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Dave the Chimp

Berlin / Germany

UK-born and Berlin-based artist and illustrator Dave the Chimp’s oeuvre started with skating and fanzines and is ranging from his famous ‘Human Beans’ to designing playgrounds today. His works can be found on his collaboration with URBAN NATION on Project M/11 in 2017. […]

Biography / Dave the Chimp

UK-born and Berlin-based artist and illustrator Dave the Chimp’s oeuvre started with skating and fanzines and is ranging from his famous ‘Human Beans’ to designing playgrounds today. His works can be found on his collaboration with URBAN NATION on Project M/11 in 2017. Together with Senor Schnu, Mina, Humble Writerz and Matt Jones, he designed the facade of the URBAN NATION museum in May/June 2020.

While skating through the 1980s, Dave the Chimp started painting on found wood and making fanzines in the mid 1990s, before he took his artworks to the streets in 1998. Today he is known as an illustrator, director, book publisher, curator, architect of skate-able sculptures and even playgrounds and the first UK artist with a signature shoe created for and by Vans. Most recognizable may be his ‘Human Beans’, painted beans encouraging positive vibrations by illustrating topics like change and protest culture. The Berlin-based artist exhibited in several solo shows in Europe and in group exhibitions alongside the leading names in the urban art scene, Banksy, Miss Van, Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader are some to name a few.

The current exhibition “Talking…& Other Banana Skins” features his artwork “THE PROTESTERS”.

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New facade of the URBAN NATION Museum
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New museum facade by Dave the Chimp & friends
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PROTEST SIGN WORKSHOP W/ DAVE THE CHIMP
URBAN NATION is not only known as the MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART and the small and large artworks that enrich Berlin’s cityscape, but also for its social commitment. Various workshops offer children and young people the opportunity to discover
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OPENING: TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS
Friday June 17th 2022, 7pm at URBAN NATION Museum Bülowstraße 7, 10783 Berlin PRESS TOUR: Thursday June 16th, 11pm Register here: pr@urban-nation.com June 2022 – August 2024 URBAN NATION presents TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS, curated by Michelle Houston. The colorful and
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Layer Cake with “The Versus Project IV” in Los Angeles
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Layer Cake Community Wall
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Community Wall by Layer Cake
In the run-up to The Versus Project, this community wall was created in the direct vicinity of the URBAN NATION project space. In well-known Layer Cake tradition, Patrick Hartl and Christian "c100" Hundertmark, the two curators of the group exhibition, created this collaborative work.
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PM 11 // RADIUS
URBAN NATION PRESENTS PROJECT M/11 “RADIUS” CURATED BY Boris Niehaus (JUST), Christian Hundertmark (C100) & Rudolf David Klöckner (URBANSHIT) // February 22nd 2017 until the End of March @ URBAN NATION – Bülowstr. 97, 10783 Berlin