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Photography serves as the essential medium for documenting and preserving the ephemeral nature of street art, graffiti, and urban art across global cities. Beyond mere documentation, urban art photography has developed into its own artistic discipline, exploring creative angles, lighting techniques, and framing choices that enhance the impact of the original artworks.
Through exhibitions, publications, and digital platforms, photographers play a vital role in bringing street art to audiences who cannot experience these works firsthand, democratizing access to urban creativity while honoring the artists’ original intentions and contexts.
Backjumps #4 - Photos
As I told you yesterday, the next version of legendary urban art exhibition project “Backjumps”, started in Berlin.
Backjumps #4 presents different unusual artworks and projects by the seven Berlin-based urban artists Pigenius Cave, Brad Downey, RZM (Ritsche Koch/Zasd/Christian Marien), Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf. The exhibition shows, in which ways it is possible to explore and use the urban landscape.
Pigenius Cave explores with a homemade “Tricycle” the canals and underground access ways of the city. Brad Downey presents artworks, which demonstrate his sculptural as well as his performative dealing with the city. RZM deals with the world of sound, architecture and texture of Berlin locations. And Matthias Wermke and Misha Leinkauf show a video installation, in which they move through the underground and suburban rail network of Berlin.
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Urban Top Shots #9
Oh yeah, it’s Friday afternoon and there are only a few hours to the opening of this years Backjumps, but before I go off immediately, I will present you the three urban top shot of the week!
For those of you, who haven’t heard something about the weekly urban top shots, I will explain it shortly: Every week I feature the three best Urban Artcore shots of the last seven days. Perhaps you have a great shot of urban art, graffiti, architecture, street design, or other urban impressions, too – Become a member of the Urban Artcore Flickr-group and add your photos!
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Nomad - Classical Painting & Street Art
Yesterday, one of Berlin’s most famous urban artists Nomad opened his recent exhibition “Rainbowcoloured Tears of a Clown” at the Circleculture Gallery.
“Circleculture Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition featuring the artist Nomad. As an original street artist, he developed his expressional variants conceptually and technically through interactive projects in interior and exterior spaces: combining writing and street art with poetry and classical painting.
In this context, we become acquainted with Nomad’s street art in the gallery as part of a holistic work of art. The works shown move between humour, satire and human drama. At the centre is the clown or fool, who mirrors the ambiguity of human existence.” (press release)
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Black on White, Style needs no Color
Bigger, more colorful and even more detailed - This is seemingly a actual trend in the graffiti scene. In my opinion it’s to much. For me, a piece is a good one when it’s unique and has a attractive typographic character - Too many colors overlay the rather style…
Quite similarly think the people from “Style needs no color”. They released their book “Black on White” with a big live painting (only in black and white) some days ago! Over 20 graffiti artists, including 3Steps, Faker,Mr.Cybe, Panik, Pesk, Ritak and Tabu, painted at the hall of fame in Koblenz.
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Urban Top Shots #8
From week to week, it’s harder to decide the three urban top shots from the Urban Artcore Flickr-group, ’cause every week there are are more members and a lot of great shots.
What, you don’t know what I mean? Every week I feature the three best Urban Artcore shots of the last seven days. Perhaps you have a great shot of urban art, graffiti, architecture, street design, or other urban impressions, too – Become a member of the Urban Artcore Flickr-group and add your photos!
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New Urban Interventions by SpY
Since the mid-80s, shortly after he had worked himself up to the showcase graffiti artist of Spain, Madrid-based writer Spy began to deal with other forms of artistic communication in public space. Since then, Spy is titled as a second Banksy, because of the extreme innovation and audacity of his artworks. He therefore enjoys a heightened public interest, not only in Spain but also in Europe and around the world.
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KRink Styled Mini Cooper
It’s the fourth time this week, that I wrote something about New York-based street artist KR - a new record! Last weekend, I informed you about his cooperation with auto-manufacturer Mini, today the first photos of this event were published!
KR customized a Mini Cooper S in his very own style in Hamburg. The car is outfitted in his signature silver-drip KRINK aesthetic and will be shown this Saturday at Vicious Gallery. Additionally you’re able to take a look at other new artworks by him.
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Urban Top Shots #7
Here’s the seventh issue of the three urban top shot from the Urban Artcore Flickr-group! Over 330 members with about 2000 photos of architecture, urban art, street art, graffiti or other street photography joined my group - thanks for taking part!
The “Urban Top Shots” series features every week the three best Urban Artcore shots of the last seven days. Perhaps you have a great shot of urban art, graffiti, architecture, street design, or other urban impressions, too – Become a member of the Urban Artcore Flickr group and add your photos!
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Just’s Photo-Postcard Winners
Last Thursday, I started a small urban art photo contest, whereby you were able to win 3 limited urban art photo-postcards packs by Just. Each of the packages includes 4 postcards with grandiose urban art pictures from Berlin on it.
Before I’ll show you the winning shots, I’ll say thank you to all the creative people who submitted their urban photos or joined the Urban Artcore Flickr-group! Keep it up!
As last time, it was hard to decide to three best urban art photos, but in the end I had my favorite ones! Here are the three Winners of “Just’s Photo-Postcard Contest”:
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Berlin Advertising Takeover
My friend Martin from the online platform for contemporary urban art “LetterXIII” asked me to post some infos and photos about the urban art group-exhibition and advertising takeover “Nothing but…”, which took place in Berlin some days ago.
About 20 different urban artists took over so called citylight-posters with their artworks between Mitte and Neukölln.
Involved on this wonderful, temporary adbusting action were for example Evol, Bronco, Brad Downey, Filippo Minelli, Akim, Laurent Basset and many more!
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