Berlin

I’m proud to announce the upcoming solo-exhibition by well-known street artist 1010 in Berlin, because I love his crazy minimalistic style! 1010 and of course his strange painted or silhouetted creatures are well-known in Germany and Europe - Recently he painted an amazing new artwork at the Eco Jam session in Szczecin. Although the characters are reduced to their geometric and basic shapes, they seem to be alive - crying, eating, running or laughing, they are always in action… ...

Since Apple is bigger than Microsoft - Yes, it’s true! If you don’t believe, read the newspaper. - and not any longer the small, design-focused computer and software forge, Steve Jobs’ company becomes more and more disliked. In Berlin, recently some ads for Apple’s new flagship, the iPad, were busted. Steve Jobs offers iPad users freedom from porn. And yet the iPads’ measures will offer an unprecedented porn experience. An ad-busting from Berlin Mitte. (johannes-p-osterhoff.com) ...

What an amazing spectacle and what a cheerful atmosphere - Germany’s capital is in a state of emergency, because of the fifteenth Carnival of Cultures Berlin! About half a million people are on the streets to catch a glimpse at the 4.500 dancers, actors and musicians who party the city and its multiculturalism… Carnival of Cultures - Karneval der Kulturen The idea of a carnival which presents the cultural and ethnic diversity of Berlin was developed in 1995, i.e. at a time when – as a consequence to the political and economic changes since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of the two German states – a lot of social, economic and cultural changes happened. Due to these changes, to the economic decline of Berlin and the different economic levels and social and cultural experiences of people in East and West Berlin, social conflicts became more evident and even increased. This state of change resulted, among other things, in a biased and prejudiced view on immigration, which was reflected in the public discussion. (about Carnival of Cultures) ...

Berlin-based street artist El Bocho did a nice mural in one of Berlin-Friedrichshain’s party locations some days ago! It’s a very interesting, dirty styled piece of urban art, showing three nice girls. El Bocho is well-known in Berlin and also in Hamburg for his ongoing paste-up story about the often brutal Little Lucy and her poor kitty as well as for his large-scale paintings of women faces… Unfortunately he traveled a lot in the last month and did a few exhibitions, so that he apparently had not so much time to be creative on the streets…Hopefully he will use the upcoming good weather for being more active in public space! ...

Five month ago, I wrote an article about a beautiful video, which shows the cold snow atmosphere in Berlin. These days are over now, and the filmmakers crew started another series about abandoned places in Berlin: The first part of the series is about the famous “Eisfabrik”, an old and abandoned but great industrial building in the heart of Berlin, I visited with tape artist BUFFdiss some month ago…The second part is a beautiful documentary of the old “Bärenquell” brewery in the south-east of Berlin. ...

Some months ago, he was part of the “Aerosol Fumes” exhibition, which presented almost the best Berlin-based stencil artist and now he has his own exhibition at ATM Gallery in Berlin - Yes, I’m talking about Czarnobyl, who lives and works in Berlin since 1993! Well influenced by the craziness of cyberpunk, house squatting and graffiti, his detailed stencil artworks combine motives of cyborgs, alternative people, abstract patterns and other strange things… ...

Yesterday, Stefan Strumbel’s exhibition “Home Sweet Home” opened at Berlin’s Circleculture Gallery, which will run until June 10. Strumbel’s artwork series, which is part of that new art show, became very popular around the world, because of its great connection of traditional arts (like the cuckoo clocks handicraft) and modern spray-paint culture. He combines his own graffiti-background with craft accomplishments of his homeland. Added to that he found a creative and often funny way of dealing with the paradigms of “home” on an abstract level. ...

Yesterday a massive paint attack happened in the heart of Berlin! The Rosenthaler Platz, which is the center of one of Berlin’s creative areas (a lot of street art and nice galleries can be found around it!) was repainted. The whole action took only a few seconds: …bikers had poured paint from big boxes in front of cars that waited for green lights. So the cars and their wheels, if the driver wanted it or not, became the brush tool for this guerrilla public art piece. (dkomm.wordpress.com) ...

Two days ago, I was invited to visit the opening of the “Source/ Resource” group-exhibition at Wilde Gallery in Berlin. In addition to some works by contemporary artists like Antonio Santin and Awst&Walther they show new artworks by two of my favorite stencil artists, Evol and Pisa73! As always when I take a look at their very detailed and amazing artwork, I was really flashed, but also the artworks by Mirko Mielke, who presented a photo on concrete and a photo on a found wall, were very inspiring! ...

Yesterday I visited the new group show at Superplan Gallery in Berlin-Friedrichshain. 22 artists from seven countries (No, sorry there are only artworks by 21 artists, one work is still in London, because of the ban on flying caused by that ash cloud from Island…) present their interpretation of the exhibition’s motto “Keep Smiling, Loser!”. It was a nice evening. Once again I was impressed by Pisa73’s stencil art skills and Pabo’s and Base23’s great visual style, but also the artworks of the other participating artists, including BastiBasti, Devoner, Dust, Geso, Grapheart, Ink-A-Zoid and others, were really interesting. Additionally it’s the first exhibition of N8 Van Dyke in Germany… ...