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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Wadowice, Poland. Maria Filek writes, "Creating collages can be compared to a laborious journey through the world of fantasies, associations, or through a specific theater of events. In order to create a collage, you need to collect interesting and peculiar materials that, when combined, create a new image and convey an idea, providing a unique form." MORE
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SOLO ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
through 2 November 2025. During her Solo Residency, Tokyo-based artist Rumi Tominaga will explore how New Orleans’ unique character will influence her artistic perspective and methodology. She will experiment with a new approach during the Residency: capturing images of the surrounding city, printing them, and then deconstructing these personal photographs to construct new collages. This method aims to directly engage with the immediate environment as source material, a departure from her reliance on found imagery. Rumi Tominaga is a culturally American, Japanese citizen who has lived in Los Angeles, New York City, and Memphis before settling in Tokyo. Since earning her BFA with a concentration in sculpture, she has spent the past decade producing film and television projects centered on marginalized voices—creating storytelling spaces that explore multicultural identity within provocative visual contexts. Her interactions with storytellers around the world continue to inform her personal artistic investigations into privilege, strength, and vulnerability. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Emmanuel Laflamme at Kalkman Vinyl Records & Art in Maastricht, Netherlands, through 9 November 2025. Emmanuel Laflamme recycles popular imagery in his Netherlands debut with humour, creating scenes with strong meaning that lead viewers to smile and think. Like the surrealists, he develops representations with an apparent impossibility that captures the viewer’s attention. He creates his works like a creative director who would have nothing to sell. Combining cultural references, he diverts ancient and modern myths to serve us his perspective on the world, at once tender and critical. The absurd is his playground, the anachronism his specialty. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Michael Eble at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA through 20 December 2025. During a solo residency at Kolaj Institute in May-June 2025, Lafayette-based artist Michael Eble turned his attention to the architecture of mid-century New Orleans, particularly the style known as “regional modernism”. This design approach combines modernist principles including simplicity, geometry, and functionality within a cultural, environmental, and historical context. Eble’s research focused on iconic structures such as the International Rivergate Center and the Louisiana Superdome, landmarks of the postwar architectural boom that helped define New Orleans as an international city. He also uncovered and documented lesser-known buildings from this era, tracing their formal qualities and cultural resonance. MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Paris, France. During the pandemic and lockdown, Evelyne Chevallier returned to Argentina for almost a year. As a result, her work has evolved. From very wordy collages, she moved on to work that is stripped-down, almost desert-like, both literally and figuratively. On the one hand, she minimizes the graffiti in her collages, and, on the other, she's photographing more of the exceptional landscapes that she's lucky enough to be around. But collage is definitely an integral part of her work. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at Fleming College's Haliburton School of Art & Design in Haliburton, Ontario, Canada through 24 November 2025. On view in the Great Hall are the works from the folio “Art to Resist & Survive Authoritarianism”, which was created as a result of Kolaj Institute’s virtual residency, Collage in Politics: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide, which took place in January and February 2025. Seven artists from Canada and the US created the works in the folio, which also appeared in the book The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide, with text by Martin Mycieskl. MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Next Deadline: Sunday, 2 November 2025. At Kolaj Institute, we see the book, not just the gallery, as a place to experience collage. This sentiment has broad implications for how collage artists work and how their work is received by an art world whose orientation is decidedly fixed on the gallery wall. In this four-week workshop, artists will turn a body of work or a project into a zine, art catalog, monograph, or book. We will explore different models of publishing and types of book projects. We will walk through the steps and support one another as we create publishing projects and prepare to put them out into the world. Participants will present and receive feedback on page spreads. Presentations will speak to issues around copyright and appropriation, getting the book printed, and launching and marketing the book. MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Kolaj Institute’s solo residencies in New Orleans are designed to provide artists, curators, and writers with dedicated time and space to work on a project. We are open to your ideas. We are looking for artists with an articulated goal for their time in New Orleans. That goal need not to be explicitly related to New Orleans, though priority will be given to those artists whose projects need time in New Orleans. These Solo Residencies are taking place at Kolaj Institute’s home in the New Orleans Healing Center and help further Kolaj Institute's mission to support artists, curators, and writers who seek to study, document, and disseminate ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
At Kolaj Institute, our philosophy is that if we bring artists together, explore ideas and concepts, share knowledge, we can stretch and develop as artists. When we bring that knowledge and skill into our communities, we raise the standing of collage and contribute to the civic discourse. Kolaj Institute's Artist Development Program is a collection of three core workshops for self-motivated artists, at any stage in their career, who want to develop and expand their collage-based artist practice and work towards professional goals, particularly in the areas of exhibitions and publishing. LEARN MORE
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NEW PUBLICATION
Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide is a collage. The book combines the text of a Polish human rights activist Martin Mycielski with the artwork of seven collage artists to create a space in which we can think about the rise of authoritarianism and how to navigate the troubling, difficult times in which we find ourselves. Organized as a series of lists, the book illustrates what to expect under authoritarianism and offers rules for surviving authoritarian regimes and engaging their supporters. The introduction traces how the text came into existence and how the artists came together to make collage about it. Ric Kasini Kadour shares historical examples of artists responding to authoritarianism; John Heartfield’s anti-fascist collage and a 1979 exhibition in East Germany that was described as a “victory over false consciousness.” Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide is a testament to the role art can play in our communities.
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PRINT MAGAZINE
Since 2011, Kolaj Magazine has documented, reported on, and explored the amazing artists who make up the international collage community.
In Kolaj #42, you'll discover "Little Beasts" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Warsaw, Poland-based collagist Marta Janik; animated collage at the Glastonbury Festival; the radiating collage of Dana Hart-Stone; anti-authoritarian political collage projects from San Diego, California and Barcelona, Spain; contemporary challenges of doing Mail Art; a daughter reflecting on her mother's collage practice; a collaborative scanograph collage poem; collage book reviews; “Selections from the Collection” and and artist portfolios.
Our goal with every issue is that Kolaj Magazine is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of contemporary collage in art, culture, and society. MORE
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JOURNAL
PoetryXCollage is a printed journal of artwork and writing that operates at the intersection of poetry and collage. We are interested in found poetry, blackout poetry, collage poems, haikus, centos, response collages, response poems, word scrambles, concrete poetry, scatter collage poems, and other poems and artwork that inhabit this world.
PoetryXCollage, Volume Seven includes artwork and writing by Pablo Cabrera Ferralis (Leipzig, Germany); Natalie W Schorr (Greenville, North Carolina, USA); Hanna Madej (Wroclaw, Poland); Dianalog (Palm Springs, Florida, USA); Christy Sheffield Sanford (Saint Augustine, Florida, USA); and a selection of Asemic Writing Collage Poems from Anthony D Kelly, Laura Tafe, Thomas Mayer, and Janice McDonald, with commentary by Ric Kasini Kadour. On the Cover is a detail of BY CHANCE/LA DÉRIVE by Pablo Cabrera Ferralis. MORE
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NEW PUBLICATION
Frankenstein
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This new version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s classic 19th century novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus features seventy-six illustrations by International Collage Artists who delved into the novel’s rich narrative and visual potential and created thought-provoking artworks that reflect the essence of Frankenstein in a 21st century context.
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NEW PUBLICATION
Magic in the Modern World
Taking a broad view of magic and drawing from multiple histories, the book, Magic in the Modern World, proposes a way to think about magic in the 21st century, what it means to communities, and how it negotiates itself in systems of power. Generously illustrated, the book features the artwork of fifteen collage artists and dozens of historical images.
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ARTSHOP
"I Cut Therefore I Kolaj" T-shirt
Since we started Kolaj Magazine in 2011, people have been asking about t-shirts. Well, we finally made one. We are pleased to announce the "I Cut Therefore I Kolaj" T-shirt. We hope you like it and wear it with pride.
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TRADING CARDS
Kasini House Artshop works with the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory to produce curated packs of the Collage Artist Trading Cards. Each card is a full color, 5.5” x 3.5” postcard with rounded corners. An example of an artist’s work is on the front of the card and the artist’s public contact information is on the back. Collage Artist Trading Cards come in packs of 15.
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About Kolaj Magazine
Kolaj Magazine is a quarterly, printed, art magazine reviewing and surveying contemporary collage with an international perspective. We are interested in collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century art movement. Kolaj is published in Montreal, Quebec by Maison Kasini. Visit Kolaj Magazine online.
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About Kolaj Institute
The mission of Kolaj Institute is to support artists, curators, and writers who seek to study, document, & disseminate ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. We operate a number of initiatives meant to bring together community, investigate critical issues, and raise collage’s standing in the art world.
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