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WeegeeWeegee (aka Ariane Severin) is a German-Norwegian artist working with photography-based collage and embroidery. Born in Frankfurt am Main, formally educated in art history and photography, she has lived in Paris, Venice and Beirut, and now resides between London, Frankfurt and a small volcano in Greece. WeegeeWeegee went through an artistic transformation in 2014 and started working with photography-based collage, a process which included changing the artist name.

Style and technique
WeegeeWeegee’s artwork is a psycho-geographical journey where notions of the subconscious, memory, literature, films and esoteric symbolism filter into the work. The collages and embroidery, based on original 19/20th Century portraiture photographs, bring back life to the dead and turn them into reincarnations from a subconscious jungle of historic imprints.

Solo exhibitions
Eros 49 Frankfurt, Germany 13- 14 December 2018
 * ‘The Joys of Eros’

Curated by Scott Wilson Heroes Square, Nisyros, Greece 1 - 10 August 2017
 * 'WeegeeWeegee Wunderkammer'

Exit Gallery, Athens 1 November - 1 December 2016
 * 'Return of the Living Dead'

L'altare dei Morti di Roma e la Resurrezione di Deliceto' Curated by Lorenzo Canova Baronato Quatro Bellezze Gallery, Rome 13 May - 12 June 2016
 * 'WeegeeWeegee tra le Vergini di Palermo,

Dalle Virgini di Palermo all'Altare dei Morti a Roma' Curated by Rocco Marino, Vincenzo Mazzarella & Francesco Petillo Il Castello Normanno-Svevo di Deliceto - Puglia 1 December 2015 - 7 January 2016
 * 'WeegeeWeegee al Castello:

Monserrato Arte 900, Rome 2 - 18 November 2015 (was extended until end of December)
 * 'The Altar of the Dead'

Oratorio di San Lorenzo, Palermo 11 March - 15 April 2015
 * 'The Virgins of Palermo'

The ArtsLav, London 1 - 10 November 2014 The Old Library, Mandraki, Nisyros, Greece 30 July – 3 August 2014
 * 'Souls of the Unrepentant'
 * ‘Ametanoitoi’

Press and articles

 * 1) http://www.artlyst.com/whats-on-archive/weegee-weegee-souls-of-the-unrepentant-an-exhibition-of-collages-curated-by-francesco-petillo-artslav/
 * 2) http://kromamagazine.com/event/weegeeweegee-return-living-dead-exit-gallery/
 * 3) http://espresso.repubblica.it/foto/2015/02/18/galleria/le-vergini-di-palermo-di-francesco-petillo-1.200050#1
 * 4) https://www.athensvoice.gr/culture/arts/328942_epistrofi-ton-zontanon-nekron
 * 5) http://www.amicimuseisiciliani.it/amicideimusei/?p=802