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Linus Berg

Linus Berg (*1996 Mainz, Germany) is a conceptual artist based in Berlin 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.

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Full portfolio on request

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

CaaS (ArtConArtConArtConArtCon ArtConArtConArtConArt), 2026

Print on cardboard, F-board. 50 x 1300 x 3 cm
Photograph: Stasia Grishina, Anton Andrienko

Five Juggling Clubs, 2026

Painted readymade juggling clubs, stickers. Site-specific
Photograph: Mareike Tocha
for Steinstraße Siebzehn

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, 2024
“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

Inkjet print, aluminium frame. 30 x 40 & 45 cm
Photograph: Mareike Tocha
for Steinstraße Siebzehn

To all my thinly haired gay friends, 2024

Inkjet print, passepartout, aluminium frame. 24 x 30 cm
at Rundgang Städelschule 2024
Photograph: Ivan Murzin

TEAM PLAY, 2024

Painted readymade juggling clubs, vinyl lettering, vinyl. Site-specific
at SOX, Berlin

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 2026