Mosaic by Mathias Waller in Görlitzer Park Berlin
Mathias Waller has created a new mosaic in Kreuzberg's Görlitzer Park near our offices in Berlin. Appropriately embedded in the side of the Turkish Fountain ruins, the piece is quite large, like Waller's other bottle cap mosaics. In summer, he had some temporary urban art pieces embedded directly Continue Reading

xhiller visits the Spree on a cold, sunny day. The colors of the graffiti are echoed in the colors of the river itself and the new buildings on the opposite shore. The banks to the Spree are more often than not an abandoned-looking jumble of garbage, old ruins from some building long gone, and ungroomed Continue Reading

A gift from the heavens! Yellow rays piercing through the wall of gray.  Magnificent blue skies swiping at the winter doldrums. Dare we hope for Spring? Berlin, it's time to crawl out of hiding and take a look around. If you know the inner city here particularly well, you might know exactly where xhiller snapped Continue Reading

Flavorpill, the music/film/art geek's ultimate online information source, just published their list of most anticipated art exhibitions in 2012. Among them, a show Keith Haring's early works at the Brooklyn Museum. Sure, Haring is often cited as an example of ultimate co-optation of underground voices by the mainstream. Haring's distinctive, stylized figures with bold outlines Continue Reading

Guerrilla Knitting, like Guerrilla Gardening, is a new fad that is catching on quickly. As one blogger put it: Guerrilla Knitting is stealing graffiti artists the show. This bridge improvement project was spotted in Berlin’s Görlitzer Park. It’s not just the color, it’s the texture. The impulse to touch it. And perhaps best of all Continue Reading

Just in time - xhiller’s got the weekend sound track of chilled beats from Berlin by Scott Hobbs and Soulmind! And to accompany this soundblending work of art, I offer you a pic snapped in the immediate neighborhood: it’s 1UP, folks!

I have often asked myself: what does all this 1UP graffiti mean? I see it Continue Reading

This Friday, April 29 at 7pm, Skalitzers Contemporary Art  Gallery in Berlin (Skalitzer Strasse 43, 10997) presents PUNITIONS, the first solo exhibition in Berlin of the Parisian artist L’ATLAS. One of Europe’s most fascinating urban artists, L’ATLAS works with everything from small block-printed tags to massive, perfectly executed taped street pieces. Xhiller had the good Continue Reading

Walking across the bridge from Friedrichshain to Kreuzberg, a few round, black and white stickers caught my eye. Their target-like form drew me in. Around the edge I read:  kotton.de. Kotton.de is a shop selling ’sweatshop-free’ t-shirts, some with designs by the street artist TONA. BINGO! The nice folks at kotton.de gave me a few Continue Reading

Street art is no two dimensional matter. Even if the works have been sprayed, drawn, scribbled, painted, taped or glued onto a flat surface, they are conceived as part of three dimensional urban space. Maybe that explains the proliferation of short films in which street art is not just documented but in which the moving Continue Reading

Maybe the Soma exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof had more of an effect on me than I care to admit. When I first entered the hall and saw that there really was a herd of live reindeer living inside I was shocked.  The first thing I photographed was not the deer, not even the exhibition itself Continue Reading