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contents introduction v1gallery “question of..“ step on the real... CPH workshop Berlin workshop
introduction
It’s everything you want, it’s everything you create.
Show your dreams, show your thoughts, create a world. Feel the street, feel emotions. Give a piece of your art and help to create a better place to live.
This magazine is for inspiration, for getting started in urban art processes, for creating and sharing new ideas.
Make it unique!
a solo exhibition by
Søren Behncke
a solo exhibition by Søren Behncke
“Nothing is real until you make it alive. Focusing on artistic works, seeing colorful dazzling paintings will bring you in different world.” Create something out of nothing.
Nature.
Thinking about V1Gallery, I would say, put your street art into the frame. Now it’s time when you can admire street art indoors. We walked around the area called Kodbyen to look at the street art in V1Gallery. Why this area is that worth to see? Creative atmosphere makes this area cool. You can find several market designer bars, cafes, independent gallery, bloody butchers’ halls and everything in the same area. Isn’t it amazing? The way how it belongs to each other.
“It can be hard to see the forest for the trees. In the exhibition Stepmother Nature Søren Behncke examines our current relationship with nature. Through paintings, sculptures, drawings and installation, he honestly and humorously surveys the affair between culture and nature.” Nothing is real until you make it alive. Focusing on artistic works, seeing colorful dazzling paintings will bring you in different world. Natures and arts connection make this exhibition extraordinary.
Don’t miss out on the best street art exhibition in Copenhagen. “There is no green finger wagging in Stepmother Nature. In a surreal mix of familiar art historical tableaus, carton pastiche, pop cultural references, consumer icons and in an expressionistic figurative style, Behncke engages the viewer in the continuous debate about the nature of our relation with nature.” The most important thing is that you believe in art. You keep doing it and share it with others.
Flæsketorvet 69, 1711 Copenhagen, Denmark, closed until wednesday
the question of.. art?
Probably one of the most discussed words, phenomena and meanings. Cause who is right when the question is about aesthetics and taste?
Should it only be regarded the high cultural part of society or should it be available for everyone from the queen to the hobo?
“Should art only be available for those who have money and those who spend their time in museums?�
artists?
through time have considered exactly that question and taken the consequences of just that. Artists have moved from the museums out to the streets art from the streets into the museum. Two artists where this question of how todisplay art have been a big issue is the deceased Keith Haring, who died in 1990 and El Bocho, a very active street artist especially in Berlin.
Whereas Keith Haring started out as being an artist doing art for galleries he sooner evolved into a street artist. Through his fame from the work on the streets he reentered the high-cultural world and started putting up shows in galleries. However he never stopped decorating the urban scene. El Bocho started out as a street artist, but later took up the classic kind of art-display in galleries; however El Bocho does street art at the same time as his gallery displayed art.
step on the real steet art. In these days street art is everywhere around us and is being adopted by everyone.
We can just walk into a shop and buy an entire clothing line that features graffiti done by street artists. Or go and pay an entry fee for an art gallery so we can contemplate some “street art piece.”
There are countless workshops you can attend where an artist will teach you the basics of “street art”, so you can get a taste of the rebel lifestyle from the safe and comfortable surrounding. All of these people that are drawn into the mystery and excitement of the street art world, are they really aware of what it is about?
What do street artists think about people who use, sell, and copy their art? Like most hot topics, each person draws their own conclusion in regards to what is right and what is wrong in the street art controversy.
“These artists are risking their time, money, and freedom just to claim the streets with art.�
By interviewing some street artists, I was able to gain a little bit of the inside what their perspectives are. Starting from the platform you are using right now - internet, blog, social media or other, how much information can you get just by looking at a single photo? Can you really grasp the full meaning of the piece without the artists personal input? Do you even care? These artists are risking their time, money, and freedom just to claim the streets with art.
Generally, street artists feel that those who use their art to sell or for other medias such as fashion, should have more respect towards the piece that they are using. Each piece in the street is usually anonymous because it is illegal. By taking a photo of it and sharing it for example on Facebook we are making it available for almost everyone. And that person who wants can use it to make products such as T-shirts, prints, posters etc.
But does anyone stop to think what the author has to say about that?
street heart vesterbro
Do you know what street art is? Are you in control of your own personal style and technique to perform it? Or do you have thoughts of a fun project to do on the streets, that you have never fulfilled? Help is on the way. StreetHeart have teamed up with StreetMekka on an exciting new initiative that will help and guide new street performers on executing works in the streets of Vesterbro. We will introduce you to 5 different styles of urban art and prepare you for your own street art project. We meet 7 times during the spring, and get inspired by the different approaches to street art. The course ends with a final project where you have the opportunity to test your skills as a street artist in Vesterbro.
24. april 17.00-19.30: Walk’n’Talk in Vesterbro – Introduction and Inspiration 1. maj 17.00-19.30: The soft side of street art – pearl graffti and og street knitting 8. maj 17.00-19.30:
Pasteups and Stencils
15. maj 17.00-19.30: Guerilla Gardening and Grassfiti 22. maj 17.00-19.30: Word on the streets – roll downs, street poetry 29. maj 17.00-19.30: Urban Performance – every day poetry on streetlevel 5. juni 17.00-19.30: Make your own project for streets - joint brainstorming 8. juni 12.00-17.00: Joint working weekend– Preparation and execution 9. juni 12.00-17.00: Joint working weekend– Preparation and execution
Vesterbro neighbourhood committees and creative forum in Vesterbro support the street art school. It is free to join – all it takes is a membership to StreetMekka.
here
Sign up now: There is 15 spots and it is to whoever comes get served first. We start up 24th of april.
street heart Learn how to make you own street art and graffiti with local artists. Get an insight into this amazing underground art culture
swipe to see more.
No experience is necessary. Materials are provided.
swipe to see more.
our support:
here
Sign up now: There is 15 spots and it is to whoever comes get served first. We start up 24th of april.
travel. People are meant to find their inner purpose, style, way of living and make most out of it. Some travel, some create, some search, some discover, some leave and they all do it hoping for the best they will ever be, best they will ever have. Some, who go to new places may never adapt, some just fall in love and put down roots, some just enjoy for a while and keep on exploring new places.
Stop, look around, notice, catch the moment. This month we visited Berlin - the heart of Europe, a city which streets are filled with art and culture. We strongly recommend taking a trip down there, if you are interested in street art.
Every street is covered with different kind of street art. Stop, look around, notice, catch the moment. Feel what is around you – colors, shapes and all the different stories. Get lost, create new story on your own. Berlin is one of those places what can change your life. Seeing it through different angles if reflects you in different ways. Creative, inspiring, beautiful with endless possibilities of reaching your very last straw of inspiration that goes (back) straight to your guts. One way to feel all the passion what Berlin has to offer is to walk around randomly, get lost, find yourself again…do it all by yourself. The other way, which we highly recommend, is Alternative Berlin Tours. A little introduction words from their website – “…We are the creators of the Alternative tour concept in Berlin. We show you the unusual places and people you might not discover by yourself. Our unique tour will give you an authentic local experience of Berlin’s famous underground subcultures, alternative lifestyles and street art and graffiti scenes in a safe and respectful way.”
Berlin is one of those places what can change your life. You can choose from a lot of different types of tours and find the one, which is most appealing to you. We participated in Street Art Workshop & Tour. It was two days walking around the city tour and ended up with a stencil workshop. What made this tour amazing? You do not need to be a specialist of street art to go on this tour, and you will not be bored if you know something about of street art either. In both case you will get your eyes opened, emotions high and get the need to see more, feel more…maybe even a will to go and do some art yourself? swipe to see more.
The guide is a street artist himself, which is really nice to have one who really knows the culture. One who explains and crawls deeper inside the skin of the artists.
One who explains and crawls deeper inside the skin of the artists.
Second day walking tour ended up with a stencil workshop inside the old bread factory. They guide you and give some good advice, so if you haven’t hold spray paint in your hands before, you’ll pick it up really fast.
Berlin is the place to go and find your passion. Full of positive energy and possibilities of expressing your very own touch of style, emotions, feelings and thoughts… ..all through a piece of art.
swipe to see more.
Be a part of the city. Be a part of something. Put piece by piece and create a puzzle. Create an inspiration, surprise others and make a new world. Create a street art. Visualize your dreams and show it on the streets.
Make it special, make it unique!
“You see things, and you say: ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were,and I say: ‘Why not’?” – George Bernard Shaw
NEXT TIME
msterdam
YOUR AWESOME TEAM, XOXO
v
contents introduction v1gallery “question of..“ step on the real... CPH workshop Berlin workshop
introduction
It’s everything you want, it’s everything you create.
Show your dreams, show your thoughts, create a world.
This magazine is for inspiration, for getting started in urban art processes, for creating and sharing new ideas.
Make it unique!
a solo exhibition by
Søren Behncke
“Nothing is real until you make it alive. Focusing on artistic works, seeing colorful dazzling paintings will bring you in different world.” Create something out of nothing.
Nature.
Thinking about V1Gallery, I would say, put your street art into the frame. Now it’s time when you can admire street art indoors. We walked around the area called Kodbyen to look at the street art in V1Gallery. Why this area is that worth to see? Creative atmosphere makes this area cool. You can find several market designer bars, cafes, independent gallery, bloody butchers’ halls and everything in the same area. Isn’t it amazing? The way how it belongs to each other.
“It can be hard to see the forest for the trees. In the exhibition Stepmother Nature Søren Behncke examines our current relationship with nature. Through paintings, sculptures, drawings and installation, he honestly and humorously surveys the affair between culture and nature.” Nothing is real until you make it alive. Focusing on artistic works, seeing colorful dazzling paintings will bring you in different world. Natures and arts connection make this exhibition extraordinary.
a solo exhibition by Søren Behncke
Don’t miss out on the best street art exhibition in Copenhagen. “There is no green finger wagging in Stepmother Nature. In a surreal mix of familiar art historical tableaus, carton pastiche, pop cultural references, consumer icons and in an expressionistic figurative style, Behncke engages the viewer in the continuous debate about the nature of our relation with nature.” The most important thing is that you believe in art. You keep doing it and share it with others.
Flæsketorvet 69, 1711 Copenhagen, Denmark, closed until wednesday
the question of..
art?
Probably one of the most discussed words, phenomena and meanings. Cause who is right when the question is about aesthetics and taste?
Should it only be regarded the high cultural part of society or should it be available for everyone from the queen to the hobo?
“Should art only be available for those who have money and those who spend their time in museums?�
artists?
through time have considered exactly that question and taken the consequences of just that. Artists have moved from the museums out to the streets art from the streets into the museum. Two artists where this question of how todisplay art have been a big issue is the deceased Keith Haring, who died in 1990 and El Bocho, a very active street artist especially in Berlin.
Whereas Keith Haring started out as being an artist doing art for galleries he sooner evolved into a street artist. Through his fame from the work on the streets he reentered the high-cultural world and started putting up shows in galleries. However he never stopped decorating the urban scene. El Bocho started out as a street artist, but later took up the classic kind of art-display in galleries; however El Bocho does street art at the same time as his gallery displayed art.
step on the real steet art. In these days street art is everywhere around us and is being adopted by everyone.
We can just walk into a shop and buy an entire clothing line that features graffiti done by street artists. Or go and pay an entry fee for an art gallery so we can contemplate some “street art piece.”
There are countless workshops you can attend where an artist will teach you the basics of “street art”, so you can get a taste of the rebel lifestyle from the safe and comfortable surrounding. All of these people that are drawn into the mystery and excitement of the street art world, are they really aware of what it is about?
What do street artists think about people who use, sell, and copy their art? Like most hot topics, each person draws their own conclusion in regards to what is right and what is wrong in the street art controversy.
“These artists are risking their time, money, and freedom just to claim the streets with art.� By interviewing some street artists, I was able to gain a little bit of the inside what their perspectives are.
Starting from the platform you are using right now - internet, blog, social media or other, how much information can you get just by looking at a single photo? Can you really grasp the full meaning of the piece without the artists personal input? Do you even care? These artists are risking their time, money, and freedom just to claim the streets with art.
Generally, street artists feel that those who use their art to sell or for other medias such as fashion, should have more respect towards the piece that they are using. Each piece in the street is usually anonymous because it is illegal. By taking a photo of it and sharing it for example on Facebook we are making it available for almost everyone. And that person who wants can use it to make products such as T-shirts, prints, posters etc.
But does anyone stop to think what the author has to say about that?
streetheart Do you know what street art is?
vesterbro
Are you in control of your own personal style and technique to perform it? Or do you have thoughts of a fun project to do on the streets, that you have never fulfilled? Help is on the way.
24. april 17.00-19.30: Walk’n’Talk in Vesterbro – ntroduction and Inspiration
StreetHeart have teamed up with StreetMekka on an exciting new initiative that will help and guide new street performers on executing works in the streets of Vesterbro. We will introduce you to 5 different styles of urban art and prepare you for your own street art project. We meet 7 times during the spring, and get inspired by the different approaches to street art. The course ends with a final project where you have the opportunity to test your skills as a street artist in Vesterbro.
1. maj 17.00-19.30: The soft side of street art – pearl graffti and og street knitting 8. maj 17.00-19.30:
Pasteups and Stencils
15. maj 17.00-19.30: Guerilla Gardening and Grassfiti 22. maj 17.00-19.30: Word on the streets – roll downs, street poetry 29. maj 17.00-19.30: Urban Performance – every day poetry on streetlevel 5. juni 17.00-19.30:
Make your own project for streets - joint brainstorming
8. juni 12.00-17.00:
Joint working weekend– Preparation and execution
9. juni 12.00-17.00: Joint working weekend– Preparation and execution
Vesterbro neighbourhood committees and creative forum in Vesterbro support the street art school. It is free to join – all it takes is a membership to StreetMekka.
here
Sign up now: There is 15 spots and it is to whoever comes get served first. We start up 24th of april.
street heart Learn how to make you own street art and graffiti with local artists. Get an insight into this amazing underground art culture
swipe to see more.
No experience is necessary. Materials are provided.
swipe to see more.
here
Sign up now: There is 15 spots and it is to whoever comes get served first. We start up 24th of april.
travel. People are meant to find their inner purpose, style, way of living and make most out of it. Some travel, some create, some search, some discover, some leave and they all do it hoping for the best they will ever be, best they will ever have. Some, who go to new places may never adapt, some just fall in love and put down roots, some just enjoy for a while and keep on exploring new places.
Stop, look around, notice, catch the moment. This month we visited Berlin - the heart of Europe, a city which streets are filled with art and culture. We strongly recommend taking a trip down there, if you are interested in street art.
Every street is covered with different kind of street art. Stop, look around, notice, catch the moment. Feel what is around you – colors, shapes and all the different stories. Get lost, create new story on your own. Berlin is one of those places what can change your life. Seeing it through different angles if reflects you in different ways. Creative, inspiring, beautiful with endless possibilities of reaching your very last straw of inspiration that goes (back) straight to your guts. One way to feel all the passion what Berlin has to offer is to walk around randomly, get lost, find yourself again…do it all by yourself. The other way, which we highly recommend, is Alternative Berlin Tours.
A little introduction words from their website – “…We are the creators of the Alternative tour concept in Berlin. We show you the unusual places and people you might not discover by yourself. Our unique tour will give you an authentic local experience of Berlin’s famous underground subcultures, alternative lifestyles and street art and graffiti scenes in a safe and respectful way.”
Berlin is one of those places what can change your life. You can choose from a lot of different types of tours and find the one, which is most appealing to you. We participated in Street Art Workshop & Tour. It was two days walking around the city tour and ended up with a stencil workshop.
swipe to see more.
What made this tour amazing? You do not need to be a specialist of street art to go on this tour, and you will not be bored if you know something about of street art either. In both case you will get your eyes opened, emotions high and get the need to see more, feel more…maybe even a will to go and do some art yourself?
One who explains and crawls deeper inside the skin of the artists.
Second day walking tour ended up with a stencil workshop inside the old bread factory. They guide you and give some good advice, so if you haven’t hold spray paint in your hands before, you’ll pick it up really fast.
The guide is a street artist himself, which is really nice to have one who really knows the culture. One who explains and crawls deeper inside the skin of the artists.
Berlin is the place to go and find your passion. Full of positive energy and possibilities of expressing your very own touch of style, emotions, feelings and thoughts… ..all through a piece of art.
swipe to see more.
Be a part of the city. Be a part of something. Put piece by piece and create a puzzle. Create an inspiration, surprise others and make a new world. Create a street art. Visualize your dreams and show it on the streets.
Make it special, make it unique!
“You see things, and you say: ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were,and I say: ‘Why not’?” – George Bernard Shaw
NEXT TIME
msterdam YOUR AWESOME TEAM, XOXO