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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
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Nacho Martín Silva: Collage as a way of organizing and experiencing our environment. On-view at TWS Gallery’s Day Spectres & Invisible Interruptions.
Nacho Martín Silva is a Madrid-based artist who treats painting as raw material for collage, rather than the other way around. His Piece of Trash series, first shown at the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Palma, is now part of Day Spectres & Invisible Interruptions at TWS Gallery.His recent projects include Historia pintada de la historia de la Historia at CAB, Burgos (2024), Paraísos de Papel at Max Estrella Gallery in Madrid, Extraño Paraíso at El Apartamento Gallery in Havana (2023), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, shown […] The post Nacho Martín Silva: Collage as a way of organizing and experiencing our environment. On-view at TWS Gallery’s Day Spectres & Invisible Interruptions. appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
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TWS Gallery opens Day Spectres & Invisible Interruptions, a new show on five artists working between painting and collage
Day Spectres & Invisible Interruptions, The Weird Show Gallery’s second exhibition, opens September 20 with new work from Lola Dupre, John Whitlock, Nacho Martín Silva, Alvaro Naddeo, and Anthony White. Ask any of the artists featured in Day Spectres & Invisible Interruptions whether they’re a painter or a collage artist, and you’ll get five different answers. Two of them have never cut a piece of paper in their lives and still describe what they do as collage logic. One works […] The post TWS Gallery opens Day Spectres & Invisible Interruptions, a new show on five artists working between painting and collage appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
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Translating paint into paper. An intro to Georgios Karagiannis
Name: Georgios Karagiannis Born / Based in: Born on the island of Syros, Greece, in 1941. Raised in Piraeus and currently living and working in Athens. Making art since: I began drawing and painting at the age of eight, initially using watercolours. From childhood I was also fascinated by Byzantine icon painting, which I studied later in life. Before devoting myself to collage, I explored oil painting, watercolour, acrylic, soft and oil pastel, enamel, printmaking, mosaic and Byzantine icon painting. […] The post Translating paint into paper. An intro to Georgios Karagiannis appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 04/08/2026
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Collage as an active site of transformation and meaning-making. An intro to Bernie Diaz
Name: Bernardo “Bernie” Diaz Born/Based In: I was born in Rochelle, Illinois, raised in Eagle Pass, Texas, and am currently based in Austin, Texas. When did you start making art?I’ve been making art since I was a kid. My siblings and I were encouraged to make art by our dad, who also enjoys making art and is an artist in his own right. He taught us to draw, build, and enjoy creativity. As a working-class family, art became a way […] The post Collage as an active site of transformation and meaning-making. An intro to Bernie Diaz appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 10/07/2026
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Making Meaning Symposium: Re-thinking past, present and future of collage
Collage’s official history starts in 1912, with a piece of oilcloth Picasso glued onto a still life. Monica Church and Andrea Burgay think that starting point erases centuries of work in scrapbooks, quilts, and traditions that never made it onto a gallery wall.Church and Burgay organized Making Meaning, a symposium hosted by the Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts, alongside Transforming Collage: Hudson Valley, a run of ten linked exhibitions across the region. Andrea joined us once before to talk […] The post Making Meaning Symposium: Re-thinking past, present and future of collage appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 27/06/2026
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Reacting on impulse immediately. An intro to Mikill Skugga
Name: Mikill Skugga Born / Based in: Born in Warsaw. The nomad. Lived in New York, Belgrade, Brussels, Oure. Making art since: Studying art is a misleading process; you might feel as though you are constantly creating art, but the truth is that you are just producing responses to assigned prompts, learning the craft, testing various techniques, and working methods. During my artistic journey, I experimented with different media; I studied photography, multimedia, and obtained a music degree. But it […] The post Reacting on impulse immediately. An intro to Mikill Skugga appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 17/06/2026
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The Weird Show Becomes a Nonprofit Organization
After more than 15 years of exploring, questioning, exhibiting, publishing, and celebrating contemporary collage, we are excited to share an important milestone: The Weird Show is now officially a nonprofit organization. Since 2011, TWS has grown from a small online platform into an international community dedicated to expanding the possibilities of collage and image-based culture. Along the way, we have published hundreds of interviews and articles, organized exhibitions across Europe and the Americas, produced workshops, talks, publications, and a podcast, […] The post The Weird Show Becomes a Nonprofit Organization appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 07/06/2026
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The rituals behind a Xerox’d aesthetic. An intro to James Bourbon
Name: James Bourbon Born / Based in: Based in Brisbane, Australia Making art since: I believe my first exhibition was in 2006, but I’ve been making art in a more serious sense for the last 15 years. TWS: What’s one thing you’d like people to know about you that doesn’t show up in your work? JB: I honestly find it really hard to answer that because, in reality, I think there are breadcrumbs about me throughout all my work. You […] The post The rituals behind a Xerox’d aesthetic. An intro to James Bourbon appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 25/05/2026
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Pleasure and Desperation: The Paintings of Mary Didoardo
I am lucky to live with a painting by Mary that I look at every day. At first glance, it is a black square with red lines that divide it into a loose grid. With better lighting, the surface that reads as black is clearly not simply black, but covered with marks that break through it, revealing yellow and red. When I tilt the painting, other engraved lines and marks also come through from layers below. I have been lucky […] The post Pleasure and Desperation: The Paintings of Mary Didoardo  appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 09/05/2026
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Collecting, as a Way of Knowing
This text is part of an ongoing TWS series in which artists, curators and writers reflect on what collecting means to them. For this sixth installment, TWS team member Sònia López writes about collecting as a way of paying attention to the world through fragments, images, and objects. An art historian and cultural manager, she spent more than twenty years working at institutions such as MACBA and Museo Reina Sofía before joining TWS, where she contributes to the project’s exhibition and publishing work. I […] The post Collecting, as a Way of Knowing appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 25/04/2026
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Cless: Collecting as illness, therapy, and religion
Cless has been collecting since he was a kid. Stamps first, then graffiti books, trading cards, fruit stickers, spray cans, skate decks, vinyl figures, tart cards, and more. His house is packed with it all—over 2,000 book titles (10% still sealed), albums in protective sleeves, objects organized and preserved with the care of an archivist.This isn’t just accumulation. It’s how he survived his mother’s illness, how he made it through the pandemic, and how his collage practice took shape. The […] The post Cless: Collecting as illness, therapy, and religion appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 12/04/2026
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Gabriel de la Mora: trances through yuxtaposition
Through a meticulous and almost ritualistic process, Gabriel de la Mora takes the debris of fragile materials left by the passage of time and transforms them into pieces of the impossible, where time moves forward or backward between the abstract and the formal. TWS- I am interested in your concept of “visual dyslexia” regarding the optical illusions linked to scales, oppositions, and mathematical fragmentation. What is your personal definition of collage?GdM- My personal definition of collage is the composition of […] The post Gabriel de la Mora: trances through yuxtaposition appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 10/04/2026
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La Révolution Weirdiste: Why We Made This T-Shirt
When we launched TWS Editions, we knew we wanted to mark the occasion with something physical. Not just the prints — something that said: this is a moment worth celebrating. A t-shirt felt right. The question was what to put on it. The six artists in Editions 01-06 are the people who shaped how TWS understands contemporary collage. James Gallagher, Fred Free, Cless, Charles Wilkin, Rubén B, Max-o-matic. Some were there from the very first exhibition. Others came in early […] The post La Révolution Weirdiste: Why We Made This T-Shirt appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 29/03/2026
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Maarten Demmink (Demiak): Fragmented canvases and assembled disasters.
Maarten Demmink has been painting disasters for over twenty years. Known as Demiak, the Dutch artist moves between painting, photography, and sculpture—documenting catastrophes like Lisbon 1755, Katrina 2005, Deepwater Horizon 2010 as damaged vintage photographs or staged dioramas. His work depicts ruins without the people who suffered them. He describes collage as destroying existing images and building them into new ones, giving shape to fragmentation. For two decades, he’s worked in buildings about to be demolished, making work about precarity […] The post Maarten Demmink (Demiak): Fragmented canvases and assembled disasters. appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 21/03/2026
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Virginia Colwell: The generosity in intricacies, on how aesthetics can help us seeing complex (hi)stories
Virginia Colwell’s work examines the space between official and unofficial histories and the poetic ambiguities of truth and fiction in historical narratives. Her drawings, sculptures, and videos reinvestigate pasts of clandestinity, insurgency, corruption, and slavery, through site visits, interviews, research, and requests for declassified documents. TWS: There is a detective-like quality in the minutiae of your work. In it, collage feels like a precision tool for revealing the intermittency of confirmation biases and gaps in historical narratives. Tell us about […] The post Virginia Colwell: The generosity in intricacies, on how aesthetics can help us seeing complex (hi)stories appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 07/03/2026
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Adam Brierley: Collecting, a hunt for memory and nostalgia
California-based collage artist Adam Brierley writes about the feedback loop between collecting and creating: how the materials he sources shape his work, and how his work, in turn, shapes what he collects. The third installment in our series of artist-written reflections on collecting. Text by Adam Brierley The sourcing of materials is a never ending journey and one I truly love. I believe one thing that sets an artist apart is their specific eye. We each have a unique taste, […] The post Adam Brierley: Collecting, a hunt for memory and nostalgia appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 02/03/2026
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Eduardo Recife: Collecting as a delayed way of seeing
Eduardo Recife has been making collage work since the late 1990s, long before most of us knew collage could be a serious practice. His work with Misprinted Type showed a generation of artists what was possible with found imagery and careful restraint. This is part of a series where artists write in their own words about what collecting means to them. Not interviews, not profiles, just direct access to how they think about the objects they gather, the ideas they […] The post Eduardo Recife: Collecting as a delayed way of seeing appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 27/02/2026
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Weekly Inspiration: Willem de Haan
Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Willem de Haan @thankswillem Willem de Haan stacks street garbage in Berlin into totems. He works with actual waste and materials nobody really wants. That’s what discarded looks like. Now ask yourself: what are we “collage artists” working mostly with? Vintage magazines from the ’50s, ephemera hunted on eBay , old book pages carefully preserved and archived. Printed materials with cultural value, monetary value, historical significance. Beautiful materials. Visually rich materials. But discarded?Calling vintage magazines “discarded materials” […] The post Weekly Inspiration: Willem de Haan appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 22/02/2026
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Max-o-matic: Collecting as a way of documenting life, art and relationships
This year we opened a gallery and for the first time stopped to think about what collecting actually means. We found that it’s deeply personal—everyone approaches it differently. Collecting isn’t just buying art. It’s a way to define who we are, support what we believe in, and organize our passions into something tangible. This is the first in a series where artists talk in their own words about what collecting means to them. Max starts us off. 1. Just a […] The post Max-o-matic: Collecting as a way of documenting life, art and relationships appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 20/02/2026
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Weekly Inspiration: Alan Neider
Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Alan Neider @alanneider_art Alan Neider has an MFA in sculpture, but he’ll tell you he’s a painter. He just happens to sew U-Haul moving blankets and IKEA bags together before he paints them. Most painters mix pigments to get colors. Alan uses the colors already in found fabric—the blue of an IKEA bag, the gray of a moving blanket, patterns from old clothes. He cuts fabric into random shapes, sews them in collaged layers onto quilted blankets […] The post Weekly Inspiration: Alan Neider appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 16/02/2026
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Omar Barquet builds cosmologies from space between order and chaos
Omar Barquet is a multidisciplinary artist who works in both micro and large-scale formats, encompassing photography, collage, installation, sculpture, and muralism. His profound sensitivity to rhythm and materials, to myth and poetry, intertwines these elements in a symphonic continuum that feels like a force of nature in constant transformation. TWS – Omar, it is wonderful to feature you once again in TWS. We are huge fans of your work. In your podcast episode with us, “Ghosts, Hurricanes and Sheer Freedom” […] The post Omar Barquet builds cosmologies from space between order and chaos appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 08/02/2026
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Ryan Evans assembles joy and dread into drawings that feel like collages
TWS –Is there something that you would like that our readers know about you first? RE –Hello. I’m Ryan Evans, an artist living in South Jersey, close enough to Philadelphia to feel implicated by it. By day, I work as a freelance art director and designer, which means I spend a lot of time solving problems efficiently and cleanly. My art exists in opposition to that. The practice started as an escape from the monotony of work. TWS –What did […] The post Ryan Evans assembles joy and dread into drawings that feel like collages appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 31/01/2026
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Lesley Finn and collage as sensemaking by thoughtful intuition
<p>Lesley Finn shimmers between analog collage and writing, diving deep into archival research, and crafting books like they&#8217;re spells. Armed with a degree in medieval literature and training in book arts, she hunts for found images like treasure and collages in the tension between words and visual imagery. She works with poetry erasure and various plastic techniques, ranging from inking to exploring the glitchy, copied-to-death quality of images. With preparatory exercises designed to shut down the bossy, linear, rational brain, [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theweirdshow.info/2026/01/31/lesley-finn-and-collage-as-sensemaking-by-thoughtful-intuition/">Lesley Finn and collage as sensemaking by thoughtful intuition</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theweirdshow.info">The Weird Show</a>.</p>
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 26/01/2026
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Everything is in the work. An intro to Kevin Titzer
<p>1. Born / Based in:&#160;I was born and raised in Southwest Indiana. My hometown is on the Ohio river. I moved away for about a decade, but returned and am once again based here. 2. Making art since: I come from a family who all work with their hands. Craftspeople, construction workers, tradesmen, farmers, etc.&#160; I grew up around tools and very skilled people who knew how to use them. This was so common for me as a kid that [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theweirdshow.info/2026/01/26/everything-is-in-the-work-an-intro-to-kevin-titzer/">Everything is in the work. An intro to Kevin Titzer</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theweirdshow.info">The Weird Show</a>.</p>
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 17/01/2026
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Playing peek-a-boo with the viewer. Miko Hornborg talks about his works on TWS Gallery.
Miko Hornborg is an artisan painter, a beatmaker, and a self-taught visual artist. His collage practice centers on fictional landscapes that explore memory, perception, and place; visual echoes of something lost, half-remembered, or not yet found. With no visible cuts, no glue, no raw edges, he turns collage into camouflage. Take a closer look at his four limited edition prints and two original artworks exhibited in Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers, at The Weird Show Gallery. TWS- Hi Miko, how […] The post Playing peek-a-boo with the viewer. Miko Hornborg talks about his works on TWS Gallery. appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 12/01/2026
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Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers: Andrea Burgay. Metaphors for things that are present through absence
Andrea Burgay creates collage-based works and collaborative projects that investigate paper and print media as sites of intimacy and connection. She is the founder and editor of Cut Me Up Magazine. Read about her four limited edition prints and two original artworks exhibited in The Weird Show Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers. This is not small; this is the first time Andrea has made prints of her artworks, so don’t miss out on the chance to hang […] The post Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers: Andrea Burgay. Metaphors for things that are present through absence appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 09/01/2026
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Weird Bookshelf: Visual Stimulation by Hattie Stewart
A selection from our personal archives: Visual Stimulation by Hattie Stewart | 2025Published by PageMasters 54 pages21 x 29,7 cmEdition of 400 Visual Stimulation by Hattie Stewart “sensual, playful, experimental and motivating” Born out of late nights in the studio and a growing pile of scans, clippings, and sketches, this book is a personal exploration of Hatties collage and illustration practice. It pulls heavily from her personal magazine collection – vintage ads, muscle mags, strange graphics, half-forgotten headlines/copy – and […] The post Weird Bookshelf: Visual Stimulation by Hattie Stewart appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 05/01/2026
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Elisa Strada and the power of visual encounters
Elisa Strada is a visual artist from Argentina whose work explores collective ways of creation in which form and content convey dialogues around public materials, collaborative processes, and anonymity. The tension between the individual and the collective is a form of balance in her practice, where visual creation is a powerful tool for grassroots militancy. Finding exciting things in common with collaborators and understanding diversity as a way to create unity are embodied philosophies in her creative, pedagogic, and political […] The post Elisa Strada and the power of visual encounters appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 19/12/2025
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Weekly Inspiration: Matt Borruso
Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Matt Borruso @mattborruso For most works on view, compositional energy was generated by Borruso’s destabilization of boundaries demarcating animate/inanimate, nature/culture, and interior/exterior by way of such uncanny tropes as image-doubling and disconcerting shifts in scale and orientation. In other collages, grotesque monsters simultaneously elicit disgust and compassion—a dualism that also pervades the artist’s ultrafine Ingres-esque pencil drawings of fantastically disfigured humans, themselves composites based on found imagery. These images transgress subsectors of visual culture as well, highlighting […] The post Weekly Inspiration: Matt Borruso appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 15/12/2025
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Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers: Jack Felice and the ever-changing forms
Jack Felice explores the connections between visuals and poetry. His collages begin with found images, then he silences the source, exposing the tension between presence and erasure. Each one of his four limited-edition prints and two original artworks exhibited in Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers, is an entry to the visual poetics of Jack’s overlapping narrative. Visit them in TWSG. Collage deserves to be collected! TWS- Hi Jack, how has 2025 been for you? What have been your highlights so […] The post Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers: Jack Felice and the ever-changing forms appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 12/12/2025
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Weird Bookshelf: Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch
A selection from our personal archives: Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch | 2024By Erik Kessels, Thomas Sauvin and Karel De MulderPublished by RVB Books 496 pages22 x 30 cmEnglish Distilled from over 15.000 family albums, INCOMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TOUCH archives the human desire to put a hand on things. Whether it’s cars, boats, animals, trees, fridges, bridges, bushes, fellow humans or even their graves–everything that can be touched will be touched. Containing 1.919 photos, this collection is far from ever being […] The post Weird Bookshelf: Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 07/12/2025
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Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers: Alma Haser and the oneiric hands
Alma Haser uses paper as an element that creates shadows and echoes on her own skin and body; she shows that collage is about attitude. Working with her own photographs, she expands the dimensions of traditional photography into bewildering paper sculptures full of intrigue. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, and now we are privileged and proud to display a fresh body of her work in four limited edition prints that she made specially for our show Phantom Tigers & […] The post Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers: Alma Haser and the oneiric hands appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 05/12/2025
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Weekly Inspiration: Sophie Calle
Friday Inspiration ✨Artist: Sophie Calle @adansophiecalle Alternately described as a conceptual artist, photographer, video artist and even detective, Sophie Calle has been the subject of numerous exhibitions around the world since the late 70s. In her rituals, she blurs the boundaries between the intimate and the public, reality and fiction, art and life, while leaving room for chance. (from editor) The post Weekly Inspiration: Sophie Calle appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 30/11/2025
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Sifting and processing through the rubble. An intro to Tom Hodgkinson
Name: Tom Hodgkinson Born / Based in: Born in the east of England, a small town called Eye (Suffolk), grew up on the coast surrounded by nature, beaches, forests, marsh and heathland. Moved to Bristol in 2001 to find creative work and have been here ever since. Energy from the Sun Making art since: I have a framed note that I wrote at primary school, around age 5/6(so in the 80s), saying I wanted to be an artist when I […] The post Sifting and processing through the rubble. An intro to Tom Hodgkinson appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 23/11/2025
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Weird Bookshelf: K.T. Kobel – Burner
A selection from our personal bookshelf: K.T. Kobel – Burner | 2022Published by 1991 Books 40 pages21 x 29,7 cmEnglishFirst edition of 50 copies Burner is a zine featuring an extensive collage of scraps and sketches by British artist K.T. Kobel. In just a few pages, vibrant details and unique creative fragments come to life. First edition limited to 50 copies. (from editor) The post Weird Bookshelf: K.T. Kobel – Burner appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 23/11/2025
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Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers: Paul Henderson
Paul Henderson is an artist and arts worker with a tertiary interest in graphic design and self-publishing. Primarily working in collage, he has participated in residencies and exhibited his award-winning work across Canada and around the world. He is one of the seven artists featured in The Weird Show Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers. In this interview, he will discuss his works on display. TWS – Hi Paul, how has 2025 been for you? What have been […] The post Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers: Paul Henderson appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 17/11/2025
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The New Wave of Collage. (A micro manifesto.)
I’ve always been drawn to moments of collective emergence—those instances when small groups, often unaware of their own significance, open new pathways. The Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. The Situationists in Paris in the late 50’s. CBGB in 1976. These weren’t just physical spaces; they were sites of resistance, incubation chambers for new ways of thinking. I often wonder: did they know? Did Tzara or Debord sense they were reshaping their fields? Probably not. They were simply working, talking, hustling, arguing—responding […] The post The New Wave of Collage. (A micro manifesto.) appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 11/11/2025
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Weekly Inspiration: Wanda Hela Katz
Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Wanda Hela Katz @paperpalacequeen I am a Mixed Media Book Artist creating unique and exquisite one of a kind miniature hand crafted books and folios using centuries old antique ephemera fragments sourced from around the globe, mixed media, rust and copper elements, vintage dyed textiles and an array of vintage papers and original photographs. I am lucky enough to call the UNESCO World Heritage Georgian City of Bath, UK home, where I work from my studio. My […] The post Weekly Inspiration: Wanda Hela Katz appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 09/11/2025
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The Weird Show Gallery: collage deserves to be collected
Fifteen years ago, The Weird Show began with a question in mind: what happens when the world starts to look like a collage?Back then, we didn’t imagine this curiosity would grow into a global project to drawn to the idea that collage is more than an art form. It’s a way of seeing, of reassembling fragments into meaning.Now with the launch of the Weird Show Gallery we’ entering a new phase. A gallery that behaves differently This isn’t another online […] The post The Weird Show Gallery: collage deserves to be collected appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 01/11/2025
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Inside the New Chapter of The Weird Show
On growth, community, and keeping the weird alive Collage has always been about transformation — about taking what exists and rearranging it into something that didn’t. Over the years, The Weird Show has grown through a very particular kind of energy — one driven by generosity and curiosity, and grounded in a genuine sense of care. Founded in 2010 by Rubén B and Máximo Tuja (aka Max-o-matic), the project has built a global community by creating spaces where artists feel […] The post Inside the New Chapter of The Weird Show appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 31/10/2025
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Weird Bookshelf: K.T. Kobel – Burner
A selection from our personal bookshelf: K.T. Kobel – Burner | 2022Published by 1991 Books 40 pages21 x 29,7 cmEnglishFirst edition of 50 copies Burner is a zine featuring an extensive collage of scraps and sketches by British artist K.T. Kobel. In just a few pages, vibrant details and unique creative fragments come to life. First edition limited to 50 copies. (from editor) The post Weird Bookshelf: K.T. Kobel – Burner appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 30/10/2025
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Childhood mysteries. An intro to Forestter Cobalt
Name: Forestter Cobalt Born / Based in: Born/grew up in Colorado, currently living in Chicago, Illinois. Making art since: Since I was a child. As a teenager, I started making collages primarily using photocopiers. I was inspired by how prevalent this type of art was in the punk and indie music world, from album covers to show flyers to zines. What’s one thing you’d like people to know about you that doesn’t show up in your work? I collect new […] The post Childhood mysteries. An intro to Forestter Cobalt appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 27/10/2025
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Weekly Inspiration: Doris Salcedo
Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Doris Salcedo Doris Salcedo (born 1958) is a Colombian-born visual artist and sculptor. Her work is influenced by her experiences of life in Colombia and is generally composed of commonplace items such as wooden furniture, clothing, concrete, grass, and rose petals.Salcedo’s work gives form to pain, trauma, and loss, while creating space for individual and collective mourning. These themes stem from her own personal history. Members of her own family were among the many people who have […] The post Weekly Inspiration: Doris Salcedo appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 24/10/2025
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Weird Bookshelf: Mayday: The Art of Shepard Fairey
A selection from our personal bookshelf: Mayday: The Art of Shepard Fairey | 2011Published by Gingko Press 168 pages24 x 31 cmEnglishFirst edition MAYDAY — The Art of Shepard Fairey is published as a celebration of an evocative collection of paintings from one of the most important artists of our time. Portraits of advocates of the working class and oppressed define the collection. Fairey stakes the claim that artists, musicians and writers such as Joe Strummer, Jean Michel Basquiat and […] The post Weird Bookshelf: Mayday: The Art of Shepard Fairey appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 20/10/2025
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Weekly Inspiration: Fefe Talavera
Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Fefe Talavera @fefetalavera Fefe Talavera’s monster paintings are metaphors for strong and subconscious human emotions like anger, fear, dreams or desire. The colourful fantastic beasts which she connects with the “dark side” of her inner self stand for the artist’s cultural roots as well as the primary and powerful energy of her work in the streets all over the world. Born in 1979, Fefe was brought up as a native half Mexican, half Brazilian in São Paulo […] The post Weekly Inspiration: Fefe Talavera appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 19/10/2025
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Fragmentary gestures towards the invisible (Part 2)
By Clive Knights Part one reframed collage as an ancient human impulse — a way of gathering fragments, remembering, and nudging meaning into being. In part two, Clive Knights moves from history to practice. He treats collage as a making-through: a conversation between hands, paper and a lived world, an improvisation that unfolds rather than a plan to be executed. Here collage is shown as material and synesthetic — theatrical, poetic, musical — a process that relies on surprise, gesture […] The post Fragmentary gestures towards the invisible (Part 2) appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 17/10/2025
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Weird Bookshelf: Invader – Low Fidelity
A selection from our personal bookshelf: Invader – Low Fidelity | 2009Published by Lazarides Gallery 64 pages21 x 21 cmEnglishEdition of 1000 copies Catalogue of Invader’s exhibition at the Lazarides Gallery in London in 2009, featuring a series of Rubik’s Cube works dedicated to LP covers, as well as a new series in black and white ceramic that can be decoded using a smartphone app. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Low Fidelity at the Lazarides Gallery, London. This […] The post Weird Bookshelf: Invader – Low Fidelity appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 14/10/2025
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Weekly Inspiration: Mike Ballard
Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Mike Ballard @mikeballards The entropic state of the city is found in the margins, in the unmaintained and uninhabited places, Ballards eye is drawn to the detritus, the residue and the accidental layering of signs and symbols of paints, varnish and stickers, be they instruction or advert. His paintings are laced with the formal translation of these processes using – photography, photocopy, adhesion, saturation, abrasion and addition. In the development of this work he is not simply […] The post Weekly Inspiration: Mike Ballard appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 10/10/2025
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Weird Bookshelf: Damien Hirst – Pictures from The Saatchi Gallery
A selection from our personal bookshelf: Damien Hirst – Pictures from The Saatchi Gallery | 2001Published by Booth-Clibborn Editions 104 pages22,2 x 28,6 cmEnglish Reputed to have initiated the young British art movement, Hirst is considered the pre-eminent artist of his generation. This project brings together for the first time all his works in the collection of Charles Saatchi, his most prolific and proactive patron. (from editor) The post Weird Bookshelf: Damien Hirst – Pictures from The Saatchi Gallery appeared first on The Weird Show.
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Redefining contemporary collage since 2010 - The Weird Show [Un… @theweirdshow.info.web.brid.gy · 07/10/2025
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Weekly Inspiration: Juan Romero
Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Juan Romero @j_romero The post Weekly Inspiration: Juan Romero appeared first on The Weird Show.
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