Tag: Nuart festival

  • Coming up: Nuart Aberdeen 2017

    Coming up: Nuart Aberdeen 2017

    The internationally renowned and Stavanger-based Nuart Festival, announced recently a new chapter with their newest and upcoming project, Nuart Aberdeen. Developed in collaboration with Aberdeen Inspired and Aberdeen City Council, Nuart Aberdeen will provide a platform for local, national and international artists to showcase their work through a series of site-specific murals, installations, interventions, and temporary exhibitions. The festival will take place…

  • Nuart’s indoor exhibition is all about ‘Post-Street Art’

    Nuart’s indoor exhibition is all about ‘Post-Street Art’

    Last Saturday I had the opportunity to assist to the inaugural exhibition of one of the most highly anticipated events this year, the renowned NuArt Festival in Stavanger, Norway. Titled “Post-Street Art” the exhibition features unique artworks specifically created for the event inside the gallery. The idea of a “Post-Street Art” movement has been adopted to describe artworks, artists and events that…

  • ‘Dismayland Nord’ by Jeff Gillette opens today at Nuart Gallery

    ‘Dismayland Nord’ by Jeff Gillette opens today at Nuart Gallery

    Today is the opening of US legend Jeff Gillette‘s first ever solo exhibition in Scandinavia at the former Reed Projects Gallery, now Nuart Gallery and Project Space. Considered an inspiration for Banksy, Jeff Gillette, a Fine Art Masters graduate from California State University, has been making collages featuring accoutrements of Disney culture for over two decades, being recently…

  • Ella et Pitr paints world’s largest outdoor mural for Nuart 2015 in Norway

    Ella et Pitr paints world’s largest outdoor mural for Nuart 2015 in Norway

    French street artist duo Ella et Pitr is now in Stavanger Norway where they spent four days working on probably the world’s largest outdoor mural to date at 20999.80m² as part of the always great NuArt Festivals which is celebrating its 15th anniversary. The duo is known by their storybook-like illustrations and giant sleeping characters,“Lilith and Olaf”…

  • Ella et Pitr paints world’s largest outdoor mural for Nuart 2015 in Norway

    Ella et Pitr paints world’s largest outdoor mural for Nuart 2015 in Norway

    French street artist duo Ella et Pitr is now in Stavanger Norway where they spent four days working on probably the world’s largest outdoor mural to date at 20999.80m² as part of the always great NuArt Festivals which is celebrating its 15th anniversary. The duo is known by their storybook-like illustrations and giant sleeping characters,“Lilith and Olaf”…

  • NUART 2015: DOLK New street pieces in Stavanger, Norway

    NUART 2015: DOLK New street pieces in Stavanger, Norway

    Here a new series of abstract expressionist pieces by Norwegian artist DOLK for this year’s Nuart Festival in Stavanger, Norway. Yes, it’s that time of the year! These new pieces are something very different from what he has done before, at least under the pseudonym DOLK and form part of a global series of 100 works…

  • NuArt Festival 2014: Indoor Exhibition

    NuArt Festival 2014: Indoor Exhibition

    The Norwegian street art festival NuArt took place last week and I had the opportunity to assist not only to the always great NuArt Plus that this year addressed two important issues in the field of urban art, namely “safe murals” versus street art and activism, but also to the opening of their fantastic indoor…

  • Tilt x Nuart Festival 2014 In Stavanger, Norway

    Tilt x Nuart Festival 2014 In Stavanger, Norway

    Self-declared “graffiti fetishist, Tilt was one of the artists participating at this years Nuart Festival in Stavanger Norway where he painted this new mural featuring a grenade covered by his characteristic 3D wildstyle lettering. Always with an emphasis on strong colors and high impact shapes  most of his paintings focus on the stylization of his name or other messages, rendered…

  • ±MAISMENOS±  x Nuart Festival 2014 – Stavanger, Norway

    ±MAISMENOS± x Nuart Festival 2014 – Stavanger, Norway

    There is no doubt that this years Nuart Festival has been something different addressing two important issues in the field of urban art, namely “safe murals” versus street art and activism. One of these artists that we could place in the second category is ±MAISMENOS± whose mission is “to protest and to subvert” and whose programmatic expression…

  • Borondo “Memories” x Nuart Festival 2014

    Borondo “Memories” x Nuart Festival 2014

    Spanish artist Borondo completed a couple of days ago this wonderful mural for the always amazing Nuart Festival. The mural, titled “Memories”, shows the image of a man holding and smelling a heap of flowers as usual making use of sweeping, expressive brushstrokes that demonstrate little restraint giving shape to his contemplative portraiture. A lovely addition to the city of…

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