Amsterdam rocked the decks this month to celebrate urban contemporary art and street art in the Netherlands with visual and music based events giving artists many platforms to shine.
BustArt and Fake for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)
Graffuturism, a term and movement coined a handful of years ago to describe an intersection of graffiti, street art, and abstract geometry continues to stake out new territory and here were gallery and street exhibitions proffering some of the current practitioners whose work could be described as such.
The 5th Urban Art Festival Amsterdam featured their own collection of Graffuturists from Europe, the United States, and South America including Poesia, the unofficial founder of Graffuturism in a show of works on canvas, prints, drawings on paper, murals and site-specific abstract installations.
BustArt for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)
Running concurrently was a Stencil Masters show featuring some of the top knife-wielding artists known on the street today along with a few senior early proponents. The diverse program of gallery, street installations and DJs courtesy of the ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event) helped further contextualize the art forms for a wider audience of fans.
Fake for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)
Stencil Masters exhibition
ABOVE (usa) – BTOY (es) – BUSTART (ch) – C215 (fr) – CANVAZ (irl) – CZARNOBYL (de) – E.L.K. (au) – FAKE (nl) – HUGO KAAGMAN (nl) – IVES.ONE (nl) – JANA & JS (de) – JAUNE (be) – LIJNE (nl) – MANDO MARIE (usa) – NAFIR (iran) – ORTICANOODLES (it) – OTTO SCHADE (uk) – PIPSQUEAK WAS HERE (nl) – STF (fr) – TANKPETROL (uk) – TERA ONE (de)
Graffuturism exhibition
BLAQK BLAQK (gr) – CORN79 (it) – GRAPHIC SURGERY (nl) – KENOR (es) – LABUENA YLAMALA (es) – MICK LA ROCK (nl) – OKUDA (es) – OVNI (es) – POESIA (usa) – POETA (ar) – SKOUNT & GWION / TVBdesign (es) – VESOD (it) – WOW123 (de) – X-O / THE LOST OBJECT (nl / usa)
Fake for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)
XO for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)
Skount for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)
Markus Gnusius for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)
C215 for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)
Jana & JS for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)
LABUENA YLAMALA for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)
Lijne and TerraOne for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)
To learn more please go to www.urbanartfestival.com
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