Linus Berg
Linus Berg (*1996 Mainz, Germany) is a conceptual artist based in Frankfurt working with sculpture, installation, writing and time based media, investigating goof-pessimism, anarcho-juggling, cosmo-jugglernautics, jugglo-capitalism, cheese-epistemology, metaphysical slapstick, self-mastery and tomfoolery. Having grown up in a German town in which public life was structured around carnival celebrations, his interest lies in how the carnivalesque shapes entrepreneural activity and ideologies around creative work. The work interrogates the aesthetic of commodities, the mechanics of deception and the bizarre productivity of avoidance.



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BOOK CLUB (2025)

Painted readymade juggling clubs, books, academic caps, plexiglas, wood, rubber bands, vinyl, PLA. Site-specific
For the book launch of The Fool’s School
Photograph: Tim Evers


 
For Städelschule Graduate Show 2025 at Städel Museum. Photograph: Yeshin Lee

Books include: 
The Theory of the Gimmick
The Complete Juggler
Capitalist Realism
Little People Pig Dreams: Steve Jobs
Notes on Bimbos and Bodybuilders
Class with the Countess
Kreation und Depression
Bosses, Steve Jobs
The Fool’s School


TEAM PLAY (2024)
Painted readymade juggling clubs, vinyl lettering, vinyl. Site-specific
at SOX, Berlin



Ethical Perspecitves Old and New (2023)
You here at last on the ground, me in mid-air (2023)
L: Steel, acrylic glass, pla, engraved stress balls. 190 x 70 x 30 cm.
R: Steel, pla, ready made broken porcellain plates and cups. Site-specific
at Rundgang Städelschule 2024 and Medusa & Studio Hanniball     
Photograph: Ivan Murzin


Awards for Best Stumble (2013) & (1969)       
Chocolate and peanut M&M’s, ink, epoxy resin, plywood, paint. 9 x 120 x 20 cm


              
Pecking Order series
 “To a certain group of people in New York, status is everything”, 2024
“Raise the curtains, lower the lights, I’m taking center stage in my life”, 2024
“In the politics of friendship, I win the popular vote”, 2024 (not pictured)
 
Print, aluminium frame. 30 x 40 cm & 30 x 45 cm

            

To all my thinly haired gay friends, 2024
Inkjet print, passepartout, aluminium frame. 24 x 30 cm
at Rundgang Städelschule 2024                  
 Photograph: Ivan Murzin



The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, 2023
Fabric print, led light box, aluminium frame. 50 x 39 cm
at ORBIT Altona, Hamburg



Taunting Tom, 2022


printed, milled multiplex boards. 110 x 140 x 1.5 cm, 120 x 160 x 1.5cm & 160 x 120 x 1.5 cm
video loop. 0:40








© Linus Berg 2025