May 20, 2008
BLU DID IT AGAIN
And how. Italian artist Blu has recently finished his latest short film, where stop motion animation meets art and streets like nothing we´ve ever seen. The film was completed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is needles to be explained. Just watch, enjoy and think.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Video credits:
music by Andrea Martignoni
produced by Mercurio Film
assistant: Sibe
XOOOOX STREET ARTIST
Back in 2006, the news department from the TV channel RBB got a hold of this whole scene thats been blooming in the streets of Berlin since the wall came down and did a short nice feature where misteryous Berliner stencil artist Xoooox –still very active in these days– talks about his work and views on street art.
April 17, 2008
THE ALTERNATIVE PHILOSOPHY
The ‘Alternative Philosophy’ London Urban Art group show including Marok, Jaybo aka Monk, Kill Pixie, Anton Unai, Daniel Tagno, Nick Walker….
Leonard Street Gallery is pleased to present it’ s upcoming exhibition The Alternative Philosophy, opening 18 April 2008. This vibrant group exhibition brings together recent and newly commissioned works by 12 international and emerging artists.
April 16, 2008
MR. THE WIND
This movie probably will end as a legendary, unique and artful reference to history of advertising. Created by Paris based creative team “The Vikings”.
More Creative blasts by the Vikings:
March 18, 2008
ULTIMATUM - BY ANTON UNAI
After 6 weeks of performative installation work Anton Unai presented 200 sqm of paintings, sculptures, drawings, writings, wallpaintings and street objects. Experience Unai’ s surrealistic, fantastic, poetic and radical landscapes. Click on “Read more” to see the photos…
March 14, 2008
PETER KIENZLE/SUPERETTE AT NO. 12 GALLERY TOKYO
Peter Kienzle aka SUPERETTE, born 1970 in rural Germany, is an illustrator and graphic artist. His work has been published in numerous magazines, among them Tokion, Lodown, The Fader, OK Fred, Print. Co-founder and editor of urban life zine BONUS. Peter currently lives in Zurich with his wife.
Group shows at Colette, Art Basel Miami Beach, Rocket Gallery, Diesel, Circleculture Gallery (Berlin), London, Berlin and Zurich. At No.12 Gallery it‘s his first solo show „Kaminoke Kumite“. It‘s about hair, fighting, pop culture and personal history.
„For years I have been fascinated by hair – I want to replicate it in its various shapes. Frozen, like in the middle of a movement. In the middle of a heavy fight. What I find from different media, I assemble into one illustration – drawing, colors, photography. At the same time I want to keep the tension, the struggling of the parts that have been forced in with one another. When you watch my artwork from a distance, everything seems to make sense. But as you move closer, you start to notice the discord.”
March 22nd (Saturday) to 24th (Monday) 2008, 14:00 to 20:00 at No.12 Gallery.
Special fanzine and limited handmade T-shirts available.
* Opening party on March 22nd from 17:00. Please come all and enjoy art, beer and snacks from Germany.
www.superette.de
www.geocities.jp/no12gallery
NO.12 GALLERY
2-29-13 Uehara, Shibuya-ku, Tokio
Telefon 03-3468-2445
March 12, 2008
SISTER CORITA BY AARON ROSE
>Click here to see a video feature with the curator and the gallerist.
> Click here to read an article about this exhibition on “Der Tagesspiegel”.
>Click here to read a small feature regarding the exhibition written by Emilie Trice for Art:21
> Click here to read a feature about “Passion for the Possible” on “ArtNet”.
March 11, 2008
NEW HIGH FASHION IN MITTE
Wir freuen uns die Eröffnung von Geometry, einem exklusiven High Fashion Store für Männer in Berlin Mitte, ankündigen zu dürfen. Mitte März 2008 eröffnet Geometry in der Gipsstrasse 23 in Berlin-Mitte. Die beiden Inhaber Raphael Meyer und Carmen Santos präsentieren eine Kombination alltagstauglicher Männermode und ausgewählter Luxusartikel.
Das Konzept von Geometry lässt sich als eine Art Achsensystem verstehen: Horizontal sind die Looks der Kollektionen von Gaspard Yurkievich, Irie Wash, Y3 oder Won Hundred angeordnet. Vertikal befinden sich die Highlights für Darunter und zum Ergänzen: Under- und Beachwear sowie Accessoires von John Galliano in Verbindung mit Wohnaccessoires von zeitgenössischen Designern wie Gijs Bakker und Arik Levy und sorgfältig ausgewählten Beauty- und Skincare-Produkten.
Eröffnungsdatum:
25. März
Öffnungszeiten:
Di-Fr: 12:00-19:00
Sa : 12:00-17:00
Adresse:
Geometry
Gippstraße 23
10119 Berlin
Contact presse: Circleculture Cc:
March 6, 2008
STOP CLUSTER MUNITIONS!
>Click here to read about it in German
Cluster bombs have killed and injured thousands of civilians, but now we have a real and rare opportunity to ban them in 2008.
Over the next few months, governments will be discussing and negotiating a treaty to prohibit cluster bombs. Make sure that your government is involved in the Oslo Process and supports a strong treaty that will protect civilians and assist people that have suffered from these weapons to rebuild their lives, livelihoods and communities. The time to act is now.
Read more and have a look what YOU can do… Read more »
March 4, 2008
CIRCLECULTURE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
The New York Times could not resist to write a piece on the rising graffiti and street art scene in Berlin…and Circleculture Gallery is featured.
>Click here to read this interesting article.
February 24, 2008
‘LOVE’ / UNIQLO CURATED BY Cc:
The Japanese design & arts magazine Shift has recently published an interview with Circleculture. It focuses on the Circleculture curated UT Inspired Love t-shirt series, aswell as on the projects that Circleculture Gallery is developing in the world of art. Find out how the conversation went:
Could you introduce yourselves and how Circleculture started?
The Circleculture Gallery is a project space for new art that was founded in 2001 under the name Cc:room. This commercially independent platform was made possible together with my business partner Dirk Staudinger. In cooperation with international curators, the gallery has developed a large number of exhibition concepts based on sub-cultural movements such as street art. Renamed Circleculture Gallery in 2006, it is located in Mitte, Berlin‘s famous gallery quarter, and it is developing a set artists‘ program.
You have a gallery called Circleculture Gallery. What kind of artists have had exhibitions in there, and how do you curate or select the artists for exhibitions?
The artists showing at Circleculture Gallery often emerge from subcultural scenes such as Graffiti, Street Art, Skateboarding, Punk Rock like Shepard Fairy, André, Jaybo Aka Monk, Geoff McFetridge, Peter Sutherland, Taro Hirano or JR… To us it is important to collaborate with people it is fun to share time with on putting up a show. Artists and curators being really substantial in their work and the same time not taking themselves too serious. It’ s about people breaking the rules of the classical art perception, innovative positions and culturally driven art. On our collaboration with the “Beautiful Losers” curators Aaron Rose and Christian Strike for example we had some of the most influential subcultural american artists showing in our tiny space. I think this is a bit the magic about Circleculture Gallery… we’ re working really concentrated on the quality of the shows and want to keep it in a family spirit…
Please tell us about the UT Inspired Love series. How did you select the artists? The theme of the project is “Love”, did this theme have an effect on your decision when you curated the artists?
Yes, and all artists where women, there is this special thing about many women doing art, they put a special way of love and sensibility in their work most men don’ t have….
Read more and have a look at all designs… Read more »
February 8, 2008
WELCOME TO THE FINISSAGE
Finissage “Berliner Strasse” with “The Sads” from L.A.
Zum Abschluss der alle Erwartungen übertreffenden Ausstellung “Berliner Strasse - Sieben Positionen zeitgenössischer Straßenkultur”, laden wir herzlich ein. Zum ersten Mal in Berlin wird live die Band des amerikanischen Street & Art Kurators Aaron Rose “The Sads” (thesads.com) spielen.
Also dann bis Samstag, den 23.02., pünktlich 19:30 Uhr in der Circleculture Gallery - Gipsstrasse 11.
