Art Festival: Immersive Street Art & Graffiti Events

Some days ago, twenty street and graffiti artists from Barcelona, including Boris Hoppek, Aryz and Ripo, painted six walls. This graffiti festival was called Art Brut and should give a tribute to the Barcelona-based graffiti scene. On March 27, 2010, twenty of Barcelona’s best street artists came together to paint six large murals to pay tribute to the quality, distinction and diversity of the Barcelona Scene. (artbrutbcn.org) Looks fantastic what they had created! Here are some impressions from their gallery: ...

Do you know “Eurocultured”? It’s a street festival with a lot of nice music and some of the most famous visual artists and performers from every corner of Europe, which is based in Manchester. I never had heard something about the “Eurocultured” street festival, but what I read now sounds very interesting: “We return for the seventh consecutive year to celebrate the diversity of European culture. Covering everything from traditional to current and cutting edge music. ...

Last weekend, the “Wallbreakers Festival”, which toured through Germany the last months, ends with a big get-together in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The last part of that street-art-exhibition-series was a exhibition, including live painting and music session, by Neoangin aka Jim Avignon, who presented some really interesting paintings. The idea behind the “Wallbreakers Festival” was it to discuss 20 years breakdown in an artistic context: “2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A historical moment in German history, as well as for the cultural scene of the Street Art movement. On one hand, the Berlin Wall represents a salient symbol of the Cold War and the separation of Germany. On the other hand, it represents a creative areal of a peacefull revolution and the biggest open-air galery in the world.” (artwallbreakers.com) ...

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! ...

Today the time has come - The “Wallbreakers Urban Art Tour” starts this evening with the opening of Just’s first solo-exhibition! (Don’t forget to win your urban art photo-postcards by Just!!!) The “Wallbreakers Urban Art Tour” is a series of several different street art exhibitions, artwork presentations and graffiti events all over Berlin until October 23rd. This weekend, highly recommended are Wallbreakers for “Write The Wall”! The three Berlin-based writers Bas2 (GHS), Poet (GFA) and Wesp (GHS) will paint on original pieces of the Berlin Wall on Saturday and Sunday. ...

For some days “The Modart Times”, a brand new urban art newspaper, lies at my home and I did not really had some time to read it - until today. The old-viewing special edition for Berlin includes articles about the “Wallbreakers Urban Art Tour”, the “Dreamyourtopia” exhibition, a wide gallery guide, an interview with Berlin-based old school writers Bas2, Poet and Wesp as well as some articles about art, marketing and “Write the Wall”. ...

The famous street & urban art exhibition series “Backjumps” is back! In its fourth version, the “Backjumps” will present seven selected, Berlin-based artists from November 7th to November 29th. “Backjumps Version 4 #1” is the prelude to twice-yearly “laboratories” and researches of current strategies and forms of urban art and aerosol culture expressions. Participating artists are Pigenius Cave, Brad Downey, RZM (Ritsche Koch/Zasd/Christian Marien), Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf: Pigenius Cave explores with a homemade “Tricycle” the canals and underground access ways of the city. He documented findings, lost treasures and places of this underworld. ...

“The Wallbreakers festival is an unique contemporary urban art exhibition conceived to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall and the massive impact this historical event has had on the urban art scene.” (Artwallbrakers.com) On their tour through Germany, the Wallbreakers took part in several creative mass events, such as the music festival “Rock am Ring” or the street art festival “Urban Affairs” in Berlin. In addition to the famed graffiti photographers Ruedi One and Nils Mueller, Modart features many more internationally well-known graffiti, street and urban artists, like Roa, El Bocho, Peter Fuss, Stefan Strumbel, Boxi and Smash137! ...

Not until September, this year’s Nuart Festival will open its gates, but the line-up is already filled with internationally famed urban artists! Nuart Festival in Norway Held in Stavanger on the West Coast of Norway, the urban art festival expects a “Brooklyn, NY Special”, named “Nu York”, because the A-list of New York street artists have promised: Swoon, David Choe, Ben Wolf, Graffiti Research Lab, Brad Downey, Judith Supine, Leon Reid IV, Chris Stain, Logan Hicks Skewville and others will be part of Nuart 2009! ...