Bio
Herman van Bergen, (1953, Nijmegen, the Netherlands – residing in Curaçao)
The sense of senselessness. The perfection in imperfection. The beauty of the fleeting. That is the essence of the work and the life of artist Herman van Bergen. Where society shuns confrontation, difficulty and existential pain, Van Bergen chooses to look that pain straight in the eye, using it to explore the naked beauty of our existence.
This philosophy is evident in all of his work. The artist, who resides on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao, invites the viewer to recognize the beauty in what is usually deemed ugly. Both his paintings and his installations are directed at finding the unfamiliar, the mystical in the ordinary.
