For the third year in a row the complete napalmed collective joins the kunsttour weekend in Maastricht. Again we changed Jesic’s studio into a gallery to showcase our works. Which worked rather well, for us this was surely the best visited kunsttour ever.
This year i tried to move away from the installational type of work, so it’s more of a 2d thing.

The villanuts people invited me to join their tshirt design contest and do a live painting session with violin player Lonneke van Straalen at their exhibition in “het nuts huis”. Pics by Stefan ZMK.

Wederom met de infamous dstruct posse. Dirty Brown takes a swing at designing t-shirts
for sale at this amazing music&art festival.

For the 2008 museum-night i got invited by the blaak10 gallery at wittedewith street to make a blacklite painting on a1 board based on the theme “set a light”. The rotterdam museumnight is a yearly event and always busy and fun. All the galleries and museums are open at night…Here is a picture and a avi file made by paul middelkoop at the blaak10.

…FROM THE STREET ON UP! CONTEMPORARY STREETART

DONDERDAG 28 FEBRUARI in VILLA NUTS

..FROM THE STREET ON UP! CONTEMPORARY STREETART

Met de expositie “…from the street on up!” presenteert curator Joseph Kosir (Dirty Brown Visuals) een integer en realistisch overzicht van dit hedendaagse cultuurfenomeen.
Streetart is een beweging ontstaan uit een kruisbestuiving tussen graffiti en politiek activisme en maakt onder andere gebruik van agressieve reclame technieken om haar boodschap te verspreiden.

Binnen de hedendaagse kunst wordt op dit moment regelmatig aandacht besteed aan de streetart als beweging en als kunststroming. Daarbij wordt echter vaak alleen aandacht besteed aan het illustratieve element en worden de politieke en actieve street elementen vergeten. Met een brede line-up van (internationale) streetartists laten wij zien “Whats for real!”.

In “…from the street on up!” wordt vooral de credible streetart belicht alsmede de exponenten in fashion en illustratie die deze energieke kunststroming teweeg heeft gebracht.

met Baschz, B.I.C., Dstruct Collective, Sota Ide [JP], Matthijs de Valk, MP SOLO, Clemens Wolf [AT], Dirty Brown Visuals, A.C.A.B., ZEDZ, Krusty the Skull, Freek Braaspenning, Joey Greco [AT], J. Hoogendoorn/NAPALMED, en SuperBretsig

http://www.villanuts.nl/

Together with the lastplakkies i did a show at a streetart oriented gallery in Wien. Inoperable Gallery, ran by Nick Ganz is a small but nice gallery with a small shop close to the Mariahilferstrasse. You can check them out here.
On the bottom foto here together with acab and other plakkies:

In vlissingen the organisation “SENSER” was given a HUGE hotel on the boulevard next to the beach. The idea is to invite people from the graffiti and streetart scene to completely fill the outside of the building with art. Some of the participants are: casrock, zedz, maclaim, booyabase, super-a, gek. You can check out kijkdoos here. They have a nice gallery there.

This is a painting/installation together with austrian artist sabrina horak at a group exhibition in the kuwasawa building gallery in shibuya, tokyo december 2005. The text says…
good art equals bad product, i think we definately rocked the place!
I enjoyed working with her a lot. the paintstyle was raw.
all in all a really nice installation.

Images of wearables2 exhibition in punct gallery / tilburg. The PUNCT crew invites lots of people to get down and dirty with the concept of “wearables”. I was so happy to be able to join and create this project / dresses together with japanese artist yorio sayaka.

expo opened 25 Nov 2005.