In his drawings and oil paintings, Eindhoven artist Berry Sanders displays a unique and sometimes alienating view of people and their surroundings, in which current events and social context play a significant role. His images are rooted in the here and now, yet defy clear interpretations. Everyday situations, social relationships, and collective tensions are depicted in scenes that balance between recognition and disruption.
The process of searching is visible in Sanders’ work. Using various brush techniques and varying degrees of detail, he constructs images that are not fixed in a single time, place, or meaning. Figures seem engaged in actions or dialogues that refer to broader social themes, yet simultaneously defy a concrete narrative. Humor and discomfort, irony and melancholy, coexist here.
Without strictly basing himself on examples, Sanders creates his own form of spatiality and realism. Landscapes, interiors, and human interactions often harbor a subtle tension that alludes to social dynamics, power dynamics, and the fragility of human relationships. In his paintings a dreamlike, sometimes alienating atmosphere emerges, where the personal and the social intersect.
What becomes visible is not a direct illustration of current events, but a visual language that reflects on the world today. Time, place, and identity remain deliberately vague and ambiguous, inviting the viewer to make connections and construct their own meaning within these absurdist variations on reality.
Exhibitions
“A Vanishing Point on a Continuum” Berry Sanders x Bram Hermens, August 25 – October 11, 2025 Salon Veneman.
” De grote stilte” Berry Sanders x Mike Dings at galerie Nasty Alice, Eindhoven (NL) – May 4 – June 9, 2024
“Stable Diffusion” solo show at Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen (Germany), April 15 – August 31 2023.
Benefiet voor Brabant, Albert van Abbehuis, Eindhoven, December January 2021/2022
Salon Veneman, Eindhoven November – January 2021/22
Academisch Genootschap Eindhoven, June – August 2019
Grenswerk, Albert van Abbehuis, Eindhoven, December 2016 – January 2017
Flipside, Eindhoven, November – December 2015
Bart Kunst in Huis, Nijmegen, October 2013
‘Spilliaert Ostend Blues Blues’, April- August 2012, Ostend (BE), galerie Theobald’s Boothuisje
5th anniversary Galerie Bart, 31 March-5 May 2012, Amsterdam (NL)
Zweigstelle Berlin (DE), 31 March-29 April 2012
Rotary Art Fair Eindhoven, 30, 31 March and 1 April 2012
Art Walk Eindhoven, galerie van de Water, December 2011
‘Preview Berlin’, presentatie galerie Bart, 8-11 sept. 2011
‘From different corners’, paperworks – artists from international galleries 2011. Düsseldorf, Vienna, Prague, Strassbourg.
Berry Sanders, Myra de Vries, Niels Helmink & René Kuipers, Bart Kunst in Huis, Nijmegen, March – May 2011
Berry Sanders, Galerie van de Water, Eindhoven, September 11 – October 27 2010
Oostende Cultuurstad van Vlaanderen 2010, “Licht aan de zee”, Galerie Theobald’s Boothuisje,
April-August 2010 Select Media Festival 8, Super Bad Ass Show, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago (US)
Montanus5, Dicksmuide (B), November 2009
‘Tales from the Bubble’, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago (US), November 2009
Galerie Peninsula, Eindhoven, september-oktober 2009
Saekkers, Eindhoven, June 2009
Strijp X, Eindhoven, March 2009
‘Verstand van Smaak’, Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven, February 2009
Grenswerk, Flipside, Eindhoven, November 2008
Salon XI NBKS, Breda, November 2008
Work period Tripkau (D), August 2008
Muzelinck, Oss, July 2008
NEP, The Living Room, Amsterdam, March 2008
NEP, Galerie Peninsula, Eindhoven, November 2007
Galerie Bart, Amsterdam, April 2007
Around the world in 80 questions, global mobile exhibition October 2006
Galerie de Kunstkamer, Hoogeloon, October 2006
RotoSmeets GrafiServices Eindhoven, August 2006
Editfestival Strijp-S, Eindhoven June 2006
Bart Kunst in Huis – Nijmegen, May 2006
Hier 2 – Krabbedans/MU, Eindhoven, January 2006
Gelregaleries st. Eusebiuskerk, Arnhem, March 2005
Bart Kunst in Huis, Nijmegen, January 2005
Remy van Ulden, Geldrop, November 2004