German artist and science journalist Marita Vollborn (born 1965 in Erfurt, former East Germany) has been active on the Saatchi Art platform since 2026. Under the profile https://www.saatchiart.com/maritavollborn, she currently offers six original works – expressive, figurative sculptures made of clay, some cast in bronze.
Vollborn describes herself as “a science journalist by profession and a sculptor by vocation.” Her professional background includes a degree in crop production (1989), journalism studies at the University of Music, Drama and Media in Hanover, and the founding of her own agency for science journalism. She has published several bestselling non-fiction books on biotechnology, health, consumerism, climate change, and societal issues, some of which are held in the German Bundestag Library and the US Library of Congress.
Since 2010 she has devoted herself to sculpture. Her central project “Sinn und Scherben” (“Sense and Shards”) (2010–2019) comprises around 50 sculptures that explore human ambivalence and conflict – strength and weakness, power and guilt. The works were created intuitively and deliberately contrast with her fact-based journalistic work: “As a science journalist I am used to understanding the world through facts and describing it precisely. Sculpture is the opposite: here I let go, work intuitively and shape with my hands everything that cannot – or will not – be put into words.”
Saatchi Art serves her as an additional channel to make her critical, society-reflecting works accessible to an international audience – far removed from purely commercial orientation.
