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Simon Berger, born in 1976, is a Swiss visual artist. He invented the art made by breaking glass with a hammer.

Biographie
Simon Berger made his first works on glass in 2017, in his studio in Niederönz, Switzerland. Very quickly the originality of his technique put him in the media spotlight, and he was invited by many institutions or events such as the largest street art festival in Europe, the Street Art Fest Grenoble-Alpes, where he created a live diptych. The work can be seen in Grenoble at 113 cours Berriat in a window provided by the ARaymond company. In March 2021, Simon Berger created a portrait of Kamala Haris, the Vice President of the United States, in partnership with the American National Museum of Women's History. In August 2021, he was associated with the "We are Unbreakable " project, sponsored by MTV Lebanon in tribute to the victims of the Beirut harbour explosion in 2020.

Exhibitions and Festival (selection)

 * « Street Art Fest Grenoble-Alpes »
 * « Vitrofestival Romont »
 * « Urban Art Fair at Carreau du Temple in Paris 2021 »
 * "Luxembourg Art Week" in Luxembourg, November 2021
 * « Art Miami 2021, an extension of Art Basel Miami »

Museum Collections

 * « Beit Beirut museum in Lebanon »
 * « National Museum of Women's History in Washington, D.C. »
 * « Murten Museum in Switzerland »
 * « Fränkisches Museum in Feuchtwangen »
 * « Vitromusée de Romont in Switzerland »

Articles

 * Swissinfo- March 2021
 * RTS - May 2020
 * RTS - May 2021
 * Simon_Berger©StreetArtFest-2020-F.Olivo-Wikicommons.jpg La Liberté - April 2020
 * (en) Smithsonian Magazine - April2009