Craft and dissemination

São Simão, SP – Brazil

André Berger (São Paulo, Brazil, 1981) is a printmaker, draftsman and illustrator who works primarily with drypoint and mezzotint, intaglio direct techniques.

He has participated in exhibitions in Brazil (São Paulo, Ponta Grossa, Limeira, Campinas, Goiânia and Anápolis), USA (New York), Romania (Sfantu Gheorghe), Bulgaria (Varna), Russia (Yekaterinburg and Krasnodar), Macedonia (Skopje), Colombia (Medellin and Bogota), Armenia (Yerevan) and Serbia (Cacak).

André holds a PhD in Visual Arts, with a focus on Visual Poetics and Creative Processes, from the Institute of Arts at Unicamp. At the same institution, he was the organizer and curator of the International Mezzotint Exhibition. Living and working in São Simão, SP, he contributes to the dissemination of print culture drawing on his printmaking practice.

Matter and language

Excerpts from the PhD thesis "Meias-tintas", defended by André Berger in 2026 at the Institute of Arts of Unicamp

“Working with printmaking entails a constant engagement with its materiality. At times, in following this path toward the engraved image — without leaving the workbench and without necessarily knowing what image I am searching for — I am led, in the best of these incursions, through obscure places, groping my way forward with the feeling that I have been there before, yet unable to fully recognize them, even knowing that I carry them within me. To excavate the subterranean images that may reveal themselves there, it is necessary to recognize the moment, when it presents itself, to silence rational and conscious thought — also indispensable — that organizes the language with which I am working. […]

The transformation of matter is the fundamental subject of my prints. Darkness, light, shadow and nuance; time, memory, cycles, finitude and transience; depth, surface, the mirror, multiplication and decomposition; nothingness, the infinitesimal and the infinite — there is a repertoire of ideas and concepts that the nature of work in drypoint and mezzotint printmaking leads me to associate, in the composition of images, so that they ultimately converge upon this theme.”

Exhibitions

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2024 - 8th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland / Transylvanian Art Center / Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania

2024 - 6th International Printmaking Biennale of Cacak / National Museum of Cacak / Cacak, Serbia

2024 - Tempo da Gravura / Antônio Sibasolly Gallery / Anápolis, Brazil

2023 - Gravura em Foco – um recorte da coleção do Gabinete de Estampas da Unicamp / Casa da Boia / São Paulo, Brazil

2023 - 4th Yerevan International Print Biennale / Aznavour Center / Yerevan, Armenia

2023 - Tempo da Gravura / UFG Cultural Center / Goiânia, Brazil

2022 - 7th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland / Transylvanian Art Center / Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania

2021 - Mostras Parciais do Acervo do Gabinete de Estampas / Institute of Arts of Unicamp Gallery / Campinas, Brazil

2020 - 2º Salón de Gráfica Universitaria Nacional, Edición Latinoamérica / Universidad El Bosque / Bogota, Colombia

2020 - That is the night: drypoint and mezzotint / Institute of Arts of Unicamp Gallery / Campinas, Brazil

2019 - Uni Graphica International Graphic Arts Festival / Kovalenko Art Museum / Krasnodar, Russia

2019 - Intercâmbio Internacional - Gravura: práticas híbridas / University of Antioquia Museum / Medellin, Colombia

2018 - Osten Biennial of Drawing / Osten Museum of Drawing / Skopje, Macedonia

2018 - André Berger / FAAL Gallery / Limeira, Brazil

2017 - 4th International Mezzotint Festival / Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts / Yekaterinburg, Russia

2017 - 19th International Print Biennial Varna / ‘Boris Georgiev’ Varna City Art Gallery / Varna, Bulgaria

2016 - 4th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland / Transylvanian Art Center / Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania

2015 - Celebrating Print / Bohemian National Hall / New York, USA

2015 - 9º Salão de Belas Artes de Ponta Grossa / Estação Arte / Ponta Grossa, Brazil

2015 - Exposições de Gabinete da Galeria Marta Traba / Galeria Marta Traba / São Paulo, Brazil

2015 - SP Estampa / Galeria Gravura Brasileira / São Paulo, Brazil

2012 - República dos Arrombinhas / Associação Cultural Cecília / São Paulo, Brazil

Main publications

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