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Previews: “The Distance Between” @ BC Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, September 23, 2019

This Friday (September 27th) in Berlin, BC Gallery will be hosting the opening of The Distance Between, a three person show featuring the work of Addam Yekutieli aka Know Hope, Icy and Sot, and Eron that will transform the space into an immersive installation. Curated by Sasha Bogojev, the social-politically charged exhibition from the three who have their artistic roots on the streets, touches on the ongoing migration crisis hitting shores and borders all around our planet. Israeli artist Know Hope will insert fencing into his poetic work dealing displacement and human emotions, something […]

Showing: “A Pathology of Hope” – Addam Yekutieli @ Gordon Gallery

Posted by SAL, March 2, 2019

Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv is currently showing A Pathology of Hope, a major comeback solo from Addam Yekutieli aka Know Hope in his hometown after 4 years. The artist whose career started on the streets when he was 18, is now back with his most recent and arguably strongest body of work which is presented as a large scale index of drawings, sculptures, found objects, texts, assemblages, and conceptual pieces. The entire gallery space is transformed into an encompassing installation in which Know Hope’s signature […]

Releases: Know Hope – “2019 Print Subscription”

Posted by sleepboy, December 20, 2018

Addam Yekutieli aka Know Hope recently announced his 2019 print subscription featuring a series of upcoming silkscreen editions. Produced in an run of 50 and sized at 21 x 29.7 cm each, the set of six prints in total will be sent out individually January, March, May, July, September and November of next year. The Israeli artist has revealed the first image (seen above), which features his signature character along with some reoccurring motifs from his work like birds, wood poles, and poetic phrases. Those interested […]

Rewind: June 9 – Oct 24

Posted by sleepboy, October 24, 2017

It’s been a while since we last shared some art-related videos with you in our Rewind feature so here are some that you may have missed in the last several months. Leading things off are a couple videos documenting the launch of Liu Bolin’s ready-to-wear collection at New York Fashion Week. The fashion collection inspired by the 12 photographs he created in the United States featuring his unique style of painting camouflaging himself into the scenery, something referenced by the body painting the models had […]

Nuart 2017 / Murals (Part II)

Posted by SAL, September 11, 2017

We’re wrapping our reporting from Nuart festival 2017 with the 2nd part of the recap of all the public works created through Stavanger for this year’s event. These pieces make it obvious that Nuart decided to challenge the common idea of “street art” by inviting both the veterans as well as young blood, in order to present a diversity of possibilities and approaches when creating public art. One of the artists that definitely pushed that idea far beyond what’s familiar was Igor Ponosov with his Too […]

Nuart 2017 / “Rise Up!” group show @ TOU scene

Posted by SAL, September 7, 2017

As we previously mentioned, this year’s Nuart Festival was focused on artist that stand out with their public work in the way they interact with the observers, rather than create images from their visual language. This curatorial tendency became very clear in this year’s indoor exhibition @ Tou scene that opened on 2nd on September. Featuring works by all the participating artists hailing from 10 countries, this presentation once again showed how unique this event is on the global scale. Giving these artist an opportunity to […]

Streets: Nuart 2017 (Part I)

Posted by SAL, September 2, 2017

For their 17th edition Nuart festival took a significant and brave step away from producing an ordinary street art festival that results in series of beautifully colored facades. This year they’ve invited a carefully selected group of international artists and activists working in the public domain, more focused on using the public space to speak out, rather than “exhibit”. After 17 years of building a platform for network of artists, academics, journalists and other professionals surrounding the street art practice, as well as creating one […]

Previews: “Hand Luggage Only” @ Nuart Gallery

Posted by SAL, August 30, 2017

As one of the official opening events of this year’s Nuart Festival in Stavanger, Norway, Nuart gallery will be opening Hand Luggage Only! group show by festival artists and guests. The preview of the show is set for 31st of August and the show will last until the end of September. With the main theme of this year’s event being “power,” the artists were challenged to create work that can be brought to the gallery in their hand luggage. With airports and travelling by plane being […]

Previews: Nuart Stavanger 2017 (Part II)

Posted by SAL, August 25, 2017

With only few days left before the un-official start of the 17th edition of Nuart, we wanted to introduce to you the remaining 6 artists that will be participating in this year’s edition. Through site-specific murals, installations, interventions, and temporary exhibition, these artists will be discussing this year’s theme – POWER. Russian artist, activist and author of several projects and publications relating to urban art, Igor Ponosov, lives and works in Moscow as an activist, artist and independent curator of multi-disciplinary projects. After some early graffiti years and publishing several important […]

Upcoming: Nuart Stavanger 2017

Posted by SAL, July 23, 2017

It was only few months ago we were reporting from the inaugural Nuart Aberdeen (covered) and now it’s time for the main event in Norway. The people behind the longest lasting and respected urban/street art festival have just released info about the 17th edition of Nuart will be taking place in Stavanger from the 31st of August until the 3rd of September, with their indoor exhibition at Tou Scene staying on view through 15th of October. An initiative that placed the Norwegian oil capital permanently […]