Mouth of the Oracle
The Mouth of the Oracle 2024The Mouth of the Oracle 37 x 12 x 2 cm in card board case, ready made, collage, drawing, painting, wooden letter stamping, ink-jet and text by T.Bergelt in English. During a residency at the Finnish Institute in...
Pas de deux
Pas de Deux – dance for two 2022A term describing a dance, an intricate relationship involving two parties seemed to fit perfectly my intent to showcase the relation between the writer Vladimir Nabokov and the Polyommatus blue butterflies. In...
morgiges dunstland
morgiges dunstland 201222 x 27 cm, collage, Japanese and blue print papers, Japanese binding, text in ink jet on paper stripes, one of a kind. Poem in German by T.Bergelt. Thoughts about how much remains in the fog, although there is a window,...
too much 2 little
too much 2 little 202027 x 14 x 1 cm, a concertina of a Sommerset sheet with stencil and rubber prints, folded in a blue paper-jacket of handmade Thailand paper. Each of us has experienced this feeling. It follows us through out life more or...
sator rotas
sator rotas 202014 x 24 x1,5 cm, ready made, soft cover, collages, cut-outs and stencil, glued binding, series of 2. The Sator Rotas is a two dimensional Latin palindrome, which consists of a 5 x 5 square made up of five 5-letter words. It is...
zwischen den zeilen – between the lines
zwischen den zeilen - between the lines 202021 x 28 cm, collage, cut outs on music score paper 200gm, stitched binding, soft cover, series of 2. An invitation to read in between the lines.THUMBNAILS
Dis Manibus – carved in stone
DIS MANIBUS – CARVED IN STONE 202028 x 37 x 5 cm (slipcase), 25 x 36 cm (book), 26 leaves bound, edition of 13 photos and rubbings from stones in Rome, Italy, text “Child Priests in Ancient Rome”, by Roosa Kallunki, Finland photo collages,...
AUF-TAKT
AUF-TAKT 202022 x 27 cm, Japanese papers woven into 8 pages, rubber stamp, Japanese binding, in office folder, edition of 4. Shedding light on how the different pre-fixes shift the meaning of the word despite of the same word stem in German...
FOR-PLAY
FOR-PLAY 202022 x 27 cm, Japanese papers woven into 8 pages, stone lithography, rubber stamp Japanese binding, in office folder, edition of 6. This work examines in a similar way than AUF-TAKT the importance of detailed dismemberment of words...
“R…evolution”
"R...evolution" 202016 x 26 cm, 10 collages, stencil on antic music score paper 220 gm in archival cardboard folder, with hot foil embossing, sewn binding, a series of 2. Related to the ISOLATION during Covid 19 ...(R)EVOLUTION of 15OL471ON"...
sauna sielu – sauna seele
sauna sielu – sauna seele 201920 x 15 x 4 cm, pigment print on Rakusui 21 gm and handmade Thailandese papers, stich bound, woolen flees and hump cover, edition of 7. Sauna is very commonly used in Finland. It represents history, memory and the...
Compass(ion)
Compass(ion) 2019 19 x 14 x 5 cm, aquarelle, stencil, cut outs, stitched binding, compass, embedded into the cardboard book case, edition of 3. Based on a poem by the artist in English about how a person loses direction in life due to the loss...
Blue demon
blue demon 2019two books each 15 x 15 cm in cardboard cassette 16 x 33 x 2,5 cm with a lego stripe, paper napkins coffee stained and painted, water- and spray-color, collage wooden stamp, pigment print, 10 leaves, Japanese binding, edition of...
Shabbat
Shabbat with the Suprematists 2017 34 x 22 x 2 cm, ready made, hard cover, collages, cut outs, tempera paintings, one of a kind This is a facsimile of Or Hahaim - (Light of Life) an important work of commentaries and interpretations of the...
unter / under
unter der sonne – under the sun 201727 x 14 x 1 cm, 9 booklets side bound, collage, stamp and drawing on Chinese and Japanese papers in a linnen covered card board box with inlayed stones, poem by artist, one of a kind. Meta themes like mother...
time’s memory – ajan muisti
time’s memory – ajan muisti 201722 x 30 x 5 cm, three books in cardboard box with metal plate inlay, hot foil embossing on linen hard cover, photo collages in pigment print on Kozo 21gm, Inoshi 12 gm and Rakusui 9 gm papers, Japanese binding...
barfuss im schnee – barefoot in snow
barfuss im schnee – barefoot in snow 20152 books, hardcover, 21 x 30 cm, in cardboard linen covered box 22 x 31 x 3 cm, photo collages in pigment print on Kozo 21gm, Inoshi 12 gm and Rakusui 9 gm papers, lichen in foil, sewing, Japanese...
Rhytmus le Rouge
Rhytmus le rouge 201228 x 45 cm, stone lithography on Japanese paper, stamp, text leaves sewn collage - like, Japanese binding, housed in a red felt wrapper with facsimile manuscript by Marcel Moreau in French and German, in an external pouch,...
Ilmatar
Ilmatar 201122 x 23 x 2 cm, stone lithography and rubber print on Kouzo and Ganpi papers, Japanese bound, in wooden box, with one additional uncut stone print 95 x 63 cm, 6 copies A collaboration with Japanese artist Ryoko Adachi, exploring...
DNA, DNS
DNA, DNS 201060 x 20 x 2 cm silicon lithography, photo collage, pigment print on Raksui 21gm paper, plexi glass cover, Japanese binding, in card board box, 4 copies DNA patterns, printed like visible in an electrophoretic method in 1995 are...