WEIRD SHOW

TWS is an art platform dedicated to the showcase and exploration of contemporary collage through exhibitions, publishing and workshops & sessions.

The whole thing is co-curated by Rubén B and Max-o-matic

08/21/2026

"AL: How much does the happy accident figure into what you do?�LB: The Angel of Accidents drops in at her convenience. Can't quantify.
AL: What makes something art?�LB: A frame, a pedestal."�— Lou Beach

Beach declines to answer either question in the terms they were asked, and that refusal is itself the answer: art's boundary and its accidents both resist explanation, so he doesn't force one. Coming from someone who has worked in collage for sixty years, that reads as a conclusion rather than a shrug. Some artists spend careers trying to define the frame; Beach just points at it.

Read more. https://theweirdshow.info/2022/06/28/art-is-a-difficult-process-i-prefer-to-make-yard-work-a-conversation-with-collage-legend-lou-beach

08/18/2026

Liss Fenwick's new book has an unusual set of co-authors: a termite colony that's been living under their childhood home in the Northern Territory for years.

Fenwick gathered old textbooks, the kind built on frontier myths and one-sided histories that left out First Nations cultures, and fed the whole stack to the colony to see what would happen. What came back wasn't ruin. It was structure: chambers and passageways built where the pages used to be.

Fenwick never cut a single page themselves. Choosing which books went in, and where, was the whole job. The termites did the rest, underground, without being asked to make any kind of statement.

We keep coming back to this: collage doesn't need a hand holding a blade. It just needs something willing to take things apart and put them back together differently. This time, that something had six legs.

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08/15/2026

"We all collage every day: our memories, the way we put on clothes, how we arrange food, how we organise our junk, the way we walk, the way we talk, the way we sing. Collage pieces it all together, and for me it is the strongest communication there is."�— Kubi Vasak

Vasak points to one repeated action underneath every item on his list: arranging fragments into something legible, whether the fragments are photographs or gestures. That claim extends collage past the studio into every ordinary decision a person makes about how to present themselves. If arranging is the constant, the scissors were always optional.

https://theweirdshow.info/2023/05/10/bloom-tall-botanical-artistry-and-collage-at-kubi-vasaks-upcoming-exhibition

08/13/2026

A lot of you found us in the past few months. Welcome!

We know this account can be confusing if you just landed here. Some paper collage, some paintings, some sculpture, some photography. So here's a quick FAQ on what we actually do, why it doesn't always look like traditional collage, and how to be part of it if you want in.

Short version: we think collage stopped being just paper and glue a while ago. It's becoming a way of thinking, and we're here to track where it shows up next.

Questions? Ask in the comments.
Memberships: link in bio.

Cover art: Julien Boudet ( ) featured on TWS in April, 2023.

08/10/2026

Bernie Diaz () has never really finished a collage.
He works in series of twenty to thirty pieces, and a completed one doesn't stay sealed. Years later he'll go back, tear something open, and fold it into whatever he's building next. He calls his studio an ecosystem, work still in dialogue with itself long after it was supposedly done.

The idea comes from somewhere bigger than the studio. Personal and cultural history both arrive with pieces missing, and Diaz has spent years thinking about what people do to fill those gaps. His reference point is Mr. DNA from Jurassic Park, the gaps in the dinosaur genome patched with frog DNA. He sees the same thing happening whenever someone tries to make sense of an incomplete story, including their own.

Even his process starts before he's touched anything. The night before a new piece, he gathers fragments and lets the relationships between them settle while he sleeps.

Read the full interview: link in bio.

08/06/2026

"There's a sort of organic connection between things for me. Collecting and connecting is the basis of collage, be it image with image, image with text, video, concept, historical paradigms."�— Vera Gomes

�Gomes treats connection itself as the material, more than any single image or object. That widens collage past a stack of clippings into a method for handling ideas across completely different forms at once. Once connection is the material, almost nothing sits outside the practice.

https://theweirdshow.info/2020/05/18/vera-gomes-carving-stones-with-glitches

08/03/2026

Poe de Laf paints in oil. No scissors, no glue, no paper. But something about how these fabrics get pushed together on the same figure (florals, an eye print, camouflage cloth) still reads like collage to us.

She's French, born in Marseille, painting since she was sixteen. PhD in Modern and Contemporary Art. Splits her time these days between Barcelona and Paris.

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07/30/2026

We have a confession: our membership program broke, and we don't even know who to apologize to.

Right after launch, a technical issue meant the whole system quietly stopped working. Nobody was charged, nobody got a confirmation, and we didn't get any notification either. We thought things were just quiet, until a few people emailed us to say something felt off: the money was still sitting in their account.

We also have no way of knowing who tried to join. No log, no list, no record we can pull. If that's you: thank you for trying, and we're sorry it didn't work. We'd love for you to try again, now that it's fixed.

Join at the level that makes sense for you.
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07/26/2026

"Collage is rattling at our understanding of time, or more precisely, cutting into it: bringing the past into the present."�— Valerie von Meiss

Von Meiss treats the cut as interference in time itself, disrupting the assumption that past and present stay separated. That reframes cutting as a political act as much as a compositional one. A medium built on interrupting time doesn't sit quietly in a culture obsessed with staying current.

https://theweirdshow.info/2018/04/12/the-curve-gives-berlin-an-art-space-solely-dedicated-to-contemporary-collage

07/20/2026

Michael Harnish couldn't get into his studio after his first son was born. So he started making collages instead, small, at home, no plan beyond making images with what he had.

Later, he began painting those collages at a much larger scale, recreating the tears and rough edges by hand, in oil, next to sections that are fully rendered. Nothing in the final piece is actually torn or glued.

His figurative work chases natural beauty and balance. His collage-based work goes the other way, toward deconstruction and imperfection. He doesn't pick one: "beauty balances and tempers the tension that exists."

Read the full interview, link in bio.

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