In 2016, Yukimasa Ida won the “Judge Special Award” at the young artist’s CAF Award. The following year, he was the youngest artist to participate in the charity auction of the “Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation”. Since then Yukimasa Ida has become a prominent painter with collectors all over the world. In the last year, he was…

One artists video request results in 37 artists answering from all over the world The urban contemporary artist and photographer Falk Lehmann – whos alias AKUT is well known as a photorealistic painter in the street art and graffiti scene as founder of the legendary German graffiti collective Ma’Claim and one part of the artistic…

We inaugurate our “In Dialogue” section which will explore different actors and professionals from the art world, dealers, curators, managers and more. A couple days ago, I caught up with Paris-based Nicolas Couturieux to talk about his past experiences as a producer, curator or print-maker. Nicolas has been involved with Urban Art for several years…

While last heard from him last month (here), Banksy is back with an outstanding new piece. Titled “Painting for Saints” and dubbed “Game Changer”, Banksy took to his Instagram to reveal this tribute to the NHS and healthcare workers. As usual with the British artist, the piece is right on point, it shows a young…

Our friend and Japanese legend Sneakerwolf recently opened his latest solo exhibition “Super Deform” at ITH Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Sneakerwolf is street artist and designer living in Tokyo and “Kanji-Graphy” is his one-of-a-kind art which reflects the typeface design of Kanji-Graphy-Japanese character graphic. For “Super Deform”, the Japanese artist created an entire new body of…

Canyon Castator is a Los-Angeles based artist whose work moves through diverse mediums, but from the point of reference of figure painting. Transitioning through painting, video, digital manipulation, projection, and other forms of creation, Canyon’s work attempts to rectify the discontinuities between the image and its representation. In an effort to introduce to our readers,…

To celebrate the  closing of TÀPIA collective show, B-Murals invited Ana Barriga Oliva to paint a wall at La Sagrera’s Espacio30. This new mural intervention joins the other 3 parallel walls that were created during this exhibition which put 24 of the best figurative and neomuralism painters together,atthe B-Murals Gallery at Nau Bostik. This new…

Oli Epp’s paintings circulate a number of themes to do with the tragicomic element of living in the 21st century society, dealing with the complexity of identity and anxieties living in the digital age; consumerism and consumption which leads to control and addiction, anxiety and conflict. Last week in the midst of the Corona outbreak,…

In a surprising fusion of art, architecture, theatre, and engineering, British sculptor Alex Chinneck produces contextually responsive interventions that animate the urban landscape in which they stand. I caught up with him some weeks ago for a quick chat about himself and his recent projects. Rom Levy: Please tell us a bit about your background…

Our friends from RuArts Foundation teamed up with the good people from Artmossphere for the annual fifth urban Contemporary Art Auction which will be taking on December 2nd 2019 in Moscow, Russia. Among the lots of the auction are about 50 new works from the most famous and active Russian artists with a street background:…