There’s a nice exhibition in Munich till the 24th of September: Isabel Bernheimer presents the multimedia cross-over-project »vanitas« with the artists Victor Alaluf and Jan Kuck at the Bernheimer-Gallery. You can discover plenty of drawings, collages and a video-installation by Victor Alaluf and objects, sculptures and an installation by Jan Kuck. These modern works are put into relation to historic objects from the cabinet of wonder, an anatomic skeleton, as well as a painting by Hendrick de Fromantiou. Go there, it’s a good visit. >> More Information >>
[Thanx to Bernheimer Contemporary for the invitation!]

»Nix verstehen ist besser als gar nichts« [Not understanding is better than nothing at all]. That was the theme of Gülbin Ünlü’s latest exhibition. Gülbin Ünlü is Gülbin Ünlü! And Gülbin Ünlü would not be Gülbin Ünlü if she wouldn’t produce those nice pieces of art like Gülbin Ünlü does. At the art:ig gallery in Munich for example. Gülbin presented a very tight and nice variety of her legislation in mixed media: Ebru, painting, collage and digital artworks. Especially this first picture was my absolute favorite. Sorry for the shitty quality of the photos. I should get used to take a better cam with me at all times. [Thanx for this nice view on your work Gülbin!]

Sunday was Groszday. I mean it was a beautiful day. The weather was tiptop and we made a trip for once. We drove down to the lovely Lake Starnberg to visit the opening of an exhibition at the Buchheim Museum. And that was the place were it got amazingly Grosz. Because they are just showing over 200 great works by George Grosz: grafix, sketches, paintings, sculptures and multimediadocuments. I have been a Grosz fan already since quite a while, so I was overwhelmingly happy getting the chance looking at the intense pieces of this unique artist (1893 – 1959). [Thanx a lot to Annette & Marlene for the invitation and thanx so much to Ira, Hélène & Giacomo for joining.]

You should go to the Buchheim Museum and check out this very special exhibition, if you are around that area >> it’s running till the 2nd of November 2014. Don’t miss it!

»Friedrichstrasse« 1918, fotolithograph

»Der Mädchenhändler« 1918, coloured offsetprint

»Blutiger Karneval« 1915/1916, transferlithograph

»Ach, knallige Welt, Du seliges Abnormitätenkabinett« 1916, coloured offsetprint

»Aus dem Zyklus Parasiten« 1919, fotolithograph

»Paris« 1925, watercolour over pen drawing

»Maul halten und weiter dienen« 1927, manual gravure printing

»Tumult« 1916, indian ink on paper

[These are just some impressions from my lousy phonecamera. There is a very nice designed catalogue of the exhibition made by Bureau Mirko Borsche. Grab the limited book when you exit through the giftshop! Or maybe you will find it here in the museum-shop some day >>]

Nice! Germ-acquisition at Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia. This time it’s a takeover of street art. But you can’t call it crossing, theres no damage to the piece. That makes another spot on “Bacteriology Worldwide” >> [Terima kasih banyak Sven! Check out his streetartblog >>]

Yesterday I visited this vernissage at MMA – Mixed Munich Arts. It was the exhibition of NOMNOMVEGA and AUGUSTCC, two extraordinary persons and well ambitious photographers. NOMNOMVEGA is Nadya Vanessa Vega. Rawness but squareness seems to be a motto of her partly quite erotic pictures which look like taken from the real surreal life. Unordinary crooked people in a well-balanced camera-captured environment. AUGUSTCC is August Castell-Castell. In his photos you find the effervescence of euphoric inebriate people sucking in the captivating damp of the world in one moment or two. Snatches of instant happenings, key moments of auspiciousness and insensibility for aggravating inconveniences.

NOMNOMVEGA – Hanna head over [sorry for leaving a selfy in that]

AUGUSTCC – Global Warming [sorry for leaving a selfy in that one too]

The vernissage was very well-visited. Due to reflexions I was unable to shoot accurate photos of the single framed pictures. Thats why I will only show a few impressions here. You should definitely visit the artists websites to get a fully loaded indentation about the distinguished works of them two.

August Castell-Castell >> augustcc.com / Nadya Vanessa Vega >> nomnomvega.tumblr.com

Ok! Egypt has enough problems these days. Succeeded revolutions followed by collapsing revolutions followed by military revolutions. Hell knows what revolution comes next. One thing seems to be sure. It won’t be a democratic revolution. But wasn’t that the revolution people protested on the streets for in the first place? And now Egypt also has Germs again! This time they settled at Sharm El Sheik but they harmed no one. [شكرا Irischka!]

Worldwide Bacteriology >>

Suggested by friends we did this Street-Art-Tour through London East. With nicest 28° we followed the leader to discover plenty murals, past-ups, stick-ups, graffitis and stencils. Karim gave a lot of insights and background-stories on the many artists working there legally and illegally. Within the four hours tour [!] we’ve seen works by Christiaan Nagel, Stik, Invader, Obey Giant, C215, Eine, Xylo, dr.d, Phlegm, Roa, Ben Wilson, Dal East, El Mac, Thierry Noir, Clet Abraham and Pablo Delgado who has a current exhibition at Howard Griffin Gallery where the tour ended. The tour was definitely good and I have the straight feeling I will do it again some day. There is too much to see and the pieces of work change quite rapidly. And well, I took too many fotos to show them all here, so I dropped a lot of them on >> flickr >> check them out if you like. Sorry if I forgot to name a few important artists here, it’s just too much to handle. I did my best. [Thanks a lot to Ira, Assia, Schucko, Laura and J.J.F. for a splendid time and thanx to Karim and the crew from streetartlondon.co.uk/tours >>]

This is just a random selection of pictures. For more images check out the flickr-site >>

A lonely Germ travelled far to San Francisco de Quito, the Capital City of Ecuador. Bacteriology Worldwide >> [Muy mejor gracias Sven! Check out his streetartblog >>]

About two weeks ago Gabriela von Habsburg showed plenty of her lithographies and some of her smaller iron-sculptures at the German Hop Museum in Wolnzach. Listen up: It’s Hop Museum, not Hip Hop Museum. Exactly, it’s the stuff you make beer from. Joking aside: Eduard Kastner from the Kastner AG opened the evening with a speech on the upcoming european elections. The vernissage was very well visited. A few hundred people, I would guess, started absorbing the artworks of Gabriela before heading over to the amazing buffet waiting outside. The tables were stuffed with characteristic snacks from all european nations. All in all it was a pretty interesting event. [Thanks a lot to Eduard Kastner for the invitation!]

Claudia Macias and Rafael Ruz Valencia had this lovely exhibition today at Atelier Hermann Rosa in Munich. Sneaking through hedges and trees we found this beautiful atelier-place of the sculptor Hermann Rosa were Claudia and Rafael showed some of their impressive works. Surrounded by nice people we did experience fine oil-paintings. I wish we could have stayed much longer. [Thank you for this very special private view!]

Claudia Macias and Rafael Ruz Valencia [Claudia lives and works in Munich, Rafael came the long way from Chile for this occasion]

Claudia Macias, “two worlds”, 2014, oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm

“Silencio al interior”, 2014, oil on wood, 110 x 80 cm (left) and “Zapallo mantel II”, 2014, oil on wood, 80 x 110 cm, by Rafael Ruz Valencia

Claudia Macias, “broke”, 2013, oil on canvas, 230 x 150 cm

Rafael Ruz Valencia, “Televisor con decoración Kich”, 2014, oil on wood, 110 x 80 cm

Works by Claudia Macias

Rafael Ruz Valencia, “Maquinaria del recuerdo”, 2014, oil on wood, 80 x 100 cm

A little bird-sculpture by Hermann Rosa (1911 – 1981)

First 3-dimensional bacteria handcrafted by Upcycling Factory [Thanx a lot to Alex!]

Die Landung [The Landing] – Gülbin Ünlü and Helene Gette are presenting an installation of hanging paintings at the Akademiegalerie in Munich. Their ambition is to push the room into new scenarios by not using the usual walls it provides. As result they created a parkour of their artworks relating to the escape plans of the “New World”, like “MarsOne 2023”. At the opening the two artists gently took the visitors hooked under and showed them around, explaining all the certain bits of their works, handing over their own interpretation personally.

Gülbin Ünlü works in different layers with oil, ebru and oilchalk on canvas. “Camofleisch – Schinken” on the left and “Camofleisch – Döner” on the right, both 2014

Helene Gette is using mixed media and collage on canvas. The picture on the left is called: “damit wäre das auch erledigt – Aufruf zur Glättung der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit” 2013. And the other one on the right: “Prachtvoll Lang” 2013

“Sign of the Ü” and “NAA’H!” by Gülbin Ünlü. Oil, Ebru and Oilchalk on canvas, 2014

On the left: „Zur Wiedereröffnung des Asybewerberheims in Hoyerswerda“, mixed media, MRT-Images, serigraph in collage on canvas and on the right: „Russ Meyer on Canvas – Statement zu Russland” mixed media on canvas, both 2014

And finally there was the performance-concert of their band “Big Bezness”

Gülbin & Helene did rock the performance right

Gülbin Ünlü is Gülbin Ünlü!

Maybe it was too loud for people with tender ear canals. You can visit the exhibition still till the 25th of April at the Akademiegalerie [Subwaystation, University]. Further details and opening-times you may find here >> [Thanx to Gülbin and Helene for a funky evening! Thanx to Felix for the company! I Hope your tinnitus is gone by now.]

It’s always difficult to write about bacteria-stickers traveling to sad areas on this planet, but if they go there, brought by committed people, than something has to be written. This time Raphael took some of them to the capital of the Central African Republic. He was helping there in a refugee camp in Bimbo, a part of Bangui, setting up medical equipment for the help-organization humedica. It seems that militant rebel-forces from different confessions were ripping off each others asses which ended in a disaster for over half a million people, who had to flee their hometown. If you want to do something good for once in your life, please donate to >> humedica, they do a great job in many areas where urgent help is needed [Thank you so much for making the photos Rafu!!!]