David Pher
David Pher is a German contemporary artist working between Berlin and Schlitz. Known for his expressive use of colour and intuitive approach to painting, his artistic practice extends beyond the canvas, drawing on a decade in electronic music.
Painting
David Pher is a contemporary painter working between Berlin and Schlitz, Germany. His paintings combine vivid colour, gestural marks and layered surfaces, moving between abstraction and imagined landscapes. Fragments of language and suggested forms emerge, disappear and return through layers of paint. His compositions develop intuitively, balancing spontaneous gestures with deliberate decisions.
His work reflects the beauty of the world alongside its darker realities. Colour offers moments of pleasure and lightness, while disrupted forms, obscured words and darker passages introduce uncertainty and unease. Personal experience and subtle social and political observations enter the paintings without prescribing a single message. Each work leaves space for viewers to find their own associations, allowing beauty and discomfort to exist within the same image.
A Background in Music
Before focusing on painting, David Pher established an international career as a DJ and electronic music producer. His extensive catalogue spans house and techno, with releases on labels including Crosstown Rebels, Minus, VIVa MUSiC, Tsuba, Gruuv, Solid Grooves and Harthouse. Tracks such as Harare, Footsteps and Right Here mark different stages of his musical career.
As part of the VIVa MUSiC family, he performed in clubs worldwide, including appearances in Ibiza. His DJ career also took him to Sisyphos, Watergate and Kater Club in Berlin, as well as Hive Club and Frieda’s Büxe in Zurich. These years in electronic music form an earlier chapter of his artistic practice, with painting now at its centre.