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Bosso Fataka - Cling Wrap Sculptures

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:11:17 +0000

The Berlin-based guerrilla art crew Bosso Fataka creates cling wrap sculptures in public space. Recently ReutersTV featured them in a video!

Urban Intervention: Project Cloud Castle

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:43:13 +0000

Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk just realized their Berlin Cloud Castle project, an urban intervention examinating incompletion of public space.

2.4 GHz - Public Monitoring Art

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:27:17 +0000

Benjamin Gaulon creates public monitoring art by installing wireless video receiver in public space to hack into wireless CCTV cameras...!

Klebstoff #4 Sticker Magazine

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:56:29 +0000

Klebstoff (German for glue) is the first magazine worldwide that completely consists of stickers! I just received the latest, fourth issue of the mag containing sticker works by 18 artists...

Street Artist JR: 1 Year Turning the World Inside Out

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:34:27 +0000

Street artist JR started his Inside Out project in 2011. Now, a year after, he shows how giant posters of human faces, connect communities!

Guerrilla Paint Sculpture

Wed, 23 May 2012 08:47:27 +0000

Belgian paint manufacturer Levis just came up with a new urban advert campaign and transformed a lamppost into a guerrilla paint sculpture!

Deserted Cities: Where Time Stands Still

Tue, 08 May 2012 18:39:03 +0000

The Silent World urban photo-series by Lucie and Simon show empty places in deserted cities and make us understand What makes a city a city!

Kulturpark Berlin: Re-open an Abandoned Amusement Park

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:08:31 +0000

I have a big foible for abandoned amusement parks. One reason - and it doesn’t matter whether the decaying park is located in the US or even in China - is the somehow scary atmosphere of old, often broken attractions, archaic Western buildings and roller coasters. Another reason is, that those abandoned parks, providing never ending impressions, are perfect playgrounds for urban explorers and photographers like me…

Kulturpark - A Public Art Project in Berlin

In Berlin, a group of cultural developers and activists together with experimental architects from Berlin, researchers from Harvard, and placemakers from the Urban Art Institute plans to re-open the abandoned amusement park Spreepark, located in the sprawling Treptower Park, as a creative camp. The group’s aim is to utilize the process of producing artistic site-specific visions, combined with ideas and memories of publics, to create a grassroots proposal for the park’s future, what sounds like a really great thing for Berlin!

Drama-Button Street Intervention

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:42:23 +0000

TNT placed a red push button on a square of an Flemish town and a sign with the text "Push to add drama" to invite people to use the button. An then they waited...

Paint Attack Sao Paulo

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:52:44 +0000

Massive paint attack in Sao Paulo! Similar to the Painting Reality intervention by Iepe Rubingh, a group of activists tipped out buckets of colorful paint on a junction!

JR Inside Out Haiti

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:36:13 +0000

The JR Inside Out Project becomes more and more well-known around the globe. Recently people from Haiti joined the global art project by one of the most popular urban artists with their portraits!

Clemens Behr - Urban Places & Spaces

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:53:45 +0000

In my eyes, German artist Clemens Behr was one of the top urban artist around the globe in 2011. He just published this video review you shouldn’t miss to watch - amazing stuff!

Urban Regeneration, ZEDZ

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:33:00 +0000

ZEDZ, well-known Dutch graffiti-writing master, sculptor and urban artist realized a fine art print that subsequently went painted on a huge bridge in Milan...

London’s Most Public Gallery

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:38:57 +0000

London’s most famous public art gallery at Village Underground is turning five years old, for what reason they try to evolve by transforming their walls into an permanent art space...

Brad Downey: Spontaneous Sculptures

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:51:33 +0000

With the element of surprise firmly on his side, the American artist Brad Downey creates powerful interventions that visually disrupt the routine of our urban perception. This is his spontaneous sculptures book...

Visual Intervention, Mural Art Project in Rochester

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:44:13 +0000

Believe/ Visual Intervention is a short documentary which chronicles a first-of-its-kind public art mural project which took place in Rochester, NY in July 2011, involving local artists and a group of four artists from Cape Town...

Reclaim the Streets - Parking Day 2011

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:53:17 +0000

Tomorrow is world Park(ing) Day again! With the intention to reclaim the streets, hundreds of guerrilla art installations will be created in parking bays around the globe. Anything planned in Berlin?

Banksy’s Antics Roadshow Online!

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:12:32 +0000

Banksy’s Antics Roadshow is online and can be watched without any geo-location restrictions! The show, featuring fantastic guerrilla art interventions, charted the history of behaving badly in public last Saturday in British TV...

Banksy’s Antics Roadshow

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:44:27 +0000

Banksy’s Antics Roadshow charts the history of behaving badly in public, from anarchists and activists to attention seeking eccentrics and is definitely a must to watch for every guerrilla art enthusiast...

JR’s Inside Out Project

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:46:11 +0000

The 2011 TED Prize winner and well-known French photographer JR started the Inside Out project earlier this year with the idea to create the world’s largest participatory art project! Recently the first episode of the documentary was published!

CityLeaks - Urban Art Festival

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:27:09 +0000

CityLeaks is an international urban art festival taking place 2011 in Cologne, including superb urban artists from all over the world like Blu, Roa and Faith47!

L’Atlas Cartons Installation

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:32:20 +0000

I just noticed, that French urban artist and master of rectangular shaped calligraphy and geometrically forms L’Atlas (who was recently in Berlin!) created a new public installation in March at the Place du Palais-Royal in Paris! Using 2722 cartons he and some assistants spent one day to build (and destroy) one of his well-known geometrically signs in 3D.

I really like this work and think that this is again a good example for the diversity of L’Atlas! Watching the video (which is a stop-motion film containing 2754 photos) I tried to imagine what all the tourists around thought is going on…

Mašta - Magazine for Creative Activism

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:52:38 +0000

Berlin-based “Mašta” is a new and fresh subcultural magazine for creative activism like experimental, unconventional and provocative art in public space. The English-speaking mag is a must to have...

Urban Art vs. Ad World

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:24:01 +0000

It’s the one big topic which combines politics, urban art and advertising ideas like none other: Are companies allowed to steal street art or entire urban art concepts to use them for their own interests?!

EPOS 257 & The Appropriation of Public Space...

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:10:35 +0000

The Czech urban art crew EPOS 257 did a fantastic urban intervention earlier this year. They appropriated 50 square meters of public space by simply fencing it...great!

CCTV Birds: Urban Evolution?

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:20:53 +0000

What I hate most about modern cities is the ongoing observation of public space by the use of CCTV! That’s one reason for why I like these brilliant CCTV bird installations...

Berlin’s Painting Reality

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:31:55 +0000

Earlier this year, a group of anonymous people spilled about 500 liters paint on a well-frequented junction in the heart of Berlin. Now a documentary video was published, showing the main action of this paint attack!

Space Invader is Bender is Invader

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:19:01 +0000

I don’t know, whether it’s good or not so good to guest-star in one of Matt Groening’s series but I’m sure, this is a fantastic Space Invader tile art homage!

Spanish Top Urban Artists

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:25:42 +0000

To celebrate the end of the FIFA football world cup and the win of the Spanish football team, I decided to collect a list of Spain’s top urban artists. Therefore I need your help...

Board Mediaspree, Create Free Spaces!

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:15:30 +0000

This Saturday is Mediaspree action day! Let’s take over control of the spaces along the Spree’s riverside to prevent Mediaspree and its gentrification plannings...

Massive Paint Attack in Berlin

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:06:30 +0000

The Rosenthaler Platz in Berlin is a victim of a massive paint attack which took place there yesterday. Several liters of paint made a colorful chaos...

Light Art: Too Dark in Vancouver?

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:24:13 +0000

The 2010 Winter Olympics are over, but I recently found a very interesting light art project which took place in Vancouver for the last weeks: “Vectorial Elevation”!

Total Rewall Photos

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:09:08 +0000

The urban art project “Total Rewall” from London, connects photography and graffiti in a special way. The event took place some weeks ago - here are some photos...

Total Rewall - Graffiti & Photography

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:02:32 +0000

The graffiti and photography project “Total Rewall” makes it possible for every people to paint on surfaces, that are normally out-of-bounds for street artists...

Underground Skatepark in London

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:46:20 +0000

There are several project around the globe, which reuse abandoned places in the public, urban space. A very interesting one is the underground skatepark in London...

Book of Urbanism

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:47:25 +0000

The “Book of Urbanism” is a very interesting project. It’s collecting artistic and innovative ideas for the urban public space! The central question is how public spaces will looks like in future?

ARTotale Live Stream

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:10:28 +0000

Live photos and a video stream from the “Leuphana Urban Art Project” in Lueneburg - modern technology makes it possible! See the first impressions of the ARTotale group-show...

Berlin East Side Gallery

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:12:32 +0000

The Berlin East Side Gallery is being restored and repainted. This video clip documents the work with some beautiful pictures from around The Wall...

Bike Polo - Urban Sport

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:09:57 +0000

Hardcourt Bike Polo is a new urban “in” sport, which is played in public space. Two bicycles riding teams use mallets to strike a small ball into a goal...

Street Photography: Documenting the Human Condition

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:22:25 +0000

“Street Photography” is an interesting documentary film by editorial photographer Chris Weeks about taking photos in the public, urban space. You must watch it!

Freedom Of Space - Skateboard Culture in Public Space

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:50:31 +0000

...is an interesting documentary report about street skateboarding in public space. A must for every skateboarder or urban activist! Take a look...

Impressions: New York 2008

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:09:59 +0000

New York City is not only the skyscrapers, the traffic or the dirt - It’s the people, who bring the urban landscape to life! If you want to know what I mean, take a look at this film...

Empire Begins - Riding Bikes in New York

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:14:31 +0000

“Empire Begins” is the first part of a film series, which tells and documents a story of this daring urban bike couriers and stunt bikers in the heart of New York City. There's a lot rapid action, stunts and great insights into the great urban landscape...

Write the Wall - 20 Years Breakdown

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:24:37 +0000

20 years after the fall of the berlin wall everybody is talking about the breakdown. The art installation “Write the Wall” is constructing a temporary memorial and artistic canvas for visual and lively remembrance.

Urban Idiots: “Parkour is an Urban Sport”

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:56:34 +0000

For some years two new sports impress the people in the public space of urban landscapes around the world: Parkour & Freerunning. I talked to a member of the best Freerunning-team in Berlin - Urban Idiots...

Street Photography: Mauerpark Flea Market

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:32:37 +0000

Flea markets are an indispensable element of urban landscape! A day on one of this tiny, little markets is inspiring as well as interesting. The best is to watch other people...

Flashmob in Antwerp

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:13:23 +0000

Imagine you are skating at the central station and suddenly hundreds of people begin to dance - Flashmobs are a relatively new form of urban interacting in the public space!