerkstatt Pieschen
Schnongs auf Hitsche, Merseburg Sachenanhaltinischer Kunstverein
STELL DICH EIN, CITIZEN // BERGER // LEGER, sculpture // painting // drawing
2013 ONE TWO ECKSTEIN Heinrich Schütz Residence
TAROT Gallery of the Galvanhof Pieschen
frozen diary kunstgehæuse, 2014
Self/ burntFreital Technology and Start-up Centre
Path of lights Altkötschenbroda with Anne Ibelling
2012 Bon Anniversaire Max Uhlig Werkschau der Meister/Schüler M.Uhligs, Art Corporates Galerie, Hellerau
orbits Saxon Parliament CDU parliamentary group
2011 asembly aera Dresdner Sezession 89 e.V., Gallery Three
2010 Participation Eastsidegalerie Prora, Rügen
Open Studio Dresden Presentation of current works
2008 Landscapes of the Region, Gallery alpha 7, Freiburg
Generationsgespann Installation Umspannwerk, Dresden
2006 My private PopSpot, Traffic Tower Dresden
2004 Landscapes Roman Bath, Dresden
2002 Exhibition tour of Prof.Max Uhlig's class: DAS PLEINAIR in Rehlovice
Gallery at Sachenplatz, Leipzig, Gallery ve Dvore, Leitmeritz
2001 ART-MACHT-DIGNITY, Federal Constitutional Court Karlsruhe
Article: A visit to the artist's studio Peggy Berger (February 2020)
- Magical realism: "Interflug" by Peggy Berger
- Size (width x height): 50 x 50 cm
- Material, picture carrier: finest oil painting on canvas
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