PAULINE BERGER

Pauline Berger (DE) is a multidisciplinary artist, sculptor, and herder.

Her work spans sculpture, installation, performance, and video, and explores how bodies and minds are shaped and challenged by contemporary work culture and digital life. Core themes in her practice include self-optimization, counterpressure, physical presence+exhaustion, care, and responsibility. Physical labor is both the subject and material of her work. Berger deliberately seeks out contexts of bodily intensity—sculpting stone in a granite quarry, sporting in the gym, climbing or herding cattle in the Swiss Alps. These experiences become part of her artistic expression, both conceptually and physically. Her practice questions how form and friction create meaning, how weight and resistance can be transformative, and how boundaries might give rise to new forms of connection.

In addition to her artistic work, Berger is an experienced educator. She teaches in art academies as well as in independent workshops for children, teenagers, and adults. With a background in education, she sees the creation of spaces for learning and shared experience as integral to her creative identity. Her teaching is rooted in collaboration, mutual respect, and a belief in artistic expression as a path to deeper understanding of oneself and others. The experience of the herder becomes a metaphor for her way of teaching too.Working collectively, forming friendships, and fostering dialogue are key to her way of making and way of being in the world.She holds a master‘s degree in fine arts and design as well as two bachelor‘s: One in sculpture and Installation, one in art-pedagogy.Enabling access to creative processes across different communities is a core element of her creative work.