Artists - 2014 Berlin, Germany
 photo credits Mr. Jeff Jaspar
Rob Benders Regentag
---Netherlands--- www.robbenders.com At first glimpse my collage art is a colourful, conceptual trashy mash up of spectacular copy-cut-and-paste work. Composed out of pieces of my own photos, lyrics, drawings, tape, plastic, paper, paint, stamps, cloth, stickers and stuff I find around. Some influences: glam(rock), street-art, chocolate, fucked up media, claustrophobia, photography, new wave/post punk, porn, poetry and people. At second sight? |
Lane
---Greece--- lanecollage.gr I am one of those "self-taught" artists using collage as a medium. My collage work is a synthesis of colorful and different pieces of paper taken from magazines. Paper works like the most lively brush strokes. At first glance, those pieces might look irrelevant to each other, but when they come together, all those different shapes and patterns compose the final images. This is the most challenging part for me while making collage. |
Taher Mhamdi (Tao)
---France--- tao-collages.tumblr.com I make collage prints and original paper collages. I combine vintage and contemporary photographs, texts, symbols and mixed medias to create a surreal compositions. I recompose the images playing with symetries, colors and dimensions. This surreal juxtapositions usually comes from an unconscious process. |
Maria João Faustino
---Portugal--- mjoaofaustino.com/collages I am a Graphic designer and in this personal project I work with (digital) vibrant color collages. I love this kind of registration for its spontaneity, rawness and numerous experimentation possibilities of deconstruction/ construction. This kind of expression dilutes technique with concept. My collages are made with graphics, typographic and photographic elements. There is a great influence of "Pop Art" and "vintage" graphics. |
Patrick Bremer
---United Kingdom--- www.patrickbremer.co.uk I trained as a painter and always try to approach my collage work as paintings. The great thing with collage is all the snippets of stories and images you can suck in as well to hint at new narratives in the piece. Once you get going it often takes its own direction, pushed by the shapes, colours and lines in the paper to hand. Each piece stuck down is a reaction to the last. I stock up on old books and magazines each Sunday from the local market and soon after the studio floor is covered in bits and pieces from articles waiting to be sifted through. It's a procrastinators dream job. |
 photo credits Tina Deprosse
Kai Holland
---Germany--- www.kaiholland.de First there was a inherited camera. Soon after making my first experiences with the hard reality of photojournalism during my studies (Photo and Film Design), i turned the focus on the already existing images to work with this amazing ressource. So i started collecting and selecting lots of material. This leads inevitably to my profession in a renowned international picture agency (akg-images). Working with more than 10 Million images day by day. I am sure you know what that means! I had no other choice... My main topics are still the ubiquitous human ability to create and destroy, and the other way round. For me, collages are the perfect technique to reflect these human characteristics. |
Max Rockatansky
---Spain--- I started doing collage thanks to two magazines of graphic design that I find. I did not have computer and with an attempt of imitating all this mixture of images without computer I started going different images across the collage. A year and a half I mixed the technic of drawing furniture (that years behind i had studied), with the collages. The drawings are the skeleton of the work, where everything rests. Mental rooms of experiences. |
David Keeping
---United Kingdom--- www.davidkeeping.com Collage has become my means of expressing myself. It has an immediacy and an energy which can conjure up all forms of imaginings and enables me to explore the more childlike and sardonic side of my nature and it has rescued me from the endless nights of painterly considerations. My work is playful and yet the subject matter rarely is. My latest work for instance deals with issues political and the effect that mass media has upon me. |
Martin Došek
---Czech Republic--- www.martindosek.com My collages - this is just a play. I enjoy the lightness with which anything can be composed, at the same time creating stories that I mind. Tearing and cutting old newspapers and magazines into pieces and returning all these beautiful pictures to the world, to a new life and in new contexts. I work in an advertising agency and spend most of the time working with computer graphics programs, and yet I make my collages by hand, from old newspapers with scissors, glue, tape, pencil and paints. I have been doing it for over 25 years and it's still fun for me and a great fantasy adventure. |
Mongobì Bibiana Mele
---Italy--- www.mongobi.it To the question: why doing analog collage? I answer "because I have many things to say, and collage helps me doing this. For me it's like having a parallel language than spoken or written. In addition, I am an artist without great founds and paper and cardboard abound in our society in the form of waste, so this material is very easily to find and for free. I do like those animals who build their nest with the first things they find nearby. For me the collage is something that has to do with the essentialness of expressive needs. |
Denis Schäfer
---Germany--- www.fotografienet.de I love the composition of a fictional space through paper cut-outs of real buildings and urban spaces. It is important to me that the parts fit together a variety of sources, and can be found in a relationship, in a collage. Match the more parts together in perspective, proportion and color, the more interesting is the work. I concentrate in my collages with depth of field. After I first constructed cities and urban landscapes, interiors are currently in my focus. |
Zach Collins
---U.S.A--- zachcollinsart.com My work is a personal expression of time, place, and thought. I think of it as evidence of my experience. It is garnered from found, overlooked fragments, discarded objects and vintage imagery collected from off the street, magazines, and second hand stores. I rely on instinct and inner experience as I work; often exploring and experimenting with the element of chance, finding unexpected associations that are created by combining fragmented materials through collage. |
Sarah Key
---Serbia--- skcollages.tumblr.com I explore collages by traditional cut -and-paste technique, using images from vintage books and magazines cutouts. Scissirs, glue, scraps, sticky fingers - that's what I love. The human body in every way, shape and size is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for me, and the element that is most recurring in my collage work. I love the dynamics and movement that body language brings into my work. Beside the human body and emotions - surrealism and psychology are the themes that I'm curious to explore in the future. Making collages, for me, represents each time a new journey and adventure - possibility of giving a new life to existing images and creating a new story. |
Kacper H. Kieć
---Poland--- kacper-kiec.tumblr.com I graduated as a photographer but after time I became a graphic designer until finally I became an illustrator. Space is my relligion. All my fascinations with the cosmos and geometry strongly affect on my artworks. I'm creating my illustrations by using images from old books, photographs and geometric elements. I hate randomness, everything must be in order and by a number of carefully selected elements I build my "retro-spaced-grungy vision". I'm really glad that through my work I have the opportunity to contact and meet many interesting people from all over the world |
Lina Kasparaityte
---Lithuania--- lincikas.weebly.com I have tried different mediums and art forms. I always felt there was something missing and my self expression needed a different kind of art form/media. That’s how I found my way to collage world I like experimenting and playing with different techniques. It’t a fun journey. Most of my collages are about women, human body, erotic, sarcasm, feelings. My collage process is like developing a film: you don’t know how the picture turns out until you develop a film. I use magazines,photographs,magazine and newspaper articles,ink,acrylic and random objects to make art. |
Laetitia Fieschi
---France--- laetitiafieschi.collages.over-blog.com I have been involved with collage work since my teenage years. I have always felt a deep need to deconstruct and recycle the visual pollution that surrounds us all. My work has evolved according to various techniques I have explored alongside my doctorate research about the sacred in films. I am mainly using magazines cutouts to experiment the power of combining two or more images in order to create a third one in the viewer’s mind. At the present moment, I am focusing on ideology and dogma, deconstructing the iconographic power which impregnates our social identities and ways to relate to the world. |
George Bogiatzidis
---Greece--- www.georgeboya.com I feel that collage is the best tool for an artist nowadays to visualise in 2 dimensions the message that wants to convey from his mind to the viewer. Collage is a composition of images and we live at the age of images, we communicate through images and our brain is adapting in order to decode faster the symbolism behind them. Through technology we have access to unlimited images old or new, rare or popular, distant or very close and the tools to create in a digital or analogue form a detailed composition of our opinion on a subject. But collage is also the snapshot of a dream.It operates beyond time and space but keeps a link with the current events, size and colour serve the optimal transmission of the message and not the realistic attribution of the artwork, it uses the language of symbolism which is primordial, universal and knows no boarders and inequalities |
Domenico Goi
---Italy--- My collages are not perfect. Very often they come about abruptly - but whatever the final product, it must speak to me. Sometimes I begin by sticking together random pieces without having a precise idea in mind. I only pursue a specific theme when, after adding strips together, something appears and inspires me. Most of the time, however, I try to get my works to represent what I see or perceive - my own perspective. Everything to me is a collage and the chaos that results from combining the strips of paper is not that different from the way everyday life breaks down and comes back together, often independently of our will. This is why I believe a collage artist is the most faithful interpreter of reality - and why I adhere as much as possible to figurative arts, even if to shape them my way. I have received no formal training. I engage with a form of art but I do not believe myself to be a true artist - and that it should not be up to me to call myself so. I would like to think of this as a great passion that guides me and gratifies me day by day. |
Eric VanUytven
---Belgium--- I focus on fine art emerging from urban subcultures. My work is based on construction and deconstruction both visual and conceptual. My work asks questions and sow doubts. My inspiration comes from the underbelly of our society. I translate this into collages, installations and performances. Where I walk different boundaries between light and dark, interpretation and reinterpretation, reading directions, figurative and abstract, upper ground and under ground... |
Silvio Severino
---Brazil--- silvioseverino.com I started in photography , but soon discovered the endless possibility of collage, and GIF animation. I create my work using found photography, print media and vintage books. I prefer to have no specific method of work and experimentation takes a good part my creative process. The roots of my collages and GIF animations are the popular and contemporary culture , collective unconscious and personal experiences. |
Stefan Schneider
---Germany--- dasherrschneider.tumblr.com I am a graphic designer and a collage artist. My collages are very rarely digitally crafted. I love analogue work, the feeling of old paper in my hands, and creating new graphic formations from already existing materials. The paper fragments I use are older than I am. Using these kind of materials is like time traveling to me. I tear them from their surroundings and give them a new existence in my artworks. Whether they are old brochures, family pictures, schoolbooks, handwritten letters or magazines, I destroy them and simultaneously create something new. |
Franz Falckenhaus
---Poland--- www.facebook.com/falckenhaus Although I never had any formal training in the arts, I always had an interest in photography, film, and collage. My collage works are always composed from selected vintage illustrations and images mixed with found paper materials. My skillfully combines self-made elements such as: backgrounds, shadows, and drawings with cleverly chosen photos to assemble them all together into art. My style obviously shows recognition of my interest and passion with vintage aesthetics. My subject matter contains a sense of humor and a certain nostalgic feel as well. Being a self-taught collage artist, I see things a little differently. |
Filipa Sottomayor
---Portugal--- rasgo.wordpress.com I was born in Lisbon in 1968. I am a self-taught artist, since 1998 and I have produced several artworks – collage with acrylic paint – using a variety of materials, putting together a story, telling what I feel inside, in my soul |
Anelor Robin
---France--- Someone told me that I was a hamster because I'm a weird collector. Collection of pictures from the supermarket, napkins, ice spoons , sponges. Flew markets, bins,are the place where are find my material, my playground and according to what I find I'm tring to tell a histoire.My work deal with different medium performance, collage, culinary desing, installation, photography. But collage is a practice that I like, and that i use in all my art works. I do not seek to try graphic pictures but rather trying to tell a story trying to give a wierd or funny tune. I have a special affection for images related to food, pornographic, anatomy because I see it as the flesh that I can play with. |
