Contemporary art

Annemasse exhibition: «Des fruits…»

Jun 02 2023

HEAD-Geneva (art school) students’ exhibition around John Berger at Villa du Parc, Annemasse (beside Geneva, Haute-Savoie, France)After their class «Expose John Berger» leaded by Aurélie Pétrel and Garance Chabert, 20 students proposed the collective exhibition «Des fruits tels que s’en souviennent les morts». John’s work inspired a great diversity of creations, some were very subtile for exemple the on…
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Magazine CRITICAL QUARTERLY special issue

Apr 18 2023

Magazine CRITICAL QUARTERLY special John Berger, Volume 65, 141 pages, April 2023Leo Robson has commissioned about a dozen essays on different aspects of John Berger’s work. Contributors were very inventive and it ended up with works on Berger and food, Berger and the representation of women, Berger and time… from among others Marina Warner, Ben Lerner, Lamorna Ash, Jonathan Nunn, and Henry Mance. 
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The Shape Of A Pocket events

Apr 04 2024

To pass the Berger Baton, Jan Woolf and Tina Grace launch a series of bi-annual The Shape Of A Pocket events to share John Berger’s world and his different commitments. This name is inspired by John Berger’s book of essays The Shape of a Pocket, published in 2001, including the text “Against the Great Defeat of the World” mentioning a piece of the puzzle which « has the shape of a pocket, and consists of all …
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Italian books

Book 2004

Art, Books, Contemporary art, Drawing, Essays, Italy, Maria Nadotti

Maria Nadotti edited John Berger’s books which only exist in italian : Modi di Vedere (2004) • Abbi cara ogni cosa (2007 similar version to Hold Everything Dear) • La Speranza, nel frattempo (conversation with Arundhati Roy, 2010) • Contro i nuovi tirani (2012) • Sulla Motocicletta (2018).
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Portraits

Book 2015

Art, Books, Contemporary art, Drawing, Painting, Philosophy, Tom Overton

Portraits, book of essays by John Berger, edited by Tom Overton, first edition in 2015. This first volume has been completed by a second volume Landscapes (2016).
John Berger tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artists. Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both canonized and obscure, from Rembrandt to Henry Moore, Ja…
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Landscapes

Book 2015

Art, Books, Contemporary art, Essays, Tom Overton

Landscapes, book of essays by John Berger, edited by Tom Overton, first edition in 2016. This volume completes a first volume Portraits (2015).
What does art tell us about ourselves? John Berger on the politics and consolations of creativity. In this collection of diverse works — essays, short stories, poems, translations — which spans a lifetime’s engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his…
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My Beautiful

Book 2004

Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Essays, France, Marc Trivier, Photography, Sculpture, Workers, Yves Berger

My Beautiful by John Berger (text) and Marc Trivier (photographs), first publication in English and French in 2004.
The question of beauty is addressed here in the intertwining of photographic and writing approaches. Jean Marquis made portraits of Giacometti in his studio, Marc Trivier photographed Giacometti’s sculptures. John Berger, in the continuation of his reflection and in particular on his distance from…
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Books with Marisa Camino

Book 2005

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Letters, Painting, Spain

John Berger contributed to three Marisa Camino’s books :
Entries (2005)
Como crece una pluma (2005)
Cartas a Marisa Camino (2018)
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Books with Liane Birnberg

Book 2006

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Painting, Poetry

John Berger contributed to three Liane Birnberg’s books :
Word from a foreign language (2006)
Because wings are made to fly (2011)
Garden to my cheek (2016)
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Le Blaireau et le Roi

Book 2010

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger

Le Blaireau et le Roi , book by Yves and John Berger, edited by Emmanuel Favre, first edition in 2010, in link with the exhibition Dans leur travail at Chartreuse de Mélan (2006 Taninges, France).
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Over To You

Book 2019

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger

Over To You correspondence book of texts and images by Yves and John Berger, first edition in french in 2019, in english in 2024. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for L’Atelier contemporain (2019).
Compelling and intimate, this collection of never-before-seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist, John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art,…
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Railtracks

Book 2011

Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Countryside, Essays, Photography, UK

Railtracks, by Anne Michaels and John Berger (text), first publication in 2011. Some editions with Tereza Stehlikova photographs.
Railtracks is a unique collaboration between two writers of remarkable achievement. A profound meditation on railways, love and loss, at once intimate and committed, it moves from the industrial to the metaphysical, from the tectonic shifts of globalization to the interior pulses of m…
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Par La Fenêtre

Book 2009

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger

Par La Fenêtre, exhibition catalog by Yves and John Berger, edited by Emmanuel Favre in link with their exhibition at Galerie Josephski-Neukum (2009, Issing, Germany).
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Disparate De Fuendetodos

Book 2013

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Spain, Yves Berger

Disparate De Fuendetodos, exhibition catalog by Yves and John Berger, in link with their exhibition at Sala Zuloaga (2013, Fuendetodos, Spain).
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Desde el taller

Book 2015

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger

Desde el taller , dialog between Yves and John Berger with Emmanuel Favre, drawings by Yves and John Berger, edited in 2015.
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Here is Where We Meet podcast

May 12 2024

Michael Morris and James Lingwood previously co-directors of Artangel, launched with TANK Magazine a new podcast HERE IS WHERE WE MEET, sequence of conversation including Jeremy Deller, Laurie Anderson, Simon McBurney, Yto Barrada…
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The Shape Of A Pocket event 2025

Apr 28 2025

To pass the Berger Baton, Jan Woolf proposes this second The Shape Of A Pocket event to share John Berger’s world and his different commitments.
«The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order.»
John Berger
Sunday May 11th – 4pm – 6:30pm  Upstairs …
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Athens Exhibition: Why Look at Animals?

May 05 2025

Athens, from 16th of May 2025 to 15th of February 2026
Curated by Katerina Gregos, Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives is a major group exhibition that centres on animal rights and animal well-being, highlighting the need to recognise and defend the lives of non-human animals in an anthropocentric world that marginalises, oppresses and brutalises them. The exhibition is inspired by the s…
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