photo de l'artiste virginie Hotte . femme souriante avec courte chevelure brune, portant un pull gris clair, en arrière-plan un mur orange avec une peinture abstraite.

Biographie

Virginie Hotte is a contemporary collage and mixed-media artist whose visual language is rooted in photography, texture, and layered composition.
Raised in a family environment that valued creativity and freedom of expression, she developed an early sensitivity to aesthetics that continues to shape her artistic practice today.

Initially trained in law and taxation, she maintained a strong connection to photography throughout her career. Her artistic path fully emerged during her years in Mauritius, where she returned to drawing and painting and discovered mixed-media collage, which has since become her signature medium.

Her work blends photographic fragments, graphic elements, and textured materials, creating compositions that explore the relationship between memory, perception, and visual construction. Each piece reflects a personal yet contemporary approach to collage.

Now based in Belgium, Virginie Hotte’s artworks are part of private collections in France, Belgium, UK, Mexico, Cambodia, and Mauritius.

For a complete list of exhibitions, please visit the Exhibitions page.

New York, Une rue urbaine avec des bâtiments rouges et orange, un passage piéton, un arbre verdoyant, des lampadaires, et une petite flaque d'eau reflétant les bâtiments.

ARTISTIC statment

Virginie Hotte is a contemporary collage and mixed-media artist who uses collage as both a free and structuring mode of expression. Her practice connects photography-based art, visual texture, and layered composition to create a personal language positioned between reality and imagination.

Each artwork begins with a personal photograph, often captured during her travels. This image becomes the foundation of the piece, then evolves through transformation, layering, and recomposition. The result is a visual landscape—sometimes abstract, sometimes figurative—shaped by emotion, memory, and perception.

In a fast-paced world saturated with images, Virginie Hotte’s collages offer moments of pause and reflection. Through cutting, layering, and assembling, she explores themes such as memory, trace, and the different strata of reality. Every visual fragment becomes a way to question time, experience, and the construction of meaning.

Her artistic process places the initial photograph at the center of a broader transformation, affirming collage as a medium of thought, memory, and contemporary visual experimentation. Now based in Belgium, she continues to develop a unique body of work rooted in sensory experience and photographic observation.

Artistic Training

  • Art workshops with Caroline Semonella Martial — Mauritius

  • Mixed-media and collage courses at Art Lab with Mauritian artist David Lagesse — Mauritius

  • Drawing and painting classes with Liz Guimbeau — Mauritius

  • Ceramics training at Terracotta Studio — Brussels