Bemerkungen
Photos Of BSA #9: Keeping it Small and Contextual
Happy Holidays! We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA readers, friends, and family for all of your support in 2022. We have selected some of our favorite shots by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo, and we’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street.
In an era where the monster mural can envelop an entire building or set of grain elevators, we are reminded that placement is everything. This year the UK street artist JPS left a number of small pieces in Berlin – just in the right place to catch your eye. This ingenious miniature box truck with a KLOPS tag appears on the riser of some steps in the Schöneberg neighborhood. It is evocative of a child’s imagination, which leads them into all sorts of adventures.
https://www.brooklynstreetart.com/2022/12/22/photos-of-bsa-9-keeping-it-small-and-contextual/ URBAN NATION YAP Studio
JPS – Klops. Urban Nation Museum Berlin. Berlin, Germany. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
🟢 Chapter #1 of our current exhibition ‘Talking… & Other Banana Skins’ is raising the question: Is my perception the only true one?
Contemporary communication is caught in a paradox: on the one hand, technical possibilities have evolved considerably yet, on the other hand, there is much less reliance on argumentation when we discuss our opinions. Either we identify ourselves with a certain position, defend and support it, or we reject it outright.
The images presented in this chapter invite the observer to engage in dialogue involving a variety of perspectives. Rather than focusing on the divisive elements inherent in different attitudes, the goal here is to soften entrenched opinions and find the common ground between positions.
Artists in this chapter: Andreas Englund, ICY and SOT, 1UP, Le Fou, Joséphine Sagna, Amartey Golding, Tezz Kamoen, Low Bros, Ana Barriga, Jeff Hong
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TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS
ℹ️ | The new exhibition at URBAN NATION Museum for Urban Contemporary Art
📍| Bülowstr. 7, Berlin-Schöneberg
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Produced by:
YAP Studio
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📸 | Photos: Nika Kramer
🚧 Gewobag's construction work on the WATERKANT in Spandau continued, and the same was the case with Stohead's mural!
In the last few weeks, the artist has expanded the painting on the buildings that he started earlier this year.
❓Can you tell what Stohead has conjured up on the lift shaft in his signature ‘Rouwndy’ font?
The mural typographically refers to the name of the newly emerging neighborhood in Berlin Spandau. On some parts of the buildings the words WATER and WATERKANT were designed in the artist’s iconic font and implemented through the use of acrylic and facade paint. Stohead’s specialty is to create his own visual language through scaling, condensation and with the help of transparencies.
🎨| Artist: Stohead
🔧| Production and support: YAP Studio
📍| Location: Haselhorst, Berlin-Spandau
📸 | Photos: Berlinartcore / Streetartcore
Bald ist es soweit. Die Deutschlandpremiere von Street Heroines, danach folgen einige weitere Screenings. Eure Stadt ist nicht dabei, meldet euch gern!
Zusammen mit Alexandra Henry und Zahra Sherzad sind wir an folgenden Orten:
25.10. Berlin / Babylon - Premiere
26.10. Hamburg / Zeise Kinos
27.10. Leipzig / UT Connewitz
27.10. Screening Day:
Dortmund / SweetSixteen
Frankfurt Oder / KUMA
Freiburg / Kulturaggregat
Gelsenkirchen / Café Ütelier
Jena / Kino am Markt
Kassel / Schlachthof
Köln / Dedicated Store
Lüneburg / SCALA
München / Munich Graffiti Libary
München / Monopol Kino
Potsdam / Café hausZwei
Regensburg / Ostentor
Rostock / Palette
Stutensee / GrauBau
28.10.
Chemnitz / Weltecho
Erfurt / Schambrowski
Lüneburg / SCALA
29.10.
Lüneburg / SCALA
30.10.
Bremen / Horner EcK
2.11.
Halle / Puschkino
21.11.
Frankfurt am Main / Harmonie Kino
22.11.
Aschaffenburg / Casino Filmtheater
Köln / Traumathek
Weitere Termine folgen.
Mehr Infos auf: rotzfrech-cinema.com
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Danke an ilovegraffiti.de, Loopcolors Germany, YAP, Doppelhand, mtn-shop.de und More Women More Crime für den Support.
Wir sind so froh, dass es nun endlich so weit ist, ein neuer und wunderbarer Film betritt unser Haus: Street Heroines (2021) von Alexandra Henry.
Ein preisgekrönter Dokumentarfilm, der den Mut und die Kreativität von Frauen feiert, die trotz ihrer mangelnden Anerkennung von Anfang an ein fester Bestandteil der Graffiti- und Street-Art-Bewegung waren.
Am 25.10. feiern wir im Babylon in Berlin die Deutschland Premiere - fühlt euch ganz herzlich dazu eingeladen. Am 26. geht es nach Hamburg in die Zeise Kinos und am 27. ins UT Connewitz nach Leipzig.
Am 27.10. ist unser offizieller Screening Day. Die ersten Kinos sind bereits an Bord, weitere folgen. Ihr wollt den Film gern sehen? Dann meldet euch gern bei uns, sprecht eure Kinos an oder organisiert eigene Screenings aka vieles ist möglich.
Alle Infos zur Mission, zu den Orten, Terminen und zum Film findet ihr auf unserer Seite:
https://rotzfrech-cinema.com/street-heroines/
Wir freuen uns!
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Danke an ilovegraffiti.de, Loopcolors Germany, YAP, Doppelhand, mtn-shop.de und More Women More Crime für den Support, schön euch dabei zu haben.
🆘Forty-two by Rocco und seine Brüder
Dangling emergency brakes and intertwined hanging levers – this side-specific installation immerses the viewer. How hard would we need to pull to bring everything to a halt? The answer: “Forty-two”.
This section of our current show looks at cause and effect and examines the agency that we have in our decision-making when confronted with the complexity of life – asking what our capacity is to acknowledge the decisions we make.
🔵 The installation is forming the Chapter #2 of the exhibition which raises the question:
Are we still capable of communicating with ourselves?
It is a rare thing these days to find a space where we can get in touch with ourselves. Day in, day out, we are expected to offer simple answers or swiftly take position as we are always
communicating, reacting, evaluating. This endless loop of non-stop communicative action and reaction does not leave much personal space to weigh up different aspects and points of view calmly and without distraction.
It is also not easy to find places and situations where the broader issues affecting us, our interactions with one another and our visions for the future can be debated. In the past, people went to churches in search of silence and contemplation. Nowadays, the notion of personal space where we can connect with ourselves has become more subjective.
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TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS
ℹ️ | The new exhibition at URBAN NATION Museum for Urban Contemporary Art
📍| Bülowstr. 7, Berlin-Schöneberg
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Produced by:
YAP
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📸 | Photos: Nika Krame
One of the first works that catches our eye when we enter the museum is the installation "Gravity of Emptiness" by Various & Gould .
The spatial intervention is part of the Chapter #7 of the show, which raises the question:
‘Are we prepared to consider different perspectives and really learn from history?’
Art can provide a mechanism for the retelling of history and propaganda. Artist duo Various & Gould work on collective memory – with their sculptures and urban interventions, they symbolically remove colonial figures off the pedestal and shift the shadows of history and the present. With the work in the show the artists deal with the question of how historical ruptures are echoed in our global world. Because unfortunately, there is often a tension between the official culture of remembrance and the individual suffering.
Other artist’s in this chapter: Broken Fingaz Crew, Various and Gould, Faisal Hussain, Simon Menner, Ida Lawrence
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TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS
ℹ️ | The new exhibition at URBAN NATION Museum for Urban Contemporary Art
📍| Bülowstr. 7, Berlin-Schöneberg
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Produced by:
YAP
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📸 | Photos: Nika Kramer
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JOHANNES MUNDINGER GOES TO THE GERMAN COUNTRYSIDE TO DO “FELDFORSCHUNG”
It is not rare anymore, but certainly it is still unusual for street artists to take their talents in search of a barn in the countryside. Berlin’s Johannes Mundinger departed the big city this summer to do exactly that, calling his project “Feldforschung” (Field Research). It is a witty title for an unconventional artist who routinely splits reality into juxtaposing painted screens – sometimes patterns, closeups, textures, cut-outs and samples of nature all sitting in their frames next to or over top of one another…CLICK ON THE LINK TO CONTINUE READING:
https://www.brooklynstreetart.com/2022/08/17/johannes-mundinger-goes-to-the-german-countryside-to-do-feldforschung/ Johannes Mundinger YAP
Johannes Mundinger. Feldforschung. Waltersbrück. Hessen, Germany and North Rhine Westfalia, Germany. (photos © Eva Rahe and courtesy of the artist)
New mural by Júlia Mota Albuquerque aka Land of Júlia in Charlottenburg !
The new artwork was created as part of the competition "MORE ART - less litter" of the Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin and now adorns a huge building facade at Jakob-Kaiser-Platz, provided by Gewobag. With the completion of the artwork, the artist and the makers of the competition set a sign against the waste of packaging and for waste avoidance, just in time for 'Earth Overshoot Day,'. Because as of today, we humans have used up the world's supply of natural resources for 2022.
At the beginning of this year, street artists living in Berlin were called upon to creatively address the issues of packaging and waste avoidance, waste separation and recycling. In addition to the mural of artist Albuquerque, the designs of the second- and third-placed artists Sr Papá Chango and Seboh Creation can now be seen on the sides of the waste disposal vehicles of the Berliner Stadtreinigung - BSR all over the streets of the city.
The street art competition was organised and coordinated by the Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin in cooperation with the Berliner Stadtreinigung - BSR, the Stiftung Berliner Leben and URBAN NATION as well as YAP. It was financed with funds from the Development Fund Trenntstadt Berlin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSwn-4uC7Qg&feature=youtu.be
