Maga berr

Maga Berr (Lima, Peru) is a Rotterdam-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice moves between sculpture, ceramics, installation, performance, and social ritual. Rooted in feminist, ecological, and decolonial perspectives, her work explores the transformative power of memory, myth, and the body—especially the feminine body—as a site of resistance and rebirth. Her installations often emerge from labor-intensive handwork: black porcelain sculptures, quilted textiles, and earthen forms that evoke both ancestral knowledge and speculative futures. Working with clay, fabric, and found organic materials, Maga creates tactile constellations that feel both intimate and political—inviting reflection on themes such as sensuality, power, grief, and the sacred. A central thread in her work is the reimagining of the "wild feminine"—not as a stereotype of softness, but as a force of nature: fertile, rebellious, erotic, and alive. Her art gives shape to energies and experiences that are often repressed or marginalized—especially those of women, colonized peoples, and the more-than-human world. Through sculptural storytelling and participatory gestures, she seeks to open spaces of collective healing and remembrance. Maga's practice is deeply informed by her life story. Born and raised in Lima during a time of political violence and economic instability, she first trained in communication sciences and worked in journalism and international development before committing fully to art. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where she graduated in 2017. Before moving into the arts, Maga led sustainable development programs across Latin America, collaborating with grassroots communities on policy change and social justice initiatives. These experiences continue to inform her artistic research, which is grounded in an analysis of sociopolitical systems, collective memory, and ancestral wisdom. She has exhibited her work in the Netherlands, Brazil, and Chile, and has led community-based workshops in Amsterdam Bijlmer and abroad. Maga is also an active member of the Cool Clay Collective, where she supports the development of workshops and contributes to expanding its public program. In all her work, Maga moves between worlds—between continents, languages, and cosmologies—nurturing a poetics of resistance rooted in the Earth. She believes that art can help us reimagine our place in the world, not as consumers or conquerors, but as participants in a living, interconnected web of life.