STENCILS ONLY 2013

Die gebürtige Spanierin Andrea Michaelsson ist weltweit bekannt für ihre Stencil-Arbeiten, die sie sowohl auf Leinwand als auch auf große Häuserfassaden malt.Dabei portraitiert sie große Frauenpersönlichkeiten, die auch Ihre persönlichen Heldinnen sind. Dazu zählen von Simone de Beauvoir über Frida Kahlo und Amy Winehouse bis zu Kleopatra alle, die sie besonders beeindrucken und etwas zur Frauengeschichte beigetragen haben. Grundlage für Ihre Bilder sind häufig alte Fotografien, mit ikonenhaftem Charakter, die sie mit der für ihre Bilder typischen Bildsprache neu interpretiert. Mit Lasur-Technik übereinander gelegte semi-transparente Farbschichten und abstrakte Hintergründe in Kombination mit sehr detailreichen Stencils zeichnen BTOYs Werk aus. Intertextualität spielt für sie dabei eine wichtige Rolle. So hält sie für den Betrachter den Lauf der Zeit für einen kurzen Moment auf, damit dieser hinter die Maske ihrer Protagonistinnen schauen kann.BTOY hat ihre Werke in zahlreichen Galerien weltweit ausgestellt. 2013 waren ihre Werke der Spanierin in Bonner Bundeskunsthalle und im Frauenmuseum zu sehen.Senden Sie uns eine Nachricht, wenn Sie Interesse an Werken von BTOY haben und den Katalog (PDF) mit den verfügbaren Arbeiten von BTOY erhalten möchten. Weitere Werke von BTOY finden Sie in unserem Shop.

Der aus dem Ruhrgebiet stammende Urban Artist DECYLCE hat in den letzten Jahren mit seinen ebenso technisch versierten wie provokanten Paste-Ups in vielen Städten Akzente gesetzt. An markanten Stellen begegnet man hier seinen Arbeiten, die stets auf subtile Art soziale Missstände anprangern oder aber sich ironisch mit Graffiti und Urban Art auseinandersetzten. Letztlich ist dabei sein Name Programm: Es geht darum, Teufelskreisläufe zu durchbrechen und nach neuen Wegen zu suchen. Zum Repertoire seiner immer Charaktere zählt das taggende Rotkäppchen ebenso wie der pinselnde Fechter oder der sich selbst (hin)richtende Banker, der sich einen Strick anstelle einer Krawatte um den Hals bindet.Senden Sie uns eine Nachricht, wenn Sie Interesse an Werken von DECYCLE haben und den Katalog (PDF) mit den verfügbaren Arbeiten von DECYCLE erhalten möchten. Weitere Werke von DECYCLE finden Sie in unserem Shop.

The artist, born in Ireland in 1967, has carved out his own place in urban art with a visual language that deliberately sets aside the conventions of street art. His work combines elements of contemporary art with the aesthetics of the street. He calls this approach “Urban Aesthetics.”Based in London today, Fin DAC is self-taught. Without access to galleries or museums, he found no way into the art world for a long time and first worked as a technical draughtsman, graphic designer and web developer. He was around forty when he first picked up a paintbrush. Painting female portraits became a meditative practice for him, a way to quieten the constant “negative chatter” of the mind. His influences range from Japanese woodblock prints, manga and graphic novels to Aubrey Beardsley, whose print left its mark on him as a child.Women Between WorldsHis figures move between tradition and the present: traditional dress and symbolism meet a modern sensibility. Pride and dignity run through the portraits, balanced by a playful streak that questions stereotypes. A defining feature is the painted mask worn by many of his female figures. Its design draws on Pris from Blade Runner and on the androgynous stage persona of Annie Lennox. The twin drips falling from the mask remain deliberately enigmatic. The small dot at the level of the third eye represents the artist himself.Murals in Cities Around the WorldHis training as a technical draughtsman, in which he learned layout, perspective and scale, forms the basis of his large-scale murals. Over the past decade he has transformed grey urban spaces across the world into vivid visual worlds. One of his most personal projects is A Quiet Moment of Contemplation (2020), a mural for the women’s ward of the psychiatric intensive care unit at the St Charles Centre for Health and Wellbeing in London. The work reflects his belief in the healing power of art.Exhibitions, Fairs and EditionsHis collaboration with Pretty Portal began in 2012 with the exhibition STENCILS ONLY 2012. Since then, nine limited screen-print editions have been produced together with Fin DAC and published by Pretty Portal.In 2017, Pretty Portal presented his work on its own stand at the Urvanity Art Fair in Madrid and at the Urban Art Fair in Paris. The Urban Art Fair in Paris followed in 2018, and the ARTMUC in Munich in 2026.In 2022 he took part in the group exhibition Mixed Reality, and in 2023 in Looks are deceiving.In 2024 he presented HomEage (Split Personalities), a tribute to the artists, movements and cultural moments that shaped his path. In 2025 came Carte Blanche in Paris, an engagement with Japonisme that brings 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints together with the Belle Époque and Fin de Siècle. With The Girls of Dactown (The GoDs)he extends his world of figures into three dimensions: a dystopian universe of cyborg assassins that now exists as life-size bronze sculptures and vinyl figures.“I create art to keep myself happy.” – Fin DAC

Jana & Js are a well-established duo: Jana, from Austria, and JS, from France, have been collaborating since 2006 to develop a visual language that is equally at home in public spaces and exhibition halls. Inspired by the city and its architecture as it changes over time, as well as by its residents and observers, they spray-paint urban landscapes, architectural details, and portraits in a play of reflections and transparencies.In their images, they explore the human condition within the urban environment: Against backdrops of densely packed architectural landscapes, they depict individuals who appear at once lost and isolated, yet also searching, yearning, and hopeful. At its core, Jana & Js’ work focuses on transience, the physical dimension of time, and the emotional relationship city dwellers have with their ever-changing urban surroundings.They work using a multi-layered stencil technique in the Artiste-Ouvrier style—developed collaboratively within the WCA (Working Class Artists) collective—using exclusively their own photographs as templates. In addition to painting, the artist couple also creates sculptures from wood and metal: complex, interlocking facade elements onto which they paint house fronts reminiscent of honeycombs.Jana was born in Salzburg in 1985, and JS in Paris in 1981. After spending many years in Madrid and Paris, Jana & JS now live and work in Salzburg. Their works have been exhibited in public spaces and at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin, among other places.