Graffiti & Street Art Interviews: Artists Speak Out
Discover the stories behind the art. Hear from renowned and emerging artists about their creative process, inspirations, and the urban landscape. Explore their unique perspectives.
Dive into our archive of exclusive interviews with leading figures in the graffiti, street art, and urban art worlds. From seasoned veterans to rising stars, we’ve captured their insights, experiences, and philosophies. Learn about their creative journeys, inspirations, and the challenges they face. Explore diverse perspectives and gain a deeper understanding of the art form, its evolution, and its impact on urban culture. These interviews offer an unparalleled glimpse into the vibrant minds behind some of the most captivating street art around the globe.
Conor Harrington Interview
In my opinion, he’s one of the most talented artist worldwide and his artworks are still impressing. Conor Harrington, born 1980 in Ireland, studied painting, art and design and developed a unique urban style over the years.
This style combines elements of fine art painting with the hard, dripping and typographically-inspired lines of urban art. It’s so crazy as the titles he gives his artworks - for example Bang Bang, You Shot Me Down, The Cat Who Got The Cream or A Land of Botox and Mercs.
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Textura - Valencia Street Art Book
I have really a lot of street art book here at home. I have artists collection books, like the “The Art of Rebellion” books by C100, some books about single artists, but the mass are street art books about specific cities. There are “Street Art in Berlin”, “Paris Street Art”, “City Language Berlin” and others.
In this series another book recently joined. It’s entitled “Textura - Valencia Street Art”. Written by Luz A. Martín, the book describes the street art and graffiti culture of Spain’s 3rd largest city. On about 140 pages Martín placed beautiful photographs, documenting texts and seven interviews with well known street artists of Valencia.
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KR Interview
I already wrote sometimes about the New York-based urban artist Craig KR Costello. The last article, was about his cooperation with Mini, where he painted a Mini Cooper in his special dripping style.
Today I show you an interesting video about KR and the KRink. It contains some statements of him and tries to explain, why there will be an KR-styled Apple notebook sleeve by Incase…
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The Modart Times - Out Now!
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”.
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Futura 2000 Interview
As you could read some days ago, graffiti legend Futura 2000 was in Berlin for his recent exhibition Odyssey Two.
During the opening, the New York-based iconic artists took some time to answer questions regarding his current work, past exhibition experiences, and so on…Those of you, who respect Futura for his artworks in the same way I do, should take a look at this insightful interview!
Via hypebeast.com.
Talk to Mr. Ed Templeton
Ed Templeton is not only pro skateboarder, contemporary artist, painter, writer and photographer - no - he is one of the “Beautiful Losers”! In addition to that, he has his own skateboard company, named “Toy Machine” and belongs to the hip creative head of our time.
Also in Berlin artworks of him were shown a few week ago, when he exhibited along with Pettibon and McGee at the Circle Culture Gallery.
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Invader - Off the Wall
Tile installations by his “Space Invader” project can be seen all over the world. His artworks and exhibitions are a mixture of nerd style and contemporary urban culture. Who is meant is, of course, the French urban artist Invader!
In this video interview, he traces the birth of his signature pixelated mosaic style, his invasion of 40 cities worldwide and the concept behind his “Top 10” Rubikscubism exhibit at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery.
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The Urban Cookbook
Do you know “The Urban Cookbook” by writer, author and filmmaker King Adz? It brings together what not fits together at the first glance - street food, street art and street style!
Creative recipes for the graffiti generation!
In addition to 50 urban cookery recipes, the book also contains interviews with 25 street artists like Wooster Collective from New York, E-Boy from Berlin, JR and Invader from Paris, Helmut Smits from Amsterdam and D*Face from London.
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Ruedi One - Graffiti Photographer
Ruedione from Heidelberg, Germany, is one of the best known graffiti photographers worldwide. For years he was an active graffiti writer himself, what makes it possible for him to have a close contact to the writers scene and thus access to illegal live graffiti action.
His photos - mostly in black/white - visually describe the emotions during writing. It’s his lifework to document and preserve the moments that kept him writing his name on a lot of surfaces for years.
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Stencil Art: C215 Interview
He is one of the greatest stencil artists of our time. Some time ago he made a double exhibition in Berlin’s Intoxicated Demons Gallery and ATM Gallery. If you have not heard of C215, you should better be careful, because we have spoken with the nice, world-travelling, French artist about his art and his motives!
uac: Who are you? Where are you from? And what means C215?
C215: I am a street art junkie, 35 years old, living in Paris. C215 is just my name, coming from a cell where I stayed a long time ago. It sounds like Chris, but with numbers. I love to hear it said in different languages.
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