Coller Galerie is the Midwest’s only fine art gallery dedicated exclusively to analog collage.

Located in Columbus, Ohio, Coller Galerie exists to exhibit, promote, and support artists who treat analog collage as a serious fine-art practice.

We believe analog collage can be every bit as intentional, intellectually rigorous, emotionally powerful, and visually sophisticated as any other recognized fine-art medium.

Cutting Paper is Fine Art.

Analog collage has often been dismissed as craft rather than treated as fine art.

Sure, the tools are familiar: paper, scissors, knives, and glue; these things we first touched as children. But a childhood familiarity with a tool doesn’t determine the potential of a medium. It only limits it. 

We want analog collage artists to be exhibited, collected, discussed, and treated with the same seriousness afforded to artists working in more traditionally recognized mediums.

Coller Galerie exists because we believe the artists doing that work deserve these walls.

Because the physical object matters.

Paper has texture. Cuts have edges. Layers create depth and cast shadows. Adhesives, imperfections, aging, scale, and material choices become part of the finished artwork.

A photograph or scan can document an analog collage, but it cannot completely reproduce the experience of standing in front of the original.

Anyone can look at an image online.

We want you to see the art.

That’s why Coller Galerie is a physical gallery dedicated to analog collage

For Coller Galerie, analog is the defining characteristic.

Traditional paper collage is at the heart of what we do, but analog collage does not have to be limited to magazine clippings and paper.

Artists may work with photographs, printed matter, handmade papers, text, paint, found materials, and other physical materials.

What matters is that the work is physically constructed rather than digitally assembled and that its source materials are transformed into a new work.

The finished piece should become something of its own—not simply reproduce or closely resemble the material it came from.

We don’t want to tell artists what analog collage is supposed to look like.

It can be beautiful or ugly. Funny or devastating. Precise or chaotic. Abstract or narrative. Highbrow or lowbrow. Political, personal, surreal, confrontational, quiet, ridiculous, meticulous, or strange.

We aren’t looking for a single Coller Galerie style.

We’re interested in artists who take what they make seriously.

Coller Galerie works with analog collage artists through group exhibitions, individual exhibitions, open calls, and other gallery programming.

Experience level matters less to us than the work.

You don’t need the right résumé, an art degree, gallery representation, or an impressive list of previous exhibitions to make serious art.

If you make analog collage and take your work seriously, we want to see it.

How can I submit artwork?

Coller Galerie holds open calls for analog collage artists as exhibition opportunities become available.

Our calls include information about the exhibition, eligibility, deadlines, artwork requirements, delivery or shipping, sales, and anything else you need to know before submitting.

Visit our Open Call page for current opportunities.

No.

Coller Galerie takes 0% commission on artist sales.

When your artwork sells through the gallery, 100% of the sale goes to you.

We don’t believe in making money off the people we’re here to uplift and support.

It’s your art. You made it.

You deserve that money.

Can I buy artwork from Coller Galerie?

Yes.

Original analog collage shown through Coller Galerie is available through our online shop when offered for sale by the artist.

Buying original work directly supports the artists we exhibit.

Visit the Coller Galerie Shop!

Yes.

Collage workshops are offered online and in person through paperwasteland Studios.

The workshops are an opportunity to make collage, experiment with materials and techniques, and participate in the analog collage community regardless of experience level.cription

Coller is the French verb meaning “to glue,” “to stick,” or “to paste.” It’s also where the word collage comes from.

Galerie is French for gallery.

So, very roughly: The Gluing Gallery.

We thought that was pretty fitting.

Coller Galerie
289 W Walnut St
Studio #23
Columbus, OH 43215

Coller Galerie is located in Columbus’s Franklinton arts community.

Franklinton Fridays
Second Friday of every month
4 PM–11 PM

Studio Saturdays
Last Saturday of every month
10 AM–6 PM

Gallery hours may also vary for exhibitions, openings, workshops, and special events.

Check the site for current exhibition and event information before making a special trip.

Franklinton Fridays is a monthly arts event in Columbus’s Franklinton neighborhood.

Studios, galleries, creative spaces, artists, and other neighborhood organizations open their doors to the public.

Coller Galerie participates in Franklinton Fridays on the second Friday of every month from 4 PM–11 PM.

It’s one of the best times to visit the gallery, see analog collage in person, meet people, and explore the surrounding arts community

Analog collage is artwork physically constructed by combining and transforming existing materials into a new whole.

At Coller Galerie, analog construction—not a particular kind of paper, subject matter, or visual style—is the defining characteristic.

But this is a much bigger question than we can answer in a paragraph.

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