Skalitzers Contemporary Art presents the first solo exhibition in Berlin by renowned New York-based artist, Carlos Mare, aka Mare139.
Focusing on the movement and rhythm of contemporary forms of abstract expression, Mare explores the physical graffiti of the Bboy dance.
The B-Boy is the physical Graffiti artist, he is the lyrical and kinetic scratch, he is the break beat manifest, the most modern of all dancers. – Mare139
Join us at Skalitzers with the artist for the opening night on Saturday 9th June, and artist talk on Tuesday 12th June.
Skalitzers Contemporary Art skalitzers.com Skalitzer Strasse 43 10997 Berlin - Kreuzberg
[Mode 2, old-school King of Characters! Get ready, and expect it to sell out. His work tends toward the sexually explicit these days, so keep that in mind before you go. (I won't show you the flyer!) No one loves the female form like Mode 2 does. If you're brave and old enough, here's a set on Flickr from Mode 2's 2009 show - Susan]
Offerings Mode 2
Lucas Carrieri Gallery is pleased to announce the first ever solo exhibition in a Berlin gallery of British artist Mode 2, who is a central figure in the history of graffiti.
With "OFFERINGS", Mode 2 focuses on the female body in an explicit, yet at the same time ambiguous fashion.
The opening reception takes place on September 23, 2011, 7pm.
For interview requests and for further information about the show please contact Thea Maillard at info@lucascarrieri.com
Lucas Carrieri Gallery Potsdamer Strasse 103, 1st floor 10785 Berlin +49 30 26391619
Arunski & Poet, Alexander Becherer, DAG, Anton Unai, Il-Jin "Atem" Choi, Superblast, Gogoplata, Daniel "Codeak" Man, Stohead, Christoph Krönke, Daddy Cool, Chris Logan - Kuratiert von Jan Kage
Ort: SCHAU FENSTER – Schauraum für Kunst
Lobeckstr. 30-35, 10969 Berlin
U8-Moritzplatz, M29
Laufzeit: 24. September bis 9. Oktober 2011
Die Installation ist jederzeit in Gänze von Außen einsehbar
IBUg 2011 – the festival of urban culture in Germany – goes into its sixth edition this year. From 26 August on more than 50 artists will transform a former textile combine in the West Saxon city of Meerane during a week-long creative phase into a work of art by graffiti, street art, urban art installations and performances.
From 2 to 4 September the doors will open to the public. In addition to the exhibition with the results of the creative phase a comprehensive program with tours, a film program, lectures, discussions, a fashion show and the legendary IBUg aftershow party will round off the festival.
(Heidelberg) Following the INSIGHTS exhibition that opened business in the KUNST/HALLE Heidelberg last december, atelier kontrast is now featuring the ICONS solo-exhibition by world-renowned graffiti artist CANTWO. The exhibition opens the 2nd of June and lasts until July 3rd.
Since the vivid graffiti scene formed in New York in the 1970s and the movement then carried over to major cities in Europe in the 1980s graffiti has constantly been wedged between vandalism and art. Exhibitions in significant galleries and museums, canvases by big graffiti players peaking with high amounts in auctions along with the recent exhibition "Art in the Streets" in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCa) in Los Angeles have shown just how significantly one of the most controversial art movements of the past decades is establishing itself.
CANTWO has been in the game since day one in Germany. His unique style of characters (the figurative, comic styled side of graffiti) has turned heads nationally and internationally for decades and has turned him into a defining icon of the scene. His style has become known as the CANTWO-Character.
CANTWO has hosted shows for MTV in the '90s and is frequently booked by firms such as Adidas or Coca-Cola for special collections or other marketing operations.
For the ICONS exhibition in the KUNST/HALLE Heidelberg CANTWO takes on his own icons and the icons of our times. He will show famous faces adapted in his very own style and also the classic CANTWO-Characters. A specially commissioned wall installation and his newest canvases and prints will be shown and in fact it will be the first exhibition ever that focuses on CANTWO's work in such an extensive and unique way.
Mit: ABIS , ACID, AZUR , BAS2, BURN, COZ CREW, ESHOK, FINO, FOTO SVEN, GLOK, HARALD P., INKA, LYTE, MICRO, ONE UP CREW, ESD, PHERS, POET, REW, ROY, RÜDIGER GLATZ, SKIM, THE CITY FAMOUS, TRON, TRUS, WESP, ZEKER81, ZOE
UNLIKE U beleuchtet vier Generationen von Sprühern in Berlin, wovon die ältesten der Hardcore-Artisten mittlerweile schon 40 Jahre alt sind und die Jüngsten um die siebzehn. Alle Protagonisten aber haben eines gemeinsam. Jeder von ihnen hat in seinem Leben schon unzählige Züge bemalt und einige von ihnen sogar um die 1000.
Mit intensiven Interviews versuchen die Filmemacher Henrik Regel und Björn Birg den Beweggründen der Sprüher auf die Spur zu kommen und herauszuarbeiten, was genau der Kick an einer Sache ist, die in der Öffentlichkeit keine Anerkennung bekommen kann. Denn schließlich handelt es sich nach offizieller Lesart um besonders schwere Sachbeschädigung und besprühte Züge, werden so schnell wie möglich aus dem Verkehr gezogen. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit also, dass ein Sprüher sein Werk in Vollendung, sprich als fahrende Leinwand zu sehen bekommt ist äußerst gering. Worin also besteht der Wert dieser Aktionen? Worin besteht die Selbstbestätigung? Was treibt diese Menschen an?
Die Filmemacher tauchten tief ein in den Kosmos der Trainwriter. Neben erstklassigen Interviews wurde ihnen auch Material zugespielt, das so noch nie zu sehen war. Der Film zeigt Hintergründe zu bestimmten Aktionen und geschichtsträchtiges Material vom legendären Corner an der Friedrichstraße, dem Treffpunkt der Berliner Sprüher in den 90er Jahren. Dem Ort also, an dem der Mythos der Berliner Writerkultur ihren Anfang nahm.
In diesem Sinne ist UNLIKE U auch kein normales Graffitivideo, in dem Action auf Action und Zug nach Zug gezeigt wird, sondern das einfühlsame Portrait einer Szene, die so noch nicht zu sehen war. Dieser Film schreibt und beinhaltet die faszinierende Geschichte einer Kultur, die ansonsten im Verborgenen bleibt und trotzdem alle Eigenschaften einer eigenständigen Kunstrichtung besitzt mit einem ganz eigenen räumlichen, zeitlichen und inhaltlichem Bezug.
From the Google translation:
UNLIKE U lit four generations of writers in Berlin, of which the oldest of hardcore artists now already 40 years old and the youngest of them seventeen. All characters have one thing in common. Each of them has painted in his life countless trains and 1000 some of them even.
Intensive interviews with the filmmakers try to rule and Henrik Bjorn Birg the motives of the sprayer to get on the track and work out what is exactly the kick of a thing that can get no recognition among the public. After all, it concerns according to the official version very serious damage to property and sprayed coatings, as quickly as possible taken out of circulation. So the probability that a sprayer gets his work to perfection, that is seen as a mobile screen is very small. So what is the value of these actions? What is the self-affirmation? What drives these people?
The filmmakers plunged deep into the cosmos of Train Writer. Besides first-class interviews, they were also leaked material that was not shown before. The film shows the reasons behind the actions and history material from the corner at the legendary Friedrichstraße, the meeting place of the Berlin sprayer in the '90s where the Berlin Writer culture began.
In this sense, UNLIKE U is not a normal graffiti video. The action is shown on the train, but it's a sympathetic portrait of a scene that had none. This film includes the fascinating story of a culture that otherwise remains hidden and yet it has all the features and art direction with its own spatial, temporal and thematic links.
