Ata ‘Toast’ Bozaci (ch)

A skilled illustrator and draftsman, Ata Bozaci is a prominent graffiti artist who widely influenced the international Graffiti writing-scene with his unique style.

Besok (nl)

Besok discovered spray can Art in 1990. Since 1996 he has been presenting his art work across Europe and further within exhibitions, projects and commissioned work.

Binho (bra)

Binho is one of the pioneers of Street-art in Brazil and Latin America since 1984. He develops a unique appeal of expression, giving life to all elements of its creation.

Bonzai (uk)

David Thomas first got into Graffiti when the first wave of hip-hop hit the UK shores in the mid 80′s.

Ceet (hk)

Ceet’s Graffiti style reflects his energetic personality and approach to life. Largely based on an interplay of colors and wild style lettering, the finished product is controlled and mechanically executed, yet sophisticated in the design style and finish.

ECB (de)

Graffiti as aesthetics between art and act of wilful damage, sign language for the speed and mobility of modern urban Indians – these characterisations of wall art from the spray can are widely known.

Graphic Surgery (nl)

Graphic Surgery consists of Amsterdam based artists Erris Huigens and Gysbert Zijlstra. Around 2000, during art academy, they discovered that the contemporary city was their mutual source of inspiration. Both capturing this by taking similar photographs of abstract compositions.

Juice (nl)

Juice got his nickname at high-school, which became his artist name in the Graffiti world during the Eighties. His paintings have an Art Nouveau-ish poster appeal in a new 2012 Graffiti style version.

Kid:GHE (mx)

Kid:GHE is a versatile urban artist originated from Mexico City, who explores, interacts with and shapes public spaces with his highly graphical work. During 13 years of artistic urban interventions, his artwork reconstructed the public visibility of the streets and the architectural landscape, always with the predilection for interaction with spectators and passing-byers.

Morcky (nl)

Morcky is an Italian artist who has lived and worked in Amsterdam (NL) since 2002. Grown with a foot in graffiti and street art, nowadays his main focuses are illustrations, paintings and videos.

Morten Andersen (dk)

Morten Andersen paints and stretches his lines artistically within the neo form of abstraction known today as urban abstract contemporary.

Rosa Menkman (nl)

Rosa Menkman is a Dutch artist and theorist who focuses on visual artefacts created by accidents in digital media. The visuals she makes are the result of glitches, compressions, feedback and other forms of noise. Although many people perceive these accidents as negative experiences, Rosa emphasizes their positive consequences.

Ruediger Glatz (de)

For years Ruediger Glatz was an active Graffiti artist himself and the documentation of his works led him to photography. He says that passion, obsession and even addiction connects him to the medium these days and by now, he exclusively uses the camera for his works. For almost a decade, he has been documenting the Graffiti scene and has thus remained part of it as its visual chronicler. It makes the viewer feel what Graffiti is about on the emotional side.

Mr. Wany (it)

Mr.Wany was born in Brindisi in 1978 and started painting Graffiti at the age of 12 years. He graduated later on from the art school and continued his studies in Rome at the International School of Comics. In 2000 he moved to Bologna to work as an art director for one of the largest publishers of Japanese cartoons and comics.

Wayne Horse (nl)

Willehad Eilers / WayneHorse (Germany, 1981) lives and works in Amsterdam. He graduated from the royal academy of arts in amsterdam. He has shown at the Centraal Museum Utrecht, the venice biennale, HLP project space in Brussels and Gallerie Gabriel Rolt.

International Exhibition // 21.06. - 15.07.2012 @ CBK Amsterdam

Exhibition Opening

21.06.2012 // 19:00 – 23:00 @ CBK Amsterdam
Official opening of the international exhibition. Meet and greet with all artists in a relaxed lounge atmosphere.
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Live Mural Painting

22.-24.06.2012 // 11:00 - 19:00 @ Amsterdam East
Participating artists will paint concept walls close-by the exhibition space and demonstrate their artistic skills and techniques.
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Official Afterparty

23.06.2012 // 22:00 - 03:00 @ Club Canvas
High-class electronic music and video art by well-known Amsterdam DJs & VJs.
Photography exhibition “Traces” by Arden de Raaij, Eavan Aiken, Olivier Philippe.
Interactive Light-painting by CFYE Crew.
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