GERMANY: Graffiti & Streetart Berlin – October Jam at North Side Gallery – URBAN ART FOR A BETTER WORLD

On the 6th, 8th and 9th of October 2022 another great jam took place at the North Side Gallery with more than 50 fantastic creators taking part. Local and international urban artists redesigned the walls of the North Side Gallery with the theme “Urban Art for a Better World“. For the protection of the environment, freedom of speech, a life without violence and war, a humanistic attitude and respect for the dignity of each individual!

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CYPRUS: The Rise Streetart Hotel in Larnaka – Mural Magic – Interview with Manager CHARBEL CHALFOUN

If you stay in Larnaka you should definitely choose the RISE STREETART HOTEL at Kimonos 1. The whole building is painted with awesome murals from the outside, as well each room is colourfully designed in an individual theme. On the new roof top bar they integrated a huge can styled artwork for Montana. So for both, the spray paint company and as well Tony Montana from Scarface. We spoke with hotel manager CHARBEL CHALFOUN about his idea of this project and how it came together.

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GERMANY: Streetart Berlin – Minimalistix Gallery – Exhibition FRANK WILLEMS

From 13th of August  till 30th of September 2022 the exhibition of artist FRANK WILLEMS takes place at the MINIMALISTIX GALLERY in Bülow Street 11. Another great event at the wonderful art space in the premises of CENGIZ TATAR‘s allaround shop where the project started with an first vernissage on February 10th, 2022. The artist works a lot with double-layered images and ambiguous messages. For this he often uses black light and a picture looks completely different in the black light than without.

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CYPRUS: Streetart Larnaka – Harbour Hall of Fame – Fantastic Graffiti Collection

Between the Port of Larnaka and the Larnaka Marina is alongside the coast a huge unpaved parking lot. It’s more of a gravel course. The walls around that parking place are completely covered with awesome graffiti artworks. It’s kind of a Hall of Fame with numerous pieces and also an historic archive. You can find great creations from over ten years ago. Here are the collected urban artworks from that spot.

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GERMANY: Abstract pottery mixed with traditional history & The SlowArt Festival – DIPPEL ZIPPEL

The artist TAMARA ZIPPEL is known as a passionate painter and performance actress with the group DIE SEGEL, but for quite some time, she has devoted herself to a new art genre and is now also making abstract and colorful clay jugs with her new label DIPPEL ZIPPEL. As well she is the initiator of the awesome SLOWART FESTIVAL, which is taking place from 16th to 18th September in Griedel. We spoke with the creative artist in an interview!

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BRITAIN / NORTHERN IRELAND – Streetart Derry / Londonderry – Urban Art Collection

Here we have a great collection of urban artworks in the city of Derry or also called Londonderry. The place is close to the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, which means riots are common. Sometimes it is more calm, sometimes more aggressive. The situation is not nearly solved and there is much tension since ages. You can find a lot of the context of the situation filled into the artworks. Awesome artists are around and try to make the walls more colorful, but as well they put in messages.

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GERMANY: Graffiti Event at Berlin’s North Side Gallery – Liebe zur Kunst Jam – Love for Art

On 30th June and 3rd July 2022, more than 30 urban artists redesigned parts of the North Side Gallery during the LIEBE ZUR KUNST JAM, which would mean in English “Love For Art”. Regardless of origin, socio-economic status and gender, the walls of the North Side Gallery, legalized by the GRAFFITI LOBBY BERLIN, were painted together. The event was organized by EMILY STRANGE. Check out the great creations from the jam!

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CYPRUS: Scuplture Park Ayia Napa – Astonishing Artworks on an 20.000 m² area

Besides the wonderful beaches and the extensive night live, the town of Ayia Napa offers also some culture stuff and fabulous sculptured artworks on an 20.000 m² area. The Sculpture Park in Ayia Napa was built in 2014 and every year they organize a Symposium where sculptor artists from all around the world can participate. That means the park is growing every year with some new fantastic objects. We tried to document nearly all of them.

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GERMANY: Open Air Graffiti Gallery – ALL WE WROTE – 5 Countries & 36 Artists

From 2nd till 26th of June in Berlin around the Tauentzien Street the fantastic ALL WE WROTE open air exhibition took place with awesome urban artworks by 36 artists from five countries. You could travel through 50 years of graffiti culture while visiting Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, New York and São Paolo in one journey! With 1200 meters the huge gallery was the longest graffiti expo worldwide! The event was supported by URBAN CONTEMPORARY, CANION and BLVD KU’DAMM.

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