Vesna Vrdoljak

Vesna Vrdoljak is a collage artist living and working in Amsterdam. Vesna fuses analogue pictures from cooks, newspaper, and numerous other mediums and publications to create her astonishing and bizarre artworks. In perfect and imperfect geometry, strange colours, and unexpected scenes she can truly prove that collages are rightfully considered a form of art today.

KALTBLUT: How did you start working with collages?

Vesna: For as long as I can remember I liked to collect magazines, postcards, leaflets, brochures; everything with images really. I do not remember the exact moment but I do remember looking at images and being drawn to a certain kind of aspect (a subject, color or shape). It was an instinctive action to cut out this appealing part and combine it with an appealing part from another source. This is I guess how things started.

KALTBLUT: Where do you get your ideas from? Where do you get material from?

Vesna: I get my materials from flea markets, second hand book stores, bars/cafes, cultural venues, magazines.
Lately I use Pinterest a lot for visualizing my ideas. I have a certain atmosphere in mind like for instance: minimal, light and soft and then I look for images that I think match this feeling. Then I create a mood board and start working.

KALTBLUT: How does collage differ from other art forms?

Vesna: I cannot tell you since I don’t express myself in other art forms. To me, collage is about assembling existing images in order to create new realities. Maybe other art forms are more about direct expression.