Jan Berger

The artistic work of Jan Berger (*1993) deals with the ludic formation of cultural mythologies and the production of subjectivity in online spaces. He is the founder and attending curator of the Mythical Institution, a Minecraft project space and art school. As StJennifer, he produces music and streams live gameplay from video games.

Jan Berger received his Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College in London and his Bachelor from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Jan has shown work at 35C3 at the Exhibition Grounds in Leipzig, basis Frankfurt, Saatchi Gallery and he performed at the Museum of Modern Art (MMK2) and the Museum of Applied Art (MAK) in Frankfurt. He was commissioned to create a digital opening concept and Minecraft world for Simon Denny’s exhibition ‘Mine’ at K21, Düsseldorf.

From January to March 2022, Jan Berger is a resident artist in the programme Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr in Dortmund.

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The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.