Artists - 2016 Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Rob Benders (Regentag)
---The 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--- www.lanecollage.gr My collage work is a synthesis of colorful and different magazine clippings. 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. Paper works like the most lively brush strokes. Portraits have always been my favorite subject but right now I am making collage based on street view photos |
Denis Schäfer
---Germany--- www.fotografienet.de I was born in 1973 near Frankfurt/Main, Germany and lived in Berlin since 1996. Besides to my museology graduation I began 2005 taking photographs and started 2010 creating papercollages. I am particularly concerned with depth of field and perspectives in the development of my collage work. The basis for my collage work is to construct and assemble existing picture elements from books, magazines, and print media in the traditional way: with scissors, glue and paper to make a new whole image. As a result, I get to create extraordinary landscapes and surreal worlds. The resulting images should lead the viewer to places that blur the natural border between reality and fiction, and whose origin is stylistically and geographically not situated in any particular style. |
Demos Tsormpatzoglou
---Greece--- Born in 1976. I live and work in Thessaloniki-Greece as an art conservator specifically on paper, parchment and old manuscripts. I tent to recycle and transform everything in art. Old furniture, clothes and other objects can all be usefull and with the appropriate treatment give birth to a piece of art. Because of work; paper and I "know each other" well and it has become my ascendent material on my collages. “Self-taught”, started creating collages for myself in 2007 until my first solo exhibition in 2010 in Thessaloniki with the title “Torn Edges”. Since then I participated in group exhibitions and had other solo ones in Athens and Thessaloniki. My last solo exhibition in Athens named “Apodyopsis” (the act of mentally undressing someone) deals with the contraction of the human body based on details of it as well as on faces and gaze. |
Kai Holland
---Germany--- www.kaiholland.de First there was an 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. |
Noir
---Germany--- www.noir-urbanart.com I started with stencil art, which was based on digital collages. Currently i'm working on raw papercollages. As I did in stencil work I create mostly some kind of figures and characters. But in contrast of using stencils my collage characters are arise by it self and until the last minute I do not know what it becomes... friend or fiend or if they become part of the gang or not. I love to look at someone who's looking back after finishing collage. My characters are trash products of the advertising industry and affluent society. At first view they look messy, dickey and a bit filthy, but if you take a closer look you will realize, that they are friendly creatures with a touch of sadness and fearfulness. |
Avi Yair
---Israel--- Over the past ten years, collage and assemblage have become the center of my artistic efforts. I have been working with readymade, primarily printed matter dealing with history and geography such as maps, old atlases and magazines, as well as easily accessible materials, such as tuna cans, paint brushes and figurines. This has given me much artistic freedom. Through the process of cutting, tearing, gluing, and reassembling, I assign these materials a new role, steering them away from their original purpose. Working in this way allows me to conduct intimate dialogues with the past and create new narratives, new worlds, new perspectives. Furthermore, I am able to explore, issues of immigration, conflict and identity, as they touch upon the individual's personal history as well as the events of the 20th century. |
Wim Maes
---Belgium--- [email protected] "Wim Maes finds, cuts and replaces images in order to recreate new, intense stories. His collages are melancholic, almost heavy. The spectator is expected to open his mind to feel the deeper meaning. Even when the image seems to speak for itself, often it's surprising what the viewer will discover. Sometimes the title is necessary to understand the deeper meaning, but once reveild, one will be overwelmed by hidden details, hidden stories. Wim's personal emotions are always present in his work. Each collage is a search to find the perfect combination. Always using images from the same era, playing with composition and tension, results in an equilibre of black and white, silence and story, surprise and recognition, illusion and insight." Text: Gudrun Somers |
Silvio Severino
---Brazil--- cargocollective.com/silvioseverinocollage 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. |
Joshua van Iersel
---The Netherlands--- [email protected] I am a headhunter hunting for funny faces everywhere and RAW-backdrops filled with tunes, feelings and fire! For you & me My artwork is All About comics, music, drawings, trash, punks, symbols, funny faces & talking heads, words, sound, sex,drugs & rock'n'roll, action-painting, street-art, beats, color, sunshine & rainydays, girls & t-shirts, boys & eyeballs, black inkt, vintage toys, power-naps, soulfood, having FUN and feeling YOUNG! |
Tinca Veerman
---The Netherlands--- www.tincaveerman.com As long as I can remember I am collecting things and place them together on little shrines. Stones, leaves, mouse skeletons, pieces of machinery made by mankind. Some pieces have a worthy meaning, others are just plain, but meaningful because of their shape. My work begins from this ritual. I’m interested in the idea that the collages can explore an idea or thought in a visual way. I'm not telling stories, everybody has to make up their own. We redefine by watching what's real or not and that takes time. Avoiding the intention of a made-up story, I'm adding elements to undermine our ability to make sense of the reality on view. I'm forcing the viewer to slow down and unpack the construction, to test it’s veracity. |
Chris Rutter/Evelyn Bennett
---U.K--- rutterandbennett.com We have worked together for 20 years. Our practice is diverse, ranging from public sculpture, performance and sound to collage, drawing and print’. Collage has been found to be a medium that enhances the collaborative engagement between us. Using this process we produce collages that range in scale from small and intimate to a large-scale travelling and evolving collage installation. The imagery used is mostly generated from original drawings, scans and digitally manipulated photographs. Often objects and other materials might be incorporated into the collage. The subject matter is personal and derives from a desire to reflect and create a private world. |
Walter Paganuzzi
---Italy--- www.walterpaganuzzicollage.com I was born 22th June 1978 in Milan (Italy) and still live in Milan. I started making collages in 2012 and made my first exhibition in December 2014 in Milan. I am a member and creator of Italian Collagist collective " Oltre Collage ". My creative process is using free expression and imagination by creation of new forms and combinations decontextualizing images from reality to give new interpretations and meanings with my artworks. |
Giorgos Chronis
---Greece--- zone363.com I am a graphic designer, based in Rethymno Crete. I started as a graffiti artist and I am currently dedicating myself to the practice of collage. I like mixing many types of materials and various techniques like collage, graffiti, photography and graphic design. Inspired by the everyday life in all of its manifest: love, pain, relationships, death, violence, modern and earlier lifestyle, nature and music. The ordinary and the illogical are reflected in my artwork creating most of times a surreal atmosphere. |
Emidio Bernardone
---Italy-- www.emidioishere.tumblr.com What I try to do is find a solution to communicate between different worlds. The main process consist in cutting pieces of magazine and old photos considered unnecessary, in the end the result is a rebirth of those images combined together. I mostly use: old magazines, postcards, glue, cutter and all I can buy in flea markets. |
Aline Helmcke
---Germany--- www.ahelmcke.com I am a Berlin based artist and filmmaker. Collage is the perfect medium for me to search for unexpected similarities an juxtapositions in form and content. I aim at creating compositions which convey the impression of ambivalence rather than a coherent, straightforward message or an explicit narrative content. |
Stefan Schneider / dasherrschneider
---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. |
Ann Witters
---Belgium--- aajwitters.wix.com/annwittersart 'I have a BA in photography and have attended many classes in collage, painting and creative sculpture. I like to combine pictures from newspapers & magazines with painting & drawing, found objects, text, wall paper, writing, fabric, my own photographs, etc... My work is often lively, colourful and usually there seems to be a story with psychological undertones going on. Things that inspire me are: everyday life, psychology, literature, films, dreams, religion, art, music, nature, animals, media, etc...' |
Smith Smith
---France--- smithartsmith.webs.com The first bits of paper that I have collected and glued together were pictures of my idols, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix. I was 14 and I absolutely did not want to lose those pictures of them so I started to assemble them religiously ... 20 years later I continue! It became a means of expression in itself, a playground for my life. I love the beauty of the absurd, humor, surrealism and provocation. I love working in the construction as well as the deconstruction of an image... When I approach the creation of a collage I have no specific technique, sometimes I know what I want, sometimes I listen to what the images tell, sometimes I cut hundreds of bits of paper and other times of the sets. But at the end of the story, I wish one thing, I want the both form and content... Collage = Freedom of Thought |
Adrienne Geoghegan
---Ireland--- www.adriennegeoghegan.com I am a storyteller. As my work evolves, I crave to 'tell' these stories. Random ephemera that referred to another lifetime, in a far-off place: old news, advertisements, announcements, maps, diagrams and dress patterns all inspire new visions. I paint, I draw, I construct, I assemble. I build up physical layers, representing fragments of truth. I compose commentaries on human nature by examining stereotypes, gender roles, incongruity. My drawings and objects are used in many ways: symbolically, suggestively, and decoratively. I love to play with compositions to create for example, unease or serenity Each new placement or fragment invites a multitude of interpretations Through my digging and unearthing, I find yet more mystery. It is this mystery that keeps me rooting further. |
Collageteam Wunderbar
(Jorrit de Kort, Angeline Maas, Nanouk Wijnen) ---The Netherlands--- www.collageteamwunderbar.nl Challenging each other in a visual and conceptual way, Collageteam Wunderbar takes pride of having 3 persons (Jorrit de Kort, Angeline Maas, Nanouk Wijnen) making one or more collages at the same time. The force is strong when composing, cutting, pasting and painting together! The recipe for a Wunderbar collage will most likely be: friendship, craftbeer, painting, sculpting, nationalgeographic, glue, stacksofvintagebooks, commercialflyers, nature, laughter, mastersofpainting, discussions, sciccors, morecraftbeer, quitsmoking, maps, newspapers, animation |
Eugenia Conde
---Argentina--- www.eugeniacondef.com I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1972) and I am currently living in Madrid since 2001. I am a graphic designer and illustrator. Collage for me is a way of coming across a certain composition, or theme that surfaces in a given moment. It is a way of starting with a beautiful chaos and most of the time uncertainty till I find whatever it is that is awaiting to emerge. It is both a process followed with intent and freedom. I generally work intuitively and based on emotion rather than conceptually. In my pieces I use vintage photographs (real or cut from magazines circa 1920-30- …) old paper, textiles, thread, acrilic, etc. to create textures and layers. |
Maria João Faustino
---Portugal--- www.mjoaofaustino.com/collages My compositions are created with (digital) vibrant color “collages". The kind of registration is very “raw” and spontaneous, allowing unlimited possibilities of experimentationconcerning the deconstruction and (re)construction of the image. The fragments are “cutted out” and decontextualized and, when inserted into another context, transfigure themselves. And it is in this game that lies the beauty of the technique. The name given to the project, “The F Chain – Fragment, Figure & Frame”, is based on this principle. The fragments from different contexts join other fragments in the game of experiments, forming figures that, taken together, create the history and the end frame. I identify myself a lot with collages aesthetic and his spontaneous, wrinkled and childish appearance. This kind of expression dilutes technique with concept, since it allows to translate what I intend on several levels: sensory, aesthetic, conceptual and chromatic. The "collages" are made with graphic, typographic and photographic elements, which are carefully combined to create balanced, dynamic and wide chromatic compositions, which invite to subjectivity. There is a great influence of "Pop Art" and "Vintage" graphics in my work. |
Christian Barthold
---Germany--- www.behance.net/christian-barthold Born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1968. Studied Diploma - Communication - Design. I started doing Collage in 1998 and went digital in 2006. Collage is my favorite style for illustrating magazines and newspapers. 99% of my work is commissioned work, and I did more than 500 Collage pieces for magazines until today. Everything can be done as a Collage: The death of Amy Winehouse, the psychology of school bombers, Jazz-CD's, Garden columns, and last, but not least: Collage is a way of caricature of real persons, which won me a European Newspaper award. Commissioned work always has to transport the message of the article, but I always have enough freedom to my interpretation. Sometimes I get a title page for my own personal statement - as a collage. What I enjoy most about collage is that you never know what will come out. I always integrate some "story-within-the-story" into the piece, and my clients enjoy this, too. Collage is a perfect way of visualizing how we are thinking & associating. And I regard Collage as the most important style element in more modern art, regardless of whether you are dealing with music, fine arts or fashion. Everything that has ever been - will return in some other way, and it will surprise anew |
Lydia Mojzis
---Germany--- klebenlebeneben.tumblr.com Attaching snippets to a background means making a decision that I am entirely convinced of. Deciding on one final arrangement parallels the act of entering some of irreversible commitment. I need a reassuring feeling of bonding to arise. Every composition emerges from an immense range of image material. Fabrics and the fall of their fold, individual female body parts, landscapes and geometrical forms are the motives I make use of. Eventually I encounter an unforeseen relation between utterly different pieces of the everyday clutter around me. However it’s not their subject matter but rather the mere formal-aesthetic connection between them in which I see my subjective, at times quite self-ironic view of life reflected. It’s simplicity that matters to me. I aim for bringing things down to a common denominator. By montaging cut-outs of my surrounding world I feel enabled to construct a more consistent image of reality.“ I am living and working as artist and art therapist in Berlin. I publish my collages under the alias of klebenlebeneben. |
Moni Wilk
---Poland--- moniwilk.bigcartel.com Destruction and creation of imaginary worlds makes me feel alive. Cut and paste- the whole process is like surgery and you never know what will happen in the meantime. I like this feeling. 
Linda Werner
---Germany--- hitchhikeheart.com I am a Berlin-based artist. Graduate in fine art, I always preferred installation and handmade papercollage. Influenced by found materials as well as books and objects. In my work I spot subconscious Landscapes, places of false memories and imaginary friends. For me, creating is a meditative process just as an unfathomable urge. |
Steve Tierney
---Australia--- www.teaguesart.com I generally like to think of my artworks as floating landscapes. They often become scenes where figures can interact and exist with everyday objects. Buildings and faces are dissected by machinery and typography. People move around and live in worlds that I create. All cut from vintage magazines and advertising of the 50’s and 60’s. My graphic style is more structured and design based, while the narratives remain abstract and loose. Humour, irony and a critique of human behaviour are central to my artworks’ meanings. Recently I've become interested in the influences and connections that occur through collaborative processes, and I have been working on various creative projects with other artists. As well as exhibiting my own collage and mixed media work in countries all over the world. |
Raffaello Pacini
---Italy--- disastrartcollages.wordpress.com In 2011 was born my artistic alter-ego: DisastrART Collages. For me the collage is a kind of “therapy”: I cut, tear and engrave the paper to find myself. Cutouts represent my feeling, the fragments of my unconscious: each piece has its own importance and its symbolic meaning. A bit as if they were many gears which are part of a single large mechanism. I haven’t a creative mind: often my works born instinctively, inspired by music or a book. Rarely I plan a project, at the cost of waiting for a long time: I love watching my cutouts scattered on the table, getting to know them. I sieve all kinds of paper and this gives me great freedom of choice. Ultimately, I think that behind my representations there is simply the answer on how I see my life and myself, and above this is the best way to communicate what I can’t express with words.” |
Taina B
---The Netherlands--- www.tainab.com Photography was my ticket into the collage world. As I studied photography in Amsterdam (Fotovakschool Amsterdam, graduation 2014) my focus shifted. I wasn't that interested in capturing the world around me, I found out, but rather wanted to capture the world inside me. Photography was a medium to do so, and I started to experiment with mixed media techniques based on photography. My first collage series date from early 2013 and I have been cutting things up ever since. Nowadays I describe myself as an "image maker", working mainly with paper and loads of glue. I especially am inspired by vintage photography, magazines and books which I mercilessly attack with knife and scissor. Most of my work consists of three paper elements only and has a common theme: womanhood. So, I welcome you into my world. You might like it there |
Holger Becker
---Germany--- www.holgerbecker.com I am a visual artist and live in Nürnberg in the south of Germany. In the last two years I started focusing on analogue paper collage only. Working with different media such as sound, objects and painting I used Collage mainly as a way to find ideas for my other work and found my way of making collages by „accident“. I started using only two pieces and was absolutely fascinated. And I did more complex landscapes also using the scraps, the „Schnipsel“. Then some day I found two meters of picturebooks from the 70`s on the street. I fell in love with Collage. Yep, the table, the paper, the cutter, the glue…..old books and magazines…..cutting, tearing, coincidence, glueing, collecting, the hand of chance, memory, layering, selecting, combining, decision.. surprising oneself… I work in series. As there is Portrait series, Landscape series, Nicotin series, Pictures for Places series …and some others. |
Sophie Vanhomwegen
---Belgium--- www.sophievanhomwegen.be We are surrounded by images. How these images are edited, manipulated and represented influence the way we perceive the world. I'm interested in how far these edited images influence our ideas of what we perceive as being fake or real. I think it is important to stay alert on the consequences manipulated images engender. It astonishes me to see how fast we get used to what we see and how we learn to deal with it by neglecting or minimizing their psychological impact. Through images we are told what is beautiful or sexy, what is ugly or despicable. I reflect on these questions by working with images from today's magazines. In the process of deconstruction and reconstruction I try to put things back in place. Instead of hiding, I try to reveal what lies behind the images I work with. Like in an unscramble puzzle, I reassemble pieces until they make sense to me. I obtained a master in Fine Arts (Mediakunst) in 2011 and a post-academic master in Transmedia in 2013. I currently live and work in Brussels. |
Una Gildea
---Ireland--- www.unagildea.com Here’s why I love collage – I love the challenge and the excitement of creating something new from that which already has its meaning, its context; leafing through old books and magazines, the connections made, the associations formed, the thought processes involved are all intuitive, happening in the subconscious. Abstraction of form and transformation of imagery are driving forces behind my collage work. My work is analog. I also work in animation using traditional stop motion, working with cut-outs. This is a natural extension of my passion for collage, a moving collage, as it were! I studied Painting, Drawing and Printmaking at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and animation at the University of the West of England; I also studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York. My work has been widely exhibited and my animation films have been shown at festivals internationally. My work is in the collections of Dublin City University and the Irish Contemporary Art Society. I now live and work in Dublin. |
Pascal Verzijl
---The Netherlands--- baskiet.tumblr.com For years I have been collecting images from magazines and books. There had to be a connection and the variety of images together were like mirror of my internal world. First I put images together on sheets in scrapbooks but only recently I started to combine them together into new images. I digitalise the images so I can work both analogue as digital. Collage making has now turned into a necessary part of the day, just like dreaming. I am not trying to tell a story, the less meaning the better. Uncommon yet recognisable. |
Jitka Kopejtkova
Czech Republic www.kopejtkova.com I have been devoting the last 15 years to creating collages, finding the visual connection mostly in the streets of cities. Contingencies that I connect in the final image of my collage are testimonies to both past and present times. Recycling of the material is a substance of creating my collages and assemblages. I intentionaly avoid political themes. I share my experience as a lecturer of the Prague City museum as well as at various schools or in my atelier in the centre of Prague. |
Zarka
---The Netherlands--- www.zarka.ch For mr (1973), perspective is everything. Reality can be so easily influenced that it does not exist in the end. I create an own world using old books, magazines, glue and time. I have lived in 5 different countries so far and have walked an atypical career path, going from jurist to business controller, and from wish granter for the Make-A-Wish foundation to collagiste today. Always looking for a new perspective." |
Ro-Nalt Schrauwen
---The Netherlands--- www.ro-naltschrauwen.com I am a visual artist from Tilburg, the Netherlands. In my work I want people to explore the limits of what is currently accepted and what is deemed unacceptable to open doors opposite everyday live. Sometimes this can be very confrontational, sometimes I tend to be pedantic, but there's always a humorous twist in my work. At the moment I work with layered perspex panels and images to get more depth in the collages. |
Agst'n
---Argentine--- www.instagram.com/agstn.artist I develop my works using images that I gather from different sources like Internet, magazines or advertisements. In my process of creation I incline towards dark compositions, containing big doses of dramatic quality, tensions and symbolisms. Also I take advantage of my own drawings to complement the image, my search centres on the symbolic thing, rather, on the combination and relations between the symbols, to determine the new message. What I do is to re-mean the symbols. Since if we consider that individually every image used already comes formed with universal proper meanings, I re-mean them. I combine them and relate them generating a new statement. Taking advantage of this original meaning that the image possesses. |
Tanja Ulbrich
---Canada--- tanjaulbrich.wix.com/tanjaulbrich I don't look for beauty, I am looking for emotional expression and shedding light on issues that are important to me. For me it is all about the idea: the shreds of paper, the jagged cuts, the uneveness they only add to the atmosphere. I try to avoid decoration or beautifying as I feel that life is raw and sometimes ugly, unfinished and messy. My work tends to focus on gender issues, the role that women are alotted in society and the emotional aftermath of those roles. I enjoy exploring political, social and cultural issues. All of my recent collages are handmade with vintage magazines, prints or photographs from the 1880s to the 1960s though I also work with acrilic paint and other media. I was born in Calgary, Canada, and I am currently based in Madrid, Spain |
Anna Sandalaki
---Greece--- annasandalaki.wordpress.com I 'm a self-taught collage artist. I 've studied Social Policy & Social Anthropology in Athens and I work at a Shipping Company in Chania (Crete). Collage is like a limitless puzzle. It is the union of different elements that form emotional pictures and depict thoughts and concerns directly from my soul and mind. My artworks portray stories and situations about love, fear, sorrow, anger, rebirth and many more. I mostly enjoy creating pictures in black and white, pictures of a surrealistic view with which I can express the potential of inevitable and worthwhile alternation of our bright and dark side.The materials used are mainly paper of second-hand books, vintage or modern magazines, as well as spray paint. I also use stencil techniques for the outcome envisaged. |
PhilX
---Belgium--- [email protected] I was born in Belgium but I live in Germany the last 35 years, where I work on a radio station in Cologne. I make collage since 1977. The Punk movement gave me the idea to do collage, first posters of my band’s concerts and then for other bands. I have participated in collage exhibitions in Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, and Austria. I also organize exhibitions with artists from Japan, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and France. The name I give to my exhibitions is M.A.D.E. (Music~Art~Dance~Experience). My idea for the future is to open a gallery to continue M.A.D.E. Also I am a musician. In the 80's I was playing for 2 songs live with Hermann Brood and the wild Romance, Hermann presented me to the open air public and he say: "Here's mister Boogie". |
