Urban Art Berlin: Explore the City's Vibrant Street Art Scene

Curated by 44flavours and Clemens Behr the group installation The Solution Is Irrelevant will take place tonight at Berlin’s Epicentro Artspace, Karl-Marx-Allee 82-84! Urban Multimedia Art The Solution Is Irrelevant, is meant to evoke not only an approach to creativity and the act of creating, but also a life philosophy. For the duration of the vernissage, the Epicentro Artspace will be transformed into a multimedia, interdisciplinary laboratory, where performance and video art, design, music, spoken word, sound treatment, sculpture, painting, and installations will interact simultaneously without a screenplay or a preset agenda. On board for the experiment: the 44flavours art collective, installation artist Clemens Behr, film directors Pol Ponsarnau and Yves Kasten, musicians Robot Koch, Sneaky and Lars Kirchbach, and spoken word artist RQM. The entire “performance” will be documented on video and will be screened at Epicentro art daily; presented in the form of video installations alongside other finished artifacts. ...

The Art and Pass project recently caught up with abstract urban artist Clemens Behr and let him talk about ome of his influences… Art and Pass is a collaborative artistic project formed by 18 artists of different nationalities, mixing emerging artists with established ones, as well as their diverse techniques and materials. The artists are challenged with an exercise that will make them explore and question the concepts of inspiration, appropriation and original creation. Inspired by the creative process of Mail Art, Art and Pass produces an artistic flow that travels geographically and conceptually. The creative process and the production work of each artist is captured on video, with the objective of sharing the with the public the reinterpretation that each piece undertakes. (about Art and Pass) ...

Artbase is back - The urban art festival, which took place in the abandoned sanitarium Grabowsee near Berlin in 2011, is now heading to the abandoned NSA fieldstation at Teufelsberg Berlin! With about 100 confirmed urban artists, including Karl Addison and James Bullough, Alias, Buff Diss, Graffiti Research Lab Germany, SAM Crew, Mean Marek, SP-38, Tona and Wurstbande, Artbase 2012 is with no doubt going to become this year’s biggest urban art festival in Berlin… Artbase 2012 is not a commercial festival, but an urban art weekend. We like free spirits and promote fine arts. The festival combines urban art, royalty-free music on different dance-floors and workshops with the magical feeling that radiates from this place. (loosely translated) ...

Popular urban artist Clemens Behr and graphic designer Raby Florence Fofana teamed up not long ago and together created a subway sculpture for Berlin’s probably most famous subway line U1! The so-called U1 Objekt is a two meters tall sculpture on wheels built out of wood and aluminium plates. The plates have been screenprinted with pattern-designs by Raby which where afterwards arranged and screwed together by Clemens… This Berlin subway sculpture is not just adding another part to Clemens Behr’s Places and Spaces series, but also objectifies the look and feel of a well-known means of local transport. Great! ...

Berlin-based ad takeover artist Vermibus shows how it’s done! Using nothing more than some brushes and different solvents, Vermibus transforms popular advertising posters of fashion models (e.g. Kate Moss) and puts them back to the streets… The gesture of erasing the images with solvent is similar to the gesture of painting, but it is painting counter action. The process is the same, but it is not adding colours on a canvas to create an image, it is removing the colors of an existing photographic image to create a new image and new characters. The models of the adverts have mutated. Some look like ghosts or mummies, some are reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s paintings, some of tribal make-up. ...

This years Urban Art Clash is still running in Berlin! The Urban Art Clash is pleased to announce a large-scale exhibition featuring current positions of contemporary urban photography and aerosol art that will be opening in May 2012 in Berlin, the global epicenter of this international art movement. Artists from different countries, all major players in the Urban Art genre, have been invited for a week residency at the historical Kunsthaus Tacheles. Located in a ruin in Berlin-Mitte on 5 floors of exhibition space is the ideal location for the urban art exhibition. ...

Last Friday, Berlin-based Quintessenz Creation crew (don’t forget their upcoming exhibition together with Danny Doom in Hamburg!) was invited by a somehow popular sporting goods manufacturer to paint a mural at Sage Club in Mitte, which is why Berlin now has another colorful facade… Using nothing more than liters and liters of paint together with several alienated fire extinguishers, the Quintessenz boys bombarded the prepared wall (they previously painted a shoe silhouette using latex-paint) and created in that way meters long drips in different colors which now are visible from long distance. I for one took cover from the paint-rain and tried to take some photos from the roof, documenting the action. ...

Advertisment confuse every day our choises exalting qualities that doesn’t exist and creating a sort of shame world. Today, in a moment of financial insecurity, we must discover the real value and authenticity of what we have and we need. (BR1) Italian street artist BR1 just came up with a new, inspiring and very critical street installation, presenting crumpled poster ads destroying a window of a Berlin bus shelter. This installation is not vandalism in the first place, it’s much more a creative metaphor trying to get to the bottom of today’s advert-society. It illustrates the everyday fight between ads and urban environment and it is also using a certain humorous remark and wink, what makes it a simple, but effective piece of urban artwork. ...

Good news for all urban-inspired artist who always wanted to exhibit their stuff in Berlin: Berlin’s finest Idrawalot Gallery and Showroom is hosting an art exhibition contest, rewarding the top three artists with a group show at Idrawalot Gallery later this year! The contest is open to all artist from around the globe allows any 2D piece of art, drawing, illustration, screen printing, painting, etc to be submitted… Instructions - Once received by email they will be added to a photo album called "Idrawalot Exhibition Contest - 2012" at our Facebook Fan page. - Voting for the Exhibition Contest will be measured by "likes" on each artwork. - Have your facebook friends go and "Like" your artwork. - The three artist with the most "Likes" on their artwork will get a group show at Idrawalot Gallery / Showroom in the fall. Artwork Email Submissions Deadline: April 15th, 2012 Voting by “Likes” Deadline: April 30th, 2012 Top 3 Winners will be announced in May, 2012 ...

It’s all about stickers, stickers, stickers - The Stick Core sticker exhibition will show stickers by artists from all over the world, discovering this specialized urban medium as a part of street and urban art culture! With their wonderful diversity of color, form, elements and expression, in the last years stickers got featured in several exhibition around the world, like the Oversized & Underpriced shows in Berlin. This time, it’s the Idrawalot Gallery by Karl Addison which s hosting and supporting the second part of Stick Core Berlin… ...