Berlin is the world capital of stencil art - You don’t think so? Then take a look at the extravagant “Aerosol Fumes” stencil art exhibition! Since two days, Berlin’s five most well-known stencil artists – Bohomaz, Czarnobyl, Emess, Evol and Pisa73 – exhibit together in the Neurotitan Gallery. The exhibition brings together, what belongs together - Very detailed stencil artworks and large-sized abstract multilayer spray-paints, created by five different urban artists in five different styles. ...

Today I have five beautiful pieces of urban art photography for you! As you maybe know, I sometimes feature some top shots to make mostly unknown, but good pictures more popular. So I have some interesting visual content, you see new urban shots and the photographers and/ or artists will maybe become some fame. All the following photos came from the Urban Artcore Flickr-Group. You can join that group and add your own shots! I hope some of you will get some inspiration for their next artworks or photographs. Have fun and a nice Friday-afternoon. ...

In the last days, graffiti artist MadC started planning and sketching for her upcoming massive graffiti project called “700 Wall”. Her intention is to break her own record and paint her biggest and most elaborate concept wall ever. For that reason, she will work on a gigantic 639m² wall. Just herself, without help. MadC is internationally known for her detailed concept walls and a rough style. She will use 100 liters primer, 140 liters exterior paint and 1392 spray-cans for her new “Stylemachine” graffiti concept. ...

“Will you marry me?” is an very interesting question - There’s always a lot fuss around it. Also Derick Childress and his friend had a lot of work with planning and making the actions for that special question. With a lot of spot-lights, a good camera and some motion, they created a giant light-writing marriage-proposal - “Emily, will you marry me?” - in Raleigh, North Carolina at the end of the last year. ...

There are a lot of articles about urban light art in the Urban Artcore archives, but today I have a real treat for you: An interview with the famous light art collective Luzinterruptus from Spain! Luzinterruptus is a great example for the creative handling with light in an urban environment. They did a lot of great and impressing urban interventions, which are always going through the urban art press and blogs around the world. For this reason and because of I didn’t know anything about the artists themselves, I did that interview with them: ...

I never understood the thinking of house owners, caretakers or inhabitants, who like gray walls and always paint over graffities, tags and other paintings with gray paint. For this reason, I also can’t understand, why they don’t use the same color in which their house was painted before!? Because of that, a large number of houses look like rag rugs - A shade of gray here, another there, it’s all right as long as the wall is gray and not colorful or even artistical. ...

For me there’s almost nothing more interesting than an abandoned industry area, old and uninhabited houses or those lonely and lonesome places between houses in the urban landscape. Six days ago, I already posted an article about a fantastic abandoned painting project, called Ghostvillage, which took place on the west coast of Scotland several weeks ago. Now there’s another video, documenting the work of the six renowned urban artists Timid, Remi/Rough, System, Stormie Mills, Juice 126 and Derm in that old ghostvillage. ...

In the last month, I wrote a lot about building projections around the world, but I never saw an better one! The word of future is interactive - People don’t only want to be part of their environment, they want to create their environment with their own actions, they want interact with it. The new creative interaction collective YesYesNo, which is specialized in the creation of engaging, magical installations that combine creativity and artistic visions, recently turned the Auckland Ferry Building in Auckland City into an interactive playground: ...

Yesterday, I visited my most favorite gallery in Berlin, the ATM Gallery, to take some photos of the interesting stencil artworks by the Russian street artist Incubus Project. I loved the dirty, futuristic and sometimes unclean style and especially the wooden raw materials, he used to spray on. For me, as a small urban nerd, the robot motives were really treat for the eyes! “The themes are mainly futuristic and by displaying machinery they bring early videos by Kraftwerk, a german technopop band, to memory. Moreover the purist choice of colors -red/black - constitutes another part of their expressive and longevity stencils.” (press release) ...

Until Yesterday, I didn’t know that there’s an very interesting street art book about one of my favorite urban artists Swoon on the market. Swoon is known by most people through her wheat-pasted cut-outs, which have appeared throughout New York for the better part of the last decade. Her unique style and her claim to document urban life and culture in an artistic way, made her artworks popular around the world. ...