Artists of the Street Art Movement
Since opening in November 2022, the AMUSEUM of Contemporary Art is the first museum in Germany to collaborate directly with artists in officially exhibiting works by the following key players of the street art movement::
BLU (IT)
Italian art activist BLU shot to fame in the early 2000s as one of the most influential artists of the international street art movement. As well as his impressive wall murals, he is also renowned for his elaborate stop-motion mural animations and his socio-critical drawings and lithographs. Despite his success, in 2009 he decided to take the radical step of removing himself and his art from the art market by no longer offering his work for sale.
Public Space: Memorial for victims of neoliberalism (2015)
Group Exhibitions: International Dealmaker (2018), Positive-Propaganda · A Decade of Visual Resistance (2023)
ERICAILCANE (IT)
Anonymous street art activist ERICAILCANE belongs to a new generation of European street artists who have revolutionised mural art in public spaces. As well as his large-format artworks on building façades, the Italian artist is mainly known for his fantastical drawings and woodcuts in which he – like in the fables by Greek poet Aesop or the Brothers Grimm – uses animals to represent humans in order to convey clear moral and ethical messages.
Public Space: Knock Knock (2015)
Group Exhibitions: Positive-Propaganda · A Decade of Visual Resistance (2023)
ESCIF (ES)
In addition to countless paintings on house façades in public spaces, the anonymous art activist ESCIF from Valencia is also well known in the art world for his humorous watercolour drawings and sculptures. In 2019 the international art world also sat up and took notice of ESCIF when he collaborated with his friend BANKSY to create a sculpture of an axe referencing ESCIF’s ‘We The Forest’ mural that he painted in 2019 in Munich.
Public Space: Say it through flower (2016), We The Forest (2019), Free Market (2022)
Solo Exhibtion: AMUSEUM of Contemporary Art · PEACE OFF (2023/2024)
Group Exhibitons: International Dealmaker (2018), Free Radicals (2020), Positive-Propaganda · A Decade of Visual Resistance (2023)
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FAILE (US)
In the early 2000s, New York-based artist duo FAILE were among the co-founders of the international street art movement. While the focus of their work was initially on art in public spaces, FAILE, have increasingly focused their attention on indoor art since the end of the 2000s, in the form of paintings, silkscreen prints and elaborate sculptures, which they present in exhibitions all around the world.
Public Space: The Wallstreet Windfall (2023)
Group Exhibtions: Positive-Propaganda · A Decade of Visual Resistance (2023)
-> Signed Edition
INVADER (FR)
At the end of the 1990s, Paris street art pioneer INVADER began reclaiming public spaces with his handmade mosaic installations based on the 8-bit computer game ‘Space Invaders’. As well as his interventions in public spaces, since 2003 INVADER has also been known for the innovative Rubikcubism movement he developed for an exhibition. Using hundreds of Rubik Cubes, the artist reinterprets world-famous works of art history, as well as popular record covers and photos of other subjects and personalities that are important to him.
Group Exhibition: Positive-Propaganda · A Decade of Visual Resistance (2023)
Mark Jenkins (US)
Public spaces have always been a stage for Jenkins’ urban compositions. But his elaborately handmade, hyperrealistic-looking human sculptures made of packing tape have also catapulted the street art activist from Washington D.C. into the realm of exhibition spaces. Since collaborating on his close friend BANKSY’s ‘Santa’s Ghetto’ project in Bethlehem, his art has also attracted the attention of international collectors, as well as leading galleries and museums.
Public Space: Tic Tac Toe (2013), Swingers (2013), Big Brother (2019), Doomsday Clock (2019)
Group Exhibitions: 50 Years of Hell (2014), Free Radicals (2020), Positive-Propaganda · A Decade of Visual Resistance (2023)
-> Signed Artist-Book - Mark Jenkins - The Urban Theater
NoNAME (EU)
While the anonymous artist keeps a low profile, his artworks, which are meanwhile represented in international art collections, hold up a mirror to society with thoughtful observations and depictions of the current zeitgeist. His artworks, including oil painting and collage techniques, take on a deeper significance with their visual and literary references to advertising and contemporary history, which depict and critically reflect on themes and challenges affecting all sections of society using his unique blend of multi-layered humour.
Public Space: Deprived area (2015), Democracy (2019), What Goes Around (2021)
Solo Exhibition: AMUSEUM of Contemporary Art · Sell la Vie (2024/2025)
Group Exhibitions: Victory is Peace II (2016), International Dealmaker (2018), Free Radicals (2020), Positive-Propaganda · A Decade of Visual Resistance(2023)
-> Signed Editions
Shepard Fairey (US)
Although Fairey’s first silkscreen, collage and stencil work garnered a lot of attention at exhibitions in the 1990s, it was his socio-critical works such as his Obama ‘HOPE’ poster that really won him international acclaim. Shepard Fairey’s canvas paintings, material collages and stencil works have been represented at the Élysée Palace in Paris, as well as in the collections of contemporary museums all over the world, from Los Angeles to Hong Kong.
Public Space: Paint it Black (2015), Sunsets to Die For (2022)
Solo Exhibition: AMUSEUM of Contemporary Art · New Clear Power (2022)
Ausstellungen: Victory is Peace II (2016), International Dealmaker (2018), Free Radicals (2020), Positive-Propaganda · A Decade of Visual Resistance(2023)
-> Signed Editions
SKULLPHONE (US)
SKULLPHONE had his international artistic breakthrough in 2008 when he allegedly hacked into a number of digital billboards in Los Angeles and replaced them with his own artwork. Parallel to this, SKULLPHONE developed a painted variation of his ‘digital media paintings’ for an exhibition context. He imitates the hyperrealistic appearance of digital billboards with tiny, hand-painted dots in the paint colours red-green-blue (RGB) on black-painted aluminium.
Public Space: Digital Media (2017)
Group Exhibition: Positive-Propaganda · A Decade of Visual Resistance(2023)
-> Signed Edition
