In addition to the stencil art show by two Hamburg-based street artist tomorrow at ATM Gallery, I want to give you some impressions of that nice book about the famous Hamburger stencil art crew Los Piratoz, which is maybe the most active street art crew in the Hanseatic city. As I could read in the book, which is entitled “Yes we Arrrrr!” and arrived at my home in the last week, they started round about 2002 to stick stencil sprayed stickers in the streets and decided a short while after to creatively work under the label Los Piratoz. ...

Tomorrow, the two Hamburg-based stencil artists Mittenimwald and Dash3Ultra will rock the Berlin city with their urban art exhibition at ATM Gallery! They will show their latest, completely contrary stenciled spray paintings, which is the best base for an exciting street art show… When I visited the Papergirl #5 exhibition opening last weekend I was able to cast an eye on some of their artworks and was really impressed. On the one hand, Dash3Ultra’s stencil artworks - By the way, he is a member of the reknown Hamburg-based stencil art crew ASA - is characterized by a scurrile pixel-style. On the other hand, Mittenimwald combines commerce and punk to a detailed urban-inspired mixture. ...

Fabulous urban tile-artist Space Invader did another great job! Some days ago, he installed 21 of his internationally well-known tile-artworks in San Diego, but that’s not all. The more interesting aspect of the new street artworks is, that if you walk from artwork to artwork in the right direction, the way you walked will create a big space invader…It’s really amazing! Of course, this is not only an artwork, but additionally a nice promotion for the upcoming “Viva la Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape” exhibition, Space Invader will be part of. ...

One of the most famous mural artists around the world, the Bologna-based urban artist Blu, recently published another new wall-painted animation…its name: “Big Bag Big Boom”! As Blu describes, the video shows “an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end” and looks really amazing, but that’s nothing new after his fabulous collaboration with David Ellis at Fame Festival last year or his re-known animation “Muto”. ...

As mentioned before, the opening of the Papergirl #5 exhibition took place yesterday at the Neurotitan Gallery in Berlin. About 230 different artist and art collectives, including Luna Park, Dave the Chimp, SP-38, The Walters, Tika, 1010, Rero, Various & Gould and many more joined the alternative urban art project this year and made me happy while looking at their great prints, collages, painting, stencil artworks and photos! In the style of American paperboys the art project Papergirl distributes rolled art pieces to random passers-by in the streets. It is a question of chance and luck who will eventually catch such a roll of art, but the excitement of making surprising presents is actually what Papergirl is all about! This year PAPERGIRL BERLIN celebrates its 5th anniversary and we hope you will be a part of it when the motto is: Papergirl #5 - We’ve got the drive! (Neurotitan Gallery) ...

Before the Urban Artcore open-air meet-up will start today in Berlin-Kreuzberg, I collected some rather nice street art news and graffiti info from around the world which will find your interest! Of course, there are a lot of new urban artworks around the world. This is only a small collection of new graffiti-pieces, stencil artworks, and some other great new urban artworks… Urban Tag-Cloud - Anton Steenbock created some really interesting urban tag clouds by reconstructing old tags on walls… ...

…to have a relaxed open-air meet-up in Berlin-Kreuzberg this Friday, July 2nd, 7pm! It’s planned as a nice and interesting meet and greet of a group of old and new friends, followers, readers, art fans and party people. I’m sure there will be a lot of fun, sun, drinks and good mood. To make the decision to join the party easier for you, there will be a beer for free for the first 20 people (without warranty), but don’t forget to bring along your own drinks - there will be no bar, only some shops around! Additionally, everyone will be able to grab some Urban Artcore Stickers. ...

As you maybe noticed, I don’t really like adverts and the misuse o urban art for commercial things, but that ad-campaign is rather good: The World Wide Fund For Nature (short WWF), the biggest international nature conservation organization, tagged some wild animals for their latest campaign “What will it take before we respect the planet?”. Of course, it’s digital work… Although graffiti is used here as a symbol of vandalism, I really like the idea of that campaign. Maybe it’s because I’d never seen graffiti on polar bears, rhinoceroses or elephants before, or maybe it’s because the tagged elephants reminded me of that elephant, Bansky painted for one of his shows - I don’t know. Fact is, that the WWF’s statement is clear: Keep tagging walls in the urban landscape - Stay away from animals! ...

Yesterday, Babelgum informed me, that they published the new, outstanding 60-minute “Guerrilla Art” documentary by Sebastian Peiter, which tells the urban art story from subway graffiti to international big business. “Over the last few years Street Art has established itself as an art form. But where can this street-based movement go from here, after works by Banksy have been boarded up, chiselled off the walls, to be sold on eBay for money far exceeding the gallery prices?” (Tim Marlow, narrator of Guerrilla Art) ...

Next week, the three Peachbeach-boys will exhibit at Berlin’s West Berlin Gallery! Peachbeach is a fraternity of three village delinquents who wound up in the great capital of Berlin because of its vibrancy and dazzling colours. Harnessing varied cultural backgrounds, we were able to use different expressive accents to our advantage, fusing the most diverse creative approaches into one edgy mix of illustrative force, sensitive typography and ironic societal games. (About Peachbeach) ...