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.
As I told you yesterday, the next version of legendary urban art exhibition project “Backjumps”, started in Berlin. Backjumps #4 presents different unusual artworks and projects by the seven Berlin-based urban artists Pigenius Cave, Brad Downey, RZM (Ritsche Koch/Zasd/Christian Marien), Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf. The exhibition shows, in which ways it is possible to explore and use the urban landscape. Pigenius Cave explores with a homemade “Tricycle” the canals and underground access ways of the city. Brad Downey presents artworks, which demonstrate his sculptural as well as his performative dealing with the city. RZM deals with the world of sound, architecture and texture of Berlin locations. And Matthias Wermke and Misha Leinkauf show a video installation, in which they move through the underground and suburban rail network of Berlin. ...
Backjumps, the legendary magazine and exhibition project on street art, urban communication and aesthetics is back! After two years of abstinence, Germany’s most famous urban art curator Adrian Nabi invited seven Berlin-based artists to present their engagement with the city of Berlin. For this reason, I will give you an short overview of the history of Backjumps, so that you are able to understand, why this street art event is so important! ...
Yesterday, one of Berlin’s most famous urban artists Nomad opened his recent exhibition “Rainbowcoloured Tears of a Clown” at the Circleculture Gallery. “Circleculture Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition featuring the artist Nomad. As an original street artist, he developed his expressional variants conceptually and technically through interactive projects in interior and exterior spaces: combining writing and street art with poetry and classical painting. In this context, we become acquainted with Nomad’s street art in the gallery as part of a holistic work of art. The works shown move between humour, satire and human drama. At the centre is the clown or fool, who mirrors the ambiguity of human existence.” (press release) ...
“Smash Proof” is the new book by European graffiti artist Smash 137. It’s art of the “On The Run” book series and will be proudly presented by From Here To Fame and friends. “Smash 137 has a worldwide reputation as being an innovator. His impact on the international writer’s scene is significant and widespread. He is what you might call a writer’s writer, with an advanced conceptual take on letter styles and modes of application. Equally at home in the street and in the gallery his work takes the art of writing to the next level.” (press release) ...
Somehow I missed the live art event, which took place in London several days ago. But of course I will still write something about it… “Live art” or “performance art” is where an artist creates a piece of art in front of audience. This experience gives the viewers some insight into the mind of an artist at work, which is not only exciting but thought provoking. StreetFest is the first and only live art street festival in UK. ...
“Sparkle and Fade” is the name of the new exhibition by internationally-known graffiti artist Peeta, which takes place at the Pretty Portal Gallery in Düsseldorf at the end of this week. It’s his first art show in Germany! For more than 16 years, the Italian urban artist perfects his outstanding and startling 3D-style with its organic and typographic elements. Since 2000, he’s a member of the famous New Yorker-based FX crew and works on different projects around the world. ...
One of the first posts, I wrote on this blog was the hint for the Superblast exhibition “The Shadow of the Future”, which opened on August 22nd at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Berlin. Recently, the show was extended until November 7th. Superblast creates artwork themed around psychological archetypes, fictional mythologies and his personal utopia. ...
Next month, urban intervention artist Dan Witz will have his new solo-exhibition, called Dark Doings, at the Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art. The artworks which will be presented are small window-imitations, which show in a very realistic way people, who are imprisoned. Dan placed these mixed media installations on doors all over New York City in the last weeks. If you pass by one of his Dark Doings, you guess that the person is right behind the door! ...
Famous stencil artists M-City has a new, very interesting project! After creating the biggest stencil artwork worldwide some month ago, he started constructing and building the Fabryka. The M-City factory produces nothing, it serves no useful purpose, but it stirs the senses nevertheless, and its huge dimensions emphasize the transformations that contemporary culture is undergoing. This factory needs no workers. The engines that keep it going require little attention. The ghostly nature of the installation evokes a vague sense of danger and forecasts the end of physical work. ...
Last Thursday, I started a small urban art photo contest, whereby you were able to win 3 limited urban art photo-postcards packs by Just. Each of the packages includes 4 postcards with grandiose urban art pictures from Berlin on it. Before I’ll show you the winning shots, I’ll say thank you to all the creative people who submitted their urban photos or joined the Urban Artcore Flickr-group! Keep it up! As last time, it was hard to decide to three best urban art photos, but in the end I had my favorite ones! Here are the three Winners of “Just’s Photo-Postcard Contest”: ...