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Katrien de Blauwer (born 1969, Ronse, Belgium) is a Belgian collage artist and "photographer without a camera" recognized for her intimate, tactile compositions assembled from mid-20th-century print media.
De Blauwer works almost exclusively with vintage magazines, newspapers, and printed ephemera, cutting and reassembling found imagery into minimal, evocative photomontages. By cropping out identifying features, such as faces, limbs, or specific settings, she strips images of their original narrative context to highlight pure form, color contrast, and geometric structure. Her work is characterized by hand-cut elements paired with monochromatic fragments, painted surfaces, or bold color fields. She arranges fragments in sequential or paired arrangements that mirror film stills and visual storyboards and emphasizes the physical properties of paper, ink, and aging media, turning physical printed matter into singular art objects.
Her work has been widely published by international photobook presses, turning her collage series into acclaimed physical volumes:
Based in Antwerp, de Blauwer exhibits extensively across Europe and North America. Her works are shown at leading galleries and institutions, including Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire (Paris), Bildhalle (Zurich/Amsterdam), and Fifty One Gallery (Antwerp), and are held in numerous private and public print archives worldwide.
