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John von Bergen opens sculpture/installation exhibit
John von Bergen, "Between History and Fiction". Year: 2022
Translated from the press release:
Urban planning and architecture have always been steadfast witness to the social and political constitution of societies. But what happens when this architecture is decontextualized or fragmented? When architectural elements are reinterpreted and used as symbolic and meaningful vehicles of a building's function? Noa Heyne and John von Bergen devote their work to this new, different use of space and spatial experience. In their works, they take fragments of architecture or objects of everyday use and suspend their strict interpretive principles and concepts. Their work is thus, as it were, a call to rhapsody, to the disobedience of thought to urban, architectural space.
John von Bergen (born 1971 in Connecticut, USA) received his BFA with honors from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has been living and working in Berlin since 2003. Numerous of his works have been presented in exhibitions in museums, galleries and cultural institutions - in Germany, among others, in the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, in the Wilhelm-Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen, in Halle 14 in Leipzig and in the Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf.
Von Bergen has received numerous awards and residencies, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Prize, the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Foundation (for an acquisition by the Berlinische Galerie), and most recently a research grant from the Berlin Senate. He is currently working on an art-in-construction project for an extension of the German Bundestag, which is scheduled for completion in 2025.
Von Bergen has been Director of Studio Arts at Bard College Berlin since 2017. The artist has his studio in a former Stasi building in Hohenschönhausen.
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Post Date: 04-30-2022