Cardboard Art: Creative Street & Urban Art Ideas

Wow, this urban artists collaboration between urban design crew 44flavours and our personal hero, 3D cardboard installer Clemens Behr is like really hot sauce dripping through these rough beats of the same video… The urban illustration duo as well as Clemens (I decided to put him on my top urban artists list!) are both part of a certain new urban artists generation in Berlin, pushing forward new styles, and spreading especially their love for mixed media artworks. Filmed by Editude Pictures, they created this nice, temporary wood and cardboard installation. Good work, good guys, good sound! ...

Back in 2011, German urban artist Clemens Behr caught up with French painter Romain Froquet in Paris to create a phenomenal collaboration installation - and when I say phenomenal, I mean it! Bringing together Clemens’ abstract, somehow digital-looking three-dimensional installations and Romain’s complex styled, abstract paintings, both artists created different, sometimes floating artworks in an old fabric using nothing more than cardboard, wood, yarn and paint… It’s great to see how the two different techniques work out together - thumbs up guys! ...

2011 was a really successful year for German urban artist Clemens Behr who not just explored urban places and spaces around the world by creating amazing cardboard installations in public space, but also exhibited in Berlin, his adoptive home! Exploring urban places… Clemens loves working with recycled materials and basic geometric forms. His abstract installations, composed of cardboard, wood, paint, tape and found materials, often result in subtle confusions between 2D painting and 3D objects. ...

Last Friday, Berlin’s Neurotitan Gallery opened its doors for another nice group-exhibition entitled Simple is Rare, presenting diverse artwork by different urban-inspired artists like Herr Orm, K 110 and Robert Matzke, just to name a few… Although or probably because of this exhibition’s major topic was simplicity, it was the huge and very complex installation by Clemens Behr which dominated the show-room. By combining cardboard, tape, neon light, paint and wood his walkable and impressing tunnel-like architecture draw almost my entire attention. Of course I took some photos from inside the installation - Take a look and be impressed! ...

Bringing together several talented, young urban artists like Clemens Behr, the Berliner Neurotitan Gallery is opening the weekend with the big Simple is Rare group-show tonight! The doors will open at 8 and I’m pretty sure that this exhibition, which examines simplicity in urban arts, is definitely worth to get on your feet, grab your friends, a few beers and to join the opening ceremony asap. I will also hurry and try to get there in the next two hours. ...

My friend, Berlin-based urban artist Clemens Behr recently updated his website and added some neat photos of his latest cardboard installations from Amiens, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Malmo and again - after these dope installations in New York and Barcelona - I’m highly impressed about what’s possible to create by simply using cardboard, tape, wood and paint… Behr has taken his work into the public sphere, building peculiar appendages in metro cars and erecting detailed miniature cities on street corners. (about Clemens Behr) ...

Using simplest materials to create complex ephemeral architectures German urban artist Clemens Behr is probably a new star in the world of abstract urban art. In June, he went on an excursion to New York City to create several uncommissioned public installations in East Village, China Town, Soho and Brooklyn… I really like this stuff for two reasons: First, using simple materials like cardboard, tape or paper to create impressing artworks is just great. Second, his abstract installations break up the usual city architecture and the urban every-day landscape! ...

After the first edition of Tag’n’Tof, a participatory urban art installation project, last year the second edition took recently place at Confluence Gallery in Paris. As a part of the Give Me A Wall So I Can Escape festival, the French PhotoGraff Collectif (PGC) invited 100 graffiti artists to paint a paper graffiti city! For that reason, well-known graffiti artists like Saner, Sowat, Shaka, Sly2, MTO and others were able to paint the recreated streets of Belleville. The result, a massive paper and cardboard installation city looks just great… ...

Born 1985 in Koblenz, Germany, urban-influenced artist Clemens Behr creates large-scale installations for years. Using a mixture of cardboard, wood, paint and tape, he builds abstract landscapes constructing sudden, complex and ephemeral architectures in both, abandoned warehouses and on the streets. Working with recycled materials and basic geometric forms, Behr dreams up installations that result in subtle confusions between 2D painting and 3D objects. (about Clemens Behr) I met him first last year in Berlin and was happy to see him working in Finland today! His recent cardboard installation in Helsinki is a good example for the complexity of his nice works and also the wide range of exhibitions in Germany, France, Brasil, Spain and England he participated shows that you would be wise to follow him and his works… ...

Today I received an interesting message by LukeDaDuke - The Temporary Art Centre and cultural initiative WEI organise a no budget, mixed media festival including an cardboard art exhibition… The American city Detroit is the inspiration source for the No budget festival this year. I have been asked to fill a van with art for this festival. And I want you to join me in this project by making art on cardboard and send it to me. The size of the carboard is limited to A2. ...