Readers of this urban art blog should already noticed the Skalitzers Gallery in Berlin, where for example the Cope2 and the Babou, L’Atlas, Sun7 and Tanc exhibitions took already place. Skalitzers is a new contemporary art gallery located in Berlin, with an international focus on new artists and art forms. (Skalitzers) Recently the “Finding Berlin” project visited the gallery and its owner to talk about graffiti and tagging culture in Berlin and of course about the idea behind Skalitzers. The final result is an nice, but unfortunately short video interview, including some interesting statements about the feeling on the streets in Berlin…I guess, when I’m back in Berlin I will pay a visit to corresponding tagging shop! ...

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. ...

Some month ago I already wrote about about the Spanish street art crew La Pluma Eléctri*k - Back then, they created a lot of interesting QR code paste-ups! Today they sent me new info about and some photos of their latest urban art project, which is called “Spider Tags”… “Spider Tags” are woollen artworks, often made of some nails and just a cotton thread, which makes it possible to create strict line and in that way complex geometrically shapes. ...

As you maybe know, I’m currently in London and still searching for great urban things I haven’t seen or visited yet, like that crazy underground skatepark close to London Bridge station. Today I found a nice hint on one of my favourite blogs Ektopia: Abandoned tube stations in London! There are apparently some interesting abandoned tube stations in the British capital. One of the least well-known or visited disused stations is St Mary’s in East London - Recently the BBC did a small tour inside the station! It looks rather old and less frequented by graffiti artists, what is really incomprehensibly for me… ...

Some days ago, I received an e-mail by Sabine Willig who seems to be a representative of the Choque Cultural Gallery in São Paulo, which is “a contemporary art gallery exhibiting pop, outsider art.” She informed me about an amazing exhibition which takes place in the three floors of the gallery… One of the most famous São Paulo based urban artists José Amaro Capela, who is also known as Zezão, is currently exhibiting at Choque Cultural! The name of the really beautiful looking art show is “Vari Ações Urbanas”, which means “Various Urban Actions” and presents collages of up to 1,85 x 1,90 m size as well as paintings on wood, paper, canvas and the rusty surfaces… ...

For one week now, the “Midnight Dreams” stencil exhibition by French urban artist C215 is running in London’s Signal Gallery and it seems to be a great one! C215, whose latest exhibition took place in Paris, is well-known for his amazing, highly detailed stencil artworks he put up around the world. By the way, some month ago he gave me an nice interview… Midnight Dreams will be C215’s second solo show with us at Signal. In the show, the artist is moving away from reproducing works whose origins are on the street. He is developing a style that has more fantasy and independent imaginative force. Inspired by colourful memories from his childhood in Orleans, the work that will be shown will retain the fabulous use of intricate stencil work, with a freshness, lightness of touch and brilliant use of colour, that has not been appropriate in his street work to date. (Signal Gallery) ...

Wow, what a day…Today the next Urban Artcore milestone begun: Three month in London! And I already have good news for all the urban art enthusiasts who are also currently in London: Zosen, a well-known street artist from Barcelona, who visited Berlin in 2009, brings not anarchy but “System Collapse” (his premier UK solo show) to the StolenSpace Gallery! System Collapse is a colourful vision of the world around us and an incisive commentary on the current state of the world’s economy. The distinctive lettering styles, loosely influenced by the artwork of the punk and the do-it-yourself movements of the 70’s - 80’s, the illusory characters and bright, pure colours reflect a hopeful optimism while the meanings of the words, real and conceived, provide a complex context for a creative discharge of conscience. (StolenSpace Gallery) ...

Wow, the last four day were really hard, but in the end Luna Park, RJ and me decided the best five urban art photos out of a 500 photos pool! Much better submissions this year - made the choice very difficult. If I were to chose again tomorrow, the list would probably be different… (Luna Park) The photographers who submitted the five winning urban art shots, can now look forward to one of the prize packages by the three supporters of the contest - Montana Cans, Publikat Publishing and Urban Stylistics! ...

The last weekend was marked by the “United Colours” street art festival, which takes place in Berlin for the first time. Two workshops, one on graffiti characters and one on stencil art, called on to participate and the concept seems to work… The “United Colours” street art festival is a collaboration between the famous ATM Gallery and the RosengARTen in Berlin-Mitte and will run until the end of this week. They present a mixture of creative entertainment, do-it-yourself workshops with professional help by local urban artists and live-paintings. ...

Update: Here are the winners of the Urban Photo-Contest 2010… Now it’s over! The Urban Art Photo Contest 2010 ended with round about 500 submitted photos by around 200 people…that’s great and I’m very happy about it! In the next days, we three jurors - Luna Park from New York, RJ from London and me from Berlin - will decide the five winning urban art shots, which will win the great prize packages the three big supporters - Montana Cans, Publikat Publishing and Urban Stylistics - provided. ...