Landscapes in action — Andrey Berger

Landscapes in action, Triumph Gallery Moscow, Russia, 2025

Andrey Berger creates cartographies of the invisible — his works capture not physical topography, but fissures in the very fabric of our contemporaneity: digital borders of the internet, zones of political tension, sociocultural fault lines. Beginning with automatic writing as his departure point, he developed a visual language for these "surfaces and reliefs," where abstract signs become symbolic notations mapping emerging territories.
His projects are not maps in the traditional sense, but rather instruments of perceptual awareness: they reveal how spaces (from the internet to near-Earth orbit) transform into arenas of erosion. While Berger avoids direct representation, his works remind us that any map is a product of someone's perspective — and thus, a political act. In this, he aligns more with speculative philosophers than traditional landscape artists: his concern lies not in how the world appears, but in how it might be remade.