Hendrik ECB Beikirch

<div>Here is a huge portrait made by Hendrik Beikirch in September 2017 in Empalot. After the face of a Moroccan for Rose Béton in 2016, a new face in black and white appeared. This portrait is part of "Treasures of Siberia" which includes 11 murals throughout the world.<br>More information: <a href="http://hendrikbeikirch.com/">http://hendrikbeikirch.com/</a></div>

The Treasures of Siberia

<div>Hendrick ECB Beikirch made the fantastic piece "Moments of Life" for No Limit Street Art Borås 2014. More information about <a href="https://www.nolimitboras.com/language/en/">No Limit</a><br><br>Hendrik ecb Beikirch. Born march 6th, 1974 in Kassel, Germany, works as freelance artist in Koblenz, Germany</div><div>1989 creates first painting with spray can<br>1996 – 2000 studies of art education at University of Koblenz – Landau<br>1996 first work travels to New Zealand and Korea<br><br>Until today continuous work-travels to Canada, USA, Mexico, Thailand, Australia, India, Hong Kong, China, Chile, Belarus, Russia, Brazil, Argentina and European countries. Hendrik ecb Beikirch is well known for his brilliant black and white portraits painted either on canvas or on large buildings. His highly poetic portraits often depict people from the immediate neighborhood appearing strange and familiar at the same time. Even though dedicated to a meticulous realism, he sometimes likes to distort his portraits by either stretching or compressing them. Moreover, the dripping technique, making single paint drops to run down, is a distinctive feature of many of his works. Yet even these alienating effects may not curtail their realist intensity in any sense.&nbsp; Increasingly, his works in public space take on an almost utopian scale turning the painting process into a bold venture. Only in August 2012 he created a 70-meter-long portrait of a fishermen in Busan, South Korea, now being Asia’s highest mural.<br><br></div><div><strong>Selected exhibitions / projects</strong></div><div><strong>2013</strong><br>Galerie wolfsen, ArtCPH, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>Ruttkowski68, Transsib – Greyhound, solo show / Cologne, Germany<br>Unit44, Into The Dark, group show / Newcastle, United Kingdom<br>MuBE, Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, II Biennale Graffiti Fine Art, group show / Sao Paulo, Brazil<br>Galerie Wolfsen, Pieces Of The Sky, group show / Aalborg, Denmark</div><div><strong>2012</strong><br>Platoon Kunsthalle, Urban Void, group show / Seoul, Republic of Korea<br>Soze Gallery, Graffuturism, group show / Los Angeles, USA<br>CBK Amsterdam, group show / Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br>Kunstverein Friedberg, Vom Leben gezeichnet, group show / Friedberg, Germany<br>Forum Kunst Rottweil, Counterparts, group show / Rottweil, Germany<br>Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, German Graffiti Avant-Garde, group show / Bangalore, India</div><div><strong>2011</strong><br>Scope Art Basel Miami, 101exhibit / Miami, USA<br>Wynwood Art Fair, 101exhibit / Miami, USA<br>101exhibit, Between Night And Day, group show / Miami, USA<br>Expression Beyond, Rizzordi Art Foundation, group show / St. Petersburg, Russia<br>Kunstencentrum Signe, Urban Script Continues, group show / Heerlen, The Netherlands<br>Museum World Cultural Heritage Site at the Völklingen ironworks-european centre for arts and industrial culture, Urban Art Graffiti 21, group show / Saarbrücken, Germany<br>Ruttkowski68, Between, solo show / Cologne, Germany<br>Ayden Gallery, group show / Vancouver, Canada<br>Vincent Michael Gallery, group show / Philadelphia, USA<br>Galerie Golkar, group show / Bonn, Germany<br>One Gallery, group show / Newark, USA</div><div><strong>2010</strong><br>Dafen Art Museum / World Expo Shanghai, Reading Village – Painting City, group show / Shenzhen, China<br>Aliseo Art Projects, Zerfall und Zukunft, group show / Gengenbach, Germany<br>Kunstkreis Hameln, Graffiti Handmade, group show / Hameln, Germany<br>Chemnitzer Markthalle, Hallenkunst, group show / Chemnitz, Germany<br>Gallery Progres, Xll, group show / Belgrade, Serbia<br>Commissioned mural / NYC, USA</div><div><strong>2009</strong><br>Schunck Glaspalais National Gallery Heerlen, D‘raw, group show / Heerlen, The Netherlands<br>Carhartt Gallery, Art Basel side event, Public Provocations, group show / Weil am Rhein, Germany<br>Glanzkinder Gallery, Under The Paving Stones, solo show / Cologne, Germany<br>Pretty Portal, Einen Sommer, solo show / Düsseldorf, Germany</div><div><strong>2008</strong><br>Galerie Springmann, group show / Freiburg, Germany<br>Galerie d’art atelier 9, group show / Grenoble, France<br>Eurocultured, commissioned mural for the City of Manchester, United Kingdom</div><div><strong>2007</strong><br>Gallery N2O, Feeling Blue, solo show / Lyon, France<br>Carhartt Gallery, group show / Weil am Rhein, Germany</div><div><strong>2006</strong><br>Balcan Express, group show / Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina<br>Carhartt Gallery, Opening, group show / Weil am Rhein, Germany</div><div><strong>2005</strong><br>Kulturzentrum Kesselhaus, Straight Concepts, group show / Weil am Rhein, Germany<br>Reithalle, Graffiti war gestern zwei, group show / Ingolstadt, Germany<br>603qm, Markant, group show / Darmstadt, Germany</div><div><strong>2004</strong><br>K31 Gallery, Opening, group show / Lahr, Germany<br>Röda Sten, Everwanting Streets, group show / Gothenburg, Sweden<br>K31 Gallery, Lines, group show / Lahr, Germany</div><div><strong>2003</strong><br>Wollmagazin Kaiserslautern, Nacht der Museen, group show / Kaiserslautern, Germany<br>Das Atrium vom Hamburger Holzhafen, Kunst im Atrium, group show / Hamburg, Germany</div><div><strong>2002</strong><br>Galerie am Steg, Einblicke, group show / Aschaffenburg, Germany<br>Halle 02, Beside The Wall, group show / Heidelberg, Germany<br>Bavaria St. Pauli Brauerei, Urban Discipline 2002, group show / Hamburg, Germany</div><div><strong>2001<br></strong>Museum für Kommunikation, Urban Discipline 2001, group show / Hamburg, Germany</div><div><br>More about ECB: <a href="http://hendrikbeikirch.com/">WEB</a><br><br></div>

Moments of Life

<div>Last french wall done in may 2017 &nbsp;by ECB in Paris suburb for Streetart grand Paris sud</div>

Darya

<div>Wall painted by Hendrik ECB Beikirch in Toulouse for Mister Freeze Fesival in 2015. This portrait is part of the Tracing Morocco project.<br>More information: <a href="http://hendrikbeikirch.com/">http://hendrikbeikirch.com/</a></div>

Tracing Morocco

<div>It's a huge wall painted by Hendrik Beikirch (DE) for the Rose Béton event in 2016. The portrait makes part of "Tracing Morocco" project with foundation Montresso. Hendrik Beikirch has produced 22 portraits of Moroccans in Marrakech. He painted these faces on the walls of many cities : New York Cities, Oslo, Rome, Toulouse, ... The wall is located near the underground station called Empalot in Toulouse.<br>More information: <a href="http://hendrikbeikirch.com/">http://hendrikbeikirch.com/</a><br><br></div>

Tracing Morocco (n'est plus visible)

<div>The art of portraiture has no more secrets for Hendrik Beikirch alias ECB. Fall in love with graffiti when he discovered a photo of New York in the 80s on which a subway car is covered with Lee's “Stop The Bomb” graffiti Quinones, he finds in “graffiti” a new form of expression and freedom. Influenced by Richard Serra's relationship to space and realism as much as Gerhard Richter's abstraction, the German artist delivers authentic or imaginary portraits that make up so many mirrors of society. These characters, made all the more fascinating by their anonymity, the reduced color palette and the striking contrasts that characterize his style, underline the vulnerability of the man, while the scale of these works invites the viewer to consider the relationship. which binds the individual to society. Their looks and postures tell a story. Internationally known, ECB's works roam the streets of Europe, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Australia, as well as those of China and Russia.</div><div><br><a href="https://www.ville-boulogne-sur-mer.fr/street-art/project/ecb/">Discover ECB</a></div>

<div>In 2016 "Vera" was painted within the project Stadt.Wand.Kunst.&nbsp;<br><br>Hendrik Beikirch, his artist name is EBC, was born 1974 in Kassel, Germany. He started spraying in 1989 and later studied "Art Education" in Koblenz. Since the 90th he is very popular in the Graffiti and Streetart scene. His Murals impress by giant dimensions, extraordinary expressions and socially critical themes.</div>

Vera

Pole Magnetic Bordeaux

<div>Le sibérien Par Hendrik Beikirch. Mur managé par POLE MAGNETIC www.polemagnetic.fr&nbsp;</div>

Le sibérien

ECB Hendrik Beikrich

<div>Untitled – ECB, born 1974, from Koblenz - Germany. First experience with graffiti culture: 1989. This work by ECB is one out of three pieces in total and is part of Næstved Kunstby, presented by Næstved Ungdomsskole. It is a portrait of an anonymous working class man. See more of his portraits here: <a href="http://hendrikbeikirch.com/portrait/">http://hendrikbeikirch.com/portrait/</a> Næstved Kunstby - built on local graffiticulture. https://www.naestvedkunstby.com/</div><div><br></div>

Untitled

<div>at <a href="http://montresso.com/">montresso art foundation / jardin rouge</a><br><br>more pictures here: <a href="https://www.urbanpresents.net/en/2017/11/urban-art-garden-jardin-rouge-2017/">https://www.urbanpresents.net/en/2017/11/urban-art-garden-jardin-rouge-2017/</a></div>

tracing morocco

<div>german artist hendrik beikirch, also known by his alias “ecb”, creates eye-catching works of documentary and fictional portraiture that traverse the personal and the private. his distinctive monochromatic wall murals and interior works for galleries and museums confront viewers with richly storied subjects that fascinate through their sheer force of personality. at once anonymous, quotidian and enchanting in appearance – each of beikirch’s figures has a story to tell. more than mere subjects, we find in his works genuine characters, made all the more fascinating by their anonymity. the reduced color palette and striking contrasts that characterize beikirch’s portraiture underscore the vulnerability of his subjects, while the scale of these works invites viewers to consider the relationship between individual and society, viewer and subject, public and private.<br>Hendrik participated in 2015, first edition of Metropolink.<br>The portrait painted in Heidelberg shows a morrocan butcher. The production of this art-work was maximum complicated, therefore it makes us even prouder having it in our city!</div>

Metropolink #8

<div>ECB, born 1974, from Koblenz - Germany. First experience with graffiti culture: 1989. This work by ECB is part of Næstved Kunstby, presented by Næstved Ungdomsskole. The work portrays an anonymous working class man. He might be someone that ECB came across on one of his many travels. ECB has painted three seperate pieces in Næstved, all part of the same series. The other ones are located by the harbor. See more of his portraits here: <a href="http://hendrikbeikirch.com/portrait/">http://hendrikbeikirch.com/portrait/</a>&nbsp;Næstved Kunstby - built on local graffiticulture.<a href="https://www.naestvedkunstby.com/"> https://www.naestvedkunstby.com/</a><br><br></div>

Tomorrow is today's dream

<div>ECB, born 1974, from Koblenz - Germany. First experience with graffiti culture: 1989. This work by ECB is one out of three pieces in total and is part of Næstved Kunstby, presented by Næstved Ungdomsskole. It is a portrait of an anonymous working class man and is also an example of ECB's ability to work in very large scales. This particular piece is around 35 meters tall. See more of his work here: <a href="http://hendrikbeikirch.com/">http://hendrikbeikirch.com/</a> Næstved Kunstby - built on local graffiticulture. <a href="https://www.naestvedkunstby.com/">https://www.naestvedkunstby.com/</a></div>

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