Otto Berchem’s practice explores social and visual codes, focusing on the relationships between language, architecture, history and poetry.
His conceptual based practice employs a wide variety of media, including painting, video, public interventions and other unconventional artist activities.
With some of his work the artist continues his exploration of signs, human relationships and codes, to create a chromatic alphabet.
[1] Through the use of this alphabet, Berchem has proposed a series of work reviewing iconic images and creating his own documents by strategically deleting pre-existing meanings and slogans, and replacing them with his interpretation of reality.
In 1994, he received his MFA from Edinburgh College of Art and in 1995/1996, attended Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.