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Catch us in KYIV this weekend! At the creative hub IZONE we will present selected screen prints, our book publication "CINCO" and host an artist talk together with Jan Arnold Gallery, Artis.love and LEAP!

In the course of the Austrian-Ukranian exchange, an event in Kyiv will take place, focusing on Austrian art and culture. It will include the work of Austrian artists, limited screen prints and a
publication. In respect of the South-European region, especially Ukraine, the transnational, artistic network includes art and cultural institutions, artists and curators.

Calle Libre, the biggest culture and Street Art association and festival from Vienna, will organize
an exhibition project in Kiew in September 2019. The goal is to connect fine artists coming from
street & urban art with institutions of mutual art forms. The project will include an independent exhibition, a wall design and a book presentation.

For the first time ever, Calle Libre together with LEAP will present a part of its collection and limited edition art prints in Eastern Europe. The prints will mainly consist of small/middle format silkscreen prints.
Furthermore, the exhibition will include the presentation of the book publication “Cinco – five years of Urban Art in Vienna”.
Through the book, the visitors will be able to get a detailed impression of Austria’s street &urban
art scene, Vienna’s artists, institutions, players, curators, gallerists and collectives.

Supported by the Austrian Ambassy
Video: Artis.Love

We're happy to announce, Seikon (PL) as #Streetartpassage / Q21 Artist-in-Residenece in JUNE - invited by Artis.Love. The Artist will paint a wall inside MQ and put up a show at Jan Arnold Gallery together with Anastasia Papaleonida-Pountza. There will be a limited edition print release with LEAP as well. Stay tuned.  

Robert SEIKON born in 1987, Gdynia Poland
Robert is a artist currently based in Athens, who obtained master's degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland. His work revolves around canvases, murals and sculptures. Active in the art world and public sphere since 1999. Throughout the years his style has evolved and his interests from letters starts to focused on geometric and organic shapes. SEIKON specializes in creating unique geometrical patterns which transform diverse surfaces with the use of color and design.
Currently the artist has a growing interest in project Rurales.

Anastasia Papaleonida-Pountza was born in 1989 in Patras Greece and now she is based in Athens.
She studied visual communication in Athens. As an artist she uses different kinds of media like painting, sculpture and installations. Her work rotates the last few years around repetition and dynamic, monochrome abstract forms. She uses different materials and media like plaster, clay, ink, paper, fabric and much more. Lately she creates larger size artworks, choosing as surfaces of artistic expression the streets and also abandoned industrial spaces in Greece, trying to interact with the place, the space and the building itself, often deriving influences from the elements that surround it.

AIKO was born and raised in Tokyo before moving to New York City in the mid-90′s. Already creating art since a young age, her art career in NYC began when she started working for Takashi Murakami. She apprenticed in Murakami’s studio in Brooklyn and worked for him until the late 90′s going on to a direct a digital biography on the artist (“Superflat” 1998). AIKO continued to practice her own art and after leaving Murakami’s studio graduated from The New School University where she finished her MFA Media Studies and later met up with two American artists, the three of them would come to establish the group now known as FAILE. Creating work within the collective locally and abroad for a number of years, she moved on and established herself as Lady AIKO in 2006. AIKO continues to create work in the studio as well as public space. She is acclaimed in the contemporary art world and well-respected within the international graffiti and street art scene.

Current Exhibitions are “BEYOND THE STREET” May 2018 in Los Angeles USA as well as the solo exhibitions “BUNNY IN THE HOUSE” at WALLWORKS Gallery NY Mar 2018, and “LADY GO” April 2018 at Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum JAPAN.

She worked with Banksy on “Exit Through the Gift Shop” in 2010. Her large scale works indoors and outdoors are installed in many cities, including Miami’s Wynwood Walls in 2009, New York City’s Bowery Wall in 2013, and Coney Art Walls in 2015/2016/2017, all three curated by Jeffrey Deitch. AIKO has also been involved in a large collection of group shows, from “AnimamixBiennale” at Shanghai’s MoCA in 2009 to “Edo Pop” at Japan Society NYC in 2013, ‘Some Place Like Home” at Rumney Guggenheim Gallery NY in 2015 to her more recent solo show, “Sweet Heart” at The Outsiders Gallery in the UK in 2014.

AIKO has also been commissioned to create works in collaboration with Louis Vuitton, Coach, Apple, Microsoft, Kiehl’s, The Standard, W Hotel, Sanrio Hello Kitty, Isetan, Warner Bros., RED, Pepsi, Reebok and former First Lady Michelle Obama etc.

During her stay as Q21 artist in residence at MuseumsQuartier the artist will create panels for #streetartpassage, paint a mural at Siebensterngasse, a small exhibition at Jan Arnold Gallery.

Invited by @artis.love
Inquiries to Sebastian Schager