Centenary
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Centenary Visual
Sep 08 2025
John Berger would have been 100 years old in 2026. Several rendez-vous will take place to celebrate this anniversary, and so Carmen Balcells Agency through Teresa Pinto proposed to create a centenary visual.
Here it is. It uses a self-portrait and a quote that we specially love.
This visual will be associated to all these centenary events, as a “fil rouge” between all of them.
With this page, we sp…
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Centenary events in preparation
Jun 29 2026
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As you know, 2026 will be the 100th anniversary of John’s birth ! During this coming year, many events will take place to celebrate John Berger’s work and collaborations. Exhibitions, performances, lectures, screenings, theatre creations, publications and more are to be expected. From small alternative initiatives to bigger national institutions, the range of events will be l…
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Questions for John
Aug 19 2025
1st date : 19th of August 2025 at Edinburgh International Festival (EIF).
A Complicité ProductionConceived & Performed by Simon McBurneyProduced by Tim BellSound design by Ross FlightDramaturg/Creative Associate: Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Questions for JohnA work in progress from Complicité Artistic Director Simon McBurney.
Why is it so easy for us to look away?How did we get here? What have we allowed to …
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Centenary publications in preparation
May 16 2026
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Across the world, many publishers are preparing launchings for various titles, for John Berger’s centenary in 2026. We can already announce the following upcoming publications:
TO TELL A STORY, a transcription of dialogues between Susan Sontag and John Berger, edited by Benoît Bourreau. Published by Canongate in English, also in Turki…
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To Tell A Story
May 15 2026
To Tell A Story, essay by John Berger and Susan Sontag, edited by Benoît Bourreau, first published by Canongate Books in 2026.
Despite their status as intellectual giants of the twentieth century, John Berger and Susan Sontag’s artistic collaboration – and intense friendship – remains virtually unknown.
Published for the first time, To Tell a Story offers a glimpse into their shared history th…
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Rencontres en poèmes
Jan 22 2026
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Tour in the Alps (FR) – Line Agreil and Dany Audet with their association « Rencontres en poèmes » proposent lectures of John Berger’s poems. Other lectures mix John Berger’s poems with others authors, Mediterraneans (Ghayda Al Hadj Hussein, Mohamed Aouine, Mahmoud Darwich), French (Jean Tardieu, Jacques Prévert, Louis Aragon, Ana Luna Fédèle …
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Mientras quede una rosa
Feb 12 2026
Mientras Quede Una Rosa – Miradas de John Berger has been written by Javier Morales who interviewed many Iberian artists connected to John such as Marisa Camino, Manuel Rivas, Joaquín Araújo, Leticia Ruifernández… published in Spanish by Cuatro Lunas in February 2026.
More info on the publisher website
Book launch with Javier Morales in Spain 2026 :Plasencia, La Puerta de Tannhäusser. Febru…
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Four Horizons
May 14 2026
Four Horizons, A Visit To Le Corbusier’s Chapel At Ronchamp is a new book by John Christie gathering four voices: John Berger, Sister Lucia Kuppens, Sister Telchilde Hinckley and John Christie. Published by Objectif Press in June 2026.
In 2009 John Berger visited Le Corbusier’s pilgrimage Chapel, Notre-Dame du Haut, at Ronchamp in eastern France. His companions on the trip were SisterLucia Kuppens and Sister …
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Lausanne: Théâtre Vidy and Complicité
Jun 15 2026
From 22nd of October to 8th of November in Lausanne, Théâtre Vidy and partners propose a wide range of events around the Simon McBurney solo show Questions for John, a Complicité production.
Actor and director, Simon McBurney was a close friend of John Berger. He founded the renowned maverick theatre company Complicité, with which they created in 1995 The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol adapted from John Berger…
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British Library – Biography book launch
Jun 15 2026
Thursday 3rd of September with Tom Overton and Gareth Evans.
In 2010, John Berger gave his archive to British Library […] Tom Overton got to know Berger as he catalogued this archive, and exchanges between them were a journey of discovery and rediscovery. Now, in an extraordinary new book, From Life (2026, Allen Lane Penguin) Tom Overton draws on this experience and a vast and previously unseen trove of mater…
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Do you know what I watch?
Jun 25 2026
Animal traces in John Berger’s work
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“Do you know what I watch?” is a choral reading devised by Katya Berger-Andreadakis. It will be read in several places by Katya, Jacob and Yves Berger, John Berger’s children. A family contribution to this centenary.
There is hardly any book of John Berger’s that doesn’t include a few pages about animals. Both as a writer and …
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GO CLOSER Basel Exhibition
Jun 27 2026
From 12th of SEPTEMBER to 31st of OCTOBER 2026, the exhibition GO CLOSER – JOHN BERGER THROUGH HIS ART will take place at Villa Renata, in Basel (CH).
John Berger is most well known for his writings about art. But the art he produced himself throughout his long life is still largely to be discovered. From his first paintings from the Fifties, to the latest drawings of flowers done a few months before his death, …
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JOHN BERGER
Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.
He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.
Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.