Call for Papers: Urban Art & Graffiti Research

This archive gathers insightful articles related to calls for papers focusing on graffiti, street art, and urban art. Whether you’re researching the history of a specific movement, analyzing the socio-political implications of murals, or exploring the artistic techniques involved, we invite you to explore the collected resources. From conferences and journals to workshops and publications, find opportunities to share your work and engage with the vibrant community of scholars and artists working in this exciting field. Discover calls for papers, submission guidelines and deadlines. Contribute to the ongoing dialogue surrounding the evolving world of urban expression.

Open Call: Garage Art in Berlin

In history, garages are well-known for their contribution to mankind. Garages gave birth to Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Iggy Pop and other garage bands, etc. Now, a Berlin-based art project gives away nine free garage studios for artists in Berlin… *This is an open call for a nice project in August. The winner gets 1.000 Euro. The participants get a GDR-style double garage for 3 weeks to do whatever he/she wants. ...

Sticker Exhibition - Stick Core Berlin

It’s all about stickers, stickers, stickers - The Stick Core sticker exhibition will show stickers by artists from all over the world, discovering this specialized urban medium as a part of street and urban art culture! With their wonderful diversity of color, form, elements and expression, in the last years stickers got featured in several exhibition around the world, like the Oversized & Underpriced shows in Berlin. This time, it’s the Idrawalot Gallery by Karl Addison which s hosting and supporting the second part of Stick Core Berlin… ...

Ego–Urbanism Magazine, Call for Papers!

Hamburg-based Spacedepartment is, after Gaffa-Urbanism and Copy & Paste, right now planning the next Urban Spacemag issue (number 4!), for what reason they are calling loud and far for your ideas, texts, questions, images, diagrams, stories and opinions! This issues main topic is Ego-Urbanism. You know it’s about questions like who is positioning opinions in public urban space, how much power one single person has in the urban environment or which different interests in urban space exist. ...

Stickcore - Sticker Exhibition

Sticky Street Art | One of the first medium which was used to put art on the streets have been stickers. They are cheap, easy and effective and for that reason also more and more well used by advert companies. Nevertheless, stickers are still part of street art which is the reason why the next bigger thing in Berlin is the sticker exhibition Stickcore! Stickcore will present stickers by artists from all over the world ans calls you to “discover this medium as a part of street and urban art and get fascinated by its wonderful diversity of colour, form, elements and expression.” Also it is still possible to submit your own sticker to be part of the show… ...

Urban Spacemag: Only Copy & Paste?

At the end of February, the second edition of the subcultural and urban Urban.Spacemag magazine was released, including info about Japanese tape artist Shuetsu Sato, Australian tape artist Buff Diss, and other articles corresponding to the magazines topic Gaffa-Urbanism. Now the third edition is in work and the crew behind the Spacemag calls for your contributions! This times topic is Copy & Paste. They are searching for statements and articles from the creative fields of architecture, urban planning and arts… ...

Spacemag #2 - “Gaffa-Urbanism”

Call for papers - The SpaceDepartment calls you up to co-design the Spacemag #2! The second Spacemag issue will, under the working title “Gaffa-Urbanism”, thematize urban phenomena and principles: “Gaffa-Urbanism is the result of a spontaneous and improvised combination of objects and ideas in a urban context. Often, the Gaffa method leads to new cultural forms and patterns of urban functions. “Gaffa-Urbanism” extends the concept of informal city.” (SpaceDepartment) Improvisation, unusual, under the hand, appropriation, just in time, MacGyver, unplanned, pockets-innovation, non-conforming, need to be undesirable, hobby room, underground economy, life plan, experimental, compromise, temporarily, enough… With these thoughts the SpaceDepartment calls you up to submit contributions of any form, which capture the “Gaffa-Urbanism”! ...