Robert Sebastian Berger

In the beginning was the family’s history: the stone. Quarried from Luxembourg soil, shipped to the Rhine and set into the walls of a cathedral that never ceases to demand stone. At the end, colour: a green unknown to nature, mixed from midnight blue and fiery yellow, laid down in a few hard strokes. Between them lies a century. Robert Sebastian Berger, born in 1968, is one of those artists whose biography does not begin with them. It lies between continents and eras, between exile in Chile and home in Europe: Luxembourg, Cologne and Paris.

It begins with a man who breaks stone, and conventions. On the Riviera of the 1920s, where Picasso sets his figures at the water’s edge, heavy and still as ancient gods, the grandmother learns to see. A beach picture from those summers preserves a figure in a cap, apart on the wall, looking on. The family calls him Picasso. The picture is silent, like an indecipherable signature.

Then time tips over. In 1933 the young woman follows her fiancé to Chile. They marry at the foot of the Andes, far from home. While Europe burns, the artist’s father is born there, a child of exile between tango and the Pacific. Yet the mother keeps her Luxembourg passport like a vow: origin and future are strands tha...

Cologne + Duesseldorf, Cologne, DE,

2015 ART EVENT — Cannes, France.

2016 ART EVENT — Montreux (Switzerland).
2017 ART EVENT — Luxembourg.
2018 ART EVENT — Cologne (Germany).
2019 ART EVENT — Cologne (Germany).


2015 Exhibition — Paris.
2021 Virtual Art Event — London (Great Britain).
2022 Virtual Art Event — London (Great Britain).
2023 ART EVENT — Cannes, France.
2024 ART EVENT — Cologne, Germany.
2025 ART EVENT — Paris, France.