"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
Magdalena Hohlweg always finds unexpected and surprising perspectives exactly where we all walk and stand every day - without taking a closer look.
She is enthusiastic about bringing trivial finds into unexpected new contexts. Magdalena's works focus on the most banal and everyday remnants of her works.
Minimal reinterpretation gives each fragment a significant place in the work. A small turn to the left or right and here and there an exact stroke with the fineliner are sufficient as a minimal design process for a new unique sculpture.
"The magic is in the details"
Biography
In the nineties, the autodidact started working on sculplics in free construction technology in her own ceramic studio.
In 2000, she gave up her artistic work with ceramics and ran her own computer store until 2007.
Finally, in 2008 she made a comeback in the art world with the unusual miniature collages. Since then, as a freelance artist, she has constantly developed new and surprising perspectives on the most trivial remnants and remnants of everyday life.
Her remarkable miniature collages of the [UN] apparent worlds have already been honoured several times with audience awards at various group exhibitions in Germany. In 2018, Magdalena Hohlweg was nominated for the Art Prize of the city of Fürstenwalde.
After 10 years of residence and successful work in Hamburg, the artist now lives and works in Bad Pyrmont, Weserbergland.
Her studio there with an attached exhibition can be visited by appointment.
It's fragile
Any originally inconsequential element becomes indispensable in the fragile habitats for tiny bird shapes or bizarre insects.
Inspired by scientific works, however, the miniature collages are not pure collections of objects, but fragile microcosms with a restrained message.
The most profane remnants are assigned an artistic potential by looking at them from a different perspective. A withered plant residue can unexpectedly acquire a complex character with self-confident charisma and convincing liveliness.
Biography
In the nineties, the autodidact started working on sculplics in free construction technology in her own ceramic studio.
In 2000, she gave up her artistic work with ceramics and ran her own computer store until 2007.
Finally, in 2008 she made a comeback in the art world with the unusual miniature collages. Since then, as a freelance artist, she has constantly developed new and surprising perspectives on the most trivial remnants and remnants of everyday life.
Her remarkable miniature collages of the [un] apparent worlds have already been honoured several times with audience awards at various group exhibitions in Germany. In 2018, Magdalena Hohlweg was nominated for the Art Prize of the city of Fürstenwalde.
After 10 years of residence and successful work in Hamburg, the artist now lives and works in Bad Pyrmont, Weserbergland.
Her studio there with an attached exhibition can be visited by appointment.
It's fragile
Any originally inconsequential element becomes indispensable in the fragile habitats for tiny bird shapes or bizarre insects.
Inspired by scientific works, however, the miniature collages are not pure collections of objects, but fragile microcosms with a restrained message.
The most profane remnants are assigned an artistic potential by looking at them from a different perspective. A withered plant residue can unexpectedly acquire a complex character with self-confident charisma and convincing liveliness.
Exhibitions
2023 Romanticism 2.0 special exhibition at the
Museum Bad Pyrmont until 20.8.
2022 Romanticism 2.0 Solo Show Bonn
2021 "[UN][un} apparent worlds", special exhibition at the Natural History Museum Bielefeld
2020 Group exhibition "Nature?!" , Galerie Kunstmix Bremen
2020 Group exhibition Domainburg Aerzen
2019 Kunst im Saal, artist group Brückenschlag as guest in Reinerbeck
2019 KapHoornArt Die Elfte, Bremen
2019 Open Studio Bad Pyrmont
2018 9th Miniature in the Visual Arts, Fürstenwalde
2018 Altonale Kunstherbst
2018 Wandelhalle Bad Pyrmont
2018 Guest Artist at the Jan de Weryha Collection, Hamburg
2017 altonale Kunstherbst, Hamburg
2016 Group exhibition "Men and Nature" Florence Dance Center, Florence, Italy
2016 Group Exhibition "Humans", Made in... ArtGallery Venice, Italy
2016 „Dick im Geschäft“, Gruppenausstellung Avantgart Hamburg
2015 Gruppenausstellung „roomreich“, Hamburg
2015 Gruppenausstellung Galerie „MarziArt“, Hamburg
2015 Kunstausstellung „Impulse“, Osnabrück
2015 Audience Award, Art Fair at the Women's Art Museum Bonn
2014 „altonale Kunstherbst“, Hamburg
2014 „Kunstklinik“ Eppendorf, Hamburg
2014 Audience Award International Art Exhibition "FormArt", Glinde, 2nd place
2013 Art exhibition "Alster Art"
2013 Audience Award International Art Exhibition "FormArt", Glinde, 3rd place
2012 Audience Award Art Exhibition "Aurakure", Hamburg
1998 „Kunst in het Volkspark, Enschede, NL
1997 „Kunst in het Volkspark“, Enschede, NL
1996 Group exhibition at the Galerie Maria Kohl in Darmstadt
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