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Matteo Cantarella is pleased to present Difference, a solo exhibition by Berlin-based Swedish artist Sanna Helena Berger. The exhibition marks the first solo presentation of Berger’s work in Denmark and first show with the gallery.
The difference is the remainder left after subtracting one value from another. By outlining the placement and dimensions of previously exhibited artworks in the gallery, Berger subtracts these formal positions from the space — declaring the vacant as potential. Her work’s size-specificity is thus determined by this so-called negative space — absence is inverted into presence. The outlined lack of work and the exhibited work is equalised as value — a value not determined by materiality. Lack becomes a formal position on par with addition.
Berger’s material practice centres around hues and gradients caused by a lived-in affect, differentiating even mass produced objects where the condition of being leaves a trace. The exhibited works ascribes to a Deleuzian…
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Press Release
Matteo Cantarella is pleased to present Difference, a solo exhibition by Berlin-based Swedish artist Sanna Helena Berger. The exhibition marks the first solo presentation of Berger’s work in Denmark and first show with the gallery.
The difference is the remainder left after subtracting one value from another. By outlining the placement and dimensions of previously exhibited artworks in the gallery, Berger subtracts these formal positions from the space — declaring the vacant as potential. Her work’s size-specificity is thus determined by this so-called negative space — absence is inverted into presence. The outlined lack of work and the exhibited work is equalised as value — a value not determined by materiality. Lack becomes a formal position on par with addition.
Berger’s material practice centres around hues and gradients caused by a lived-in affect, differentiating even mass produced objects where the condition of being leaves a trace. The exhibited works ascribes to a Deleuzian…

































































