IRELAND: Urban Art Dublin – Icon Factory Exhibition – DURTY DUBLIN – From the streets To between the sheets

The exhibition DURTY DUBLIN with the subtitle „From the streets To between the sheets“ started on September 22nd 2023 and since then shows great works of awesome artists. Both, in the gallery ICON FACTORY and great graffiti and streetart made during live painting sessions on the outside facades. Inside you can find paraphernalia artworks, bric-a-brac, slap tags and stickers from around the world, paste-ups, spray-painted art pieces, black book sketches, photographs and amazing ink drawings.

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GERMANY: Urban Art Hamburg – Millerntor Gallery – Viva Con Agua – Festival Collection

The fantastic festival MILLERNTOR GALLERY or in short MTG attracts many creative people to the Millerntor Stadium every year through the organization VIVA CON AGUA and its artist collective. Awesome graffiti jams and art events take place on a regular basis and artist from all around the world paint and work creatively at the stadium area. At the same time, the art projects help people in need globally and provide them with basic necessities such as water.

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ROMANIA: Emil Banciu’s Onlinelibrary BANAT MEDIA and the FISART RETROSPECTIVE – Corina Nani & Sergio Morariu Bordan

Emil Banciu’s online library Banat Media offers virtual portraits of artists, exhibitions and art events in Romania. One book in particular caught our interest, the retrospective work on the great urban art festival FISART, which took place in Timisoara from 2011 to 2020 and attracted countless artists from all over the world. We talked in an interview with the publisher Emil Banciu, with the author Corina Nani and also with the photographer Sergio Morariu.

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VIETNAM: Nam Jam 2023 – Ngu Hanh Son – Đà Nẵng Graffiti & Mural Festival

The first ever street art and graffiti festival in Đà Nẵng, Vietnam, the NAM JAM is a celebration of creativity and community. The event, organized by local gallery and art collective NOT POP, transformed the village of Ngu Hanh Son in Đà Nẵng City early this year in spectacular style. In March 2023, the city hosted hot local and international street art talents with a variety of events, including live paintings, a skate jam, a gallery show and a well timed coincidental hip hop dance jam as part of the RF JAM a.k.a. RADIKAL FORZE JAM.

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CANADA: Streetart Montréal – BREAKING WALLS 2023 – Graffiti Jam & Urban Art Festival

From 23rd till 25th June in 2023 the first  BREAKING WALLS jam took place in the streets of the Montréal district Hochelaga Maisonneuve. This non-profit urban arts and culture festival was organized by KOLORS, who are dedicated to empowering at-risk youth all over the globe through a variety of urban art therapy workshops and mural projects. The event also was supported by NBQ and STAY TRUE with equipment and paint. Here are the several artworks from the spray sessions, hopefully many more are going to come on following jam editions.

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AUSTRIA: International Graffiti Symposium INDIGO – Presentation of the Vagabundler project

From 14th to 16th June 2023 the international graffiti symposium INDIGO took place in Vienna and we were invited to present our Vagabundler project! In the meantime, the videos of the individual presentations are online, including the one of us. In addition, a book will soon be printed with more papers, essays and contributions from the participants, and we will also be part of it. INDIGO is a graffiti centred academic project funded by the Heritage Science Austria programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). Check out the video and the report.

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GERMANY: Graffiti Berlin – More than 40 artists at North Side Gallery – PAINT THE PARK JAM 2023

On 1st and 2nd April 2023 the first PAINT THE PARK jam took place on the walls in the park at Nordbahnhof organized by the GRAFFITI LOBBY BERLIN. The event was dedicated to the theme of “Graffiti Writing” and its facets. More than 40 artists from Berlin’s graffiti history were invited, who showed with different techniques what is possible in letter design. Additionally it was a happening for exchange and networking.

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GERMANY: Streetart Berlin – Moabit – 21er GALLERY – ANTI RACISM JAM 2023

Moabit shows flag! With cool music, graffiti and creative standing together against racism and discrimination heaps of artists participated at the “Anti Racism Jam 2023”, which took place on 31st March, April 1st and 2nd around the “Center for Art and Urbanism” (ZK/U). The event was organized by MARE, PHET and STEREOHEAT from the 21ER GALLERY and magnificent works of art were created on the three days at several spots.

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GERMANY: Urban Art Berlin – Exhibition: Welcome to the Jungle – GITA KURDPOOR

Through her collaboration with PANDION and TRANSIT RÄUME, artist GITA KURDPOOR started in January 2023 as the first resident to design a former cab Showroom in the Prinzessinnenstrasse in Berlin Kreuzberg with her art. She has decided to exhibit her “Animal Collection” and to bring oversized on the walls. She made this decision in reference to Kreuzberg and its diversity.  The exhibition will last until 30th of June 2023, possibly there will be an extension.

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