Category: Urban Intervention
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Splash and Burn Presents REWILD by ESCIF
REWILD is the latest campaign from creative initiative Splash and Burn and Spanish artist ESCIF, a project curated by Lithuanian artist curated by Ernest Zacharevic and coordinated by Charlotte Pyatt run in association with the Sumatran Orangutan Society and the Orangutan Information Centre. Inspired by the upcoming UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the project is a reflexion on the warning that we have just 12…
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NUART Aberdeen 2018
It’s been a few weeks since NuArt Aberdeen announced its amazing line-up for this year’s event, an event that will find place from Thursday 12 – Sunday 15 April when the Nuart team will be going back to Aberdeen for the 2nd edition of their Aberdeen festival. Developed in collaboration with Aberdeen Inspired and Aberdeen City Council, Nuart…
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HOME: A public art installation by Ian Strange and Nuart
A few weeks ago, we got some stunning images of a recent installation by world-renowned artist Ian Strange Installation for Nuart in Stavanger, Norway. As highlighted by the organisers, Nuart’s strategy has as a goal to reduce the gap between art and everyday life bringing art to the streets through their amazing and ongoing Social Inclusion…
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The Cuma Project
Cuma Project is an independent street art project supporting people and communities in Latin America and popular indigenous organisations whose right to live a free and meaningful life is threatened by poverty and by the policies of their governments. In the months of April and May 2016, Cuma Project visited the indigenous communities of Llano Grande, La…
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“Reisegruppe Flickenteppich“ in Sofia, Bulgaria
A group of eight German artists travelled a couple of weeks ago to Bulgaria invited to take part in a very special project. The so-called “Flickenteppich” project, as it has been titled, was supported by Goethe Institute Bulgaria and gave them the chance to meet and collaborate with local artists creating a series of urban interventions…
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Tomasz Gornicki, Simpson and Monstfur collective in Berlin
I have been writing about the work of Tomasz Górnicki for some time now, and his projects, whether collaborative or not, never stop amazing me. I don’t know if it is the apparent darkness and nostalgia his sculptures emanate or maybe just their enigmatic character, but one thing is clear, you cannot ignore them. The same applies…
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2nd edition of What The Weekend is Gallery at The Art Union in Berlin
On Saturday April 22nd, the German art association The Art Union will be opening the second edition of WHAT THE WEEKEND IS GALLERY, a group exhibition that will count with the participation of 80 Berlin-based artists at the historical venue Alte Münze. WHAT THE WEEKEND IS GALLERY is a thematically organised exhibition featuring different sub-genres and styles of contemporary…
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Tomasz Gornicki “On the edge of shadow”
Remember that amazing collaboration with Chazme a year ago or “Blinkofaneye”, a pretty fascinating piece created last September? Well, Polish sculptor Tomasz Gornicki is back with yet another brilliant and haunting urban installation. Titled “On the edge of shadow”, the new piece irradiate a deep feeling of melancholia and loneliness. According to Gornicki, shadows serve both as a…
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Harry Gelb ‘Ghost of ourselves’
I recently had the opportunity to get in touch with the guys from Harry Gelb, a duo that has been creating haunting urban art installations around the globe part of their ongoing project ‘Ghosts of ourselves’. Like many German readers will notice, the name Harry Gelb refers to the main character in Jörg Fauser’s books; a wild open-minded figure,…
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Biancoshock reveals his ‘Seven Modern Deadly Sins’
Italian artist, artivist and ephemeralist Biancoshock put recently to life a series of installations in the streets of London as part of his ‘Seven Modern Deadly Sins’, a project curated by and presented at Unit 5 Gallery London for the In Depth group show that, according to the press release, “shines the spotlight on the often clandestine yet…
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