Jaybo Monk: Exploring the Urban Art Master's Legacy

Delve into the captivating world of Jaybo Monk, a prominent figure in the urban art scene. This archive brings together a curated collection of articles exploring his unique style, artistic evolution, and the social commentary woven into his powerful murals. Discover the inspirations behind his iconic characters and learn about his contributions to graffiti and street art. Explore interviews, analyses, and behind-the-scenes insights, providing a comprehensive look at the artist’s journey and lasting impact. Whether you’re a seasoned street art enthusiast or just starting to explore the genre, this archive offers a rewarding exploration of Jaybo Monk’s incredible body of work and its place within broader urban art culture.

Jaybo Live Painting, Soto Berlin

A lot of reknown urban artist, like Herakut, El Mac, Augustine Kofie and Remi/Rough already painted live in Jaybo’s Project Room in Berlin. Now, the master himself invited to watch him paint at the Soto Berlin shop. He painted simultaneously three artworks in front of an audience. Unfortunately I missed this event, so I have no new “Urban Artist in Action” shots for you… Nevertheless, Jaybo’s live painting was recorded and for that reason there is this really nice short video online. Have fun watching the master painting! ...

Escape 2010 Urban Art Festival

It’s the month of urban art fairs and festivals. In addition to the Stroke.03 in Berlin and the Moniker in London, the urban art festival “Escape 2010” will take place in Vienna until the end of October. Enthralling national and international artists were invited to the exhibition in order to display and communicate the current positions of urban art. Above all, the intrinsic references to space and urban settings as well as comic, pop and street art are the main focus of the show. (about Escape 2010) ...

Jaybo’s Hazardous Brushstrokes

Short news for those of you who are in Berlin today: Circle Culture Gallery will open its doors for Jaybo’s “Hazardous Brushstrokes” exhibition this evening! The art show will present Jaybo’s latest artworks, including crazy paintings and of course hazardous brushstrokes… Jaybo’s work always seems to take giant leaps and it’s quite hard to keep up with his ever changing styles and ideas… This show is no different, a big departure from the figurative into some really abstract realms. I only wish I could be there! (Remi Rough) ...

Escape Urban Art, Vienna

This October will be hot, at least in Vienna. There will in fact meet some of the big names of the international urban-inspired art scene…Anton Unai, Faith47, Jaybo aka Monk, Marco Pho Grassi, Nomad, Stefan Strumbel, Xoooox and others will exhibit together at the Kunsthalle Wien Vordere Zollamtsstrasse 3 in Vienna. The whole thing will happen under the striking title “Escape the Golden Cage” and combines space and city, comic and pop as well as street art and graffiti to one big show. ...

Live-Painting: Kofie & El Mac

As mentioned yesterday, another live-painting took place at the Project Room by Jaybo aka Monk in Berlin. Two well-known artists, Augustine Kofie and El Mac, started painting in front of the crowd at 7pm and finished their artworks four hours later. It was gorgeous to watch them paint in their totally different styles and to be able to understand how they’re working. The huge count of small details in Kofie’s artworks and that great shadow-handling by El Mac made me and my friend happy. For that reason, I want to make those of you happy, who had no time to come to that interesting art event by showing you some photos (More on Flickr!) I took while the live-painting. ...

Augustine Kofie Live-Painting

Today the time has come: Augustine Kofie will paint live at Jaybo’s project room in Berlin! After the away game in London some days ago, the project room will now open its doors in its familiar neighbourhood… Since 36 years, the urban artist Augustine Kofie creates mural artworks and pieces in the streets of Los Angeles. Although his street artworks count among graffiti it’s something more - they conbine elements of cubism, futurism and pop art and create in that way an unique style of abstract lines and design. As the name of the upcoming live-painting describes, Kofie will paint one of his geometrically-inspired (he calls it “drafting style”) artworks. ...

ProjectRoom in London - Photos

As I told you some days ago, Jaybo’s “ProjectRoom” traveled to London to show the British how great live action painting events could be… Team VNA was in the house to see Remi Rough, Jaybo and Juice126 rock some live painting down at the Redbull music academy last night. Was good to see a huge variation in style and techniques being used… although the spray paint fumes inside did start to go to some peoples heads. (verynearlyalmost.com) ...

Live-Paintings - Jaybo’s ProjectRoom

If you already had have a look at my photo-collection of the Herakut live-painting, you should know how great live-paintings are. One of the greatest or maybe the greatest art space for urban-inspired live-paintings and other creative things is the “ProjectRoom” project by Jaybo, also known as Monk. One of the latest live-actions in the “ProjectRoom”, which is mainly based in Berlin, was the collaboration of Jaybo and Remi/Rough. By the way, also the kick-ass Herakut action took place there… ...

Live-Painting: Jaybo Monk vs. Remi/Rough

Some days ago, Jaybo Monk and Remi Rough meet each other at the Style Project Room in Berlin-Mitte, but before I write something about the “Jaybo Monk vs. Remi Rough” live-painting, I will wish you a happy new year, with a lot of creative ideas and great inspirations… Born in France, Jaybo Monk came to Berlin in the 80th. Because of the variety of media, he uses to create his urban influenced artworks, and the fact that he’s the founder of the important “Style” magazine, he became a influential figure on the urban scene and internationally famous. ...