Nils Müller - Cover shot / Most Wanted Magazine

Yet a nice covershot by Nils Müller, taken this year in Stockholm. Most Wanted is a German based magazine, available worldwide. Check out their well done site where you can have a preview and a look at their back issues.

Timo Stammberger - Lisbon’s Underground Landscape

Stammberger just returned from Lisbon / Portugal. He couldn’t leave without exploring the tunnels of the local metro system.

Nils Müller - Cover shot for Unpleasant Magazine

One of Nils Müller’s photos was recently used for Unpleasant magazine.

New Artist: Nils Müller

LetterXIII is glad to announce our collaboration with Nils Müller.

Müller is a german photographer. Right now he is working on a series called “Urban Expressionism” where he documents graffiti writing on public transport worldwide. His photos are an authentic insight into a secretive subculture. Müller’s photos depict that graffiti is not random spraying, but a planned act, affected by friendship, intimacy and passion.

Above photos are Untitled (Paris), 2008, Untitled (Germany), 2008 and Untitled (Vienna), 2008.

In the future LetterXIII will be showing more of his work. Until then check Nils Müller’s site.

Exhibition - El Bocho (Raab Galerie - Berlin)

Thanks everybody for coming out to yesterday’s opening.

Timo Stammberger - Ongoing exhibition ‘Stadtgeschichten’ (Berlin)

If you havent´t been there yet, you have the chance to see Stammberger’s ‘City Stories’ series at the Fotogalerie Friedrichshain. It is really easy to get there, located 2min by foot from the Warschauer Strasse.

The exhibition can be seen until 31th october and features a few other photographers from Berlin.

PDF with more information

Directions of the Fotogalerie Friedrichshain

Update: Timo Stammberger - Dortmund Tunnels and Portraits

Timo Stammberger’s website has been updated today. It shows a new series ‘portrait’ and new tunnel works from Dortmund. Stammberger recently visited the Ruhrarea, Europe’s largest metropolitan area, consisting of cities like Dortmund, Bochum, Essen and others. This accumulation inhabits 5,3 million people and for them the public transport system plays an immense role in daily life. This ever growing system has interweaved itself deep into the cityscape. Yet few have seen it before like Stammberger did on his recent visit to the underground of Dortmund.

Site Timo Stammberger

Timo Stammberger in Chew Magazine

Why is it that Berlin is saturated with a style so heterogeneous and more importantly, unlike any other to be found?

Check out the answer by Alexandra Ross (curator/writer) and Timo Stammberger (photographer) in the new issue of Chew Magazine.

Download Chew Magazine

Exhibition: El Bocho (Berlin) and David Hepher (London) - Urban Art @ Raab Galerie (Berlin)

There is an interesting upcoming exhibition in Berlin on the 7th october at the Raab Galerie (Berlin).

The London based artist David Hepher started to show his work at galleries more than 45 years ago. It was just a few years later that Charles Saatchi made his first art purchase: A painting by David Hepher. In contrast to that, El Bocho, living and working in Berlin, is relatively new to the commercial art scene. Yet both share a common interest: To portrait their urban living environments in form of large scale canvases and posters. In their works Hepher and El Bocho reflect what they daily see. In Hepher’s case that are multi-story buildings that look depressing and hopeless. Yet Hepher does not intend to make policital statements. He rather investigates what he considers beautiful and fascinating. Hepher’s work rarely shows the human inhabitants and if it does only in miniature form, like looking through windows or leaving their mark on society with graffiti. El Bocho’s main focus though is on the human. His new series ‘Citizen’, shown for the first time, examines fictive and non-fictive characters and refers like Hepher to an urban context. El Bocho’s characters take notice of the urban space and reflect on it, and the combination with typography makes that visible. The thoughts examine daily issues, from desire to politics but also art itself. ‘Citizen’ can be seen as a lightweight critique that perfectly suits the space it is placed in. The thrilling aspect is that ‘Ciziten’ takes part in the gallery space and also on the streets of Berlin, using the same large scale works . El Bocho’s art space and urban space works are strongly connected. To understand his works it is necessary to see the counterpart. So for this reason there will be a photograph of his street work next to the related framed canvases. For his work in the gallery El Bocho uses acryl on canvas, for that on the street acryl on poster. Hepher also uses paint and photography but in a more direct way. On his canvases he creates composition out of sketches, drawings and photographs. In addition Hepher often uses concrete which is applied on the surface of his work.

The connection between their work despite roughly 40 years of age difference is stunning. Both adapted to new ways of expressing and exploring, including unusual techniques and ignoring social conventions.

The exhibit starts at 19h at Raab Galerie - Fasanenstr. 27 - 10719 Berlin.

More Infos here:

Site Raab Galerie
Site El Bocho
Location Raab Galerie
Infos on David Hepher

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