Born in Villa Gesell, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1983. Has resided mostly in Buenos Aires, San José de Costa Rica and Lima, Peru. Currently based in Toronto.

Gala Berger’s work is strongly based on community creation. She has built several independent spaces in different cities in Latin America where she has lived in recent years. She is the co-founder of Casa MA [2018-2024] a community committed to the dissemination of creative practices generated by diverse identities in the territory of Costa Rica, Central America and its diaspora. Gala has also worked extensively in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she was co-founder of the experimental museum La Ene (Nuevo Museo Energía Arte Contemporáneo 2010-2020), an actual museum that functioned within a 12 square-meter space, meant as institutional critique, and co-founder of the Paraguay Printed Art Fair.  Also, between 2012 and 2014 she directed two exhibition spaces devoted to emerging art: Immigrant and Urgent. 

Since 2022, Gala has been working with policymakers from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment and scientists from the Joint Research Centre on a project on agriculture in the Amazon with the Shipibo-Konibo artist Metsá Rama, due to open to the public in 2024. She has also recently worked on an exchange project between LoCA, Livingstone, Zambia; OCA, Oslo, Norway and Casa MA, Costa Rica, which will open to the public in May 2024 in Livingstone, Zambia.

She has had individual exhibitions and has participated in group shows in Santo Domingo, São Paulo, Lima, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Seoul, Querétaro, Sorocaba, Medellín, Los Angeles, Montreal, Tampere, Rio de Janeiro, San Juan, among others.