Netherlands
Fleur van den Berg
Fleur van den Berg is a Dutch multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, drawing, and public art. Her work explores the body as a language of expression and a carrier of lived experience. Themes such as human relationships, motherhood, womanhood, care, and belonging run through her practice.
Across intimate drawings and large-scale sculptures, Van den Berg gives form to the psychological, emotional, and corporeal dimensions of human existence. The body appears as a shifting presence, carrying traces of vulnerability, resilience, and transformation. In her visual language, branches and roots connect the figure to the living world; wings evoke the intention to do good, the spiritual, and an in-between world. Together, these elements situate the body between the personal, the relational, and the ecological.
With a background in textiles and glass, Fleur van den Berg’s work moves freely between materials. She is currently working on De Buitenpoorters, a commission for two large bronze sculptures in public space in Leiden. Her practice focuses on ceramics, glass, and a distinctive process involving PET, textiles, composite materials, and wax.
Fleur van den Berg lives and works in Leiden, The Netherlands. She studied Textile and Monumental Art at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and Glass at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where she graduated in 1998. Her practice includes autonomous sculptures, drawings, and public art commissions, and her work is held in private and museum collections.
