picture of the process - working with projector
For Metronome Festival Prague 2018 i did a series of works in different locations.
From 22.-23. June I m invited to Metronome Festival Prague to realize temporary interventions at the festival area and to be part of a discussion about art in public space.
During my stay in Kassel I realized an inside mural for Sanderhaus - travelling and moka again. Thanx again to Gerrit of Kolorcubes project in Kassel.
Ghettoresidency continues in 2018. And because it's important to announce where it is I did a fresh new decoration of Ghettoresidencys public displays. Check it out in Dresden - Braunsdorfer Str. 23/25 (backyard/garden side).
Magic City, one of the biggest urban art shows in Europe, moves to the next exhibition hall. After the start in Dresden Magic City now stops in Munich till September, before moving on to Stockholm in November.
The Munich show starts on 13th April - again with my work and a lot new works such as Blek le Rat or Niels Shoe Meulman.
The whole artists line up you can find here. In Munich they will present the accompanying catalogue - I'm curious to see it!
I did this yard drawing at Forum of Styles during BRN 2015 - Dresden-Neustadt. I painted live from 1p.m.-6 p.m. in front of the district museum - thanks a lot to the District Museum for organizing the Forum Of Styles.
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 !
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...
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 )
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!
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.
"Welcome 2 Utopia" was located at the entrance to this year edition of Abrisshaussession in Dresden. In abandoned buildings muralists can live the utopia of painting everything they like to paint. Without permissions. Without stress. Without borders.
Last Mural in Germany of this years series "Train of Infnity".The infinite train blocks the way of "Handhaving - International". The dutch word "Handhaving" means in german "Ordnungsamt" or in english regulatory authority . These authorities usually criminalise painters in abandoned factories or stop paste up actions in public space.
"A view from outside" was my last mural for Abrisshaussession 2013. In the middle of the work you see the weird "Saint Bureokrates" ( der herabgestiegeneParagraphenreiter ) . Attacked from the left by panic-ing masses and on the left a typical yard situation in a peacefull night.
Size of each mural is 3m to 4m. To see more details of the works - click on the images.
Between 2005 and 2009 a series of unauthorized exhibitions took place in Dresden called - "Die Abrisshaussessions" ( abandoned buildung sessions)
Path&Traveller is a mural painted in the yard of motorcycle - travellers near the river Weisseritz in Dresden. Thanks a lot to Jens F. for the invitation. To see the whole mural in good resolution check this photo
A Video of the development of the work you can see here:
watch the video in high resolution here
Last week i finished a mural for Mystique. Within 4 days i covered the building in dark blue and sprayed all the details. It was hard work but I'm happy with the final result! Thanx a lot to the team of Mystique especially Karsten an Alex.
Mystique is an huge artfestival in Magedburg by Kulturanker e.V..If you pass by the area of Sachsen-Anhalt or go to Berlin you should not miss this Festival it's an amazing huge area with lots of stuff !!!!
More pictures of the working process you can find on my flickr stream.
Back in Dresden .... I've been painting in one of my favorite abandoned spots ...
Right before the opening of my solo show "TRAIN of INFINITY" I finished the mural "TRAIN of INFINITY". Thanx a lot to Petra of stoffwechsel gallery! I had a nice time in Mannheim ( and a succesful opening of the show.)
My last days in Sofia i went to a beautiful trash yard in the north of this city. A great place to explore, take pictures and paint. I continued my "TRAIN of INFINITY" series there with drawings on steal done in different techniques. One is made with oilstick and spray, another done with dripmarker and roller and the third done with brush, dripmarker and roller.
If you're in Sofia you should definatly check out this place... crazy urban decay.
Thanx a lot for taking pictures and video footages to K.K.
