Berni Puig Spain, b. 1990

Berni Puig’s practice grows out of an ongoing conversation with landscape, memory, and the quiet histories embedded in surfaces. Trained in illustration and printmaking, he began with large-scale murals, translating aerial views of land into layered maps of colour that traced how people leave their mark on geography. Over time, his work moved beyond walls and flat planes, opening into sculptural and optical approaches such as anamorphism and strappo. This shift reflects a steady curiosity about how colour, form, and perspective can carry time within them, how memory fades, and how ruins hold their own kind of poetry.

His process is slow and tactile. Paint is lifted, repositioned, and reworked; fragments are gathered and reassembled. The resulting works sit somewhere between abstraction and mapping, searching for meaning in residue and trace. Through extracted layers and chromatic fields, Puig treats the surface not just as image, but as record, allowing each piece to become both archive and canvas.

Puig currently lives and works at Konvent.0. He studied at Escola Massana in Barcelona and at the Centro Internacional de la Estampa Contemporánea in Galicia, before transitioning from muralism into a studio-based practice that blends field research, installation, and historical techniques. His work has been presented at institutions including CCCB and La Térmica, alongside participation in numerous international street art festivals. He has received several awards, including the Biennal de Arte Contemporáneo TAV-CC (2023) and the Marconi International Urban Art Award (2021).

Today, Berni’s work feels like a gentle act of excavation. Each piece holds traces of place and time, inviting the viewer to slow down and notice what remains. Rather than offering clear answers, his surfaces create space for reflection, where colour carries memory, and fragments come together to form quiet, open-ended narratives.