Collage series

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Tatiana Bulanova
This series of 3D collages explores the fragmented, paradoxical experience of living in a metropolis — specifically, Berlin. It’s a city of contrasts: vibrant and grey, liberating yet exhausting, full of promise but never without struggle. These artworks aim to capture that complex reality where the bright and the bleak intertwine so closely that it becomes hard to tell — are you still enjoying it or surviving through it?

Each collage is built on the layers that make up urban life: bits of architecture, shadows of passers-by, ubiquitous trash, accidental beauty, and everyday chaos. They’re not clean or curated — they’re raw, messy, upsetting. Like the city itself.

This project doesn’t romanticize Berlin, but it doesn’t reject it either. It celebrates the city in all its shabby glory — not in spite of the grime and confusion, but because of it. This city, for better or worse, gets under your skin — and these collages are a love letter to exactly that.

Each collage is a unique copy, consists of photo prints, colour paper, foils / 20x30 cm
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Artist's statement
My work is usually created around a theme that I feel is capable of turning common beliefs and conformities upside down. My current medium is photography. Depending on the subject, I use a vintage analogue camera, a digital one or a simple smartphone lens. Other applications and mixed media materials help me to convey a sense of 'otherworldliness' to the subject or to highlight an unusual side of everyday things and situations.

I believe it's extremely important to keep your eyes and your mind wide open, to see the world more complicated than it seems at first glance. By creating these new layers in my pictures, I'm trying to lift the veil of reality and have a good laugh at its underlining.

My debut art project "Couch Searching" was created between 2021 and 2024. Further projects follow in the steps of the first one, with the main goal of juxtaposing the conventional beliefs with the essence of things.
  • Tatiana Bulanova
    Tatiana (Tanya) Bulanova, born in Saratov, USSR (Russia) in 1987, is a Berlin-based photographer and visual artist. MA in Russian Literature, worked as an editor on various book projects. Her interest in photography grew as she was a student, first by exploring analogue photography with a second-hand Zenith, then moving on to the more technically advanced Pentax. As a freelance photographer, Tatiana focused on commercial portraiture. It wasn't until quite a while later that she switched to art projects. It happened in Germany, where Tatiana moved to in 2016. Since then she dedicated her photo and mix media works to commemorating the quirky side of the metropolis, addressing such topics as immigration, self-reinvention and questioning the very essence of art.


Photocredits:Tatiana Bulanova
All photo and video materials belong to their owners and are used for demonstration purposes only. Please do not use them in commercial projects.
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