nina braun
> view artwork
photos from the exhibition:
> 06.2006.: Sunny Side Up!
> 05.2005.: sneak like a panther
Nina Braun is immersed in an analogue world, where the obsession with material and her devotion to each individual object emerges from her very personal imagery.
Her approach to materials like wool and fabric are the base for her sometimes child-like and naive objects that result from an intensive working process. Considering that we are living in a digital era where economical aspects of the working process prevail and thoughts and images can be infinitely reproduced, Nina Braun’s approach to work is quite revolutionary.
christophe lambert
> view artwork
photos from the exhibition:
>02.2008.: Chaos Imminent!
Christophe Lambert has scraped his knees resisting the obvious paths of a young artist. His eclectic body of work includes films, illustrations, graphic design, sculpture and collage, making him the original luxury punk. Always DIY, and always invited warmly into various avant-garde scenes (beer and entry exchanged for Christophe’s work on flyers, posters, whatever and wherever), his is a constant work in progress. Recognizing stable tendencies in his productions is not obvious. What is revealed in this anxiety is an artist who constantly manipulates and re-appropriates, taking anything and everything sacred and pulling at it until it is profane once more.
Continue reading "christophe lambert"
boris hoppek
> view artwork
photos from the exhibition
>03.2007.: i won't fuck with you tonight!
>12.2005.: egal!
>10.2004.: Micky Ficky Jesus
Grafitti- and Street-artist boris hoppek is challenging every surface: taking his strong characters not only onto walls, but also on various materials from all kinds of backdrops (furniture, papers, blinds, advertising posters etc.) to huge sculptures he builds from used cardboard boxes and sewing his main character, the bimbo, in his different incarnations as small puppets.
Continue reading "boris hoppek"
stephen smith / neasden control centre
> view artwork
photos from the exhibition:
>9.2007.: Little Land
>3.2006.: bar leandro
Stephen Smith (b.1975) is a UK based Graphic Artist working under the name Neasden Control Centre mainly across the fields of exhibition and installations, graphic design, fine art and film.
Continue reading "stephen smith / neasden control centre"
alex diamond
> view artwork
photos from the exhibition:
>12.2007.: Love me with a Gun to my Head
>11.2005.: Gold, Kinder!
>04.2004.: Strange Sofa
alex diamond is an artist who apparently lives solely through the art he creates - and vice versa. he plays mind tricks with visual aids, pleasing at one moment, disturbing in the next. independent from styles and techniques, he mirrors life and our constant fight for possession, superiority, survival and love in an almost nonchalant way.
Continue reading "alex diamond"
casey mckee
> view artwork
photos from the exhibition:
> 11.2007: 9 to 5
> 09.2005: corporate warfare
McKee’s process is a combination of photography and painting. First creating the photograph, then printing it onto the surface (canvas, wood panel, hand-made paper, etc.) by use of a photographic emulsion. McKee spends the majority of time working with oil paint to bring out the desired expression in his works. To experience the works in person is to realize the depth, layers and subtlety created with the oil paint married to the photographic emulsion. The final work is neither a photograph, nor a painting, but something directly in between with the qualities of both.
Continue reading "casey mckee"
56k
photos from the exhibition:
> 06.2007 everything counts in large amounts!
> 08.2005 grunert & 56k
56k is a Hamburg based artist who is deeply rooted in gemany's urban-art-scene since years. He was among the first graffiti writers who tried to break with the existing boundaries of this scene to express his ideas and visions in a wider context. His ability in character-design and conceptual artworks are outstanding and brought him to the heliumcowboy artspace for the 1st time in 2005. The next Soloshow in 2007, "Everything counts in large amounts!" was a brilliant example of an exhibition with a 56k-like concept which brings this one idea to perfection, explorable in every single piece.
moki
> view artwork
photos from the exhibition
> 10.2005 fox in the snow
welcome to the wonderful world of moki: an extremely skillful artist despite her young age, moki enchants us with her beautiful and weird world full of fascinating creatures and landscapes. her paintings are offering a seductive escape into a realm where phantasy and reality meet by forming a breathtakingly new overall vision.
patrick farzar + albert bertolin
> view artwork
photos from the exhibition
>3. 2006.: dreckiger dialog
in cooperation with spains ROJO®magazine, the heliumcowboy artspace presents a spanish-german colaborational exhibition, featuring two young, hot artists from barcelona and hamburg: albert bertolin & patrick farzar.
besides a presentation of their current works, albert and patrick jointly created the exhibition environment.
Continue reading "patrick farzar + albert bertolin"
FriendsWithYou
> view artwork
photos from the exhibition "The first ever (authorized) FriendsWithYou Bootleg-Show "
> 09.2006.: FriendsWithYou
Founded in 2002, FriendsWithYou quickly became the leading inventors of characters
and the universes these creatures inhabit. They have been widely exhibited throughout
the US, at pictoplasma (Berlin) and in Japan, and have been invited for their first
museum exhibition at the MOCA Miami, Florida during Art Basel Miami Beach in 2005.
However, on their global mission they have entered the most challenging year in their
career so far, highlighted by the publishing of their first monographic book by Die Gestalten Verlag in October and by numerous shows and interactive Installations, including the exhibition at the heliumcowboy artspace.
Continue reading "FriendsWithYou"
thomas markus schumann
>>> photos from the opening and exhibited artwork
On may 19, we opened the White Cube with an exceptional exhibition by artist Thomas Markus Schumann. Despite the terrible weather conditions and our (purposely) limited space lots of people visited the show "Es sollte eine schöne Familienfeier werden" ...
Continue reading "thomas markus schumann"
Akane Kimbara
> view artwork
photos from the exhibition "Hashirigaki"
> 08.2006.: Akane Kimbara
Kimbara shows her poetic, almost vulnerable and elusive drawings she creates in a diary-like fashion, capturing the moment and questioning the ordinary of daily life with huge precision. Her creativity is not bound to those subtle drawings, but is taken into various medias from animation to movie-making. Irrespective of format or media, Akane Kimbara surprises with almost humble, very melancholic and always highly intuitive and self-reflecting stories. Her style is a blend of asian and western culture – she studied in Tokio at Tama University, before moving to Germany a few years ago.
Continue reading "Akane Kimbara"
rinzen
> view artwork
photos from the exhibition
> 06.2005.: rinzen
Rinzen is an internationally acclaimed art and design collective from Brisbane, Australia, and consists of five members, who are living in different corners of the world. Rilla and Steve Alexander moved to Berlin in 2005, and held their first solo art-show, "are you my home", in Germany at the heliumcowboy artspace in june that same year.
44flavours
> view artwork
photos from the exhibition
> 02.2005.: 44flavours
44flavours is a german art collective consisting of the three young artists Lutz Lindemann, Sebastian Bagge and Julio Rölle. Knowing each others since their early graffiti-period whilst still at school, they have developed a consistent and distinctive visual language over the past years, respectlessly using and combining different techniques such as spraying, illustration, painting, photography, silk screen-printing, digtal media, sewing - to name a few.
luiza mogosanu
> view artwork
photos from the exhibition
> 11.2004.: Luiza Mogosanu
young romanian artist luiza mogosanu is a very fresh voice in contemporary art. she focuses on life, lust and glamour while centering her work solely around her person, knowing that she - or the artist she is - stands in as a representative for the desires of our times.
Continue reading "luiza mogosanu"
stephan roters
> view artwork
photos from the exhibitions
> 02.2004.: Stephan Roters
> 12.2003.: bad sushi vernissage
stephan roters was born in gronau. he studied visual arts in enschede/nl and holds a diploma in photography. besides being an extremely visual visual artist, roters playes guitar and sings in the band "the bad sushi experience". in 1998 he moved from cologne to hamburg.
Continue reading "stephan roters"
ki yon ko
> view artwork
photos from the exhibition
> 03.2004.: Ki Yoon Ko
born in south korea, ki yoon ko moved to the united states with his family at the age of seven. he studied at institutes such as the virgina commonwealth university (visual arts), pratt institute new york (illustration) and san francisco art institute (painting). after discovering his own style and exhibiting frequently in san francisco, he moved to hamburg in 2002.
notart
> installation views
photos from the exhibition
> 02.2004.: NOTART
mario kleinschmidt was born in flensburg. he moved to the countryside in schleswig, occupating an old barn close to the schlei, where he developed his skills as an object artist and craftsman, before he moved to hamburg to open his own artist space, the musarium in hamburgs karoviertel, which closed shop in 2002. since 2003 he works partly at his "notart practice" at the sternstrasse 4 and party in his huge studio barn in lindaunis/schlei.