“My miniature collages are a bow to the supposedly banal moment, to the tiny detail. What we consider valuable is valuable. Art is what we elevate to art.”
Through idiosyncratic arrangements and reinterpretations, tiny, trivial fragments take on an unexpected life of their own.
For example,inconspicuous little flower buds or tomato green, insect wings and press studs, apple cores, seeds, scraps of paper and other monumentally insignificant things come together next to the fragile withered leaf of a Venus trap to create completely new meaning.
MagdalenaHohlweg started in 1993 as a self-taught artist with her own ceramic art workshop in Dorsten, specializing in sculptures using the build-up technique. 2000-2007 management of a computer store. Moved to Hamburg in 2008. Since then, the self-taught artist has been working as a freelance artist. Her extraordinary 3D miniature collages of the [UN]apparent worlds have already been honored several times with audience awards. In 2018, she was nominated for the Art Prize of the City of Fürstenwalde. Magdalena Hohlweg has lived and worked in Bad Pyrmont since 2018.