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Cut. Paste. Repeat.
Sometimes I walk into the studio without a plan. No project, no deadline, no message to convey. Just me, the quiet, and the rustle of old paper.
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The Little Blue Box
There’s a particular shade of blue that makes discarding a cardboard box feel like a small crime. So instead, it became collage material.
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Februlage 2026
This February, I took part in Februllage – an annual collage challenge run by the Edinburgh Collage Collective and the Scandinavian Collage Museum, where artists from around the world make one collage per day, each responding to a daily word prompt.
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Twin Stories on Old Covers
I often make collages on the covers of old books—those forgotten volumes I find in open bookshelves, waiting to be seen again. My favorite shelf stands just around the corner from my mother’s house, and every visit becomes a little treasure hunt.
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The Vintage Magazine Challenge
CC. Contemporary Collage Magazine Sometimes I need something that pulls me out of my comfort zone. That’s when I join a challenge. This time I took part in the Vintage Magazine Challenge hosted by Contemporary Collage Magazine. They provided around 30 vintage issues of U&lc Magazine for participants to work with. My task was to create a collage using only materials from the…
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Audrey Leaping for Joy
I created this collage for my goddaughter Dana, who had just graduated from school. It features a young Audrey Hepburn, captured mid-leap in a photograph by Philippe Halsman – pure joy frozen in time. I love this glimpse of a moment when everything still seems possible, the future wide open. I remember standing at that very threshold myself – finally free from the…
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BAM! Twiggy – Or the first woman on the moon
Every now and then, I respond to an open call. Most of the time, I enjoy browsing the Open Call section on the Paris Collage Collective website, lovingly curated by the wonderful Petra Zehner—an artist whose work I admire deeply. The theme of this particular open call caught my eye: Create a collage of one of your heroes—real or fictional. That felt like…
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Something got me startet – A Collaboration with Katrin Klink
I’ve been doing collages for over ten years now – mostly alone, mostly in silence, mostly lost in my own paper worlds. Until recently, I had never collaborated with another collage artist. Then Katrin (@katrinklink_dailyperfectmoment) reached out and asked if I’d be interested in working together on a Starter Series. To be honest, I had to ask what a starter even is. Katrin…
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Was, Du kommst heute nicht?
A small girl stands beneath a wooden darning mushroom — once a humble household tool, now a fairytale shelter. Beside her, a metal fallow deer, salvaged from the top of a wine bottle cork, stands poised as if listening for a sound that never comes.
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The Junctions Series
The Junction Series is (beside of I trawl the Megahertz) probably the most personal work I’ve created so far. It’s a series of 21 collages, all made inside an old telephone address book. I started working on it in a time of deep emotional exhaustion. My father had just died after a long illness. His death was difficult, and clearing out his apartment…
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Collage Meets Embroidery – My Workshop Experience at Burg Herstelle
In November 2023, I had the pleasure of joining a collage workshop with artist Petra Heidrich at Burg Herstelle in Beverungen – a charming little castle just a short drive from where I live. The historic atmosphere of the castle, combined with Petra’s warm guidance, made it the perfect setting for a day dedicated to creativity. Petra’s specialty is embroidered collages – an…
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How Tintin Shaped My Eye: Destination Moon
For this piece, I made a small diorama inside a wooden box. The backdrop is a vintage astronomical chart showing the moon’s orbit around the earth, the phases arranged in a ring around a beautifully illustrated globe, with a radiating sun to the right.
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Taken out of context
For this series of 21 collages, I’ve been diving into a very specific visual world: German women’s magazines from the late 1950s and early 1960s. There’s something about them that draws me in—maybe it’s the colors, the optimism, or the carefully staged images of domestic life. But it’s more than just aesthetics. It feels like stepping into a time capsule, into the role…
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The Christa Files
These are the only digital collages I’ve ever made. The young woman in them is my grandmother Christa, who died unexpectedly in an accident in 2022. While clearing out her apartment, I came across this beautiful photograph of her—with a love letter written on the back. I had never imagined her as a young girl. She never showed any pictures of herself from…
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The Alphabet of hope
Suddenly, in March 2020, the world was on hold. Following weeks of confusion, bad news and uncertainty – we got used to it. We stayed home, waiting for better times that are not about to come any time soon.The world is on fire and we are in it. So after a while of suffering, I decided to hide in the calm atmosphere of…
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From the Archives
These collages date back to around 2009 – fragments of an earlier chapter. Made with love, yet free of plans or rules. Little visual adventures, created simply for the sheer joy of cutting and combining.
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The Atlas Project
One of my first collage series, made back in 2010. As you can tell I am a huge fan of ‚The Doors‘ specially the Lyrics by Jim Morrison.
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I trawl the Megahertz
I trawl the Megahertz Back in 2009, I began what would become my first large collage series: I trawl the Megahertz. It consists of 27 collages, all created on double pages from an old school atlas. I had bought the atlas as a child, maybe ten years old, from a secondhand shop. I remember carefully cutting out shapes from tracing paper and laying…
ATLAS & ART
Collages and Paper-Art
