Caspar Berger makes conceptual art in which current events and the art historical canon play a major role. In this, the self-portrait and his own body is often the starting point for works of art in which themes such as freedom, mortality and political (belief) systems play an important role. Berger uses a wide variety of materials, including bronze, silver, gold, silicone, epoxy, wood and felt, as well as video and multimedia or a combination thereof. Caspar Berger’s oeuvre divides into a series of extensive series; themes herein are: SKIN, SKELETON, UNIVERSE and SPIRIT.

At SKIN, the starting point is human skin. The skin defines the boundary between the internal body of the personal “I” and the impersonal of the external world. For SKELETON in 2012, Berger used a CT scan to create an exact 3D copy of his skeleton. Our “eternal” identity, the identity that can tell something about who we were even after we die, is the starting point. At UNIVERSE, Berger focuses on the space occupied by human beings in social and political situations. Who are we in relation to our physical, social and political space, and how does our unique identity relate to the collective fantasies by which we are formed. And at SPIRIT, the most recently launched project series, Berger explores the theme of life attitudes and life questions arising out of human deficiency. Not only does the superhuman significance of Spirit apply here, but also the mental attitude one can adopt in our social, political and societal environment.