Sanna Helena Berger Berger works with site- and situation-specific ­installations informed and influenced by critical theory, philosophy, and analysis. Her extensive writing acts not only as a coupling discourse to the exhibition but presents the exhibition as an extension of her writing—material and meaning land on par. Her installations consist of found objects, ­interventions in the exhibition space, and unreadymades—a developing theory granting agency to objects to act out of order with their mass-produced commonplace status. Her written voice oscillates between the ­phenomenological and observed, leaving a self unpolished, openly ­inadequate, and, as with her material works, she embraces lack, showing dilemma—opposing a final finish.

Biography
Sanna Helena Berger (born 1983, Sweden; lives and works in Berlin) is an autodidactic artist. Her recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Difference, Matteo Cantarella, Copenhagen (2026); und, zwar, WRG ­Braunschweig (2026); und, zwar (Dokumentation), Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig (2026); Absolut, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin (2025); Opera, Cabinet Milano, Milan (2025); Metod, Antics, Stockholm (2025); miart (with Cecilie Norgaard), with Shahin Zarinbal and Matteo Cantarella, Milan (2025); Bourse, Centralbanken, Oslo (2024); Nicht-nur-Spekulativ, Philipp Zollinger, Zürich (2024); Die Installierte Reale (with Cecilie Norgaard), Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf (2024); Skulptur Projekte, Kaiserwache, Freiburg (2024); Concrete Arguments, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin (2023); Rational Display, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb (2023). Berger’s works in recent group exhibitions include Untitled participation, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2025); System, Prototyp and Produkt, Neu Cöln, Cologne (2025); Schmutztitel, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2025); METOD, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg (2025); Towards the centre of the field (the new is made comfortable by being made familiar), Simian, ­Copenhagen (2025), Ohne Ohne Titel, Philipp Zollinger, Zürich (2023); Mute Point, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin (2023); Postural Fatigue, Bærum Kunsthall, Oslo (2023); Repräsentation, Waf Galerie, Vienna (2023); Minor Variations, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö (2023).

In October 2026, Berger will open her first instituional solo exhibition at Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, titled Œuvre (working title), curated by Theresa Roessler.


Exhibitions at Shahin Zarinbal
Absolut, 2025
Tell me you belong, 2023 (group)
Concrete Arguments, 2023