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.
Do you know “Kubik”? It’s a mobile, luminous, open-air club, designed by the creative minds of Modulorbeat, a German architecture and Design group. It depends on a so called “Big Tanks” concept, what makes it possible to build a spatial, illuminated, temporary installation of large tanks, in which there are lights that can light up by the rhythm of the beat. Each tank can be controlled individually. ...
Something heard about “Stroke01 - Urban Art Fair”? It is the first European art fair for urban contemporary art and the successor of „Kunst im Tresor“, a very big and successful urban art exhibition (more than 1.400 guests and visitors joined the event on two days…) which happened in May. at a (or one) stroke: by a single action ha ing immediate effect Planned and organized by the Munich event agency “Herr Keuner”, the team of “Intoxicated Demons” from Berlin and the Munich “Team from Hell”, about 15 international galleries and urban art projects will show their picture, drawings, toys and other exhibits together in an old car dealership in the heart of Munich. ...
This is the award ceremony of the international Urban Photo Contest! Over 220 people joined the competition with about 700 photos, that’s why it was so hard to choose the top ten winners. But we did it! I want to give thanks to the both jurors, Luna Park and Peter Nitsch, who have crucial contributed to the decision-making, thank you! In order to not unnecessarily prolong the award ceremony, I don’t want to say anything else. Here are the top ten winners of the international Urban Photo Contest by Urbanartcore.eu: ...
Update: Here are the winners of the Urban Photo Contest… In these minutes, the Urban Photo Contest finishes and I have to say, that it was an successful one! Urbanartcore Flickr-group Over 220 people joined the competition with about 700 photos. Although not all photos oblige our idea, this is a great success for this young blog. In the next days, the jury, Luna Park from New York, Peter Nitsch from Munich and I, will decide which ten photos will gain the rich prizes and a lot of fame. ...
Despite, or perhaps because of his traditional graffiti background (he is one of the most central figures of European graffiti), the Briton Mode 2 has developed an offshoot style of more traditional portraiture. His recent art installations consist of hand-drawn motives on cardboards. They thematize different themes like friendship, love and sex and often show daring nude scenes from the porn world. Format: What do you make of the media fascination with graffiti in recent years, particularly with some of the work Banksy has produced? ...
Update: Here are the winners of the Urban Photo Contest… I have great news for all the people - about 160 - who already joined the Urban Photo Contest and for those, who will join the competition! Today two packages with T-shirts, marker, spray cans, bags, pencils, stickers and sketchbooks by Montana Cans arrived! So we updated the ten prize-packages. For more info, visit the Urban Photo Contest site! The Prizes Prize 1: Part of Rebellion #1: Flying Förtress (book) Power of Style: Berlin Stylewriting (book) Art Inconsequence: Advanced Vandalism (book) Black Ink: Illustrations by Ata “Toast” Bozaci (book) Montana Gold spray can (Shock 9000 Black) Montana marker (Bombing 0.8 inch) Montana T-shirt Montana accessory bag Montana pencils, rubber, lanyard, sketchbook & bag ...
Do you ever heard something about The Krah? *The Krah is a decrepit but talented young man who has wasted most of his youth scribbling on everything and using any medium he could get his hands on. As vandalism was the most fun thing to do, The Krah started painting the streets and the subway trains of Athens in 1997, but his graffitis, stickers and posters can also be seen on the streets of a lot of other citys around the world, all over Europe and cities such as Tokyo and Bangok. ...
Berlin-based urban artist Manuel Osterholt aka Superblast is going to have a new exhibition in Berlin this month! Since 1989, Superblast discovered the world of graffiti, which made him detect his own, Hip Hop, Punk Rock and skateboarding influenced style. As a graphic designer he works with a lot of big brands like Sony Playstation, Ecko and Montana. His book Neo Utopia, which is part of some of our urban photo contest prize packages, presents his whole career, starting with style-writing in Heidelberg to street art influenced graphic design and painting in Berlin. ...
Zeus’ 3D Graffiti Sculpture At the age of fourteen the in London born Dean Zeus Colman began to work off his creativity on the streets. At that time he left, like many others, “just” tags on the streets. Who could know in the 80s that this little boy will be sixteen years later the first graffiti artists, who would exhibit in the Victoria and Albert Museum of art and design? Probably no one except his parents! ...
Barry McGee, Ed Templeton and Raymond Pettibon represent - everyone for himself - the subcultural worlds of skateboarding, graffiti and punk. They are classified as underground-heroes, who are established in the top class of contemporary fine arts. In april their different artworks were presented for the first time as an art group exhibition: “McGee’s sad, sullen faces and neon-colored geometric panels reflect the archetypal image of man overpowered by omnipresent media, Templeton’s portraits of suburban youths perfectly illustrate the harsh alienation of teenage life, while Pettibon’s drawings and paintings focus sharply on issues of personal/social unrest, life during war and the constant power struggle between a man and his destiny.” ...