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  • FILM: JB or The Art of Looking

    Film 2017
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    JOHN BERGER OR THE ART OF LOOKING a film by Cordelia Dvorák.
    Director’s statementThis film is a sensitive gift of love for John Berger, steward of the voiceless and the underprivileged, perpetually critical and highly engaged political intellectual, generous collaborator, extraordinary host and cook, who till the age of 90 had remained curiously inquisitive – a truly universal human being.
    Cordelia …
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  • Surrender: Ways of Hearing John Berger

    2026
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    Surrender: Ways of Hearing John Berger (2023, 51min, Digital) by director-executive producer Tina Grace and camera-photographer-editor Tierney Walker, and commissioned by the British Library, casts a female lens on the radical thinker and broadcaster John Berger.
    The first screenings took place at British Library 4-7th of July 2023.
    For John Berger centenary, new screening at the British Film Institute, 14th …
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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.