Artist, curator and designer. He covers a broad language spectrum, running the gamut from drawing and painting to video, installations, and collaborative work with architects in designing public spaces like state-owned buildings and museums. He stood out from the pack of artists who emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s. Heavily impacted by the struggle against Apartheid of the preceding decades, his production — like those of some of his South African peers – deals with the violent, authoritarian past of his native country. In this context, he pays special attention to the social constructs of masculinity and the work that makes it plural and kaleidoscope-like, dealing with and reflecting about questions such as homosexuality and the place of man in society and family. He graduated from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 1979. In 2010 and 2011, he conducted research in Washington and New York after winning a prize from the United States’ Smithsonian Institution. In that same country, Van Den Berg undertook a residency at Columbia University, in 2009. In 2011 and 2012, he contributed to the concept for the restoration of the building that would become the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, in Houghton, a suburb of Johannesburg, where he lives and works.