Zelle Asphaltkultur

Düsseldorf / Germany

Zelle Asphaltkultur is a Düsseldorf-based artist collective. They create graffiti, agitprop and political art, working with media that ranging from photos and videos to installations, prints, collages and paintings. They create urban intervention art inspired from graffiti. Zelle Asphaltkultur's works can be found on their collaboration with URBAN NATION on Project M/11 in 2017. […]

Biography / Zelle Asphaltkultur

Zelle Asphaltkultur is a Düsseldorf-based artist collective. They create graffiti, agitprop and political art, working with media that ranging from photos and videos to installations, prints, collages and paintings. They create urban intervention art inspired from graffiti. Zelle Asphaltkultur’s works can be found on their collaboration with URBAN NATION on Project M/11 in 2017.

This strong anonymous group is associated with this pseudonym and uses graffiti art to create an urban art interventions. In 2011 they painted a controversial mural „Die Möglichkeit eines Lagers“ on the side of an abandoned freight depot. This mural artwork raised many discussions, as it was Jew deportation site. Their art differs from a conventional graffiti artwork. Their focus is on creating conceptual political art. They transmit a message that is not so usual for the “street art” being unpredictable, spontaneous, sassy, and critical by presenting the ugly truth in such a way. This being the reason for their huge media coverage every time they set a new artwork on trains or train racks. Zelle Asphaltkultur does not always take credit for their artworks but the message has a great impact on the society and the art on the streets.

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