“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”
It’s about tiny flower remnants and smashed porcelain. It’s about fragile doll hands, beanstalks and wrinkled seed pods. Inconspicuous fragments from everyday life play the main role. Monumentally unimportant details make up these works.
Bringing trivial finds into unexpected new contexts inspires me. My works focus on the most banal and everyday remnants.
Biography
In the nineties, the self-taught artist started working on sculptures in her own ceramics studio using a free construction technique.
In 2000, she gave up artistic work with ceramics and ran a 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 been constantly developing 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 its adjoining exhibition can be visited by appointment.
It’s fragile
Every originally inconsequential element becomes indispensable in the fragile habitats for tiny bird shapes or bizarre insects.
Inspired by scientific work, however, the miniature collages are not pure collections of objects, but fragile microcosms with a restrained message.
The most mundane remnants are assigned an artistic potential by being viewed from a different perspective. A withered plant residue can unexpectedly develop a complex character with self-confident charisma and convincing liveliness.
Exhibitions
2025 [UN]Apparent Worlds, Museum im Schloss Bad Arolsen
2024 DUST OF TIME, Schwalenberg
2024 mitBLAU, Schieder-Schwalenberg
2023 Romance 2.0 Special Exhibition, Museum im Schloss Bad Pyrmont
2022 Lippe Miniatures, Schwalenberg
2022 Romanticism 2.0 Solo Show Bonn
2022 Romantcism 2.0 Solo Show Berlin
2021 [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”, group exhibition Avantgart Hamburg
2015 Group exhibition “roomreich”, Hamburg
2015 Group exhibition gallery “MarziArt”, Hamburg
2015 Art exhibition “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