Miriam Tölke is a contemporary artist whose work is particularly defined by her collages. In these works, she explores the interplay of fragment, surface, and pictorial space, engaging with themes such as memory, perception, and identity. Her collages are created from both found and self-produced imagery and move between figuration and abstraction.
A defining characteristic of Tölke’s collages is her deliberate use of ruptures and transitions. Individual elements are reassembled, shifted, or partially obscured, giving rise to pictorial spaces that resist a singular or fixed interpretation. Emptiness, layering, and reduction play a central role, lending the works a quiet, focused tension.
For Tölke, the collage-based working process is not merely a technique but a way of thinking: the deconstruction and reordering of images becomes a method for making inner states and subjective spaces of memory visible. Materiality, the texture of paper, and surface qualities are essential components of her visual language.
Miriam Tölke lives and works in Berlin. Her works have been shown in exhibitions and are held in private collections.