Roskilde Update #3
vom 05.07.2009

Another update from Roskilde Festival Graffiti Area in Denmark, fresh pieces, hot weather over there and well done productions by artists from all over the world. We plan to do a final interview with the host of that project within the next days and of course upload the final photos of the walls.

Nils Mueller x Wallbreakers
vom 05.07.2009

"The Wallbreakers Festival is an unique Contemporary Urban Art Exhibition conceived to mark the 20th anniversairy of the fall of the Berlin wall and the massive impact this historical event has had on the Urban Art scene. Wallbreakers will be staged at a series of major events and select art scene happenings between June and November 2009."

Check out the Artist Profile of Nils Mueller at Artwallbreakers.com, further artists in the Mödart project are Smash137, Lichtfaktor, Jiar, Peter Fuss and ROA.

Urban Affairs Berlin Photos
vom 04.07.2009

URBAN AFFAIRS extended, presents in this second edition, an International selection of world renowned Urban and Streetart artist. Following the motto of the exhibition name this year, numerous external artistic projects, Galleries and institutions are invited to a new exhibition space in an reappropriated Berlin Swimming pool, with over 2,000 square meters of space available. The focus is on the reunification of Urban and contemporary art, interactive performances site specific works with the utilisation of public spaces. See more then hundred photos from Berlin here and here, the official website of the event here

Graffiti as music
vom 02.07.2009

"Sirum from Australia and Does from Holland are working hard on their piece â€?Climateâ€?  Their graffiti painting is part of  the open art picture, which is slowly developing with threatened animals and poisonous clouds in an explosion of colour. "

Read the full article at Roskilde-Festival.com here and here see more photos in the Roskilde Update

Roskilde Festival Graffiti Workshop
vom 01.07.2009

Roskilde Festival and Molotow collaborate together each year to provide a Graffiti Workshop for those attending the festival. Despite the overcast clouds on Day #2, there was an impressive amount of Roskilde go-ers eager to try their hand at spraying. Armed with a mask, 6 cans of Molotow spray paint and creativity, people of all ages came out to the first day of the workshop,  Amy Baker, hailing all the way from Canada, was thrilled with the idea of the creative freespace. When asked what her favourite aspect was, she said "The choice of colours. Molotow provided a fun array of shades that made it really fun to work with. What a great experience this way - to try painting in a legal, welcoming and fun enviroment - I couldnt have asked for a better first time." From 11 am to 6pm, people painted layers upon layers of neverending artwork in various styles. From amateur to professional, the next 4 days at the workshop will be tons of fun for all. See the photo update here

Roskilde Update #1
vom 29.06.2009

We got some updates for you from Roskilde Festival 2009. Saturday 27th. The day before the opening the graffiti team arrived at the festival, spending the day setting up everything for the big upcoming operation. The night was planned for commision painting at the festival, but was brutally interrupted when the party-eager crowd destroyed the wire-fence barricades and invaded the camping area at 9pm, 11 hours before the official opening planned for Sunday morning. The invasion was not enough to stop the graffiti team, they still managed to pull of their commision walls late in the evening before joining the party crowd for some fun before the serious walls with Kacao77 and many more at the inside area kicks off the next morning. Here is a few impressions of the graffiti teams first and second day at Roskilde Festival 2009.

Urban Affairs 2 Berlin Set-up
vom 29.06.2009

First Pictures from Bocho´s Tape Art Piece and 1010, Above, ROA, Kain Logos plus a few more at work at the Urban Affairs 2 Berlin Setup, the Streetart Festival start on the 1st July 2009. (via)

Write4Gold Germany 2009 Review
vom 28.06.2009

The Results and Photos of the this year Write4Gold Germany 2009 are online over at Write4Gold.com

Graffiti celebrates 10 years at Roskilde Festival
vom 26.06.2009

When Bob Marley played at Roskilde Festival in 1978, Talking Heads in 1979, U2 in 1982, Metallica in 1986,Radiohead in 1997 and Snoop Dogg in 2008 (just to mention few among countless artists), Roskilde has again and again demonstrated that this is the place to experience new, sprouting names, contemporary stars and timeless legends. Roskilde Festival has surprised its audience throughout history, and you can prepare yourself to be surprised again. It is not only musical experiences that await the audience when the festival site and its seven music stages open on Thursday 2 July.

This year, graffiti art celebrates its 10-year jubilee at Roskilde Festival. The celebration is carried out with an international lineup of world-class artists such as Swet (DK), Take2 (AUS), Sirum (AUS), Rens (DK), Sek (DK), Slide (GER), Poet (GER), Kacao77 (GER), the TOYS Crew (DK), Inti and Hes (CHILE), Soten (DK), Zombie (DK), MadC (GER) and many many more  who will decorate more than 1000 metres of fence with all kinds of colours, subjects and messages. And Graffiti at Roskilde is not only for the few. If you have a hankering for expressing yourself and are game for taking on spray cans, hand ‘tags’ and painting masks, just show up at Roskilde Festival’s graffiti workshop at Agora B around the skate ramp. From Sunday 28 June to Wednesday 1 July from noon till night, you can be guided and misguided by Roskilde Festival’s graffiti girls.

Plenty of paint has arrived, we will go for regular updates on this here at the Molotow Blog! (Link Roskilde Festival)

Legendary Belmont Tunnel Artworks
vom 26.06.2009

On June 6, 2009 Graff Head attended the opening night of the Legendary Belmont Tunnel graffiti exhibit at Crewest Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles. The show was labeled as "A Tribute to the Birthplace of Los Angeles Graffiti Art" The show featured many well known Los Angeles graffiti artists that painted at Belmont Tunnel: Acme, Aloy, Antonio Pelayo, Axis, BaBa, Besk, Bumper, Cab, Cale, Charlie, Cre8, Dash, Danny D, Defer, Duster, Earnone, Elser, Eriberto Oriol, Fearo, Fever, Frame, Frank Martinez, Gabe, Genius, Ghostone, Gilone, Graf One, Grande, Hex, Hyde, Jero, Jiro, Kopy, Make, Mandoe, Man One, Mosh, Nuke, OG Abel, Omega, Pale, Panic, Relax, Relic, Retna, Rickone, Risky, Ruets, Saber, Sacred194, Shandu, Siner, Size, Skept, Skyone, Sleez, Swan, Teler, Volt, Vox, Vyal, Wisk, Zender. See the photos of the artworks here