I thought, she has a lot to do for her graffiti project “700 Wall”, but apparently she needs some distraction. MadC was born in 1980, is an active graffiti artist for almost 14 years and is one of the most popular female writers worldwide… MadC is known for massive and detailed concept walls. This year she is going to break her own record and paint her biggest and most elaborate concept wall ever. Just herself, without help. ...

Five month ago, I wrote an article about a beautiful video, which shows the cold snow atmosphere in Berlin. These days are over now, and the filmmakers crew started another series about abandoned places in Berlin: The first part of the series is about the famous “Eisfabrik”, an old and abandoned but great industrial building in the heart of Berlin, I visited with tape artist BUFFdiss some month ago…The second part is a beautiful documentary of the old “Bärenquell” brewery in the south-east of Berlin. ...

Famous urban artist Nomad, the self-proclaimed pink ninja, recently sent me some photos of his reservoir dam action on Grand Canary. Some days ago, he transformed one of the biggest dams into a wishing well by painting the slogan “Make A Wish” on its front. *It would have been more visible if he’d done it in black, but there is enough black surrounding our wishes. Let our wishes be pink and soft and playful. There was nothing aggressive in this intervention besides a militancy of attention that was absolutely necessary for a successful mission. ...

While stones and bottles were flying against policemen and thousands of young people party the Walpurgis Night in Berlin, the Skalitzers Gallery in Kreuzberg opened its doors for a great art show last Friday! Kiss the City shows amazing artworks by the four famous French urban artists Babou, L’Atlas, Sun7 and Tanc. With roots in tagging since the early 90s, it is the making of their mark that unites them. Working together since 2003, their works individually interpret the emotion, ambience, gesture and search for the master-stroke. (press release) ...

Some months ago, he was part of the “Aerosol Fumes” exhibition, which presented almost the best Berlin-based stencil artist and now he has his own exhibition at ATM Gallery in Berlin - Yes, I’m talking about Czarnobyl, who lives and works in Berlin since 1993! Well influenced by the craziness of cyberpunk, house squatting and graffiti, his detailed stencil artworks combine motives of cyborgs, alternative people, abstract patterns and other strange things… ...

Yesterday, Stefan Strumbel’s exhibition “Home Sweet Home” opened at Berlin’s Circleculture Gallery, which will run until June 10. Strumbel’s artwork series, which is part of that new art show, became very popular around the world, because of its great connection of traditional arts (like the cuckoo clocks handicraft) and modern spray-paint culture. He combines his own graffiti-background with craft accomplishments of his homeland. Added to that he found a creative and often funny way of dealing with the paradigms of “home” on an abstract level. ...

Although I did not write about him so far, Alexandre Farto aka Vhils is recently one of my favorite urban artists. With his amazing and very popular Scratching The Surface artworks, he tries “focusing on the act of destruction to create” as he told me in the interview he gave me some days ago… uac: In the last months and years, you and especially your artworks became very popular around the world. A lot of people wrote articles about you, published photos and videos about your artworks and were - like me - fascinated about the way you create your works. Although, nobody really knows something about you. Could you explain who you are, where you´re from and how you got in contact with the so-called urban art? ...

Yesterday a massive paint attack happened in the heart of Berlin! The Rosenthaler Platz, which is the center of one of Berlin’s creative areas (a lot of street art and nice galleries can be found around it!) was repainted. The whole action took only a few seconds: …bikers had poured paint from big boxes in front of cars that waited for green lights. So the cars and their wheels, if the driver wanted it or not, became the brush tool for this guerrilla public art piece. (dkomm.wordpress.com) ...

The Exhibition of Murals in the old city of Wroclaw is the fourth stage of the Breaking The Wall project. My first thought when I read the lineup of participating artists, including Blu, Erica Il Cane, SickBoy, Zosen, and others, was: That will be fuckin’ great!. Their murals will reflect on the identity and existence of the post-1989 generation, as well as the celebrated anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Even though there was no concrete structure to pull down in Wroclaw’s history, it is clear that there will be lots of walls to get rid of in the future. ...

…is the next milestone in my life and the next level for Urban Art Core. Between August and November, I will have an internship in the great city of London and therefore a lot of work has to be done. I have to buy a flight. I have to create a lot of “What to do in London”, “What to see in London” and “Who to meet in London” list. I have to clean my camera equipment. I have to set up my netbook. I have to, I have to, I have to,… ...