Katja Glaser

Prologue: The Basel line “When I was ten or twelve, I bought a weekend ticket and went to Switzerland – because I heard that the Basel line was the most colorful train line in the world. I told my mom back then that I was staying at a friend’s house. I got off the train […]

“For over 10 years I have not painted lettering anymore, even if sometimes I see in the shapes I now make the same structure that my pieces had. Almost like an unfinished graffiti, a shadow, a ghost.” Aris is an Italian artist from Tuscany who works at the intersection of graphics, murals and train writing. […]

Throw-Ups TOTHROWUP is the name of a Cologne-based collective dedicated to the documentation of graffiti – and its name says it all: their examination of the nowadays highly differentiated field of graffiti is concerned exclusively with the documentation of so-called throw-ups (and tags), i.e. relatively ‘simple’ and unpretentious writings in public space, which focus on […]

“The finished canvas […] is the match won. But it does not mean that you stop. After all, a basketball player doesn’t stop after a game he has won, it’s all about the league, isn’t it?” –Julia Benz Just let it happen “Many things cannot be planned at all. It would be such a pity […]

Group exhibition: MOMO, Robert Wobloc, Fuck Artworks I’ve always been known all over town “Life is that one thing with joy and colours” – so it is written on a small, about 15x15cm large, inconspicuous canvas in the entrance area of the gallery “Wildes Herz” in Dürscheid. It stands unobtrusively on a wall shelf, above […]

In the evening. 7 pm. Geldernstrasse. It’s Thursday, a mild spring evening. The last rays of sunshine sparkle over the bridge of the Geldernstraße and bathe the pieces of the local hall of fame in a particularly colourful light. For a day like this, it is remarkably quiet. Only two artists are painting: MOMO and […]