Urban affairs

Berlin is a bathing ground of spare space.. that is a huge attraction to artists of all kinds to move here and create their projects.. so much so that it is bordering on being a cliche if you do so.
Districts such as Wedding were described as being the heart of Berlin in the 1960s - but then labeled the city toilet in 2001.. why?? Because trend dictates living.. if people find the new cool, then the old cool becomes unwanted.

In this case we have a temporary exhibition in a building that is about to be demolished. What makes this space incredible - is that this building is 4 storeys of tiled baths, lockers, changing rooms and a huge empty swimming pool. With no such thing as Osh existing, a collective of artists can come in and do what they like.. whether they wield a jack hammer or just sellotape.

With names on the flyer that I have been hearing about since the late 90s such as Mode 2, Delta and Banksy - this simply couldn't be missed.


You can see here the artist has smashed up some bath house for use with 3d sculpture




This is probably my favourite use of space. The artist does fantastic graffiti based on animals - usually in xray view showing organs etc. But here he has got the bird outer on one side of the cupboards - but when you open the cupboards 180º there is another illustration of the birds innards.. pretty cool stuff. Didn't really capture it with photo - but you can see a girls arm rotating the doors to give you an idea.


Same artist - giant dead bird

Remember Banksy hype? Well here he is - a little print in the corner. I've got to say - I still love his work though - - and it shows what a massive influence he has had on the graffiti world - when almost every piece of stencil art in this exhibition has been taken from a Banksy piece at some stage along his extensive revolution.

If you were looking the wrong way in that room you would have missed it..