Yves Berger

Melbourne Memorial Lecture : Over to you

Sep 27 2023

The Greek Cultural Center of Melbourne proposes a John Berger Memorial Lecture every year. Yves in Quincy and Isaac in Melbourne will read OVER TO YOU extracts. Multigenerational and worldwide dialogue, to make resonate John and Yves’ post card chat.John and Yves Berger OVER TO YOU is already available in French, Korean, Turkish and Spanish, in English in 2024.
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Berger on Drawing

Book 2005

Books, Drawing, Essays, Yves Berger

Berger on Drawing, book of essays and drawings by John Berger, edited by Jim Savage, first edition by Occasional Press in 2005.
With 49 black and white illustrations including drawings by John and Yves Berger. Berger On Drawing is an exciting anthology of essays in which John Berger explores that most primary and most primal of all art activities: drawing.
More informations about John Berger’s drawings.
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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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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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Flying Skirts

Book 2010

Books, Collaborations, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Poetry, Quincy, Tributes, Yves Berger

Flying Skirts book by Yves and John Berger as an elegy to Beverly Bancroft (1942-2014), first edition in 2015. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions L’Olivier (2015).
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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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Seeing Through Drawing

Book 2017

About John Berger, Art, Books, Collaborations, Drawing, John Christie, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting, Tributes, UK, Yves Berger

Seeing Through Drawing, art catalogue, texts and correspondences with John Berger and others, edited by John Christie, first edition in 2017.
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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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Ways of Travelling Qattan Foundation book

Oct 10 2024

Despite the genocide and the war, Palestinian cultural world is still in resistance keeping to work, think, create, publish… Based in Gaza, London and Ramallah, the Qattan Foundation published Ways of Travelling about their artist residency program.
We can’t find yet any webpage about this publication, but here you’ll have some informations about :Announcement of the recipients of the Ways of Travelling …
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Lecture: Over To You

Nov 15 2024

Yves Berger and Ariane Gülich joined Point Reyes Books, Californian bookshop, via Zoom on 15th of November 2024 for a reading and conversation about Over to You: Letters Between a Father and Son (2024, Pantheon), a book of correspondence between Yves Berger and his father John Berger.
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2025, Ariane and Yves portraits by each other © John Berger Estate
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Podcast Premières Saisons

Nov 20 2025

The Swiss publisher Héros Limite has released a two-episode podcast by Clara Alloing and Alma Palacios about John’s trilogy INTO THEIR LABOURS (1979-1980). The two authors interviewed John’s neighbors in Mieussy (French Alps) as well as Yves Berger, to whose voices they added sound archives and readings by…
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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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Do you know what I watch?

Jun 25 2026

Animal traces in John Berger’s work
* Version française ci-dessous *
“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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