Linus Berg
Linus Berg (*1996 Mainz, Germany) is a conceptual artist based in Frankfurt working with sculpture, installation, writing and time based media.  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. He investigates the aesthetic of commodities, the mechanics of deception and the bizarre productivity of avoidance. His research of the last two years has been particularly dedicated to juggling as a metaphor for multitasking and slapstick as a rhythm of bureaucratic struggle. 


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Full portfolio on request
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


The Climb solo exhibition, 2024
at SCHLEUSE Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim


    

      Awards for Best Stumble (2013) & (1969)
           

           
Chocolate and peanut M&M’s, ink, epoxy resin, plywood, paint. 9 x 120 x 20 cm



      Cat Concerto Intermission
           
Plastic piano key overlays, wood, paint. Site-specific



       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


        
           Send in the Clowns
           
PLA, lacquer. Site-specific




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



Juggling Clubs (2024)
Painted readymade juggling clubs. Site-specific
Between the Microsoft offices at Messeturm Frankfurt and the Hammering Man sculpture for Power Cards


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




Prelude to a Set of Piano Teeth (Cat Concerto First Half), 2024

Plywood, destroyed readymade miniature piano, felt. Site-specific
at Magma Maria, Offenbach

Murine Mimesis, 2022

Wall sculpture and video installation
PLA, wood, aluminium, screen. 72 x 35 x 45 cm
at the annual show of HFBK, 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
at an empty apartment in Offenbach

Lucky Box with Tornike Gognadze, 2022 & 2024

ceramics, ready made metal hand, ready made coin reader, metal construction, dried four leaf clover, paper notes, frames. Site-specific
at Städelschule Rundgang 2024, Frankfurt (1 - 2) & CAS, Batumi (3)



Teasick, 2022
prints and frames plexiglass. 27 x 19,5 x 1 cm
B3 Biennial, Frankfurt



Circle Jerks, 2021
video, audio, screen, speaker readymade wellness balls, plexiglass. 2.50 x 1.50 m; 2:40 min
Window404, Offenbach