Between 2009 and the end of 2012, I was deeply embedded in the global street art scene. During those peak years, my blog, urbanartcore.eu, grew into one of Europe’s primary digital hubs for graffiti and urban art culture. It was a daily log of a specific era of hype, documenting the movement as it exploded across walls from Berlin to Bristol. After 2012, the project sat stale. It remained online, a silent archive of that era, until 2016. ...
After releasing their Urban Art Guide Vienna and showing Usual Misdeeds by Vinz, Inoperable Gallery in Vienna is going to present the next big thing: Next week, famous ETAM Cru is going to open their Mind Trip exhibition… The Polish duo will make their way to Vienna for their first show in Austria. We are excited to welcome them here and look forward to seeing what they have in store for us! Stay tuned for more info. ...
One of my favorite urban art mags meets one of my favorite graffiti artists: Very Nearly Almost caught up with Austrian graffiti legend Nychos The Weird in London in late July 2012 with João Retorta and Luke Atkinson filming him doing his best… painting, painting, painting. Nychos passed through London last month and even with loads of rain, overzealous council workers buffing a piece on a private wall (within hours of it being finished) and several days dealing with a mysterious illness, he managed to paint some amazing murals. (VNA) ...
During the last days and weeks, I unfortunately had a lot to do, for what reason I was not able to mention all those great things going on in the urban art world. Luckily there are plenty other nice blogs out there with even nicer features on street art and graffiti I’d like to share with you in another Urban Art Link-Tips session… For the See No Evil festival in Bristol, Sat One painted a brilliant superhero mural entitled Mural Competition! ...
ETAM Crew, who recently was part of the Like it. Art festival in Russia, is now in Poland! Sainer, one of the ETAM members, just painted another beauty in Lodz… Filmed by one-media.pl, this video documents the entire Sainer mural painting process what’s great to see not just for all those being not familiar with mural art, but also for ever urban art enthusiast. Again, this mural is part of the fantastic Urban Forms project with its great aspiration: ...
Curated by 44flavours and Clemens Behr the group installation The Solution Is Irrelevant will take place tonight at Berlin’s Epicentro Artspace, Karl-Marx-Allee 82-84! Urban Multimedia Art The Solution Is Irrelevant, is meant to evoke not only an approach to creativity and the act of creating, but also a life philosophy. For the duration of the vernissage, the Epicentro Artspace will be transformed into a multimedia, interdisciplinary laboratory, where performance and video art, design, music, spoken word, sound treatment, sculpture, painting, and installations will interact simultaneously without a screenplay or a preset agenda. On board for the experiment: the 44flavours art collective, installation artist Clemens Behr, film directors Pol Ponsarnau and Yves Kasten, musicians Robot Koch, Sneaky and Lars Kirchbach, and spoken word artist RQM. The entire “performance” will be documented on video and will be screened at Epicentro art daily; presented in the form of video installations alongside other finished artifacts. ...
A few days ago, the international urban art festival See No Evil finished in Bristol! The project, which once a year brings together a selection of the world’s best street artists, again resulted in a huge outdoor gallery with lots of new, colorful painted murals based on and around Nelson Street… The See No Evil arts project represented hundreds of elements and styles of the street art world descending on one busy city centre. The building owners each give permission for the painting to take place including; a restaurant, youth centre, office blocks, student living accommodation, police station and a bridge/overpass. After the buildings have been painted and the final pieces finished, the event climaxes with a New York style Block Party that brings together all the aspects of the street art scene, welcoming the public to share their work. ...
Eastcross Projects is going to release their street art documentary film Berlin spricht für sich selbst (Berlin speaks for itself) in near future. Originally announced for early August, the film documents various street artists like Mein lieber Prost, Think, Tona and Alias at work in Berlin. Including graffiti and tagging actions, group-pasting and sticker runs as well as run aways and police controls, the latest trailer (which is online for a few weeks now) promises deep and interesting insight into the loosely linked core group of creatives doing street art in Germany’s capital. Although I haven’t heard anything new about the film after the trailer, I’m nevertheless pretty sure there will be a release in near future - I’ll definitely keep you posted! ...
For today the proclamation of sentence for the three arrested Pussy Riot activists Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samucevich is announced, for what reason there are several solidarity events taking place around the world. In Berlin, the street art collective Mentalgassi (here in Spain), recently put up one of their well-known urban faces, this time showing one of those famous Pussy Riot woolen masks… Pussy Riot is an anonymous Russian feminist performance art group formed in October 2011. Through a series of peaceful performances in highly visible places, the group has given voice to basic rights under threat in Russia today, while expressing the values and principles of gender equality, democracy and freedom of expression contained in the Russian constitution and other international instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the CEDAW Convention. (about Pussy Riot) ...
London’s finest Very Nearly Almost (VNA) magazine faces its second big birthday, but before the 20th issue will be published in the next weeks, I just received VNA Magazine #19 or what I am calling it, the Anthony Lister edition… For me, VNA #19 is definitely one of their best issues. Not just because that they got (Mr. Crazy) Anthony Lister in a royally pose on their cover, but also interviewed several of my favorite urban artist: Low Bros, How&Nosm and Best Ever! ...