Urban Art is rooted in the seventies of the 20^th century and is determined by large-sized types and figurative elements sprayed on house walls. Frequently without permission these graffitis cause popular outrage. Meanwhile the artists use canvas for their forms and motives closely attached to graffiti and formed up their way into the galleries and museums. Beside brushes aerosols still remain the artist´s tools.

The World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte will open the exhibition
“Urban Art – Graffiti 21” from 17^thof April 2011 and shows current positions of that new art of the 21th century. 56 works of art created by 36 artists from North America and Europe were chosen for Europe´s largest exhibition of urban art in the World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte. For these artists the capitals of the world are source of inspiration: New York, Paris, Berlin, Kopenhagen, São Paulo.

The selection of artists for “Urban Art – Graffiti 21” results from cooperation with art conexxion, Saarbrücken and the Urban Artist Reso.

Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte

Europäisches Zentrum für Kunst und Industriekultur

Rathausstraße 75-79

66333 Völklingen

(Germany)

April 17 - November 1/ 2011

opening: April 17 @ 5:00PM