MUCA – Germany’s first Museum of Urban Art – reveals one of the largest art projects in Munich, the KUNSTLABOR: 50 local and international artists have artistically reinterpreted 5,000 square meters of interior and exterior space in the Munich Western part. Hidden behind the façade of the former Tengelmann headquarters in Landsbergerstrasse 350, artists of urban and contemporary art have been working for several months on their individual „spatial experiments“. The numerous relics of the former office complex serve as inspiration and backdrop for their works; mouse-grey wallpapers became canvases, files turned into sculptures, and office cabinets into installations – spray painted, drawn, hammered and artistically realized on several floors. On Saturday, Oct 13th doors to the KUNSTLABOR will be opened.

HISTORY by Amit Shimoni  ‘ HIPSTORY ’, Tel Aviv-based illustrator  Amit Shimoni  reimagines the iconic artists as hipsters of the modern era. Info@hipstoryart.com www.hipstoryart.com

Joseph Lee is a self-taught artist who studies faces and the emotions that inhabit them.  Lee focuses on the parallel between external reality and internal process by manipulating everyday faces and objects through segmented brush strokes, color choice, and volume, converging them into a complete and balanced whole. He is currently based in Los Angeles. Instagram | Website

Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” rise in Moscow on  Etalon City  images via  @etaloncity

Vladinsky Romanian Visual artist/painter Website | Instagram “My work as an artist is all about creating energy, movement and using color to evoke a particular mood. When I create a new painting, I like to hear the voice of all the magnificent colors in the spectrum. My thinking is that experimenting with the eyes is the same as experimenting with the ears, when it comes to music. The many beautiful colors in these portraits all seem to want a space in the composition. This interplay of the colors is somewhat like a battle on the canvas.” “Before I begin to make a portrait, the plan for the piece is entirely in my head. I do not make preliminary sketches or drawings and work directly on the clean white canvas. I begin by laying strokes of oil paint and the wonderful kaleidoscope of colors mixes together revealing unexpected textures and exciting new shapes.” “While I am working unconsciously as though on autopilot, the energy and flow of the portrait emerges. When I’m fully engaged in the creative process of painting, there is an incredible moment when the real magic is discovered. The instant this happens I know that the painting will become a thing of amazing splendor. I try to put the viewer into a perspective that he or she will not know with what to associate, what is the beginning, trying to give maximum freedom to the imagination.” “When you are looking at my portraits, fresh images will be revealed. As the viewer observes the details and subtle patterns, new surface characteristics will emerge. I have been inspired by the portrait in formal art; including the work of John Singer Sargent and Francis Bacon. These magnificent new paintings are also influenced by the artists Egon Scheile whose elongated subjects are his trademark; and Willem DeKooning the Abstract Expressionist well-known for his ingenious colorful portrait interpretations.” “My portraits inspire me as well; just looking at them makes me very happy and evokes a peaceful feeling in my spirit. My work is all about the sheer delight I feel in the true unity of the gorgeous colors. I don’t memorize these colors, but continue to search the elements of the portrait’s subject and discover new things each time I encounter the work. I sincerely hope that you will enjoy the experience of interpreting my personal artistic vision for yourself. Each portrait is a window into my soul at that special moment in time.” “Every painting has a story, but I want to discover more about what I can do with my abilities and make my journey more intriguing. Every new day offers me the exceptional opportunity to create art that has beauty, magic and wonder.” vladinsky.com

“I am primarily interested in exploring ideas and images that exist underneath the exteriors of everyday life. I want the work to deliver an experience that is unavoidably human – something to make us think, feel and ask questions. For me, the work needs to engage the viewer in a way that will open the door to a broader range of emotional and psychological sensitivity. In my work, I want to confront that place inside of myself where our fear, hate, anger, insecurity and dysfunction reside. I want to explore what might be below the surface of those things – in a place where truths can be found, regardless of how disturbing or unpleasant they may be.” Paul Cristina – Painter Charleston, South Carolina Website | Instagram Paul Cristina was born in the metropolitan area of Cleveland, OH. in August of 1983. He is self-taught in the fields of painting and drawing. His creative sensibilities have continued to develop through the study of books, film, music, people and conversation. These sources of education continue to inform his work through the experimentation of various style and media. Cristina had worked several years as a paramedic, which allowed for a stark insight and investigation into the often disturbing aspects of society and human behavior. This experience involuntarily contributes an emotional undercurrent to Cristina’s work and provides with an insight toward the underbelly of life as we know it. His work has been primarily exhibited throughout the north/southeastern United States and is currently held in private collections internationally. He currently lives and works in Charleston, South Carolina.

Rob Woodcox – Photographer Currently: Seattle Inquiries contact: holly@eyesandedge.com Website | Instagram Rob Woodcox is a fine art and fashion photographer born in Houston, raised in Detroit, and currently splitting time between Mexico City, Los Angeles and New York City. He exercises his talent for photography with a passion that is unquenchable and contagious.  As he creates each piece of artwork, Rob strives to capture fragments of a vivid life sewn by the threads of reality, memory and dream.  Each concept is a declaration of his experience and seeks to tell a meaningful story to each individual that views it. Rob’s passion for photography has developed into a dedication for advocacy and making strained voices heard. Rob has produced projects raising awareness and conversation around the US foster system and adoption, queer identity, body positivity and racial diversity.  Having been adopted as a child and interacting often with the foster care system, Rob creates from a unique perspective, finding hope in the human connection and the will to overcome negative constructs within our complex societies. In 2013 Rob went through his own “coming out” experience, a societal passage only necessary from the lack of education and acceptance within the greater population. Though a challenging and demanding experience, Rob used this energy to pursue his photographic goals full time and began touring the world teaching workshops and creating sponsored content. Rob has taught thousands of students in over 15 countries and 25 cities worldwide- he has taught over 70 workshops to date.  In 2018, Rob put all of this experience and knowledge into an online Masterclass currently featured on Udemy . In 2019 Rob will continue to take on new clients while producing his first photographic art book. He will also embark upon various new educational endeavors including a workshop tour and seminars. When he is not creating photographs, Rob mentors artists , travels, and gets lost on whichever adventures present themselves.

Hanging fabric installation by Quintessenz at  CARME , an arts center located inside a former church in Brescia, Italy. Together, the Hanover and Berlin-based artists Thomas Granseuer and Tomislav Topic constitute Quintessenz. Starting out as students at the University of Applied Science and Arts in Hildesheim, they developed a unique an unmistakable signature style. With roots in both grafitti-culture and chromatics, Quintessenz combine painting, moving image, and installation. Space is the fundamental inspiration for Quintessenz. Their work not only uses shapes and patterns found in architecture, it interferes with its environment, changing the spectators perception (of space). Quintessenz use old factory buildings as their canvases, with their murals covering entire facades. In every medium they use, both in public spaces and galleries, their abstract work shares one thing in common: their art makes/creates space for its color. To Quintessenz, color is more than form. It is the content itself. Carme Genesis is the first time they’ve worked within the architecture of a church and it runs through March 3, 2019. See more of Quintessenz’s installations on their: Website  |  Instagram

Romanian born contemporary artist Saddo, currently based in Bucharest, has a labile way with style, techniques and subjects. He juggles between paintings on canvas for galleries, large scale murals and commission illustrations for different projects and brands. His work mixes his taste for painters like Rousseau, Bosch, Walton Ford, Matisse, Iranian miniatures or Asian carpets, with his street art formation, visible in his love of contemporary illustration, decorative arts, hip hop, urban culture. His subjects range from surrealist imagery, day of the dead like iconography, explorations on death in different myths and religions, portraits of rappers and gangsters, flowers, burning cars, intricate patterns of birds and plants. He samples many different details, composition elements, themes, from all the paintings, illustrations, carpets, books and movies he likes, and incorporates them in his own complex iconography. He’s been part of numerous group shows all over the world, he’s had two solo shows, in Viana do Castelo (Portugal) and Berlin (Germany), collaborated with many brands and agencies from Romania and abroad, and has painted murals in Germany, Romania, Canada, Bosnia, Thailand, Morocco, Portugal, Israel. Website | Instagram photo credit: Saddo

Cracklez Illustrator and graphic designer from Bucharest – currently working as a freelancer. Open for collabs and commissions: Website | Instagram

A 1930s, Art Deco mansion, left vacant for over 20 years Transformed by Rone Website  /  Instagram “Empire” is available on display at Burnham Beeches mansion in Sherbrooke March 6 – April 22. RONE, street artist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYq2uZvV9zE RONE “Internationally if you talk about street art and you talk about Australia, you’ve got to talk about Melbourne and Everfresh. And if you talk about Everfresh, you talk about Rone. He’s really helped put Melbourne on the map.” Website / Instagram …

Swirling Abstract Portraits by Firelei Báez Firelei Báez  was born in Santiago de los Caballeros and lives and works in New York. She makes intricate works on paper and canvas that are intrinsically indebted to a rigorous studio practice as well as large scale sculpture. Through a convergence of interest in anthropology, science fiction, black female subjectivity and women’s work; her art explores the humor and fantasy involved in self-making within diasporic societies, which have an ability to live with cultural ambiguities and use them to build psychological and even metaphysical defenses against cultural invasions. Báez received an M.F.A. from Hunter College and a B.F.A. from The Cooper Union’s School of Art and studied at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has had solo exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and at Pérez Art Museum Miami.  In 2016 and 2017 she will participate in group and solo museum exhibitions including  Vessel of Genealogies , Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Chareston, Illinois,  Africa Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life , Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, and  Firelei Báez: Bloodlines  at The Warhol Museum, Pittsburg. Website | Instagram