Clare Celeste

Clare Celeste Börsch is a collage and installation artist based in Berlin, Germany with her husband and son. As an environmentalist artist, she uses her work to create immersive installations of flowers and fauna that bring awareness and inspire action toward the ecological and biodiversity crises around the world.

Biodiversity

“68% of biodiversity has been lost in just 50 years. As I rip down, and then mend, 68% of my installation, I share a message of love, urgency and hope.”

Celeste’s love of collage comes from her own background of having to grow up all over the world. She compares her life to a collage of sorts and establishes her love of creating collages on a personal level. She would start by collecting, cutting, and sorting out all her collected images before delving into focused sprints of creativity to make her large works.

Celeste has even stated in an interview that her most prized object in the studio is her image collection. She has her collection organized into boxes with labels of what they contain such as “reptiles and amphibians,” “tropical flowers,” “roses,” “succulents,” and “snakes” just to name a few.

Holding Light (2021)

“Holding Light is a rotating chandelier made from images of flora and fauna. The work was accompanied by three personal essays that wove together personal narrative with broader issues of racial, social and environmental justice. The closing component was a guided meditation. The meditation was offered as a gift and a way to gather strength and light in dark times.”

Celeste’s mission when creating her work and installations is to:

• Partner with those committed to a just, regenerative and biodiverse future that is powered by 100% renewable energy.
• Create collaborative works that engage audiences of all ages on the importance of biodiversity.
• Use art as a form of environmental activism.

The Healing Garden

“The Healing Garden’s branches were foraged from local forest beds and the translucent leaves are made from a homemade bioplastic of red algae, plant gelatine, water, and organic food dyes.”

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