The five meter high walls at Heliumcowboy Artspace are studded with various artwork. Paperwork next to canvases, small images next to large ones. Some are dark, some blaze with fluorescent colour. Right after entering...
"Iguapop!" is my favourite exhibition at Heliumcowboy Artspace this year so far. Maybe this is because it’s a group exhibition and you get to see the artwork of 9 brilliant artists. Maybe it’s because you feel as if ...
Three ovals representing eyes and mouth – if you see this simple combination it’s likely that you are confronted with one of Boris Hoppek’s pieces. But it’s not the only recognizable stylistic feature in his work. The...
Were we really going to spend this beautiful spring-afternoon behind the 3 metre-thick concrete walls of the bunker? But, I have to admit, I really like this surreal building plus there was going to be a concert featu...
The Stiftung Buchkunst (book art foundation) is awarding prices every year for the most beautiful books made in Germany. The main focus is set on books as objects of utility. Legibility and factors like size, weight, ...
At the Altona station in Hamburg, German as you keep walking along the vehicle-free promenade you will see an empty building built in 1970s. One of the department stores in the building Karstadt, which has offices thr...
More and more young galleries are popping up in Hamburg. One of the latest to start showing emerging art is the Gallery Oel-Frueh, which opened December 2005. It is a rather small three-storey intercept of a typical 6...
Bagpipes for a welcome: when entering the opening of Katharina Gschwendtner current exhibition in Hamburg, visitors were greeted by live-music and a massively huge eye, cut, pasted and painted onto the window of Galle...
When in 2004, German artist Nina Braun left the streetwear-company SUMO, which the skateboarder started in 1998 to set a contrast to the all-male-dominated skater world, she re-focused on her art, taking the imagery s...
The HFBK is the "Highschool Of Building Arts". It is the place to study fine arts, industrial design, visual communication, sculpture, architecture etc. Each year the students show their work in a large exhibition all...
On the occasion of his 100th birthday the "Deichtorhallen" in Hamburg presented an exhibition of Arne Jacobsen's work. He was a Danish architect who worked from the 30's to the early 70's. Because of perfectionism he ...
This time I am writing 'live' from the Beta-Lounge. The idea of Beta-Lounge is to do online-concerts, which means that musicians and djs play music at somekind of club and send their music out into the world via inter...
Some day, the four longtime-graffity-artists Daim, Daddy Cool, Tasek and Stohead founded the "Getting Up" -collective. Apart from spraying onto canvases they also organise exhibitions, plan wall-paintings and design w...
Going off with a blast was the first "HOTEL" fashion show held in the famous Cafe Seeterassen located in the Planten und Bloomen park right in the center of Hamburg. Founded in April 2000 by the two designer...
Jim Avignon once said that he was the fastest painter in the world. Fast means that he has an enourmous output. He is doing many paintings on cheap material, like he's using cardboard instead of real canvas and ordina...
What does the world feel like, when you're blind? I found out at the exhibition "Dialogue In The Dark". It's concept is very easy: build some rooms with an usual environment and delete all the light in it, so that...
How to make a lot of money, when you have nice connections. There are a lot of firms like that out there. I don't have to name them. All the firms who see a nice idea realized by someone else and then also try to jump...
