Hailing from the country chocolate and neutrality: Serge Nidegger also Serge Lowrider. The Swiss artists’ works are anything but neutral. His trademark sign-painter style is explicitly ironic and very colourful. Serge Lowrider has collaborated with URBAN NATION on Project M/12 in 2017.
Bàlu is a Barcelona-based contemporary artist who specializes in the technique of stenciling.
Stencilled portraits of great personalities crucial to human history, put on posters, walls, prints or oil on canvases, built Spanish artist, Andrea Michaelsson, also known as B-Toy’s reputation in the global urban art scene. She began working outdoors; experimenting with techniques like acrylic painting, free plastic and spray. Although she never stopped painting, stencils soon became her key technique. Her work is featured as a part of the opening of URBAN NATION MUSEUM in 2017.
Stencil maker since 1993, under this name since 2002.
Aurélien Descours also known as Kurar, was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 1983 and started working on 3D letters in his early graffiti years in the 1990s. French artist Kurar’s techniques include stencil, fresco and collage. He is best known for his contrasting artworks in grey, black and highlighting fluorescent colours addressing social and political issues. His works are featured as a part of the opening of the URBAN NATION Museum in 2017.
Growing up in a free-spirited family in Northern California in the early ’80s, Berlin-based artist Tavar Zawacki, formerly known under his pseudonym ABOVE, is an American abstract artist and former street artist mostly known for his ABOVE arrow artworks. Zawacki’s artistic scale ranges from large scale mural works, as well as fine indoor arts and is characterized by the use of hard-edge painting, geometric abstraction and forced perspective illusions. As ABOVE, he was part of URBAN NATION’S ‘CUT IT OUT!’ project, which was dedicated to stencil art.
3fountains or 3F is a street artist from the North East of the United Kingdom.
Born in Poland in 1982 Irek Jasutowicz, better known under his pseudonym ‘Tankpetrol’, the same moniker he left on the local art scene when he moved to Manchester, England in ’06. Mixing spray and traditional paint with stencils-techniques, Tank has become a skilled mixed-media artist and is comfortable working across a variety of media and projects that include large scale murals, interior design as well as carpentry. URBAN NATION and Tankpetrol first collaborated on the 2015 ‘Wall Poetry’ during Iceland’s Airwaves Festival.
Norwegian-born Anders Gjennestad previously known as Strøk is a stencil artist living in Berlin. His cutouts are based on photographs that he takes before executing the stencils, and his finely detailed work can be found as oversized murals on the streets of Europe, as well as in exhibition spaces. Gjennestad’s work is featured in the URBAN NATION 2018 exhibition, ‘UN-DERSTAND The Power of Art as a Social Architect’.
Australian street artist Rone’s work always walks on the narrow path between beauty and decay and his murals consisting of female faces, gradually worn away by natural and human elements can be found around the world from New York to New Zealand, as well as on his collaboration with URBAN NATION on Project M/2 in 2014.
