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author: Jan Brennenstuhl
categories:
- Street Art
cover:
  alt: 'Free Pussy Riot in Berlin - Mentalgassi'
  height: 1520
  src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/free-pussy-riot-berlin-mentalgassi/free-pussy-riot-mentalgassi.jpg
  width: 2480
credit: ''
date: '2012-08-17T09:05:23Z'
description: Free Pussy Riot! Berlin-based street art collective Mentalgassi joins the Global Pussy Riot Day today with one of their brilliant urban faces installations.
tags:
- Art Installation
- Paper Art
- Mentalgassi
- Street Protest
- Street Art Berlin
title: 'Free Pussy Riot in Berlin - Mentalgassi'
url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/free-pussy-riot-berlin-mentalgassi/
---

# Free Pussy Riot in Berlin - Mentalgassi

For today the proclamation of sentence for the three arrested **Pussy Riot** activists Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samucevich is announced, for what reason there are several solidarity events taking place around the world. In Berlin, the street art collective [**Mentalgassi**](/mentalgassi/) ([here in Spain](/mentalgassi-paste-up-spain/)), recently put up one of their well-known urban faces, this time showing one of those famous Pussy Riot woolen masks...

*Pussy Riot is an anonymous Russian feminist performance art group formed in October 2011. Through a series of peaceful performances in highly visible places, the group has given voice to basic rights under threat in Russia today, while expressing the values and principles of gender equality, democracy and freedom of expression contained in the Russian constitution and other international instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the CEDAW Convention.* (about [Pussy Riot](http://freepussyriot.org/about))

Stay informed and join the [Global Pussy Riot Day](http://freepussyriot.org/) - Free Pussy Riot!

[Video on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/47483917)

Via [Mentalgassi](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150985423786607&set=a.194998646606.137642.194987001606&type=1).