CityLeaks Winter Break

After an eventful year CityLeaks will finally go into winter break. Please note that there will be no guided tours as off December. We will come up with new info next year. Hitherto all the best to you all! The CityLeaks Team

CityLeaks Guided Tours

Regarding the high demand the CityLeaks team will be offering further guided tours to the festival murals each weekend starting at 08.10.2011.

WEEKEND TOUR 1
Start: 16h
Dates: every Saturday

WEEKEND TOUR 2
Start: 16h
Dates: every Sunday

Costs: 5,- euro per person, costs of tram are not included

Further guided tours by appointment also in English under: info@cityleaks-festival.com

INTI Web Clip

During CityLeaks Festival, a large wall at Vogelsanger Straße became home to one of Chilean street artist INTI‘s enigmatic ninja figures. Seemingly inviting and holding us off alike, the bright fellow with its totemic masks, skull necklace and maize cobs unites all kinds of motives and elements from Chilean indigenous cultures. No matter what ideas it will provoke in the passerby, one will always feel the powerfully radiant warmth emanating from INTI’s beautiful wall that promises to heat up Cologne on cold days to come. See INTI in action and learn more about his art and the origin of its influences. Feel the heat!

Laguna web clip

Spanish artist Laguna enchanted us all with that beautiful artwork he painted onto the large wall of a car park near Friesenplatz. Towering over the busy traffic rolling along Magnusstraße, two dreamers face each other in a dazzling caleidoscope of powerful colours. With his bright counterpoint in that otherwise unspectacular spot of Cologne, Laguna created an enigmatic invitation to dream oneself away. See him working on his massive wall and listen what he has to tell us about his art, dreams and the surrealism of the everyday.

ZEDZ & Smash137 Web clip

Graffiti grandmasters Smash137 from Switzerland and ZEDZ from the Netherlands created a joint piece on a large wall at Ehrenfeld´s EVA centre. Smash´s unique style-writing and Zedz´ multi-dimensional square pieces merge into an impressive tableau at the edge of graffiti and street art. Watch them “co-scoring” their artwork and listen their comments on street art, graffiti and everything in between.

RIPO in town

RIPO is back! He will be painting the next days in the hood of Cologne Nippes. You are invited to join him: 27.09.-01.10. | Werkstattstr. 7.

CityLeaks-Air Finissage

We would like to invite you to celebrate the very last weekend of CityLeaks Festival at Deutz Air Halle in the Mülheim harbour. Realizing this festival has been a pleasure and desire to us. On this day we want to pay tribute to all the things that have filled this festival with so much life: freedom, creativity, love and global understanding.

CityLeaks-Air | Sat. 24.09. | at Deutz-Air | Auenweg 173

Afternoon
Live Paintings with Captain Borderline, Lukas Schmidt, Panamoe & others
Silkscreen Session
Stencil Workstation
Installation by Jonathan Hähn
DJs: ComeTogether Soundsystem with Dip Some & Hermes Villena |  Fangkiebassbeton

Aftershow
Jacob Korn- live (Dresden)
Mathias Schaffhäuser (ware/ Cologne)
Ampersand (Lektroluv/ Cologne)
Visuals Klangfiguren

Doors
16h free | 23h Aftershow 7€

More Info

Event on Facebook

Web clip: Claudio Ethos

Brazilian street artist Claudio Ethos honoured us with one of his graphic pieces at the beginning of September. An enigmatic monk now observes the busy traffic rolling up and down Vogelsanger Straße. Passers-by are invited to reflect, dream and scare. Watch Claudio working on his piece and learn more about his grasp on street art.

CityLeaks Symposium 22.09

Today at 19:30h we warmly invite you to an open discussion panel at the cosy Motoki Wohnzimmer in Ehrenfeld. Alongside the festival initiators, representatives of art, academia and social work will address various topics of street art and its mission in public space. There will also be room for your own ideas and questions on the festival and street art. Love to see you! More Info here.

Music Performance Jim Avignon 19.09

Tonight another stunning festival highlight takes place at Herz Jesu church, Zülpicher Platz when versatile artist Jim Avignon will perform his live scoring of Walter Ruttmann’s silent film classic “Berlin. Symphony of a metropolis” (1927). Ruttmann’s film, Avignon’s music and the sacral atmosphere of Herz Jesu promise to merge into a fascinating audiovisual spectaculum. A must-see! Find out more here.

CityLeaks Sunday Special 18.09

Today another top event is waiting for you: At Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld Cityleaks invites you to a laid-back get-together with BBQ and live paintings. At 20h one musicial highlight will chase another: Los Angeles Soul talents Dudley Perkins and Georgia Ann Muldrow as well as RadioLoveLove and The Achtung Achtung promise to turn this night into an oracular spectacular. Don´t miss it! More Info here.

CityLeaks Vernissage 17.09

This Saturday at 19h the exhibition of South American artists opens at Rheinlandhalle, Venloer Str. 389. The exhibition unites works by several young talents from Brazil, Chile, Peru and Argentina. Do not miss that fascinating insight into Latin America´s vivid Street Art culture. Many of the artists will be present tonight. See you there! More Info here.

CityLeaks Aftershow Party

After Friday´s vernissage marathon Cityleaks Aftershow Party will start off at Arty Farty Gallery at 23h. Join us there when Anxieteam aka Jim Avignon and Jon Burgerman will honour us with one of their mesmerizing audiovisual live-performances. They´ll receive support by the Bassliebe Crew.
Apart from that, you shouldn´t miss Danish singer Alice Rose´s concert at Museum für verwandte Kunst starting at 21h. What an agenda – so let´s get the party started!

Vernissage Galleries 16.09

This Friday CityLeaks Festival goes indoor. At 19h exhibitions uniting an impressive kaleidoscope of current Urban Art trends will open at seven different locations. Find out all about our locations, times and artists here. See you on Friday at:

Hochschutzbunker Ehrenfeld, Körnerstraße 101: 12 artists

DQE-Halle, Heliosstraße 35-37: 7 artists

30works Gallery, Antewerpener Straße 42: 4 artists

Kulturforum in Herz Jesu e.V., Zülpicher Platz: Jim Avignon

Arty Farty Gallery, Maastricher Straße 49: Jon Burgerman

Ruttkowski 68 Gallery, Bismarckstraße 68: ZEDZ

Museum für verwandte Kunst, Genter Straße 6: Alexandra Kisselkova

Next. A Primer on Urban Painting – 14.09

Tonight we will be showing Pablo Aravena´s documentary Next. A Primer on Urban Painting that offers a fascinating insight into the past and present of global Urban Art cultures. After the screening there will be an open discussion with the director. Things get started at 19h in the auditorium of KHM at Filzengraben 2. See you there! More Info

Yaikel at the wall

Chilean artists Yaikel just started painting his wall at Schönsteinstraße 10. Come and see him paint one of his colourful murals. Don´t miss the chance!

It´s on: Pau´s wall finished

German-Chilean artist Pau Quintanajornet just finished her piece at Heliosstraße. In front of the entrance to CityLeaks festival office you will now be welcomed by two flame-haired dreamers. Come and see!

Sam3 hits the wall 12.09

Today Spanish artist Sam3 will paint his wall at Subbelrather Straße 186. Come and see him create his magic shadow lines. A unique chance – tomorrow he’ll already be gone!

Next Murals 09.09

As of 09.09 three more artists start painting their walls:
Alexandra Kisselkova at Parkgürtel 18
Laguna at Magnusstraße 20/ car park
Pau Quintanajornet at Heliosstraße

ROA´s Mural

Belgian artist ROA finished his mural recently. Come to see his skinned rabbit hanging at Senefelderstr. 5

Massive Impact

Four more artists hitting the wall as of today:                                     Lucy McLauchlan at Alter Güterbahnhof Ehrenfeld, Vogelsanger Str.
Faith47 at playground Wissmannstr.
DAL at Iltisstr. 100
INTI at Vogelsanger Str. 14

Claudio Ethos finished his piece

Claudio Ethos finished his piece last weekend. An enigmatic monk now observes the busy traffic rolling up and down Vogelsanger Straße. Go and see!

Zedz (NL) & Smash 137 (CH) | Rami Meiri (IR) | ROA (BE) | L.E.T. (DE) at the wall 05.09

On 05.09 following artists will hit the wall in Cologne-Ehrenfeld:
ZEDZ & Smash137 will paint at Christianstr. 1
ROA will paint at Senefelderstr. 5
Rami Meiri will paint at Iltisstr. 94-98
L.E.T. will paint at Venloer Str. 430

Herakut Webclip

Street Art duo Herakut has already enchanted many of the world´s cities with their dreamy-melancholic murals. This August hera and akut finally endowed us with a beautiful large-scale piece at Venloer Straße. The big eyes of a girl and her dog, now watching over the park of Ehrenfeld´s community centre, seem to ask us: „Whose afraid of whom?“ Anyway, we´ve already fallen in love with the two of them. Big thanks to Herakut! Watch them painting and listen to their words.

BLU & Captain Borderline – first CityLeaks Murals

Italian Street Art grandmaster BLU unofficially opened CityLeaks Festival in June with a stunning large-scale mural at Cologne´s Hansaring. Located at one of the city´s busiest spots, the menacing head of a faucet haired medusa stares down on the passing traffic. To its left we can glimpse Street Art duo Captain Borderline realizing their mural. In immidiate neighbourhood to Cologne´s largest cinema palace their wall reveals the business of moving pictures as collective brainwashing. See their work in time lapse.

Claudio Ethos hits the wall

Claudio Ethos, our first guest from Brazil started painting today. Come and visit him at Vogelsanger Str. 28-32

Lake at the wall

It´s done! Berlin based artist Lake finished his piece. Go & see – Liebgistr. 70

Festival Schedule online

Finally CityLeaks Festival is nearing kick-off and we are proud to present our brand new festival schedule which will be starting off on 5th September with an outdoor week. Apart from mural paintings and various indoor exhibitions starting on 16th September, there is a colourful and exciting programme of events waiting for you. Guided tours, movie screenings, a symposium, parties and concerts will open up a space for creative interaction, sharpen our awareness and provide us with lots of unforgetable moments.

See you in Cologne!

Welcome to CityLeaks!

Artrmx and Colorrevolution are proud to present the first international Urban Art Festival in Cologne.

From September 5 – 25, national and international artists are taking over the city. Large-sized paintings and installations in public places, on facades, gables, in off-locations and galleries are going to hit the cityscape.

CityLeaks illustrates different facets of art reception. Throughout the outdoor- week of action, taking place from September 5 – 15, Cologne’s public space will be filled with art. The artists design legal wall areas and present their artistic outputs amongst every day’s city life. In the following exhibition week from September 16 – 25, beneath numerous murals additional works of the artist will be shown in galleries, show-rooms and off-locations. A large amount of guided tours through the districts and exhibitions will be offered. Actions/ Activities, movie screenings, discussions, lifepaintings and parties enrich the general program of CityLeaks with various impressions.

CityLeaks Artists 2011

We proudly present the following artists at the CityLeaks Festival:

Abner Preis,  Alexandra Kisselkova, AMOSE, Basko Vasko, BLU, Captain Borderline, Claudio Ethos, DAL, El Bocho, EMESS, ENIVO, ESCIF, Faces On Book, Faith47, Herakut,  Herbert Baglione, HOLZ51, Inti, Jan Vormann, JIAR, Jim Avignon, Jon Burgerman, L.E.T., Laguna, Lake, Lichtfaktor, Lucy McLauchlan, Morcky Troubles, Mr. Trash, Nils Müller, OVNI, Pau Quintanajornet, Rakaposhii, Rami Meiri, RIPO, ROA, Rodrigo Branco, Roland Schmitz, Sam3, Smash137, Stefan Strumbel, Thomas Baumgärtel, Van Ray, Will Barras, Yaikel, ZEDZ.

 

Curation: Anne Scherer

CityLeaks Preview 17. to 25.06.2011

CityLeaks Preview
is dedicated to bringing creative interventions to the public

The Urban Art exhibition curated by Anne Scherer and Harlan Levey is taking place from June 17- 25, 2011. The artists RIPO (USA), Abner Preis (USA), Will Barras (UK) and Faces On The Book present their artworks in the Rheinlandhalle in Köln-Ehrenfeld.
On June 25, 2011 El Bocho creates a wall at Heliosstraße (Köln-Ehrenfeld). With the help of a Boombox and barbecue the lifepainting turns into a mini-happening.
The aftershow party starts at 22h at the Arty Farty Gallery. The Cologne DJs Rheinrhythmik and Suzi Suzuki and the Visuals from Farbfundament will turn this evening into a musical and visual highlight.

Latest

Explore CityLeaks murals with your smartphone! – Find QR-codes on all walls. More Info

 

Programme folder for download

 

Claudio Ethos at the wall | Vogelsanger Str.     28-32 | 29.08-03.09

 

Watch out: Lake at the wall | Liebigstr. 70 | 22.-27.08.

 

It´s on: Thomas Baumgärtel & Captain Borderline hit the wall. 26.-31.07 at Marzellenstr. 72-74

 

Next mural paintings in August w/ Thomas Baumgärtel & Captain Borderline, Herakut, Lake, AMOSE- stay tuned!

 

Rakaposhii at the wall | Widdersdorfer Str. 188 | 06.-09.07.

 

First Artist Profiles are online

 

Watch out: First Murals with Captain Borderline & BLU 30.05. – 03.06. at Hansaring 33

 

Will Barras, Faces on Book, Abner Preis & Ripo at the Preview exposition

 

 

El Bocho paints for the Preview at 25.06. in Heliosstrasse / Ehrenfeld

 

 

Abner Preis with Street Performance for the Preview