Unbreakable Identities, in Collaboration with Gallotti&Radice, 2023
SIMON BERGER
Swiss contemporary artist working with glass through controlled impact.
With a hammer as his sculptural tool, he creates artworks, sculptures, installations and site-specific works in which material, light and perception become inseparable.
Now on view
The Persistence of Presence
National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
12 September – 10 October 2026
In The Persistence of Presence, Simon Berger enters into dialogue with Ferdinand Hodler and the history of the Gallery's Hodler collection, safeguarded through the siege of Sarajevo. For the first time in more than twenty years, works by Hodler are on public view in the city.
Berger translates selected figures and motifs into his own material language: fractured glass as a way of looking at what remains, and at what is carried forward.
Projects
Simon Berger's practice moves between the image and the space around it.
Exhibitions — Works and installations from his own practice, shown in museums and galleries.
Public Projects — Permanent and temporary works shaped by public space, scale and encounter.
Architecture & Commissions — Site-specific works in dialogue with architecture, hospitality and design.
Process
Impact becomes image. Berger works directly into the glass. Each impact changes the structure of the material: up close a field of fractures, from a distance a face. In his hands, the hammer becomes an instrument of drawing.
ContaCt
For exhibitions, commissions and press, NOA contemporary, Simon Berger's management, looks forward to hearing from you.