Rosi Feist

I love the trivial. I could find inspiration for my next motif in a garden chair or a rubbish bin. I was born 1981 in the German Democratic Republic in Dresden Saxony and grown up in a small town near to the border of Western Germany and the Czech Republic. I’m currently live in Berlin in a small wooden house with my wife, my newborn daughter and my dog.

I have studied Media Art & Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar. All of my work is a analog process. I’m doing handmade paper collages. So that my one and only medium is colored paper. I use different knifes, scissors, paper cutter and glue.

At first I scribble my ideas on paper and try different combinations and angles. Sometimes I use a photo as a template. Then I select the size and collect the paper that I would like to use. After that I’m cutting everything, put it all together and make corrections. In the end I fix it with glue on the background.

Many of my motifs are inspired by photographs taken by my wife from trips around the world. She loves to take photos from abandoned motels, desert cacti, secluded service stations and trivial objects are thrust into the spotlight.