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BULGARIA / AUSTRIA: Fantastic Urban Artist VODAWOTAH – Comic Style Portraits on Mural Scale

The artist MARTIN IVANOV, better known as VODAWOTAH, started with graffiti and streetart in 2008 in the Bulgarian city of Ruse. Meanwhile he lives in Vienna, Austria, where he regularly paints magnificent works on the Danube Canal and huge murals around the city or abroad. The colorful hobby has become a profession and he creates extensive commissioned works, but of course also continues to spray as a passion funtime. His fantastic works often feature comic-style portraits, but also animal-like characters or lively spray cans.

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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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AUSTRIA: Hundertwasser House in Vienna – Austria’s Antoni Gaudi – Modern Abstract Architecture

An architectural, artistic and historical highlight of the city that you should definitely have seen is the Hundertwasserhaus. The “somewhat different” building is a residential complex in Vienna built from 1983 to 1985 and was designed by the different-thinking artist and architect FRIEDRICH STOWASSER aka FRIENDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, who lived from 1928 to 2000.

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AUSTRIA: The Universe of Everyday Objects – Deformatyons in Urban Space – HNRX

If you find street art murals consisting of comic sausages, bananas or cucumbers, then these food graffitis in pop-up style are most likely made by the fantastic Austrian artist HNRX. In his pieces are often the ordinary things of everyday life which he combines on the motifs in a surreal, funny but also thought-provoking way. However, it is not only limited to fruits, vegetables and food, toothbrushes or dentures are also great on house walls. HNRX is continously developing and reinventing his style. From comic-like poster images to meanwhile detailed and complex abstract murals. Still the preference for everyday objects is a constant theme in his so-called „Deformatyons“.

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