No 6

The urban communication and aesthetics exhibition
23rd August to 5th October 2003

Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Berlin

As chance would have it, we happened to be in Berlin, just at the opening night of Backjumps' live issue. For those of you who don't know that, Backjumps is a legendary Berlin magazine that's been present for years on graffiti scene worldwide.

The exhibition took place in Kreuzberg, a Berlin borough which is mainly the residence for Turks and alternative artists. The good-sized space of Kunstraum had a few disadvantages, like unbearable heat and lack of fresh air, but we were trying hard to overcome this with a bottle of beer and were slowly going over the rooms.

The list of invited artists was quite impressive. We'll mention some of them:

ASH / BBC... ..Kopenhagen
Akim & Zast one... ..Berlin
Cakes... ..Prag
Delta INC... .. Amsterdam
Jay1 /BBC... ..Paris
Lokiss... ..Paris
OBEY... ..LA
O'Clock... ..Paris
Phos4... ..Berlin

Our intention is not to analyze the works on view. We've seen undoubtedly interesting things as well as some trash. In a moment we started to wonder wouldn't it be more fresh and honest to write a piece on a train. Isn't it closer to the art to see this piece on the move afterwards?

The quantity of these potential artists could perhaps bring some real one to the surface. Nevertheless, most of these guys (and we are not an exception) sometimes get ideas about being bigger artists than we really are.

All in all it was worth visiting the opening night in Kunstraum, if only because of greeting some old friends...