Sven Sauer's installations focus on a theme that increasingly challenges our times: hope—not as an idealized state, but as a real, verifiable trace. Hope is considered a remnant of a bygone era, an abstract symbol. We are too surrounded by noise, disillusionment, and cynicism, amid all the clamor and images that bombard us every day.
Hope does not appear openly, but hides quietly and cryptically as an elusive trace. Something that one would almost overlook.
Sven Sauer searches for these hidden traces of hope in our reality. His works are the result of extensive research, data, statistics, and scientific studies collected over decades.
For hope, as his work suggests, is not a sentimental feeling, but a measurable phenomenon. It flickers in data series, in ecological forecasts, in social fractures, and in the quiet perseverance of people and systems.
Sauer is not interested in the promise of hope, but in its actual existence. Hope as a measurable trace, not as a sentimental ornament. 

 

Sven Sauer lives and works as an artist in Berlin. Since 2012, Sauer has focused on the connection between social movements and local structures in megacities (such as Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, and Seoul), which are representative of our modern world. Sauer's installations expose symptoms of society and reveal the pace of our development-oriented technology.. 

 

In Berlin, he created the exhibition series “The Dark Rooms” and “Himmel unter Berlin”  with “Wir im Raum” in 2016, as well as the art festival “Lost Art Festival.”