Art shows and events—gallery exhibitions, international art fairs, and street art festival coverage. Discover where urban artists exhibit, how street art transitions to gallery spaces, and the commercial art market.
This collection documents exhibitions, art fair reports, gallery openings, and major event coverage from Berlin to Buenos Aires. Explore how street art moves between public and institutional spaces, and where to see contemporary urban art on display.
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. ...
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. ...
MadC Layers Exhibition End of the week, famous female graffiti artist Claudia Walde, better known as MadC, is going to open her next solo-exhibition at 44309 Gallery in Dortmund, Germany! Entitled Layers, the show will present new works made using spray paint, transparent spray paint, ink, watercolour and acrylic paint… Her letters flow into each other and parts of one letter borrow parts of another. Everything is connected; one part can‘t be without the other. Thus, her work is a reflection of our modern life where everything and everyone is connected through the Internet, cell phones, social networks and the media. The graffiti community has long used all those channels to stay connected for decades. (MadC at 44309 Gallery) ...
This Thursday, one of the UK’s original contemporary street art pioneers Keith Hopewell aka Part2ism is going to open his first solo exhibition since 2009! The New Horizons & Future Love Songs show, hosted by Red Gallery in London, will feature new abstract paintings as well as sculptural pieces and is definitely a must to see for every abstract graffiti enthusiast… A syncretist at heart and now a synaesthesiac in practice, Part2ism is a multi-talented creator, exploring where his interests and instincts lead him. Beyond all the isms’ that can be applied to his work over the past twenty eight years, whether of his own invention or culled from art history, Part2ism has always aligned himself with his own visions first. As an artist, he subsumes all categories and at the same time defies them. More importantly than these post-creation categories that can be applied to his body of work, the underlying and unifying threads in Part2ism’s history are DIY individualism, a revolutionary mentality and a consistent exploration of mind-challenging aesthetics. His timbre, his voice, his style is a constantly mutating, gene-splicing hybridism embodying rebellion and progression. ...
Artbase is back - The urban art festival, which took place in the abandoned sanitarium Grabowsee near Berlin in 2011, is now heading to the abandoned NSA fieldstation at Teufelsberg Berlin! With about 100 confirmed urban artists, including Karl Addison and James Bullough, Alias, Buff Diss, Graffiti Research Lab Germany, SAM Crew, Mean Marek, SP-38, Tona and Wurstbande, Artbase 2012 is with no doubt going to become this year’s biggest urban art festival in Berlin… Artbase 2012 is not a commercial festival, but an urban art weekend. We like free spirits and promote fine arts. The festival combines urban art, royalty-free music on different dance-floors and workshops with the magical feeling that radiates from this place. (loosely translated) ...
With a line-up reading like the who-is-who of Europe’s urban mural artists - including DXTR, Nychos, Pixelpancho, Etam Cru, Arsek & Erase, ECB and many more - the probably biggest European street art festival Like it. Art, which took place in Kazan, the capital and largest city of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, just finished. As promised a few days ago, I managed to get some impressions from there… Like it. Art Festival Large and medium scale graffiti appeared on the walls of around 40 objects across the city. The festival arranged under the project MadeInKazan also encompassed public master classes, lectures of the European artists, the best canvases exhibition, “Trash-truck hunting” night painting session and a graffiti contest. ...
This fall, the Manhattan auction house Doyle New York is going to host New York’s first art auction dedicated to street art and graffiti! This street art auction’s aim is to span the late 1970s through the present day, for what reason Doyle New York is currently seeking works to feature by such artists as Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, KAWS, Os Gemeos, David Choe, Faile, Barry McGee, Zephyr, Dr. Lakra, Swoon, Lady Pink, Dash Snow, Futura 2000, Crash, Ron English, D*Face, Seen, Dondi White, and many more… ...
Attention all British folks - The UK’s most ambitious permanent street art project See No Evil will return from 13th to 19th August! Announced as Europe’s largest street art event back in 2011, See No Evil brought 72 international urban artists, including some of the finest names, to Bristol. During one week, artists like Aryz, El Mac, Mr. Jago and many more transformed wide areas of the city into a massive outdoor art gallery. This year, See No Evil is again going to become one of the major street art festivals in good old Europe, allowing you to see some of the world’s best street artists in Bristol, alongside huge projections and art installations… ...
This years Urban Art Clash is still running in Berlin! The Urban Art Clash is pleased to announce a large-scale exhibition featuring current positions of contemporary urban photography and aerosol art that will be opening in May 2012 in Berlin, the global epicenter of this international art movement. Artists from different countries, all major players in the Urban Art genre, have been invited for a week residency at the historical Kunsthaus Tacheles. Located in a ruin in Berlin-Mitte on 5 floors of exhibition space is the ideal location for the urban art exhibition. ...