Isabel

Reitemeyer

Today's collage scene is full of big international names who are continually innovating to elevate collage on par with major artistic disciplines. From this great group of artists, I would like to highlight the large number of women of different ages, styles and nationalities who create and innovate collage today. I verified it during the creation and curation of the book Collage by Women, which I published in 2019.

But among this big, energetic and promising panorama of women collagists, in my opinion, one name always stands out above the rest, the German artist Isabel Reitemeyer. Minimalism, subtlety, talent, cynicism and a great ingenuity determine her work, always with a perfect and precise cut to build unique pieces of great poetic value. The perfect proof that less is more. A continuous source of good inspiration. For this publication, we have selected this wonderful series of suggestive portraits, which, based on black and white, further enhance these ideas.

Guest Curator — Rebeka Elizegi

Collage for me means experimenting, re-thinking, and switching off. And it also keeps my mind going.

Isabel Reitemeyer

Isabel Reitemeyer studied visual communication at the University of Applied Sciences for Design in Münster. Before she found her artistic focus in collage, she worked as a printer, freelance graphic designer and has worked as an artistic collaborator in well-known German film productions, including Mogadishu, Das wilde Leben and Der Vorleser. Reitemeyer’s collages have appeared on numerous record and magazine covers and have been shown in exhibitions around the world - including at renowned institutions such as the Bröhan Museum Berlin, the Museum Böttcherstraße Bremen and the Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden.

Courtesy of Isabel Reitemeyer

Isabel Reitemeyer was born in 1966 in Nordhorn, Germany. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

GUEST CURATOR

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REBEKA ELIZEGI

Rebeka Elizegi is an art director and graphic designer based in Barcelona, Spain, where she runs the design studio Alehop, with her partner, illustrator Victor Escandell. Along her commercial works, she creates beautiful and illustrative handmade and digital collages for publishing houses, professional decoration projects, as well as personal exhibitions and art works. Her work has been exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Los Angeles, and Berlin, and her illustrations have appeared in publications like Sample Magazine, Visual, Inspirational, and many others. Her book Collage Therapy was published in 2017 by Promopress.