Tag: Nuart festival
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Jofre Oliveiras Beholders for Nuart Festival 2019
About a week ago we had the opportunity to travel to Stavanger in Norway for the 19th edition of the renowned Nuart Festival that, under the curation of his founder Martyn Reed, gives room to discussions on the current state of street art, a thematic curation that this year, has been titled “Brand New, You’re…
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Nuart Festival introduces French duo Murmure
French duo Murmure composed of Paul Ressencourt and Simon Roche,two drawing enthusiasts who have been working in public spaces since 2010, were until recently in Stavanger, Norway for this year’s Nuart Festival. Working on a human scale and with an acute eye for placement, Murmure privilege the relationship to space rather than visibility. Their collages create singular urban…
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First look at the 18th edition of Nuart Festival in Stavanger
Last week, 26 artists from 12 countries spanning 4 continents descended upon the quiet coastal town of Stavanger in Norway for the 18th edition of Nuart Festival, one of the leading Street Art festivals in the world today. Site-specific murals, installations, interventions, and temporary exhibitions are this supplemented by Nuart Plus – the festival’s satellite…
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Nuart Festival’s 18th edition kicks off with two stunning murals by Snik
UK Street Art duo Snik kicked off last week this year’s Nuart Festival with two large murals using a delicate line-based technique creating elaborated stencil drawings with clear influences from the Pre-Raphaelites, a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The murals were…
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“GREY SCALE: THE ART OF CUTTING AND SPRAYING” at Nuart gallery in Stavanger, Norway
Over a week ago opened “Grey Scale: The Art of Cutting and Spraying” a exhibition that surveys the most popular, authentic and democratic form of street art to emerge in recent times at Nuart Gallery in Stavanger, Norway. Tracing its 35,000 year old lineage from pigment blown handprints across Asia and Europe to it’s use…
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Belgian artist Jaune for the Street Art Buses in Stavanger, Norway
A few weeks ago, Belgian artist Jaune was invited to Stavanger, host to one of world’s leading Street Art Festival, Nuart, in order to take part of their Street Art Buses project. Jaune, a stencil artist and urban interventionist whose miniature hi-vis garbage workers inserted in funny scenarios have conquered the street art world in recent years, brings…
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AZ RSML: Disruption 04 by Add Fuel in Stavanger, Norway
Portuguese Add Fuel is one of the artists that were recently in Stavanger, Norway during this year’s Nuart festival. Although Add Fuel’s wall wasn’t part of the official program it was curated by Nuart in collaboration with Stavanger airport. As usual in his work Add Fuel he makes a point highlighting his Portuguese identity by introducing…
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“A truth which is beauty. A beauty which is truth” by Ricky Lee Gordon in Stavanger, Norway
South African artist Ricky Lee Gordon completed last Friday this stunning wall as part of this year’s Nuart festival in Stavanger, Norway painted as a part of Amnesty’s Brave campaign as a way to pay tribute to Finish transgender activist Sakris Kupila. Best known for his massive murals, Ricky Lee Gordon is a street artist who used to work under…
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NUART festival 2017 line-up announced
This August, 12 artists from 10 countries spanning 4 continents will descend upon Stavanger, Norway for the 17th edition of Nuart Festival, the world’s leading street art festival. As explained by the organisers, this year’s festival is dedicated to exploring ‘power’: questioning who has it, who doesn’t and how sanctioned and unsanctioned street and public…
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NUART and UKM present The Cult Of Rammellzee, Ella et Pitr and Die Raubdruckerin
Nuart Festival is currently curating a new series of workshops that will count on the participation of internationally-renowned performance collective Cult of Rammellzee (UK), Ella & Pitr (FR) and Die Raubdruckerin (DE) at the Norwegian Youth Festivals of Art (UKM) in Sandnes. Three days of workshops that will culminate with live public performances and installations on Saturday 24th June in…
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