Yippieh, 2010 will start with an extravagant street art show! The five most well-known Berlin-based stencil artists - Bohomaz, Czarnobyl, Emess, Evol and Pisa73 - will exhibit together in the Neurotitan Gallery. That very special and rare group-exhibition will be the first urban art highlight in the upcoming year. I’m so happy, ’cause for me stencil art is very important. My interests in street and urban art were stimulated by it and my first steps in being a part of the urban art scene were planning, cutting and spraying stencils. ...

Yeah, it’s time for end-of-the-year reviews! Some days ago, my friend Luna Park from New York posted her 30 favorites of the year. She is quite a renowned street art and graffiti photographer, so her list of favorite pieces, moments or shots is interesting for everyone else. Today I will show you some of my favorite urban art exhibition shots, I took in the soon ending year. It was very hard, but I think, that I made a good decision. Let my know your opinions! ...

Christmas is over, so I will again have time to write some nice articles about urban art and culture for you. I hope, you had a nice Christmas and got some nice gifts. Did you know that we will have some Russian street art here in Berlin? Inky is the remaining part of the Russian street art duo Incubus Project, which gain a lot of popularity while their participation at the graffiti and street art festival “Names” in Prague in 2008. With the futuristic style of their complex collages, they created some great and interesting eye-catching urban artworks. ...

I love it to see paintings and other artworks at abandoned places like old factory sites or derelict ruins: The power and colorfulness of the artworks in contradistinction to the gray, grungy and lifeless buildings and walls. When I saw photos of Iemza’s abandoned paintings the first time, I was really astonished! The French artist creates fantastic abstract creatures, which bring back life to their brown, gray and dirty walls: ...

Yeah, do you know, that there will be a new documentary movie about women in the graffiti world? No? I will tell you some facts about it: “Girl Power” is the name of that new graffiti film, which shows impressions and emotions from around the world. The film crew traveled with 20 graffiti girls to over ten cities, like Berlin, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Budapest, Moscow, and so on. For some weeks, the first teaser for the documentary movie, which will be released in 2011, is online! It presents some parts of the Berlin trip. ...

Some time ago, I wrote an article about the fantastic “Total Rewall” project in London, which connects graffiti, street art and photography in an public, urban context. “Total Rewall” started on Friday December 4th in the infamous Leake Street Tunnel, which was once the home of Banksy’s Cans Festival, with the claim “on collaboration, not only between the photographers organising the exhibition and taking of photos (of places graffers normally would not be able to work on) – but also with street artists themselves, a vital part of the cog.” ...

Have you ever heard of “Journey to the End of the Night”? It’s an interesting, simple, free street game of epic proportion run by hard-working volunteers in cities around the world from London to Los Angeles. Urban Game: Journey to the End of the Year This year, there will be a New Year’s Eve special edition of that urban game, called “Journey to the End of the Year” in Berlin: ...

Do you know the Slanted magazine? It’s a typography magazine, which exists since 2005 and is published quarterly. It combines the sectors typography, layout, illustration and photography. The ninth issue, named “Stencil. Type.”, of the Slanted magazine is about stencil fonts and their modern applications! “Slanted presents the innovative work of Gavillet & Rust and their fontlabel Optimo (Geneva), the large format paintings of Christopher Wool (New York), an impressive photo series of Francois Fleruy (Paris) and many more. The sections “Fontlabels, Fonts & Families”, “Fontnames Illustrated” and “Typolyrics” introduce contemporary fonts and designers from all over the world, followed by interviews with John Boardley, Kouga Hirano and Chip Kidd and an interesting type essay by Hannes von Döhren.” ...

This Thursday, the sticker-museum Hatch, will start its second “Oversized & Underpriced” charity sticker exhibition! In contrast to the first show in 2008, when huge customized “Hello My Name Is” stickers were presented, the second show is about the classical German “Päckchen” stickers, which are already used by a lot of people to paint on them. About 60 internally known urban artists, like Dave the Chimp, MyMo, Pisa73, Flying Förtress, Jaybo aka Monk, The Walters, Emess and many more customized their own stickers, which will be exhibited until January 24th. ...

I love it to listen to the various sounds, songs and voices of the often talented musicians in the subway-stations or trains. In my opinion they are part of the urban culture as well as the subway graffities or the tags on the ticket automates! Mike Kobal recently published his first subway music sample video, which shows really talented people from New York! When I watched it the first time, I got very impressed and a bit jealous, because here in Berlin, I often see people playing a didgeridoo or a accordion, but I can’t remember ever having seen an entire band or a saxophonist… ...