Berlin Teufelsberg

Yesterday i went to Berlin to meet Fars from Varna. We went on top of Teufelsberg to paint a quick winter collabo. Fast and simple ... a great day in Berlin with a good painter colleague.

Neun Görlitz Share

This Friday we launch the first share (German: Aktie) of Neun Görlitz . We offer this share for 25€. The share gives you the opportunity to be part of the exhibition project. In future you can decide about shows & artist to exhibit at Neun Görlitz . The first share is limited to 50 pieces and printed live at Neun Görlitz by myself.

The live screenprinting starts at 4p.m. on friday 12th December and runs till 8p.m., on saturday I print live again. Between 2p.m. and 8 p.m.. Adresse: Fischmarkt 9 - Görlitz/Germany

From Gütersloh to Ayia Napa

This is "Refugien V.xx" in Gütersloh/Germany. The "Woldemar-Winkler-Stiftung" of Sparkasse Gütersloh invited me to paint a temporary mural on the facade of the "Sparkasse" Headquarter-Building in downtown Gütersloh. Because of its short lifetime, we had no discussions about content or colors with anybody. I really liked that idea and I'm happy with the result ... pure drawing , 2d & 3d mixed, huge size ... Thanx a lot to Christoph Winkler !


This is my latest work for Ayia Napa Street Art Festival on Cyprus. A long wall full of sketches on "black paper". Thanx a lot to the organizers of the Festival - the paparazzi Studio in Ayia Napa.

TIME FOR MURALS

This is a print for an upcoming muralist meeting in Dresden Friedrichstadt. riesa efau and urban script continues present this first symposium about muralism - more infos here riesa-efau.de/kunst-erleben/zeit-fuer-wandmalereien-time-...
and here www.anartchy.com/urbanscript/2014-2/time-for-murals/
This screenprint is available for 50€ (plus shipping) and the half of it (25€) goes to the project ! The print is limited on 25 pieces and printed on acid free Hahnemühle Nostalgie paper (40x60cm) - feel free to contact me.

DIE KUNST DES WEGLASSENS

This is a drawing of a series called "Refugien" done in 2014. Some of these drawings and some older ones are shown at the upcoming "DIE KUNST DES WEGLASSENS - Zwanzig Positionen zeichnerischen Arbeitens rein aus der Linie" exhibition at Neue Sächsische Galerie in Chemnitz.

Sichtbetonung 2014

This year i took again part at Sichtbetonung project in Dresden. The Sichtebtonung-crew, formally known as Friedrichstadtzentral group, moved to a new building called Zentralwerk. Zentralwerk is a big porject and i hope they are able to realize it. If you have time to support the group - feel free to help them.

Some Dates

Some upcoming events this year i take part in:

"pecha kucha night", lecture at Zentralwerk - Dresden - tomorrow - 3.July

"LackStreicheKleber" - Urban Art Festival in Dresden at various locations in Dresden - 4.-10.August During the Festival i offer a workshop called "reclaim the street" about urban art techniques I exhibit as well and paint some wallstuff.

"Wallcome"- I hold a lecture about mural-art there - Schmalkalden - 12.September

"Time For Murals" - urban script continues in cooperation with riesa efau e.V. Kulturforum Dresden - international mural project and muralists meeting in Dresden-Friedrichstadt - 2.-8.October

"On Architecture - Facing the Future" - Congress and exhibition by strand - Belgrad/Serbia - 1.-15. December

Überzeichnungstour - Last work this year in Bulgaria

The wall is done in Poduyane district of Sofia - the capital of Bulgaria. It's located between a huge mural of Etam crew (PL) and Nasimo (BG) - "Big Thanx" to Iasen of urban creatures who organized the wall.I had a great time in Bulgaria painted around 15 murals - not all are published online yet.I hope to be again in Bulgaria ... next year maybe !!! Thanx to all the supporters of my tour - especially Mr. Bartsch of Goethe Institut Sofia Some more walls are shown at the upcoming Festival "LackStreicheKleber" in Dresden. And later on in other cities and towns...

Jens Besser & Alexi Iwanow @ Contemporary Space - Varna

This is my latest artwork in Varna - a collaboration with Alexi Iwanow from Varna. The work is located right next to the contemoporary space - most probably the best place for contemporary arts and art workshops in Varna. Thanx a lot to the contemporary space team! If you like to see the work more detailed just click on the foto.

@ стенографика - Burgas

This is my final work in Burgas at Stenografika - it s a mixture of a recent drawing ( a recent drawing ) I posted and the snail drawings i did in Russe ... The work is done at "стенографика" a place for legal painting in Burgas. Thanx again to hamalogika Click on the image to see it in higher resolution !

It's chalk and sketch time

In Russe I painted the window facade of Dom Elias Canetti. The work is inspired by a snail that passed by in the local park along the river danube. Originally i planned to write Russe on the snail house, but the snail moved inside the house and i thought "hmm,maybe the snail is from Giurgiu , the romanien town on the other side of the river." I left the snail alone and continued my walk in the park.... Instead i made a drawing of lot's of "train and housing snails" in Dom Elias Canetti
During my stay in Burgas , i went to the Stara Zagora. In Stara Zagora is a really huge and impressive monument of the socialist era. It's an amazing place. just some minutes before i arrived at the monument Idecided to make a spontanous chalk drawing on the ground in front of monument. I thought about things (objects, buildings, factories) I saw in the recent years which are still left from this era.
the city of Stara Zagora - seen from the monument
When i hanged out at the beach of Burgas i got some ideas that could come from some friends from Sofia ( the transformatori group ) . I thought about reusing old ships, like Costa Concordia as huge blockhouses ... this could win an architectural award of sustainability for sure ;))))

presentations and artist talks in Bulgaria

My schedule for presentations of my work get's more and more clear.

Ruse 3.6.2014, 6p.m. - Dom Elias Canetti

Burgas 6.6.2014 (time is not set yet)- geo milev/goethe - school

Varna 12.6.,7.30 p.m. - contemporary space

Sofia 16.6., 3p.m. - Goethe Institut Sofia

After Bulgaria I'm back in Germany invited for a discussion called "Kulturpolitischer Salon" in Leipzig - 26.6., 8p.m. Halle14 (Spinnerei Leipzig)

Kresna - Pampa - Varna

The last two stops brought me in two directions. For my first stop i went to the south of Sofia in direction to Greece. Along the trainline I found a nice abandoned old stop. As most people know ( who follow my works constantly ) I'm a bit fanatic about trains and public transport. That's why I used the opportunity to paint the first station named after me - gara beser. After that i moved in direction to the coast to meet up with the most talented street artist (in my eyes) from Bulgaria - Fars. He is not just talented , he is extremly active. While my stay of 4 days in the city of Varna, we went out painting every single day. He showed me a lot of different sights of Varna. We painted at the beach, inside a socialist monument , along the trainline and on a well frequented underpass. All the works were done without permission, but the people enjoyed our works - they offered us drinks (at the beach) or just said "nice work and good luck". Here just one impression - more follow soon, after I hold my final presentation in Sofia at Goethe Institut on 16th of June. An eventlink is coming soon. I'm in Varna again on 12th at the contemporary space to show some of my works in an artist talk. My next stop is Russe - Here i hold my presentation on 3rd of June at Dom Elias Canetti - all infos you can find on the link ( infos exist as well in Български )

Geo Milev/Goethe School in Burgas

Some Details of the work I finished in Burgas at Geo Milev &Goethe School - thanx a lot to Hamalogika and Martin Pavlov I'm again in Burgas for a lecture during the 6th of June - to present some of my mural projects and works I did in the recent years. My Next stop is Plovdiv!

First mural finished ...

Yesterday I finished the first wall on my tour at Concordia in Sofia. The materials , small roller and acrylic paint, made me work different then usually. It's a connection of abstract forms and drawings. Thanx a lot to my local support - Desi, Diki and Valo!

Bulgaria - Here we go !

After a lot press articles about a request for more "legal walls" in Dresden I 'm back in my favorite country - Bulgaria. This year I do a mural and public drawing tour through the country. My trip will lead me to Sofia, Burgas, Plovdiv, Russe, Varna and some more unknown places. The whole tour is supported by Goethe Institut Sofia. Today i start a wall in Sofia... Let's see what happens.

"Refugien" - new mural in Dresden

Just recently I finished my first official mural this year. It is located in Dresden-Friedrichstadtand painted on private property. Thanx a lot to the owners of this huge Blockhouse.

The work is called "Refugien" ( engl. hideaways). It shows different types of housing in the down part of the mural. Coffee-machine, piano, drink-box - all transformed into Buildings. The Buildings are located on artificial iles - like Venice houses build on artificial ground. In the back of the buildings you see the ocean.

The upper part is more open. It is filled by symbols of time (differnt types of clocks), travel ( ship and backpack) and sketching ( pencil and pencil sharpener). My idea was to bring ideas to the wall , why people live in such a Building - an old, nearly unrenovated Blockhouse.

Maybe it's because they found space in this Buildung where the could just live their lifestyle.
The House has a great mixture of people - students, poor people, immigrants, old people who like the view from their flat in the 6th floor. Most of the visitors think that this Building is really ugly and people inside are kind of frustrated to live in such a Building. But I think it's not true. If you live in a posh area you have to be silent, don't make any dirt, you're only welcome if you wear expensive clothing.
In this Blockhouse - everbody can just live his way. You can look fucked up, you don't need to care to much about noise and the rent is low ... That's why this Builidng can be kind of a shelter for refugees from all the other districts of the city.

Weird but maybe true ... more pictures about the work here

Abandoned Painting 2014

After a long winter break - spring arrives and painting murals starts again ... Aris at work on our collaboration wall in the dark factory. Click on the foto to see the collaboration in higher resolution. Just a detail.

Hidden Publics - publication

"Jens Besser is known for his extensive work as a graffiti artist. Many of his works can be seen while walking around Dresden, but he has left traces of his passage throughout the world. His photographic work is not as well known and is also based on graffiti. Some of his murals were created intentionally to be photographed, especially on sites to which spectators would not usually come,like abandoned houses. Photography allows the oft-transient graffiti to be preserved and documented. Many of his photographs are artworks in their own right. He integrates his interventions in buildings, on burned walls or train cars as compositional elements in them. Jens Besser also uses the special properties of the photographic medium: for example´, dark areas form a counterpoint to his colorful painting and so contribute to the meaning of the photo. Besser's wonderful graffiti works outdoors, the animal and human figures that Jens Besser evokes on the wall, in dialogue with the immediate environment and his own consciousness could be understood literally as "hidden publics". The areas of light and dark in his photographs can also elicit secret feelings, even fantasies." Text by Andrea Domesle. Published in Hidden Publics - exhibition catalogue. Publisher: Andrea Domesle & Walter Seidl , ISBN 978-3-9807388-4-2 , efau Verlag, Dresden The catalogue is available e.g. at riesa-efau Dresden .

Taichung Timelapse

Thanx to the Goethe Institut Taipei, Goodot Village and Dr.Karsten Steinmetz I was invited to paint the facade of the former Honolulu Club in Taichung/Taiwan for Face Off art project. I had nice days there and would like say "Thanx a lot" to the whole Face Off crew. The place was incredibily nice. An old abandoned club in the middle of the old downtown. 5 minutes to Taichung mainstation and a lot scooters, cars and buses passing by. I really enjoyed to breathe the atmosphere while painting at this extremly crowed corner. Unfortunatly the Face Off project officially ends on january 12th, but the painting will be there in the future. Hopefully there will be more projects like Face Off in Taichung - the old downtown has lot's of places and space to fill up with experimental art.