Anne Berg at London Art Fair
Curated by Anna Souter
22-26 January 2025
Preview evening 21 January 2025
Anne Berg (b. 1942) is a figurative artist whose work explores ecology, mysticism, and motherhood. Her politically active work explores the struggle for women’s liberation while also drawing on her highly personal experiences of being a young mother and struggling to make her creative voice heard. Constituting her first solo presentation in 35 years, this trio of paintings from the mid-1980s demonstrates her approach to the interconnectedness of human and more-than-human bodies, suggesting an ecofeminist sensibility with a renewed resonance in our contemporary era.
Berg studied under Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton in the 1960s, but she rejected her teachers’ insistence on the primacy of abstraction in favour of feminist figuration. She later took part in the seismic Woman Power exhibition at Swiss Cottage Library organised by Monica Sjöö in 1971. Also in collaboration with Sjöö, Berg co-authored the keystone manifesto “Towards a revolutionary feminist art”. Alongside her painting practice, Berg creates extraordinary illuminations for her diaries in which she chronicles personal, creative, and broader ecofeminist concerns.
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