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Simon Berger, born in 1976, is a Swiss contemporary visual artist. He is best known for pioneering the art made by breaking glass with a hammer. His work has been widely exhibited around the world.[5]

Simon Berger
Born	9 April 1976 (1976-04-09) (age 46) Herzogenbuchsee, Switzerland
Known for	Visual art installations
Notable work	Glass Ceiling Breaker[1][2] WeAreUnbreakable[3]
Movement	Pop art/contemporary art[4]
Website	www.simonberger.art

Life

Simon Berger was born on April 9, 1976. He grew up in Herzogenbuchsee, a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Berger got professional education as a carpenter. He currently resides and works in his own studio in Niederönz.[6]

Work

According to the magazine French magazine RTS, Berger's work was influenced by the pop art movement and Neorealism.[4]

Simon Berger made his first works on glass in 2017, in his studio in Niederönz, Switzerland.[6] Soon, the originality of his technique put him in the media spotlight, and he was invited by many institutions or events such as the largest street art festival in Europe, the Street Art Fest Grenoble-Alpes, where he created a live diptych. The work can be seen in Grenoble at 113 cours Berriat in a window provided by the ARaymond company. In March 2021, Simon Berger created a portrait of Kamala Haris, the Vice President of the United States, in partnership with the American National Museum of Women's History.[1] In August 2021, he was associated with the "We are Unbreakable" project,[7] sponsored by MTV Lebanon in tribute to the victims of the Beirut harbour explosion in 2020.

Exhibitions and festival (selection)

• "Street Art Fest Grenoble-Alpes"
• "Vitrofestival Romont"
• "Portraits aus Glas" in Bern 2020
• "Urban Art Fair at Carreau du Temple in Paris 2021"
• "Luxembourg Art Week" in Luxembourg, November 2021
• "Art Miami 2021, an extension of Art Basel Miami"

Museum collections

• "Beit Beirut museum in Lebanon"
• "National Museum of Women's History in Washington, D.C."
• "Murten Museum in Switzerland"
• "Fränkisches Museum in Feuchtwangen"
• "Vitromusée de Romont in Switzerland"

Articles

• Swissinfo- March 2021
• RTS - May 2020
• RTS[8] - May 2021

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  La Liberté[9] - April 2020
• (en) Smithsonian Magazine[10] - April2009

References

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[fr] Simon Berger

Simon Berger, né en 1976, est un artiste plasticien contemporain suisse. Il est surtout connu pour être le pionnier de l'art consistant à casser du verre avec un marteau. Son travail a été largement exposé dans le monde[5].

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