GNDG

Contemporary collage - hand-cut originals and limited edition prints. Her practice shifted from teaching to making.

GNDG is Gundega Melberga - a contemporary collage artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After graduating from the Master's program Education in Arts at Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem de Kooning Academy in summer 2021 she re-discovered her love and passion for collage. She works in hand-cut paper collage and photo assemblage mediums. In some of her work, she mixes hands-on techniques with

digital means of expression such as non-narrative video & soundscapes. The analogue aspect, however, is essential to her work - it allows to engage with the work on a more sensuous level and it adds a layer of physicality. The small errors and imperfections made during the cutting or glueing process become traces of her presence, her touch. Each collage comes about by handpicking magazine clippings and then re-arranging them again and again, often this process resembles painting where, instead of working with paint and brushes, she is using images and paper.

20/04/2022

Three things I really really like: books, art and thrifted stuff. All three make your house look super cozy by the way. Not to mention that, besides looking good, viewing art and reading can actually make you a better person. In fact, it’s scientifically proven that those things improve critical thinking skills and empathy 🤓
Till the end of April get 5% off all my prints with code RAECHELL 🔗 link in bio
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Check out for nice vintage and antique items ✨
Photo credit: .creative 🤎

19/04/2022

There are people who think in words, and then there are people who think in pictures. Guess which one am I? 🥹

Check out my visual ruminations on the relationship of body and space on my website & at till the end of April 👀

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get some nice art for your walls in my webshop

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19/04/2022

Prints from the collage series I AM THE SEA AT NIGHT now also available at the ✨✨✨

19/04/2022

“what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveller's past changes according to the route he has followed: not the immediate past, that is, to which each day that goes by adds a day, but the more remote past. Arriving at each new city, the traveller finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”

text from INVISIBLE CITIES by italo Calvino

in the pictures:
A4 size print of the collage AMSTERDAM - printed on premium quality museum paper using Giclee printing method / signed and numbered / edition of 30 prints

original collage AMSTERDAM - magazine clippings on paper / 30 x 40 cm / signed and framed

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19/04/2022

what’s on my walls? a collage of many things: dried flowers that were once a nice bouquet gifted by a friend, plants, notes, flower poster that was hidden in a thrifted frame, David Bowie postcard from London, and lots and lots of nice memories.

19/04/2022

Spring is a time of change. If you’re planning to make some changes also in your interior, consider mixing contemporary with vintage and antiques. By layering multiple styles together, you create a look of a home that’s unique and collected over time, versus something cookie-cutter that came straight out of a catalogue.

offers antiques and vintage items for home. On their webshop you will find gems like Delft pottery and many more.

Till the end of April get 5% off all my prints with code RAECHELL 🔁 link in bio

photo credit: .creative

19/04/2022

I find it extremely hard to be still. To sink into my body and listen, to just be here and now. I always want to rush, do things, move around, work and plan, and it never stops, it goes on and on. However, I notice that, when I do manage to reach that moment of physical calmness and stillness, also my mind quiets down, allowing for new perspectives, allowing for different kinds of knowledge and aspects of me to emerge.

in the picture: DOLCE FAR NIENTE print from the collage series I AM THE SEA AT NIGHT

Edition of 30, signed and numbered, available in 3 different sizes in my web shop 🔁 link in bio

19/04/2022

“If the body is the mind, then it has the capacity to learn and memorize. Every movement in space and time - be it a walk, a dance, or otherwise, every gesticulation, every exercise of the muscles and the cells that make up the body - is possibly remembered. But every intervention on the body - scarifications, tattoos, scars, or injuries - trigger that process of memory.”

text from CORPOLITERACY in COUNTER_READINGS OF THE BODY by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

in picture: print of collage BLACK AND WHITE BUILDING available in 2 different sizes in my online store 🔁 link in bio

19/04/2022

All the places we have once been at in some way always resides within us. There are moments when a certain position your body takes, or a combination of sounds or smells take you back to a place from the past within seconds

In the picture: print of the collage SKIN AND SAND available in 3 sizes online 🔁 link in bio

07/04/2022

'The best way to understand fernweh is through analyzing exactly what it is not—homesickness. A familiar term and common feeling many have experienced at some point in time, homesickness is an acute longing for one’s home during a prolonged time in its absence. While homesickness can lead to distress and suffering, it is nonetheless, in most cases, a mendable ‘sickness’—we can always return home. Fernweh, or farsickness, is also a suffering, but is less clear cut and rectifiable. It is a consuming longing to be somewhere you’ve never been; an aching to be in a distant and unknown land, an ambiguous yearning for anything, anywhere else, as anyone else.'

text from FERNWEH by Talia Gutin

in the picture: A4 size print SLEEP from the collage series I AM THE SEA AT NIGHT available at gundegamelberga.squarespace.com 🔁 link in bio

07/04/2022

I’ve always enjoyed wandering the city on public holidays when the majority of people have gone to the countryside, or early in the morning when everyone’s still asleep. When the chatter and noise is gone from the streets, a different soundscape of the city emerges. I can hear the birds singing, the rustling of leaves, my own breath. The sound of my feet touching the pavement somehow seems to bring me closer to the place, the almost physical dimension of it comes with the feeling of belonging. I have become incorporated in a way.

🔁 Link in bio for more images and words and art prints for your walls

07/04/2022

Behind this piece is a story of sisterhood, belonging, and childhood memories of summer evenings that smell of honeysuckle. In the language of flowers, honeysuckle is most commonly taken to mean love and affection, it is believed to signify happiness and kindness. All the things I associate with true friendship and family.

LISANNE INGA hand-cut collage
available as limited-edition signed and numbered fine art print ➡️ link in bio

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Doedesstraat 24A
Rotterdam
3022VE

Website

https://gundegamelberga.squarespace.com/

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