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  • August—Everything Is Changing

    August—Everything Is Changing

    Between Summer Light and Moving Boxes By August, I usually find myself thinking again that this summer is coming to an end. The evenings are getting shorter, already signaling the arrival of the next season. This year, I’m noticing this change more clearly than ever. That’s because I’m facing some big changes: I’ll be moving…


  • Two bird-like figures made of plant debris, wearing colorful party hats, surrounded by confetti and streamers, above the words “February – Diversity.”

    February -Diversity

    Fool’s freedom for your own perspective This monthly reflection is part of an annual series of monthly, personal notes at. You can find the introductory text here: My Journey to Art—and Back to Myself Admittedly: February can be gray and wet, and in my world of experience, carnival and camels have never been the saving,…

  • Detail of a collage - a landscape is created from the remains of jewelry and plants

    So beautiful it makes you melt

    On Herons, Mud, and the Art of Observation Over the past few days, we’ve really indulged in winter once again. Walks through storm-swept snowdrifts, the crunch of our footsteps, and then that silence—soft and muffled, as if we had cotton in our ears—the full package, right here. Well, that’s over now. The roads are clear…

  • Magdalena Hohlweg is hugging a big snowman in a snow-covered park.

    January – silent glow

    Happy New Year! And now? Silent glow: the snowman and me. We do our best January doesn’t have a good reputation – too little light, too much stagnation. It’s like the big yawn after the party.The music is off. The glasses have been washed. Somewhere between tiredness and anticipation, I ask myself:And now? Yet every…

  • A close-up photograph of small plant fragments against a light background, to be used as source material for a new collage.

    The True Christmas Story

    My art is still about the small finds, the subtle wonders along the way. Today I would like to share a fascinating story with you that has particularly touched me in recent weeks – a true winter story about light, darkness and rebirth – and for me the spark for a new, small series that…

  • A round, silver-plated pendant featuring a miniature collage of flower petals arranged to form a mother bird with her chicks.

    December magic

    – the light in the dark times When the days grow shorter and, in some places, it hardly gets light at all, a space emerges that no other month can create: an in-between place full of memories, longings, and little wonders. I often experience December exactly that way—as if it had its own quiet kind…

  • A collage featuring a shriveled rosehip as a figure and the words “Art is dead—Long live art.”

    November: Art is dead!

    Long live art! Oh, this gray! This desolation! Can we perhaps skip this season? Every year it comes back to me without me having ordered it – this miserable wet, this drizzly weather. Nature is dying before our very eyes. It doesn’t help to look away. Anyone who didn’t make it to the sunny south…

  • A collage featuring a large dragonfly made of real wings and a twig body, surrounded by plant remains, beetle fragments, and everyday found objects.

    And my soul spreads its wings wide

    The last warm rays of sunshine make the dragonflies dance – and my heart skip a beat Dragonflies have a short life and sometimes I find the remains of one of these fairy-like creatures. Then I am delighted when their delicate wings are still intact. They are tiny works of art – their wafer-thin weave…

  • Magdalena Hohlweg is standing in front of a bed of pink begonias in the Bad Pyrmont spa gardens.

    October: Time for art

    The world is pink – and October is creative There you go: In the Bad Pyrmont spa gardens, the begonias in perfect harmony provide the proof – pink is the trend color in October. And I’m right in the middle of it. Pink suits me, doesn’t it? 🌺😉 Everything looks so much better in pink…

  • A caricatured artist stands looking bored in front of a gold-framed picture of a banana.

    What is art? Definition and meaning

    Art – Everything banana? Is sticking a banana on the wall still art? Or: what actually makes Salvador Dali famous? And why does the whole world love Mona Lisa? Art is as versatile as the people who create it. It provokes, reflects, poses questions, opens up visions – or conjures up apocalypses. It can heal,…

  • Three moon moths are sitting side by side on an outstretched hand.

    The metamorphosis

    This art project begins with the observation of the life cycle of moon moths—and leads to the question of what change means to us as human beings. Caterpillar and butterfly are actually one and the same thing However, every individual undergoes a metamorphosis in their lifetime that changes their appearance so colossally that it seems…


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