Jan Berger is a visual artist and platform designer based in Berlin. His practice is primarily occupied with ludic simulation, subject formation and the emergence of cultural mythologies in online spaces. Creating infrastructures for networked roleplay, his work facilitates spaces for users to inhabit, comment on, and reimagine cultural world-frames.
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The Great Death of Magick and Gods

lecture performance, Blue-Curacao-based drinks, poster series, essay

photo: Theresa Büchner

2025


Act of Contrition

lecture performance, live gaming, Celine Dion re-enactment, 2k video, full length 00:04:36, champagne pyramid, chain coif

photo: Jaewon Chung

2024


Offerings

3D-printed PET-G oysters, 9 x 5 x 2 each, edition of 24 + 2 AP

photo: Theresa Büchner

2024


GOSSIP

fictional magazine, plywood, primer, 360-deg-UV-print, dimensions variable

graphic design: Kathrin Baumgartner
photo: Theresa Büchner

2024



AOC:film

2k video, full length 00:18:30, mixed media

in collaboration with: Theresa Büchner, Chris Dake-Outhet, Etienne Darcas, Katrin Dittmayer, Nina Lissone, Arootin Mirzakhani, Sebastian Sailer, Sarah Trottier

video editing: Katrin Dittmayer
music: Ian Rodriguez

2024


AOC:world

avatarian design studio, Roblox server, video game, online role-play

3D modeling: Christian Zajac

2024


Release: Mythical Anthology

lecture performance, video screening, publication, seating, screen-print on linen-coated paper, framed, 49 x 69 cm each

photo: Theresa Büchner

2023


High Seat

12c-pigment-prints of procedurally generated topographies, screen-printed text, framed, 80 x 80 cm each

2023


The Gazer

4 pairs of juxtaposed risograph prints, framed, 41 x 47 cm each, passepartout extrusion, flower tribute, mimosa libation

folder: Victoria Allakhverdyan
photo: Theresa Büchner

2022


Mythical Anthology

2-volume-publication, 56 & 128 pages each, foreword folder, edition of 98 + 2 AP, digital print

graphic design: Kathrin Baumgartner
forewords: Sarah Trottier & Nate Sloan
scan: Theresa Büchner

ISBN 978-3-945365-45-8

2022


bauen wohnen denken

online role-play, discord server, website, reading group, video, full length 00:06:30

in collaboration with: Nikolaus Kockel, Katharina Hantke & Nora Schön

video editing: Katrin Dittmayer

2021-2022


The Most Infamous Elf in the History of Cyrodiil

in-game-photography, online, as part of kawaii.agency for the wrong biennale

curated by: Juliusz Grabianski & Bart Seng Wen Long

2021


Retrograde: an outlook

HD single channel video, full length 00:33:53, 2-channel audio, 4 birch wood cubes, framed letter, 5 framed C-prints, 3 banners, digital knit, wool, silk, iron rod, hand sewn, 3 editions of 250 postcards each, wire display

photo: Reinis Lismanis

2021


Is Marie Therese Good or Bad?

26 Feb 2021 - 25 Jun 2021
an outlook, Mythical Institution
series of workshops

2021


Simon Denny. Mine

05 Sep 2020 - 17 Jan 2021
Minecraft commission
K21, Düsseldorf & online

2020


Art... is My Burning Passion

29 Aug 2020 - 31 Oct 2020
an outlook, Mythical Institution
curatorial detonation

2020


Landesgartenschau 2020

15 May 2020 - 17 Jul 2020
an outlook, Mythical Institution
group show

2020


Le Grand Trampolage

01 Dec 2019 - 29 Feb 2020
an outlook, Mythical Institution
group show

2019


an outlook

Minecraft gallery space, exhibitions, events, streamed openings, member program

2019-2021


The Mythical Institution

residency programme, website, discord server, social media, archive

2019 - ongoing

2019-2023


Anastacia Reborn

performance in collaboration with Arootin Mirzakhani, poems on paper mounted on wall, dried flowers

photo: Nikolaus Kockel

2019


Retail Dominatrix

html game, CGI, text

2018


Never Forgetti

lecture performance, multiplatform video game, 2-channel audio, engraved marble tablet, 4 folded digital prints, soundtrack, strategy guide

code: Breogán Hackett
photo: Theresa Büchner

2018


Free Drinks

html game, permanent online exhibition

2018