ABOUT
Sven Sauer lives and works as an artist in Berlin.
Since 2012, Sauer has focussed 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 show the pace of our development-orientated technology, which seems to have overwhelmed the human capacity for absorption.
He confronts viewers of his mostly audiovisual installations with the problems of our time without expressing a firm opinion. It is much more about dealing with a topic and questioning one's own point of view.
In 2006, he and 6 other artists founded the art collective ‘360 minutes art’, which quickly attracted international attention with its provocative exhibitions.
From 2016, he created large exhibitions and art festivals in Berlin with the groups ‘The Dark Rooms Exhibition’ and ‘Wir im Raum’, which attract tens of thousands of people every year. The best-known formats are ‘Himmel unter Berlin’ and the ‘Lost Art Festival’.
Sauer is regularly drawn to the theatre. For example, he developed the stage sets for Don Quichot at the Wiesbaden State Theatre and Clarence Square at the Cape Town Theatre in South Africa.
In addition to his artistic work, Sven Sauer is also known for his work as a VFX artist. He worked for 15 years on international film productions - including feature films such as ‘Atomic Blonde’, ‘Oblivion’ and Lars von Trier's ‘Melancholia’.
He was part of the VfX team that won the Oscar for visual effects for ‘Hugo Cabret’ and three Emmys for ‘Game of Thrones’.
EXHIBITIONS
"The most beautiful place in the world" - Himmel unter Berlin
2023
"Isolation" - ARD Halle - IFA 2022
Berlin, DE
2022 - 09
"Greenwashing" - Himmel unter Berlin
Berlin, DE
2022 - 03
"Tulpenfieber" - LOST Art Festival
Berlin, DE
2021 - 09
"Unknown Worlds" - Kameha Suite
Frankfurt am Main, DE
2019 - 10
"Die Blaue Nacht Nürnberg"
Installation im öffentlichen Raum, Nürnberg, DE
2019 - 04
"Unseen Westeros" - Umspannwerk Berlin
Berlin, DE
2019 - 01
"Empty Shelters" - Linse Galerie
Wiesbaden, DE
2018 - 03
"KAMI" - auf dem LOST Art Festival
Willner Brauerei Berlin, DE
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2017 - 12
„Melange“ Exhibition - Bar Babette
Berlin, Deutschland
2016 - 09
​"The Dark Rooms Exhibition"
Willner Brauerei Berlin, DE
2016 - 09
“360 Minutes of Art – Volume 4”
Alte Schiffswerft - Gdansk B90, Danzig, PO
2015 - 10
“360 Minutes of Art – Volume 3” - Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, KOR
2014 - 11
"TULIP MANIA" - POP KUDAMM
Berlin, DE
2022 - 11
"STACK" - St. petri Kirche
Lübeck, DE
2022 - 07
"Foto Nr 7a" - Himmel unter Berlin
Berlin, DE
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2022 - 03
"Empty Shelters" - Galerie Heidelberg
Heidelberg, DE
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2019 - 04
1275 Jahre Fulda - "Bonifatius"
Installation auf dem Domplatz, Fulda, DE
2019 - 08
"Empty Shelters" - Goethe Institut
Frankfurt am Main, DE
2019 - 01
"Zeitkapsel" - 875 Jahre Lübeck - Museumsquartier St. Annen, Installation, Lübeck, DE
2018 - 09
„KAMI“ - Installation vor der Frauenkirche,
Neumarkt, Dresden, DE
2018 - 01
"Labyrinth of Lies" - by Venet Gallery
Willner Brauerei Berlin, DE
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2017 - 09
„The bad end story - Exhibition“ - Musikbrauerei
Berlin, DE
2016 - 09
“Charivari Vol.I exhibition” - the Cultural Laboratory of Lisbon, Lissabon, PT
2015 - 10
„Android Dreams“ - Galerie Sakura
Paris, FR
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2015 - 01
“360 Minutes of Art – Volume 2” - SOHO Factory, Warschau, PO
2014 - 10