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Burger Collection, Hong Kong (2025)

06/12/2025

Vaginal Davis, Righteous Anger Juno, Julian Eltinge as Cousin Lucy, Princess Flavour, and Milestones of Life, all 2018, mixed media on found paper

In these paintings on found paper, q***r icon combines a plethora of materials from nail varnish, rouge, hairspray, glycerin, witch hazel, mascara, blush, lip stain, lip gloss, to Nasenspray, cocoa butter, and perfume - a testament to Davis’s complex persona and five-decade long career as performer, visual artist, author, filmmaker, musician, educator, self-proclaimed “Blacktress,” and countercultural icon.

In a recent interview with for the artist has said: “For all these many centuries that I’ve lived on the planet, I really have done pretty much the same thing. I guess I’ve just taken my form of illness—and it definitely is an illness-and turned it into something. I think that’s the only way to describe it. I’ve always been a sick ticket, and I descend from a long line of sick tickets. And witches, and voodoo-hoodoo swamp women.”
(“A Woman’s Work is Never Done,” Vaginal Davis in conversation with Rick Owens, Artforum Vol. 62, No. 9, May 2024)

The survey exhibition “Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product”, organized by Hendrik Folkerts, made its US debut in October, following iterations at Stockholm, and Berlin. Organized thematically, the exhibition includes major installations, video, paintings, zines, audio works, sculptures, and extensive archival materials, as well as and cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Vaginal Davis was born in Los Angeles and lives and works in Berlin.

12/11/2025

Shao Fan, Rabbit 1624, 2024, Ink on rice paper

In this recent, passionate rendering of one of his favorite subject, the rabbit, Chinese artist Shao Fan (b. 1964 in Beijing) continues his artistic investigation into key questions of ancient Chinese philosophy, such as the balance and unity between Man and Nature. Shao began painting at the age of three and received formal training from both his parents and the Beijing Art and Craft College. He is one of the first Chinese artists to explore the boundaries between visual art and design.

About the rabbit - a subject that came to Shao Fan by chance, when visiting a friend whose small flat housed far too many rabbits - the artist has said:

“While working on the series of animal paintings, I avoided painting the rabbits from nature. Instead I created them from my interior my heart. What I produce has its source in my own subjectivity. There are basically two levels: on the one hand my own intellectual world and my views about equality between people and animals. I argue for a harmonious connection between the two, and more respect towards the world in which we live.”

Shao Fan’s work is currently on view at the 15th “Does the Flower Hear the Bee” curated by Kitty Scott, Daisy Desrosiers, Xue Tan, Long Yitang, and Zhang Yingying, on view through 31 March, 2026.

24/10/2025

Xie Lei, Hands, 2024
Oil on canvas

Congratulations to for being awarded the 2025 Prix Marcel Duchamp.

Born in Huainan, China, and based in Paris, Xie Lei is a painter whose work explores the tension between visibility and evanescence. Approaching painting as a field of experimentation, he blends discreet evocations from literary and cinematographic realms with personal emotions to form microcosms that dwell on the complex and ambiguous nature of existence. For the prix Marcel Duchamp, Xie Lei presents seven monumental luminous green canvases that transform gravity into a dreamlike space.

The work of all four shortlisted artists, Bianca Bondi, Eva Nielsen, Lionel Sabatté and Xie Lei is on view through 22 February 2026.

12/10/2025

Gilbert & George, LIFE AFTER DEATH PROVED, 2014, is currently on loan .gallery for the exhibition “Gilbert & George: 21ST CENTURY PICTURES”, a comprehensive survey of works created since the start of the millennium, on view until 11 January, 2026.

Gilbert and George met in 1967, on the advanced sculpture course at St Martins School of Art, where they dissolved and merged their individual identities into Gilbert & George, featuring in their output as both subject and object, artwork and artist. Their bold, multi-panel works appropriate what the artists have called “the detritus of life, what is left over, what is in the gutter, what is not of interest to anyone.”

02/10/2025

David Weiss, Study for Self-Portrait with Sunglasses, 1978, ink on cardboard

Swiss artist David Weiss (1946-2012) is known for his playful curiosity in a variety of mediums, including drawing, sculpture, and photography. A testament to his love for underground and classic comics, Weiss made this early psychedelic self-portrait drawing a year before joining up with Peter Fischli, forming the duo Fischli/Weiss that became well-known for exploring the limits of everyday life, the absurd and the comical.

An extensive survey of over two hundred works from his early years 1968-78 and time in Carona just opened curated by Tobia Bezzola and Virginia Marano, in collaboration with The Estate of David Weiss.

was one of the most significant Swiss artists of his generation. The son of a Protestant pastor and a teacher, he grew up in Zurich. A teenage passion for jazz led to his interest in art. At the age of sixteen he enrolled at the School of Applied Arts in Zurich and continued his studies in Basel. He worked as an assistant to the sculptors Alfred Gruber (Basel) and Jacqueline Stieger (Yorkshire, England). In 1967 he moved to New York temporarily, where he came into contact with American minimalist and conceptual art.

23/09/2025

Simone Leigh, Untitled, 2023, Earthenware

This stoneware sculpture by American artist features a headless female figure from the waist up. Exemplary of Leigh’s primary medium, clay, a subtle transparent white glaze reveals traces of the medium underneath. Untitled is part of Leigh’s ongoing engagement with bust-like sculptures and of her exploration of Black femme subjectivity. While each of Leigh’s ceramic busts is unique and has distinct features, they mostly lack a sense of identifiable individuality, in this case marked by the figure’s missing head. Leigh once explained that “by abstracting the figure, I imagine a kind of experience, a state of being, rather than an individual person.”

In 2022, Leigh became the first Black woman to represent the U.S. at the 59th with her exhibition “Sovereignty” which featured a large headless sculpture entitled Martinique, referencing a statue of Napoleon I’s wife, Empress Joséphine, previously erected in her birthplace of Martinique. In 1991, the statue was beheaded in protest of Joséphine’s support of slavery in the French colonies.

Simone Leigh was born in Chicago in 1967. In 2023 Leigh opened her large traveling exhibition which toured to and ended earlier this year with a joint presentation at and in Los Angeles.

15/09/2025

Ebecho Muslimova, “Fatebe Phantom Cage”, 2020
Enamel and oil paint on Dibond aluminium
243,8 x 365,8 cm

Counting among Muslimova’s largest panels, “Fatebe Phantom Cage” presents two of the artist’s bold and uninhibited cartoon alter egos: one sitting on the bottom of a staircase framed by a train of colorful balloons, watching her second self releasing pink and green fledglings from her large smiling mouth. The artist once said that “Fatebe is a solution to a problem. The circumstances she finds herself in are the quandaries that she has to face. There’s a word in Russian that means victim, prey, and sacrifice all at once, and that is the role into which she is cast and that she always manages to slip out of. This performance, this slippage through.”

In his review of Muslimovas’s first institutional show , where “Fatabe Phantom Cage” was on loan, Anthony Hawley described Fatabe as a “much-needed deflation of the paternalism, individualism, and self-assuredness of patriarchy.” (From “Ebecho Muslimova’s Alter Ego Devours the Patriachry,” 21 April 2021).

Ebecho Muslimova (b.1984, Dagestan, Russia) lives and works in New York. She received her BFA at Cooper Union in New York, NY in 2010. Her latest museum exhibition “Fatabe’s Shadows” just opened in Norway and runs through 11 January 2026.

03/09/2025

For the latest issue of Inside Burger Collection, and .fellrath speak to about their curatorial practice as directors of Berlin’s and their upcoming vision for the 14th Taipei Biennal “Whispers On The Horizon”, bringing together 54 artists from 34 cities worldwide.

Sam Bardaouil: “How do you change an institution from within? It is about creating possibilities for new members to join the education department, the curatorial department, and the production team. If people who have lived in different places and social realities work together every day, the way we think on the inside inevitably transforms.”

19/08/2025

Fabian Marti, “I LÄBE NO (Lutz & Ouroboros)” and “I LÄBE NO (Lutz & Kronenhalle)”, acrylic and ink print on canvas, both 2019

These two paintings by Swiss artist Fabian Marti (b. 1979 in Fribourg) pay homage to On Kawaras famous telegram note “I am still alive”first sent to his Dutch galerist in 1970, here translated by Marti into Swiss-German “I LÄBE NO”. Part of a series first exhibited in 2019, these works introduce a markedly personal dimension to Martí’s wide ranging practice: a photo of the artist’s dog Lutz, colored in his signature green, figures as an enlarged background for a number of painted symbols and logos. From popular and mythic to idiosyncratic, these signs reflect the artist’s Lebenswelt and serve as a commentary on the state of the world around him and his audience. “I ventured into the arts ,” Marti once said, “because, as an artist, you can still be accepted into society without having to play by its rules fully.”

30/07/2025

Judith Bernstein, C**k in the Box, 1967
Charcoal and pastel on paper

“C**k in the box,” is one of earliest drawings, executed in the same year she graduate from Yale as one of the university’s first female art students. “I started drawing dicks when I was a student at Yale in 1966. I was doing anti-war work about Vietnam and focused on the dick as a symbol of male aggression. They were anti-war, feminist and sexual all rolled into one image.”

Born in 1942 in Newark, NJ, feminist pioneer Judith Bernstein has developed a reputation as one of the most unwaveringly provocative artists of her generation. She was a founding member of A.I.R. Gallery (the first gallery devoted to showing female artists) where she had her first solo exhibition in 1973. She was an early member of many art and activist organizations including Guerrilla Girls, Art Workers’ Coalition, and Fight Censorship.

Quote from the interview “Judith Bernstein: Men have the organ, but they don’t own the image,” by Paul Laster

28/07/2025

Iván Argote, Antipodos, 2019
Bronze, metallic plinth

Antipodos is a series of bronze sculptures by Columbian artist Iván Argote (born 1983) that represent characters with inverted feet in various positions. These works are related to the origin of the word “Antipodos,” invented by the Greeks around 300 BC, who at the time conceived the world as a sphere and used this term to describe a place they imagined to exist on the opposite side of the world. The greek word “Antipodos” literally translates to “with the feet on the opposite.”

25/07/2025

Liu Xiaodong, “Isaac with his walking stick in the shape of ?,” 2018

In this portrait of fellow artist Isaac Chong Wai the painter Liu Xiaodong (born 1963 in Jinzhou, China) captures an intimate moment between the artist and his model, a classic relationship that often rehearses the interaction between the viewer and the finished work of art. “Simply put,” Liu once said, “my intended viewers are thinkers.”

Liu Xiaodong counts among the most prominent painters of modern life in China. A graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Liu has served as a Professor of Oil Painting there since 1994.

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