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Artist in Residence at Brandenburg, near Berlin I’m so excited and so is Uta: we’re going to do another artist residency. This time we are invited to KuBa: Kulturbahnhof. It is about a two hour train journey from Berlin. KuBa:kulturbahnhof is located in the disused train station of the village Klein Warnow in Brandenburg. They… Continue reading Residency at KuBa: Kulturbahnhof

Our Special Edition at Zabriskie We are happy and proud and happy and proud and so proud and happy: our special edition art prints of the Sasso series is now for sale at the most beautiful, interesting and addictive bookstore we know: Zabriskie Buchladen in Berlin. Please have a look at their webshop and if… Continue reading Our work on view at Zabriskie, Berlin

I was invited by artist and teacher Jennifer Schmidt to give a guest lecture. That evening I had the opportunity to talk colours with her class at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. We started with a strong love for Cyan or a very specific longing for Ultramarine blue, preferably… Continue reading Lecture on Colour at Tufts University, Boston

NDSM FUSE9 t/m 25 september 2022Tentoonstelling Our Sasso’s travel. They sailed from Lago Maggiore to Het IJ of Amsterdam and can now be seen in the former shipyard in Amsterdam North in the gallery of NDSM FUSE. Much is different here, but the warm, sweltering heat seems to accompany them from place to place. But… Continue reading Tentoonstelling bij NDSM FUSE

Op uitnodiging van Marie Claire Gellings, was ik één van de vijf adviseurs voor de experimentele projectweken bij Picture 2022 in Dordrecht. Marie Claire is beeldend kunstenaar, docent aan de Willem de Kooning Academie en dit jaar begeleider van vijf beginnende kunstenaars die de mogelijkheid kregen twee weken lang bij het Teekengenootschap Pictura aan een… Continue reading Adviseur Pictura / Dordrecht kleurmeditatie

Ik schreef weer een nieuw essay over kleur. Dit keer over de kleuren der kleuren: de regenboog. Ik onderzoek in dit stuk of de kleuren zelf, wat ze ons tonen en hoe we ze interpreteren, iets kunnen toevoegen aan de discussie over de kleuren van de vlag. “De stuwende puls van de regenboog zorgt ervoor… Continue reading Essay | De stuwende puls van de regenboog

Sasso means stone. We didn’t know that when we sent in our book. In our artist book, we printed 24 images of a stone. It wasn’t until four weeks after we were invited that someone told us; ‘Everything is called Sasso there, because that is Italian for stone.’ Uta has been accompanied by stones for… Continue reading Sasso is a wishing stone | Residency together with Uta Neumann

Sommer Solstice June 21, 2022 This year, during the day with the almost infinite light, the longest day, I’m staying as an artist in residence at Sasso. Together with Uta Neumann, I invited our fellow artists from the house to celebrate the light. Because when we celebrate light we also celebrate colour, we prepared a… Continue reading Celebrate the light | Colour Meditation

Barbara Collé & Uta NeumannArtists in Residence, June 2022 Sasso ResidencyVairano, Ticino, Switzerland We are already looking forward to it from the beginning of January: our time at Lago Maggiore. Sasso Residency invited us after we responded to their Open Call. We sent them an artist book printed with Riso. For the prints we used… Continue reading Artist in residence at Sasso Residency, Switzerland

Location:Die Bibliothek Andreas Züst Date:5 – 10 June 2022 Research at Bibliothek Andreas Züst For more than a week, exactly the week before the library closed for a longer period of time, Uta Neumann and I were guests in the Alpenhof and the Bibliothek Andreas Züst. With a research proposal and a pretty solid bibliography,… Continue reading Research at Bibliothek Andreas Züst