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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Robin Muccari’s work has transitioned to three-dimensional, analog collages that display energetic motion, express impulsive emotions, and explore physical space. These pieces play with perspective in depth among photographs, shapes, and wires while providing shadows commonly used as effects in digital collage. MORE
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NEWS FROM KOLAJ INSTITUTE
through 21 September 2025. During her Solo Residency, Brooklyn, New York-based artist Andrea Burgay will create new large-scale works in her ongoing “Ruins” series of abstract collages composed of broken-down posters, book pages, and print ephemera. She will use the time and space provided by the Residency to focus deeply on this work, both in the studio and in dialogue with the city of New Orleans. Andrea Burgay creates collage-based works and collaborative projects that explore the passage of time and evoke cycles of destruction and renewal. Originally from Syracuse and now based in Brooklyn, New York, Burgay has exhibited internationally in cities such as Paris, Warsaw, and Genoa, as well as in New York, and throughout the United States. She is the founder and editor of Cut Me Up Magazine, an ongoing curatorial project where readers deconstruct and transform published artworks in response to curatorial calls. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Arnt Arntzen at Outsiders and Others in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada through 27 September 2025. Arnt Arntzen's designs are influenced by his environment: the wild west coast and the abundance of wood and found objects. "Found" is a collection of new works created from specially selected found materials with newly created purposes. The wood is hand cut by himself in and around the city of Vancouver. Many of the objects are aircraft parts such as wings, propellers and helicopter blades. Most of his materials are recycled. He has been focusing on working with helicopter and airplane parts along with hard woods he cuts himself from local windfall trees. The simplicity of form following function in aviation design ties in perfectly with his mid century modern inspired pieces. Pioneering new methods of combining dissimilar materials has become a trademark of his work. MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Catherine Heard selects imagery intuitively, gravitating towards pictures of vehicles, product packaging, processed food, architecture, and home furnishings, signifiers of 20th-century middle-class prosperity and, coincidentally, images familiar from her childhood. Heard deconstructed the pictures of architecture and furniture into component parts, interspersed them with fragmented images of commercial products, and reassembled them into perverse geometric forms inspired by El Lissitzky’s utopian Proun works from the 1920s. His “project for the affirmation of the new”, looked toward a utopian future. Heard’s “Covid Living” series gazes back on the optimism of mid-twentieth-century consumerism with a nostalgic eye. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Eileen Downes at the Stefani Art Gallery in Salem, Oregon, USA through 30 September 2025. Eileen Downes transforms everyday printed paper into radiant visions of the tropics. In "Tropical Treasures", Downes invites the viewer to experience a vivid world where color, texture, and emotion come alive through intricately torn fragments of magazines, maps, packaging, and printed ephemera. From lush botanical vistas to tranquil oceanic dreams, each work invites close inspection—revealing unexpected phrases, hidden meanings, and a richness that grows with every glance. Downes “paints” with paper. Her technique, developed over decades, involves layering hand-torn pieces of printed material with careful precision and intuitive freedom. She works from the inside out, allowing each composition to evolve organically, blending image and text, color and negative space, clarity and abstraction. MORE
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FROM THE PRINT MAGAZINE
From John Heartfield’s early collages ridiculing Hitler to Martha Rosler’s feminist and anti-war collages, collage has a long history of speaking to political and social injustice. In Kolaj 42, we profile San Diego, California-based collagist G. E. Vogt's collage project that takes on Project 2025, a plan by the current administration to reorganize the American government under an executive power that would enact an authoritarian, white supremacist, Christian nationalist agenda. MORE
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AT COLLAGE::BOOKS
COLLAGE::BOOKS, a multi-day event about collage, community, and publishing, presented by Kolaj Institute in Montreal, 2-5 October 2025. Event highlights include Meet & Greet and Collage Making; Visit to Artexte, a library, research centre and exhibition space for contemporary art; the symposium, The Book as a Place for Collage; and Collage on Screen, an evening of collage films. The event runs parallel to VOLUME 8 MTL, Montreal’s annual conference and fair devoted to art publishing and artists’ books. VOLUME 8 MTL is produced by ARCMTL, a Montreal-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving local independent culture.
In this session at the COLLAGE::BOOKS Symposium, The Book as a Place of Collage, we will hear from a number of presenters whose work stands as an argument for a reimagining of how we think about books and the collage in them. Queer, feminist, environmental philosopher and poet-writer-collagist Lynne Huffer (Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA) will speak about how collage can be used for philosophical expression and how she uses collage and décollage "as part of a way to think about fragments, fragmentation, and how to survive in an increasingly fragmented world." McGill University Professor Lynn Butler-Kisber (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) has been on the forefront of arts-based research since the beginning. She will speak about collage as "a means of fighting familiarity and the linearity in written texts, and exploring ideas metaphorically to provide new and nuanced perspectives about experiences and phenomena." Ashley-Devon Williamston (Brooklyn, New York, USA) is "a storyteller who deploys research, poetry, collage, and essay as tools in culture work and preservation." She will speak about how "collagists bridge the realms of myth and science because what we find in the worlds presented to us by a collage can be extracted and carried in the so-called real world to help the carrier achieve a myriad of goals related to individual and collective health, sociocultural belonging, and legacy planning." English collagist, printmaker, and professor Clive Knights (Portland, Oregon, USA) will speak about how "the selecting, editing and design of the book lifts a body of work out of the studio or gallery setting and into another format for discovery by other audiences through the dissemination of literature." Canadian poet Terriann Walling (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) will present Labyrinth of Wind, a 120-page full-colour book made in collaboration with Clive Knights in which 52 original poems are paired with an equal number of collages. Walling will speak about their process which she described "not only as image-making but as a living conversation between word and visual fragment."
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Kolaj Magazine exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present. Your support of this magazine keeps us going and makes it possible for us to investigate and document collage and to promote a deeper, more complex understanding of the medium and its role in art history and contemporary art.
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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
The book combines the text of 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."
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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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PUBLICATION
World Collage Day 2025 Special Edition
In honor of World Collage Day, Kolaj Institute is releasing a special edition of Kolaj Magazine. The Special Edition is full of Cut-Out Pages and stories from inspiring collage artists.
Highlights include "Light in the Darkness," an Editorial by Ric Kasini Kadour about World Collage Day; collage book recommendations; “The Irrational Stage,” a profile of World Collage Day 2025 Poster Artist Rosita Schandy from Montevideo, Uruguay; “Paths of Engagement,” an article about how Victoria, British Columbia collagist Phyllis Schwartz developed ways to engage her community with collage in exhibition and publication; “Rasga Tijera: Collage Collective,” Mayboll Vargas's reporting on how Costa Rica’s first celebration of World Collage Day led to a new collage collective; and eighteen Cut-Out Pages from International Collage Artists. ORDER YOUR COPY
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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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