THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to announce a solo presentation of Sebastian Burger in the 2024 edition of ART021 at Booth W33.


Sebastian Burger (b. 1980, Magdeburg) is an artist living and working in Leipzig and Berlin. He sheds light on a repositioned perspective through his painted examinations of displaced quotidian objects. Under his brush, everyday subjects such as the composition of a window and the locking mechanism of a carabiner keychain are enhanced with heightened hints of fragility and tension. Inspecting beyond the reasonable surface, the artworks are quietly suggestive of the extreme characteristics implicit in seemingly ordinary actions. 



Burger studied fine arts in Vienna and Leipzig. After graduating from the Academy of Visual Arts, he was a master student with Professor Neo Rauch until 2012. He deals with issues such as the integrity of the body, its fragmentation, and artificiality in an increasingly indirect, digital perception of reality. Despite contemporary digitally generated aesthetics, Burger’s practice is rooted in the tradition of western Renaissance and icon painting.