COLLECTIONS: Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. USA, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Ines und Jürgen Graf Stiftung, Köln, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Museum Angerlehner, Österreich, Museum Franz Gertsch Schweiz (Willy Michel Stiftung), Schweiz; Niehaus Pharma, Ingelheim, Soer Rusche, Oelde/ Berlin; Kunsthalle Hense Bochum; Blobel, New York; Ammann Collection, Schweiz ; Philippe Leeman, Antwerpen; Connersmith, Washington D.C,; Lauer Collection Washington D.C.

Jean-Christophe Ammann in Justine Otto's Female Territory at 'Halbpension' at Kerber Verlag

‘Fairy tales are true’, says the artist. What she does is to intensify fairy tale themes by engaging in a medialisation process that blurs their levels of reality. Through the harshness of her pictures, their implacability, Justine Otto creates a reality that is neither overdone nor pathetic, but that touches a nerve in a present time in which extremes are either embedded or exploding, in which the erotic quality of these extremes appear as extended, atrophied, travesties or fetishes of themselves ...