New season – New highlights: Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg
Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg
”One Last Trip to The Underworld (Strawberry Red and Blue)”
The duo’s work contains a large amount of dark humour as well as references to popular culture and art history. Berg’s hypnotic music evocatively emphasises the various emotional states, propelling the story forward. The characters’ sense of isolation is clear – they often project a kind of loneliness, have low self-esteem or a distorted self-image, and looks or behaviours that aren’t usually socially accepted.
The suffering, the inertia, the anger and the sadness – it is all a reflection of the artist herself, even if the events and the characters aren’t autobiographical. As the stories generally tend not to have a clear beginning or an end they are left open to interpretation. Perhaps something happens in a parallel world that changes the ending of the video, or lets it begin where the previous one ended? The films are often about daring to face your nightmares or fears, and having the courage to see what can come out of those encounters.
Signed certificate included in lot. Executed in 2019. Spray paint on epoxy putty, steel and wood. The height of the sculpture: 72 cm, inc. the blue base 93 cm. A white podium (h: 51 cm) and plexi glass box (h: 105.5 cm) also included in lot.
Ann McCoy writes in her review of the exhibition “Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: One Last Trip to The Underworld” in The Brooklyn Rail:
To be sold at Contemporary Art & Design April 26
Viewing April 21 – 25, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm
Open Weekdays 11 am – 6 pm, helger 11 am – 5 pm
Auction Live April 26, Arsenalsgatan 2, Stockholm
Djurberg & Berg’s solo show at the Kunsthalle Luzern, Switzerland will open to the public this April, followed by a solo presentation at Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lyon, France in 2023.
Djurberg and Berg’s work has been included in group exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst/Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium (2010); Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2012); Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria (2013); Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, (2014); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2015; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, (2015); Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany (2017); to name a few.
The artist's works are represented in the collections of Fondazione Prada, Milan; Goetz Collection, Munich; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Kunsthaus Züruch, Zürich; and Whitechapel, London, among others.
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