I put together a nice video featuring some highlights of stencils and murals I did in the last two years ranging from pasteups, gigantic stencils and even a dry dock that I was painting with a group of friends in Denmark. The Blue dok was definitely a ‘one in a lifetime experience’ – totally surreal. Since then the Dok was voted into the Cultural Canon of the City of Svendborg and also won an architectural prize- crazy things to imagine for streetart!!
It features mainly works from Europe, though, I also added some examples from Buenos Aires notably the ‘Rimbaud’ stencil which and the ‘Tehuelches’ that I painted on a friend’ house. I also had the chance to paint at several festivals including the Meeting of Styles in Wiesbaden which was an absolute highlight. I was the only stencil artist invited to paint among the best graffiti-artists and –writers from the globe and got a great wall!
I rocked at the iBUG urban art festival in Limbach-Oberfrohna, where I painted my tallest stencil so far (whopping 5m tall) and had a blast painting and living there for a week. Other great festivals were the Kura in Wittenberg, the Strassengold in Cologne, the Urban Up in Leipzig, the many group and gallery shows and of course the adbusting campaing by Brandalism during the world climate conference COP21 in Paris.
End of 2016 I had the honour to paint a special wall for Germany’s first museum for urban art: the MUCA (Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art), where my mural ‘Maslow 3.0’ can be seen alongside works of Herakut, Case Ma’Claim, L.E.T, R.O.N.E and Sebastian Wandl. I could not imagine a better company!
I had some opportunities to paint small things, hang up posters etc. There is something special about working at these clandestine environments and reducing the communication with the observer to just a motive or a sign. I am also very grateful for all the commissioned work I did, it is always nice when people want their house painted! It truly has been an amazing start to be painting in Europe and I am very much looking forward to what comes next!
