SOUTH KOREA: Gwangju – Chosun College of Art & Design – Professors SEONG-MIN YUN & RYU BEOMEOL

The Korean city of Gwangju is home to one of the country’s most important educational institutions, a center of knowledge for innovation and creativity. The Chosun University opened its doors in 1946 and has currently enrolled around 33.000 students. All of the faculties are certainly exciting, but we are particularly interested in the College of Art and Design. We visited the different themed levels and give you an insight into this interesting world, where fantastic works get created on each floor. In two interviews we spoke with professor SEONG-MIN YUN for Korean painting and RYU BEOMEOL, professor for animation and comic.

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GERMANY: Streetart Dortelweil – Was ist Liebe – Philosophical Mural Series Gallery – INDIAN

The magnificent artist INDIAN from Bad Vilbel has created a wonderful open air gallery on the sound barrier wall along Federal Highway B3 over many years, featuring countless fantastic and thought-provoking murals. His works are mostly a combination of portraits and poetic stories. He himself calls his art “philosophical graffiti,” and the respective works are created as part of the series “Was ist Liebe” or “What is Love” in English. In his works, he deals with life, humanity, and empathy, but also our connection to earth and the problems that arise from our alienation from nature.

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ARGENTINA: Streetart Chascomús – Vieja Estación – Abandoned Train Station – Lost Place Graffiti

These awesome artworks were created at the Vieja Estación, the old abandoned train station in Chascomús in Argentina, which is a great spray place covered with several fantastic artworks. The station opened in 1865 and after more than 150 years of work, it was left abandoned around 2014 when the new railway station opened. Nowadays the old main station building is seat of the CENTRO CULTURAL VIEJA ESTACIÓN, where regularly events and exhibitions take place. Still several buildings of the complex are left for being a lost place, therefore they are a perfect spot for graffiti.

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SERBIA: Streetart Belgrade – Kulturni Centar Dorćol – Betonska Poezija – Urban Art Space

The cultural meeting and creative space KULTURNI CENTAR DORĆOL regularly organizes various events from a wide range of areas, like exhibitions, presentations, readings, lectures or discussions. Of course, there are also a lot of art events and the center functions as a gallery. But not only inside the rooms, also on the outside facades, where you can find various great murals. Some of the wall paintings are from the exhibition „Betonska Poezija“, which was curated by the great graffiti store BEOWALLZ. On display were works from 2008 to the present day, created by artist friends from the local urban art scene.

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