Urban Sculptures: Street Art & Beyond

This archive dives deep into the world of sculpture within the urban landscape. We explore everything from monumental public art pieces to smaller, more intimate works integrated into street art scenes. Discover the diverse materials, techniques, and powerful messages conveyed through these three-dimensional works. See how artists transform everyday environments into captivating galleries, challenging perceptions and sparking conversations. Explore the history, the artists, and the evolving impact of sculpture within the dynamic context of street and urban art.

Mark Jenkins Sculptures - Urban Theater Berlin

Gestalten Publishing presents Mark Jenkins sculptures in Berlin: Gestalten is proud to present the first solo show in Germany by the renowned American artist Mark Jenkins, who uses ordinary packing tape to create life-size human or animal forms. Jenkins is best known for his clever installations of these startlingly lifelike tape sculptures in urban and natural spaces as well as indoor environments such as cafeterias, toilets, and art galleries. This expert staging of his work, especially his clothed human figures, provokes various—often strong—reactions from passersby and expands his interventions into powerful performances. ...

Skateboard Sculptures by Haroshi

Japanese skateboard sculptor Haroshi, who became infatuated with skateboarding in his early teens, creates impressive art by recycling old, broken skateboards and is still a passionate skater. I just stumbled upon some flicks from his latest exhibition in Los Angeles, which includes in addition to other skateboard sculptures, an amazing fuckfinger made of skateboards which is really killing it! Skateboard Sculpture Art In my eyes, being able to create those skateboard sculptures requires lots of technical skills as well as the right machines as it is mentioned on Haroshi’s website: ...

Brad Downey: Spontaneous Sculptures

Brad Downey’s work over the past decade has consistently pitted itself against the sanctioned and the predictable, that’s the first sentence in Brad Downey’s Spontaneous Sculptures book and in my eyes this describes the presented series of urban interventions, transformations and occupation the best way. With this second part of my Urban Art Books & Mags Special I’d like to introduce his latest book to you… Downey was born 1980 into a military family, studied film in Brooklyn and painting in London and lives right now in Berlin. He’s well-known around the globe for his I would say back-to-the-roots artistic works in public space, which are often almost criminal and confusing (like the burning CCTV cameras) but always simply great and inspiring. For that reason, the Spontaneous Sculptures book, with its 160 colored pages, is a great reading for urban intervention enthusiasts. ...

Sky Writing, Urbex in Moscow, Human Rights & Car Sculptures

Unfortunately I didn’t found enough time to write in the last days - I rather enjoyed this year’s probably last sunny summer days - for what reason I again give a brief overview about what happened in the international urban art scene during the last couple of days… Saber did a fantastic typographic, aerial attack on downtown Los Angeles by writing into the sky! Remember: Art is not a crime, but Los Angeles would like you to think it is! ...

Outer Space Tag, Abstract Graffiti, Urban Hacking, Sculptures & Political Action

Because I had a lot to do for university this week I didn’t had that much time to write. Nevertheless I collected some interesting urban art news during the last days, which is why I’m able to give you an more or less detailed overview about what happened on the streets around the world. Here’s what I wasn’t posting about while I was busy writing scientific papers for different professors… ...

Urban Art Sculptures: Boy Soldiers

Earlier this month, the urban art sculptures exhibition “Boy Soldiers” by fine artist Schoony and the Graffik London gallery opened it’s doors for the public. With a lot of better known street and graffiti artists on the guest list, the opening at the Blackall Studios was really successful! Each of the 25 participating urban artists (“the UK’s top artists of the current UK and European art scene”, as Hooked wrote) designed one of the fantastic Boy Soldier fibreglass sculptures by Schoony and created in that way some really good and especially unusual urban artworks. ...

Boy Soldiers: Urban Art War in London?

Some of you will may know fine artist Schoony, who is a pro in creating humans out of fibreglass. His latest creation, the “Boy Soldier” is now the main part of an unusual urban art group-exhibition in London! Thirty, well-known graffiti and street artists, including D*Face, Insa, Fin DAC, Part2ism, Liliwenn, Snub23 and Leeks, repainted the thirty pure white boy soldier sculptures, which will be shown in two different venues, in their own styles. ...

Street Sculptures: D*Face’s Inglourious Oscars

Yesterday, the Oscars prize giving ceremony took place in Los Angeles and yes, I was not surprised that Christoph Waltz got his Oscar for his “Inglourious Basterds” Nazi-part, because in conclusion he’s an Austrian… However, also British street artist D*Face visited LA. During the last days, he installed two skeleton-like Oscar sculptures, each about two meters high and now referred as “Zombie Oscars”. As you maybe know, D*Face loves skulls and skeletons - What’s the intention behind that interesting installations, D*Face told NBC Los Angeles: ...

Zeus’ 3D Graffiti Sculptures

Zeus’ 3D Graffiti Sculpture At the age of fourteen the in London born Dean Zeus Colman began to work off his creativity on the streets. At that time he left, like many others, “just” tags on the streets. Who could know in the 80s that this little boy will be sixteen years later the first graffiti artists, who would exhibit in the Victoria and Albert Museum of art and design? Probably no one except his parents! ...