This Weekend: STROKE – The Urban Art Fair

Stroke 0.3 in Berlin - Murals by Alexandros & Paris (left) and Montana (right)

Blog entry by Monica Salazar – in Berlin; Thursday, October 13, 2011.

Starting Friday, STROKE.ARTFAIR returns to Postbahnhof Berlin for it’s second year in the city. The fair presents a focus on designs of the everyday streetscape, with its graffiti, tags, tattoos, advertising and graphic design….

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Brought in from the street…MISS. TIC at the French Institute

Blog entry by Florence Reidenbach – in Berlin; Wednesday, August 17, 2011.

From the pavement of the Ku’damm you can view through the French Institute’s façade-spanning windows the paintings of Miss.Tic, hanging unusually on the gallery’s interior walls. One of the rare women on the street art scene, it is somehow bizarre to view her work inside a gallery space.

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