Abel Burger is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice ranges from oil pastel and drawing to video works and written essays. Strongly influenced by the artistic movements of the 1990s, Burger was a central member of the Parisian underground scene, authoring texts on gender and identity, and developing video work series. Burger's interdisciplinary practice has since expanded to new formats, including highly detailed oil pastels on paper and balsa wood. Inspired by a passion for ancient cultures and architectural spaces, these works explore concepts of individual mythologies in which ancient memories, energies, and beliefs come together to create a new system of images, narratives, and emotions which the artist terms 'archaeologies of the future'.
Burger’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo shows across Europe and the US, including Musée d'Art Moderne, Collioure (2021), Baull Gallery, Berlin (2020), and group shows at Wondering People, London (2022) and Mason Fine Arts, Atlanta, USA (2021). Burger lives and works in Port-Vendres, France.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Goodbye horses, DYS, Brussels, BE
2023 Appaloosa, BRIGADE, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Seul le souvenir des choses, MOMA of Collioure,
2020 LaBrutale, Baull Gallery, Berlin
Puis vient le silence, Hôphophop Collectif, Besançon
2019 Chasser les Esprits, Galerie d’Art Contemporain L’ISBA, Perpignan
Détruite, Garten114 gallery, Berlin
2018 Beautiful Weirdo, Instinct.berlin, Berlin
Abel Burger, Green House, Berlin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Outsider Art Fair with Pulp Holyoke, New York
State of play with Eritage art projects, Lisboa
2023 Enter Art Fair with BRIGADE, Copenhagen, DK
Outsider Art Fair with Mason Fine Arts, New York
Drawing Now Art Fair with Galerie DYS, Paris
2022 Abel Burger / Alexandra Duprez w/ Andrew Smith, Pulp Gallery, Holyoke
Enter Art Fair with BRIGADE, Copenhagen, DK
Salt ‘n Paper, Galerie DYS, Brussels
L’éte, Galerie des Hospices, Canet-en-Roussilon
2021 Les Curiosités Poétiques, Atelier Hermann, Perpignan
Paper Works Volume II, NBB Gallery, Berlin
Homage à Matisse, TRALALA Galerie, Perpignan
Biennale Festival R-cas, Centre d’Art Contemporain,
Àcentmètresducentredumonde, Perpignan
2020 Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond, Schwules Museum, Berlin
Des choses très concrètes, collectif Feu, Besançon
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2022 Mixed media book, poetry and drawings, ‘Seul le souvenir des choses’
2020 Art book ‘LaBrutale’ published in ‘Voix Editions’ Perpignan
2019 Art book published in ‘Voix Editions’ ++ LEPORELLO ++ Multiple Perpignan
2018 Paintings & poetry, Handcastle magazine, Boston, USA
2016 Fiction ‘Roches Noires’, under review at La Contre Allée editions
2015 Scenario ‘Finesite’, for Fanny Ardant
2013 Novel ‘Beef’, Walrus editions
2012 Creation ‘Arrrgh’ magazine & published texts, Paris
Novel in Branded magazine, Paris
2011 Poetry, literature magazine ‘La main Blanche’, Paris
2010 Novel ‘12 cordes’ Antidata editions, Paris
2009 Poetry in ‘La revue des 100 voix’, Paris
RESIDENCE
2022 BRIGADE, Havana, Cuba
2021 MOMA Collioure. Extension of the project “Only the Memory of Things”
2018-19 Instinct Berlin, Berlin
2018 Berlin Art Institute, Berlin
VARIOUS
2021-22 Short film ‘Seul le souvenir des choses’, directed by Albert Oriol
Short film ‘Metamorphosis’, Paris
2012 Creation of a transdisciplinary collective ‘La Meute’ Paris