The Berlin-based 1UP Crew, arte.tv and ilovegraffiti.de release a new 7-minute video full of spectacular drone takes and of course risk-taking tunnel and station action. The post 5 Minutes with 1UP appeared first on Urban Spree ..read more

Ahead of the first solo exhibition of the painter Orsten Groom in Germany at Urban Spree Berlin, we are publishing an exclusive long interview between the French painter and the German journalist, publicist and gallerist Max Dax. Orsten Groom Max Dax: Simon, you seem to follow a method in your paintings: Onto an abstract, gestural background – that I also understand as a psychological undercurrent – you paint a concrete second layer of information – people, faces, animals, images. Orsten Groom: During my last exhibition in Paris a kid left a pair of chromatic 3D glasses on my desk. I guess it ..read more

For their last exhibition of the year, Urban Spree Galerie invites the French painter Orsten Groom to exhibit in Berlin his new incendiary series “CHROME DINETTE”. The Solo Show, his first exhibition in Germany, will open on Friday, October 23rd, 2020. https://vimeo.com/459698703 As a radically independent and self-managed artist, Orsten Groom has established himself in a few years as a key player in the young French painting scene, between alternative circles and museum institutions. His first retrospective was presented this year at the ACMCM contemporary art centre in ..read more

“Imagine that you are a raindrop. It begins to rain and you hit the ground and flow across streets, parking lots, yards, construction sites, farm fields… Along the way, you pick up litter, oil, grease, metals, rubber, dirt, fertilizers, pesticides, animal waste, and other things left behind. All of these pollutants mix with the rain and flow away as nonpoint source pollution. » (Illinois Environmental Protection Agency). In Hendrik Czakainski’s previous exhibition at Urban Spree Galerie, « Switch Over » (2018), the famed “invisible hand” of Adam Smith finally achieved its ..read more

The Urban Spree Artist Wall is a highly visible wall in Berlin, deploying its painted surface of 120sqm (15 x 8 meters) opposite Warschauer Str. As is usually the case with most exhibitions, the artists paint the first piece of their show on this wall, resulting in a massive statement work for their indoor exhibition. “Check Your Privilege” is the 3rd mural painted by the Low Bros at Urban Spree and is perhaps their most significant outdoor work to date as it emphasizes strong cultural and societal points, further developed in their solo show “CON.TXT’ (on display until Septemb ..read more

The Hamburg-based duo LOW BROS (formerly based in Berlin) is no stranger to Urban Spree, having painted the Wall two times and having been regular guests here. However, “CON.TEXT” is their first solo show with the Gallery. The starting point of the exhibition is to study the white privilege situation enjoyed in the US (and elsewhere) and – again – highlighted by the death of George Floyd, which triggered a worldwide massive awareness and protests. « With the #BlackLivesMatters movement sweeping the global community, it is now, more than ever, that white people need t ..read more

As an extension to his solo exhibition “Explorations” – on display at Urban Spree Galerie until Sunday, July 26th 2020, SICOER has created a large rooftop fresco, writing his name on 700sqm of rooftop surface atop the gallery. The piece is a fierce representation of the “calligraffiti” genre as it mixes the outdoor element, the typical block letters of graffiti and the handstyle, alphabet and brushstrokes of calligraphy. The post Sicoer: Rooftop Exploration appeared first on Urban Spree ..read more

The Berlin artist duo Arbeitstitel (Robert Westphal | Laurent Wians) has completed their mural at Urban Spree, the 4th of the StillStand series and the final wall of the project. The duo painted an abstract composition, made essentially from fragmented elements and visually impressive with a bright palette, enhanced by sparks of fluorescent yellow. The AT20 mural at Urban Spree, facing Warschauer Str., will be visible until around the end of July 2020. Photos by Lukas K. Stiller. The post Arbeitstitel completes the 4th and final wall of the StillStand Project appeared first on Urb ..read more

“Straight outta Lockdown / The Freedom Prints” is a series of vintage Mode 2 prints (from the mid 2000s to the early 2010s), hand-painted or hand-sprayed in 2020, and re-numbered in very limited runs. “THIS!” is the third release of the series and by far the oldest print, having been published in 2003 by PoW in London. Based on a flyer for the “THIS!” parties at Bar Rumba initially drawn in Mode 2’s blackbook, the motive was digitally printed in quadtone and has been hand-sprayed by Mode 2 in June 2020 with 3 matching tones of Belton. The final run of this new series amounts to 24 prints only ..read more

“Straight outta Lockdown / The Freedom Prints” is a series of vintage Mode 2 prints (from the mid 2000s to the early 2010s), hand-painted or hand-sprayed in 2020, and re-numbered in very limited runs. The second print of the series is called “Oh Sh…”, originally produced in 2009 but never released owing to some specks of alien colors spotted on most prints while signing them. Mode 2 decided subsequently to call off the run and keep only the good prints for future use. 11 years later, the message conveyed by the print couldn’t actually be more acute, in a news ecosystem battered down by fake n ..read more