King of the concrete jungle

Jace Images cool photos of street art in Aarhus

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BYOB #2 Aarhus

BYOB no. 2 took place last Thursday at Institut for X 

:: find out more about BYOB in Aarhus on www.byobworldwide.com

:: see more photos and the event page on Facebook

You have a missed call from Miss Robotic

Yes dear, I am at Godsbanen, can you come and pick me up soon? 

It's the details that make the space funnier

Treebeard, is that you?

Giving life to trees - painted version, Aarhus, January 2015

What's so strange about danish urban art ?

Besides painting walls, doing graffiti, using stencils and other forms of street-art that you're maybe used to, it's time for a few examples of nice & strange urban danish creativity that you will definitely call art.

Take for example the good old cardboard 'flying pig in a fork' that accompanies the traffic sign that may warn you: after you reach the end of this narrowing street in Copenhagen, you might expect the unexpected... meaning that 'when the pigs fly' is gonna' happen as long as you listen to your stomach. No offense to vegans and professional dreamers!

Or the skateboarder pedestrian...

In Mors there were so many rainy days in the summer, that some people decided to build an Umbrella Sky. This, of course, added a touch of color to the grey atmosphere and kept the inhabitants happy and dry.

In Aarhus people are so much into space traveling, that they stop their cars 'Star Wars' style. 

And that would be the winter version of R2D2...

Anti - theft solution or just revenge for that missing bicycle. Who knows?

When it comes to knitting hearts though, it's really hard not to notice how the love 'virus' spreads...This one is our favorite in Aarhus, you can see it if you go for a walk on Ferdinand Sallings Stræde.

'Reality is a shared hallucination' - Emil Kozak at LYNfabrikken

Emil Kozak is a danish graphic designer, living and working in Barcelona, Spain. The exhibition in BOX consists of drawings and screenprints. All the exhibited work is inspired by the human need to seek meaning and find the system in our physical environment.

:: via LYNfabrikken

Music & street-art for 2017: Julaw!

If you didn't see the nice video of Julaw for Aarhus ECOC 2017 - produced in 2012 - it's time to play the video blow now! PS. Check out the murals at 0:44. Peace!

Rethink outside the box!

But have a look inside first...

Did you notice a quite big glass container 'parked' near Godsbanen, labeled with the message 'RETHINK'?

:: photo by Thomas Skovhøj::

The Aarhus 2017 Glass container was designed by Jane Ostermann-Petersen and has become the symbol of the Aarhus 2017 “RETHINK” project in the streets of Aarhus.

The Glass Container can be booked for events free of charge, other than transport costs.

• Dimensions: 12 m (long) x 4 m (wide) x 3,5 m (high) 
• Weight: 3 Tons Transport: Via a flatbed truck 
• Price for transportation - examples: Central Aarhus to Hornslet: 7,200 DKK (ex VAT)/ Within Central Aarhus: 4,900 DKK (ex VAT)

:: via aarhus2017.dk

An anarchist view through Your rainbow panorama

:: photo by jj1975 on Instagram ::

An interesting graffiti message was spotted by a visitor of the famous 'Your rainbow panorama' art installation on top of ARoS Museum in Aarhus. Through the red glass, he took a picture of a nearby roof, where the drawing of a hand with a pointy middle finger is accompanied by the message 'Bevar Christiania (Save Christiania)'. The mural drawing is signed by 'Young Jeans'.

Why Aarhus will be one of the most amazing European Capitals of Culture [VIDEO]

The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union for a period of one calendar year during which it organises a series of cultural events with a strong European dimension. Preparing a European Capital of Culture can be an opportunity for the city to generate considerable cultural, social and economic benefits and it can help foster urban regeneration, change the city's image and raise its visibility and profile on an international scale.

Aarhus has been appointed European Capital of Culture (ECoC) in 2017. It is not a short term project, but a project that has a far-reaching vision and mission for Aarhus as a city involving the entire region as well. The year 2017 will serve as a beacon regarding the development of Aarhus as a city and not only on the cultural areas - because Aarhus 2017 encompasses culture not just in terms of music, performances and museums. The concept of culture also embrace the notions of where we live, which education we choose, how we travel in the city and how we use the nature around us - just to name a few.

:: for more information, visit Aarhus 2017 ECOC official website

:: source - http://www.aarhus2017.dk/english