Stencil Art

There are only some hours left, before we could take a more or less long, but wonderful weekend with a lot sunshine, cold drinks and maybe a bathing trip. But before you will now close your eyes and dream of your early weekend, you should have a look at this week’s Urban Art Eye Candy! This time I collected some great new mural artworks, stencil spray-paintings and other impressing artworks from all over the world… ...

What an amazing weather! The sun is everywhere, it is hot and I had some time to walk through Berlin-Kreuzberg for taking some photos of Berlin’s summer street art. Today I decided twelve of them to give you a nice insight into what happens on the streets in Germany’s capital. There are, in addition to some great stencil spray paintings by Emess and C215, a lot of paper artworks by Alias, Mean Marek and the three Israeli street artists Foma, The Drip Up and Klone, who recently visited Berlin, and a new piece by famous graffiti artist Roa, who is in town at the moment. Furthermore some rather inspiring urban artworks by less known artists leaped to my camera’s focus… ...

Last Friday, the two Hamburg-based stencil artists Dash3Ultra and Mittenimwald opened their urban art exhibition at ATM Gallery in Berlin. Both artists are well-known on the streets of the Hanseatic city and that’s why I decided to join the vernissage. It was a really nice evening with nice people and of course some rather interesting artworks… Although Mittenimwald’s stencil style reminded me a bit of some of these overloaded artworks by Shepard Fairey and the pixel style by Dash3Ultra seems not working that good behind glass as it normally does on the streets, I could suggest you to visit the “Quantomirokaze²” exhibition! The reason for that is their completely contrary, interesting technique of spraying stencils, which makes it possible to directly compare what different things are possible to do with the same tools… ...

In addition to the stencil art show by two Hamburg-based street artist tomorrow at ATM Gallery, I want to give you some impressions of that nice book about the famous Hamburger stencil art crew Los Piratoz, which is maybe the most active street art crew in the Hanseatic city. As I could read in the book, which is entitled “Yes we Arrrrr!” and arrived at my home in the last week, they started round about 2002 to stick stencil sprayed stickers in the streets and decided a short while after to creatively work under the label Los Piratoz. ...

Tomorrow, the two Hamburg-based stencil artists Mittenimwald and Dash3Ultra will rock the Berlin city with their urban art exhibition at ATM Gallery! They will show their latest, completely contrary stenciled spray paintings, which is the best base for an exciting street art show… When I visited the Papergirl #5 exhibition opening last weekend I was able to cast an eye on some of their artworks and was really impressed. On the one hand, Dash3Ultra’s stencil artworks - By the way, he is a member of the reknown Hamburg-based stencil art crew ASA - is characterized by a scurrile pixel-style. On the other hand, Mittenimwald combines commerce and punk to a detailed urban-inspired mixture. ...

Before the Urban Artcore open-air meet-up will start today in Berlin-Kreuzberg, I collected some rather nice street art news and graffiti info from around the world which will find your interest! Of course, there are a lot of new urban artworks around the world. This is only a small collection of new graffiti-pieces, stencil artworks, and some other great new urban artworks… Urban Tag-Cloud - Anton Steenbock created some really interesting urban tag clouds by reconstructing old tags on walls… ...

Berlin-based stencil artist Boxi is in addition to Evol, Czarnobyl, Orticanoodles and C215 one of the most famous stencil artist in Europe and the entire world. Yesterday, I found an amazing video which documents the alternation process of one of his most recent artworks, a “six layer hand-cut paper stencil and spray paint on photograph by Ross Morrison.” It looks quite gorgeous how he creates the reflections in the visual cover of the helmet - That really floored me! ...

As mentioned yesterday, here is the fourth edition of the Urban Art Exe Candy series! In the last days, a lot of new street art and graffiti exhibitions were announced, some very interesting urban artworks were created in the streets around the world and additionally a huge number of new photos joined the Urban Artcore Flickr-group pool! For that reason, I’m able to present you some breaking street art news and nice impressions… ...

Banksy is - as you maybe noticed - on a trip through the United States und Canada. Following LA, San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago and Toronto, the worlds most famous street artist recently visited Boston. In addition to that typical Banksy artworks, which work with a lot sarcasm and which you could find following his route, he left behind some very nice and inspiring large-scale painting, which were called the Banksy Child Drawing Series by the Wooster Collective. ...

Some months ago, he was part of the “Aerosol Fumes” exhibition, which presented almost the best Berlin-based stencil artist and now he has his own exhibition at ATM Gallery in Berlin - Yes, I’m talking about Czarnobyl, who lives and works in Berlin since 1993! Well influenced by the craziness of cyberpunk, house squatting and graffiti, his detailed stencil artworks combine motives of cyborgs, alternative people, abstract patterns and other strange things… ...