Street Art Germany: Urban Art & Graffiti Scenes

In early October, Lueneburg was visited by 35 world-renowned street artists, because of freshman students’ first week. The freshmen were ordered to hold document this event and the university charged another team with the documentation of the start days. During this time, “The Art of Control” was also made. It’s the only independent film that tries to show the ambivalence of the project: Street artists express their opinion about illegality and the difficulty of contract work and the university’s chairmanship comments specific planned art projects for the future. ...

In August, the German street artist Evol hit Dresden and painted a whole stencil art city in a 10*8m hole in the ground on a abandoned slaughterhouse. That area was formerly - in 1832 - painted by Caspar David Friedrich and was used for utilization of carcass as recently as 15 years ago. Caspar David Friedrich, by Bianca Schemel However, Evol did a great job, the photos went around the world then. Now, there’s a video documentation of that urban art installation, which shows in a very crude way the richness of detail of Evol’s stencil artworks. It’s impressive and somehow terrifying. I think this artwork fits for Dresden… ...

It’s an event of superlatives - The “ARTotale – Urban Art Project” goes into its third day and the artworks continue to grow. Fortunately, Just is on the spot! Germany’s best street art documentalist not only presents the video live stream, he also publishes a selection of his top “ARTotale” photos every day! Whether Ben Eine, Evol, Pius Portmann, Swoon, Vitché, Moki, 1010, Tilt, Daniel Man, Brad Downey, Boxi, Victor Ash, Jay-One, Dave the Chimp, Tryone, Daniel Tagno, Zezao, Bronco, Faith 47, Loomit, Herakut or Daim, Just got them all! ...

Graffiti Workshop | Famous writer Loomit explains in a recorded presentation workshop in front of a huge crowd of students of the Leuphana University how to do graffiti. It’s the first video clip from the urban art project “ARTotale” in Lueneburg. He shows how to create perspective letters - starting with the shades right through to the lights and insides. It’s a quick, but interesting video workshop for those of you, who never made graffiti on their own. ...

As I wrote some days ago, the city of the German small town Lueneburg gets redesigned and will be transformed into a public exhibition space for leading figures of the international urban art scene - The press release is out now: More than 35 internationally renowned street artists have been invited to the Leuphana urban art project, including Akim, Victor Ash, Ben Eine, Brad Downey, Boxi, Bronco, Dave the Chimp, D*face, DTAGNO, Faith47, Flying Förtress, Herakut, Loomit, DAIM, Moki, 1010, Mode2, Swoon, Tilt, Tryone, Zevs, 56K ans many more! ...

When the new semester begins at the Leuphana University of Lueneburg, one of the most spectacular art events will start lately under Rik Reinking’s guidance! From 5 to 9 October 2009, more than 35 internationally renowned street artists will go through the city of Lueneburg and the University campus and redesign public space and building facades at the invitation of the University. About 1200 freshmen students have the task to document this project and make videos about it. The nearly 360 expected video clips will be published on the internet in cooperation with Google. ...