dust and butterflies

I like working with construction debris.

Insulation, drywall, cardboard - irregular offcuts and leftovers from building the “proper” humanbox of right angles and clean lines are accidental shapes, fragments of utility. Choosing waste asmy primary medium is less an ethical position than an aesthetic and practical one: I’m driven by the ardour of pulling matter back from entropy and making it serve again, if only as an object for contemplation - setting in motion a small cycle from decay and meaninglessness to temporary value, and back.

My work does not follow the familiar logic of recycling. I’m not interested in meeting expectations of “upcycling,” nor in returning trash to the category of the aesthetic as-is. I don’t aim to preserveor emphasize its identity as waste; instead, I focus on joining, fusing, and reprocessing - until the material’s origin becomes irrelevant and a new form takes its place. In photography, my gesture moves in the opposite direction: I don’t create or intervene much.

Everything is already there; my work is to locate the exact viewpoint where reality discloses itself in the way I recognize as true. With objects, I feel both omnipotent and powerless at once: I can force connections, melt, construct, but the material resists, branches, and offers endless alternatives. This tension - between “to reflect” in photography and “to make” in objects - becomes my way of working with time: between the residue of a previous form and the possible beginning of a new one.

My visual language emerges through transformation. I often assemble objects as reliquaries, maps, and systems of display or observation - attempts to hold time, register its traces, fuse chaos with the everyday, and assign them a new kind of value. I use gilding and silvering, deliberately artificial and aerosol-based, to underline the gap between value and its imitation at the moment of exhibition - leaving space for the viewer to construct value on their own terms.

selected exhibitions

• 2021 — pop-up group exhibition, Vinogradov Gallery, Berlin

• 2020 — solo exhibition, BAS Gallery, Berlin

• 2018 — group exhibition, FO You Galler

Tatiana Kligman is an artist, photographer, and interior designer based between Berlin and Prague. Since 2018, her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions.

• 2025 – present,  Berlin / Prague / London — Developing an original collection of art objects

• 2016 – 2025, Berlin / Prague — Interior Designer & Photographer (fashion/editorial and portraiture)

• 2016 – 2024, Berlin — Co-owner, Berlin Art School - photography and educational projects

• 2003 – 2016 — Photographer (fashion and portrait photography)

• 2001 – 2003 — St. Petersburg School of Classical Photography

dust and butterflies

I like working with construction debris.

Insulation, drywall, cardboard - irregular offcuts and leftovers from building the “proper” humanbox of right angles and clean lines are accidental shapes, fragments of utility. Choosing waste asmy primary medium is less an ethical position than an aesthetic and practical one: I’m driven by the ardour of pulling matter back from entropy and making it serve again, if only as an object for contemplation - setting in motion a small cycle from decay and meaninglessness to temporary value, and back.

My work does not follow the familiar logic of recycling. I’m not interested in meeting expectations of “upcycling,” nor in returning trash to the category of the aesthetic as-is. I don’t aim to preserveor emphasize its identity as waste; instead, I focus on joining, fusing, and reprocessing - until the material’s origin becomes irrelevant and a new form takes its place. In photography, my gesture moves in the opposite direction: I don’t create or intervene much.

Everything is already there; my work is to locate the exact viewpoint where reality discloses itself in the way I recognize as true. With objects, I feel both omnipotent and powerless at once: I can force connections, melt, construct, but the material resists, branches, and offers endless alternatives. This tension - between “to reflect” in photography and “to make” in objects - becomes my way of working with time: between the residue of a previous form and the possible beginning of a new one.

My visual language emerges through transformation. I often assemble objects as reliquaries, maps, and systems of display or observation - attempts to hold time, register its traces, fuse chaos with the everyday, and assign them a new kind of value. I use gilding and silvering, deliberately artificial and aerosol-based, to underline the gap between value and its imitation at the moment of exhibition - leaving space for the viewer to construct value on their own terms.

selected exhibitions

• 2021 — pop-up group exhibition, Vinogradov Gallery, Berlin

• 2020 — solo exhibition, BAS Gallery, Berlin

• 2018 — group exhibition, FO You Galler

• 2025 – present,  Berlin / Prague / London — Developing an original collection of art objects

• 2016 – 2025, Berlin / Prague — Interior Designer & Photographer (fashion/editorial and portraiture)

• 2016 – 2024, Berlin — Co-owner, Berlin Art School - photography and educational projects

• 2003 – 2016 — Photographer (fashion and portrait photography)

• 2001 – 2003 — St. Petersburg School of Classical Photography

Tatiana Kligman is an artist, photographer, and interior designer based between Berlin and Prague. Since 2018, her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions.

"my work lives somewhere between play and meaning!"

tatiana kligman
artist

"Working with Walter on our latest campaign was nothing short of remarkable with visuals."

Samantha Carson
Locations Client
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"Walter has an exceptional eye for the details, and his passion for storytelling through visuals."

Jeffery Thorton
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exhibitions

2023 — silent structures, group exhibition, Berlin

collections

private collections
(germany, france, usa)

education

BA in fine arts
academy of arts, 2018

practice

painting, mixed media

index

R01
relic
2025
85 x 60
acryl, recycled canvas, mixed media
R02
relic
2025
85 x 60
acryl, recycled canvas, mixed media
R03
relic
2025
85 x 60
acryl, recycled canvas, mixed media
R04
relic
2025
85 x 60
acryl, recycled canvas, mixed media
R05
relic
2025
63 x 110
acryl, recycled canvas, mixed media
R06
relic
2026
120 x 90
acryl, recycled canvas, mixed media
R07
relic
2026
150 x 50
acryl, recycled canvas, mixed media
P001
pupae
2026
100 x 100
mixed media
P002
pupae
2026
100 x 100
mixed media
P003
pupae
2026
100 x 100
mixed media
P004
pupae
2026
100 x 100
mixed media
P005
pupae
2026
100 x 100
mixed media
P006
pupae
2026
100 x 100
mixed media
P007
pupae
2026
120 x 80
mixed media
TL01
totem
2026
120 x 160
mixed media
TR02
totem
2026
120 x 160
mixed media
T003
totem
2026
60 x 60
mixed media
T004
totem
2026
100 x 80
mixed media
PaperL01
iron maps, paper planes
2026
120 x 160
mixed media
PaperR02
iron maps, paper planes
2026
120 x 160
mixed media
G01
grids
2025
80 x 100
mixed media
G02
grids
2025
80 x 100
mixed media
G03
grids
2025
80 x 100
mixed media
G04
grids
2025
100 x 100
mixed media
G05
grids
2025
80 x 120
mixed media

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