Markus Genesius

Case Maclaim

<div>... on of our favorized pieces, produced during 2017th second METROPOLINK-Festival for urban arts in Heidelberg. 1 week production, 22 x 15m, windy and wet. We love the result...</div>

Metropolink #1

Herakut (GER)

<div>Nothing more to say about artist-duo Herakut. They are working all around the globe in their very special photorealistic style.<br>.. very happy having one of their art-works in Heidelberg.</div>

Metropolink #16

Insane 51

<div>The "Lust" mural by greek artist <a href="https://www.instagram.com/insane51/?hl=de">Insane51</a>, reflects the deadly sin of lust. In this case in a non-sexual context, but the lust for money and power. He recalls the 19th century Cardinal Henry Manning who said: "Lust makes you a slave to the devil".<br>Big THANKS&nbsp; to the Alger-family!<br><br></div>

Metropolink#28

Millo

<div>“Italian artist Francesco Camillo Giorgino, known as <a href="https://www.millo.biz">Millo</a>, paints large-scale murals that feature friendly inhabitants exploring their urban setting. He uses simple black and white lines with dashes of color when necessary, and often incorporates elements of architecture into his multi-story paintings.” <em>C. Jobson, Colossal.</em></div><div>He took part to several street art festival and NGO art event all around world. He has been painting in USA, Russia, China, Australia, Thailand, Argentina, Chile, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, Uk, Netherland, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ucraine and of course Italy.<br>His works have been exhibited in Los Angeles, Chicago, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Milan, Rome, Florence and more.</div><div>In 2014 he won the B.Art competition that enabled him to paint 13 multi-story murals in the city of Turin (IT).</div><div>“Sometimes coyly surreal, other times borderline terrifying” <em>K. Brooks, Huffington Post</em></div>

Metropolink#27

Matthias Mross

<div>Matthias Mross was born in Freising in 1986 and lives in Munich. He was attracted to art from an early age and has been painting since his youth. In his teenage years he discovered the world of graffiti. In the years that followed, he began combining pencils, markers, paints and aerosol cans and refining his technique into complex paintings.<br><br></div><div>Inspired by his many trips around the world, he is mainly concerned with the disadvantages of urban living spaces, which are characterized by narrow slums. He deals with social imbalance and creates an interesting new layer and depth in his works of art through the use of fabrics and his realistic painting technique. With the combination of mixed media and the repetitive motifs of chickens, slum settlements and homeless people, Matthias Mross created an inimitable artistic signature that gives his works both an individual style and an outstanding recognition value. In addition to street vendors, homeless people, food service operators and city workers, especially roosters and chickens, are repeatedly motifs of Matthias Mross’s works.<br><br></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/matthiasmross/">Instagram<br></a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

Metropolink #30

Pichi&Avo

<div><a href="https://www.pichiavo.com">PichiAvo</a> are a Valencian street-art duo who have gained international acclaim for their large-scale murals and sculptural installations that fuse classical art and Greek mythology with contemporary graffiti aesthetics. Since 2007, the pair have collaborated to make work that pays homage to the techniques and figuration of Renaissance masters. They add a modern finish to their works with vibrant bursts of colorful spray paint and lettering inspired by graffiti pioneers like Dondi and Crash. PichiAvo have installed works in Germany, Portugal, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Notable past projects include the Houston Bowery Wall in New York City and an 85-foot high sculpture for the Fallas Festival in their native Valencia, Spain. In addition to street art, PichiAvo also create mixed-media paintings and sculptures.<br><br></div>

Metropolink#26

Wenu Crew

<div>WENU, meaning We &amp; You, is founded by four urban artists from Hong Kong and Berlin. The concept of WENU is about painting and creating things not just for “WE” but also “U”. WENU seeks for crazy ideas, originality, uniqueness and beauty, meanwhile, tries to shape the cities better through their art.<br><br>On the facade of the Luisenhaus of the "KFG", Heidelberg slang for the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium, it is now swarming and crawling, as is normally only the case inside the building. The Luisenhaus is the school building for sixth and seventh graders. The Konfuzius INstitut was the main sponsor of this production, realized by Metropolink.<br><br>HEIDELBERG IN THE HIDDEN OBJECT<br><br>There are also references to Heidelberg in the mural. For example the sign "window to the courtyard" on the bottom left of a small half-timbered house. Fenster zum Hof is the legendary record by the Stieber Twins, Christian and Martin Stieber, from 1996. <br><br>WE.N.U say: "WE.N.U is a game with associations, we let the viewer discover his own story. It is important for us that young and old have fun discovering our world, listen to themselves and give their own associations space.<br>We wrestle with arguments while painting, being mirrors ourselves but also filters of the current flood of information. Contrary to the staged singsongs of the superstars, we spontaneously compose our collective cacophony.”<br><br>Text by <a href="https://sandralooks.de/2020/12/07/we-n-u-komposition-einer-gemeinsamen-kakophonie-metropolink-2020/">SandraLooks</a></div>

Metropolink #29

Loomit

<div>Mathias Köhler aka LOOMIT, born in Celle in 1968, is probably one of the most famous graffiti artists of our time. He discovered his passion for graffiti at the age of fourteen. Initially a hobby, later an obsession. In 1983 at the age of fifteen, Mathias Köhler sprayed his first graffiti on the water tower in Buchloe, graffiti was still in the beginning phase at that time in Germany. Two years later, under the pseudonym Cryptic2, he and six other sprayers painted Germany’s first Whole Train, which would go down in European graffiti history as the “Geltendorfer Train”. In addition to excursions into filigree canvas works, the graffiti artist is known for his 3D lettering, which he learned from none other than the New York writer legend Lakes. Today Loomit works as a freelance artist in Munich and has worked for various companies such as Opel and the Salzburg football stadium. In 2002 Loomit was awarded the Schwabing Art Prize for his work.<br>In 2019, he painted the wall in Mark Twain Village, for METROPOLINK.<br><br>The wall design is based on the literature of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, in the spirit of Mark Twain and in keeping with the emerging district.<br><br></div><div><a href="http://www.loomit.de/">http://www.loomit.de/<br></a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/loomit_official/">Instagram<br></a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/loomit_official/"><br></a><br></div>

Metropolink #33

Julia Benz

<div>Julia Benz studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and at the Berlin University of the Arts and graduated as a master class student in painting. She lives and works in Heidelberg. Her paintings celebrate the boundary between the daily visible and mystical seclusion. With her unmistakable handwriting, Julia Benz embodies the painting of a new generation.<br><br></div><div>Julia Benz paints on paper, canvas and walls and combines different ones Materials. In her mostly large-format works, Julia Benz manages to create exciting and complex worlds full of dynamism. Abstract dissolutions of concrete forms and self-confident color combinations play an important role here. “For me, colors are emotions. They shock and fascinate me at the same time. They constantly challenge me to mediate between the dominance of colors and the sensuality of painting. ”This ambivalence serves as an inspiration in the work process in which layers are superimposed, surfaces are continued, supplemented or completely dissolved.<br><br><br></div><div><a href="http://juliabenz.de/">http://juliabenz.de/<br></a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/benzpainting/">Instagram<br></a><br></div>

Metropolink #31

Low Bros (GER)

<div>The brothers Christoph and Florin Schmidt, graffiti writers since their youth, form the Berlin-based artist duo Low Bros. Stylized animal figures with human attributes are the focus of their works. Their animal heroes skate, wear sunglasses or caps and can thus be read as the personification of their generation of urban youth, with a sense of style, poses and the absolute will to be cool. Nevertheless, the reference to a naïve originality via the animal and nature motifs is always retained. The urban and the natural as well as the analogue and the digital merge in her works. In addition to their large-scale murals, Low Bros' works can also be seen again and again in galleries and group exhibitions.<br>and: they definitely know how to paint ex-supermarkets;) <br><br><br><a href="http://lowbros.de">LOWBROS</a></div>

Metropolink #32

<div>Herakut is a German artist-duo, consisting of Jasmin Siddiqui and Falk Lehmann. They have been active internationally since 2004 and create, among other things, murals in public spaces.<br>This mural in Patrick-Henry-Village (PHV), Heidelberg, was part of Metropolink´s first intervention on the former US-Military-Base.&nbsp;<br>The northern part of PHV territory consists mainly of former villas/mansions. The mansions have been empty since 2013. The designed facade is the back wall of the former thermal power plant of the US district.<br><br></div>

Metropolink#24 

SAM3

<div>The Spanish artist SAM3 is known for his silouette-like murals.&nbsp; His artworks are ironic, poetic, but above all provocative. They deal with classic philosophical topics, question habits and refer to current social discourses. Due to the reduction to a few colors and the partly graphic style, his pictures have an unusual presence. Despite, or perhaps because of, their simplicity, they invite the viewer to debate and gradually reveal their message. His works are dominated by figurative elements that are in metamorphosis with their environment.<br><br></div><div>SAM3 works with symbols such as roots and ladders. Figures with oversized heads are typical of his style. The native Spaniard and urban artist currently lives in Athens.<br><br></div><div><a href="http://www.sam3.es/">http://www.sam3.es/<br></a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sam3.es/">Instagram<br></a><br></div>

Metropolink#25

Bordalo ll

<div>Artur Bordalo, also known as <a href="https://www.bordaloii.com/">Bordalo II</a> (pronounced Bordalo Segundo), was born in 1987 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is famous for using street garbage to create stunning animals sculptures so as to warn people about pollution and all types of endangered species. His works are considered as « trash art ».<br>For the artwork (Half-Marder) in Heidelberg, a specially designed frame was required, which can be loaded with 1T.<br>The creation of the artwork took 5 days.<br>As part of Bordalo´s participation, Metropolink conducted a workshop with refugees in cooperation with Bordalo.<br>A former US interdenominational church, the Chapel was used by the US military until the 2000s. Now it is part of the district center.</div>

Metropolink#23 

1010 (GER)

<div>1010 was painting his first piece of art in Heidelberg for Metropolink 2016.<br>Wall: our old brothel.<br>Color in the city...</div>

Metropolink #21

Wesr Figueroa

<div>One of our favorites!<br>Danny Figueroa aka Wesr on one of most prominent point in the city!<br>Love</div>

Metropolink #20

LIMOW

<div>LIMOW, Murcia/Spain, is our hero in communicating is inner soul in b/w colors. Fantastic animals, telling stories about live.<br>... realized for 2nd Metropolink 2016.</div>

Metropolink #15

sweetuno

<div>Sweetuno<br>our very professional buddy, clean lines, cool guy and amazing art-work.<br>We love him.<br>Metropolink 2015, 1st edition.</div>

Metropolink #12

Paulina Quintanajornet

<div>Paulina Quintanajornet is an artist from Chile. She cooperated in 2 editions of Metropolink 2016+2017.</div>

Metropolink #10+11

Daniel Thouw (GER)

<div><a href="http://www.danielthouw.com"><strong>Daniel Thouw</strong></a><br>started his creative journey during the 2nd generation of graffiti artists in Heidelberg- Germany.<br>Here he developed his sense of shape, color and form in an autodidactic fashion. His fascination with the elements surrounding the letterform, led him to graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Laguna College of Art and Design in California, refining his involvement in the world of artistic expression.<br><br></div><div>The subjects of Thouw represent the creational process that is all around us in the reality we perceive.<br>They are somewhat humanized metaphors of the force that is creation itself.<br>Thouw’s vivid paint strokes and splashes of paint and color symbolize the constant movement that is inherent in all of nature and throughout the underlying wave and energy spectrum.<br><br></div><div>He observes nature and its repeating patterns that appear from very big to very small.<br>An atom with its nucleus and electrons spinning around it to our solar system with its sun and the planets orbiting it. A satellite picture of a river in comparison to a human vein. – Utilizing patterns and textures like these, incorporated within the composition of his characters, he creates his own subjective view of what all cultures try to define through religion and science since humanity as a species exists.<br><br></div><div>Daniel Thouw<br>*1975 in Heidelberg, Germany.<br>Lives and works in Heidelberg, Germany<br><br><br></div>

Metropolink #13

Jan Paul Müller

<div>Jan Paul Müller is one of our every-year-participating and most-important-artist.<br>You can find about 7 different art-works all over the city...<br>... inspiring for us and the city.</div>

Metropolink #17-20

Klone Yourself

<div>Klone, b. 1983 in Harkov, Ukraine, currently lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel.<br><br>Influenced by his childhood emigration from the Ukraine to Israel, Klone’s initial practice of tagging and graffiti were personal challenges to themes of diaspora. This urban tradition allowed him to take ownership of his surrounding and localize an often hostile and alienating environment, making his foreign settings, more familiar.<br><br>As his works expanded to exhibitions and murals throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, Klone began to integrate more complex traditions of art history and aimed to reach a broader political treatise by moving the intention of his work outside of himself and towards others and their relationships with—and concept of “home.”&nbsp;<br><br>Using characters, symbols, and regional iconography Klone’s work borrows from existing linguistic traditions in hope of providing a bridge to communicate. This organic approach appeals in its attempt at universality without erasure, without requiring a blank slate mentality. Each installation and drawing, attempts to create an environment that will connect with the observers primal feeling, placing him or her as part of the setting and context of the work. As well, Klone’s works, whether created inside the studio or in in the public sphere, speaks to the exploration of what combinations are available to us with and also outside of a given discourse of belonging.<br><br>Klone realized his art-work for Metropolink in summer 2017</div>

Metropolink #14

Smash137

<div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/smash137/">Smash137</a>!<br>Metropolink 2015, first huge wall in Heidelberg (33m)<br><br></div><div>Adrian Falkner aka Smash137 was born in Basel, Switzerland. In 1990, when he was only 11 years old, Smash137 discovered spray cans and painted his first wall. The Museum of Fine Arts in his hometown Basel, recognized his talent almost immediately and invited him to show his work – so, in 1997, Smash137’s first exhibition was held under the name A walk on the wild side.<br>Smash137 grew up mimicking and learning from a culture that he admired and connected with; he was drafted by the possession and love for the western calligraphy, so he became one of the most active writers in the world. Soon, his lettering adorned a lot of objects on public spaces with his signature with style and precision.<br><br></div>

Metropolink #22

Guido Zimmermann

Marius Ohl

<div>Guido Zimmermann is &nbsp;working and living in Frankfurt. Ohl and Zimmermann studied together and cooperated on this concrete Wall for 2nd Metropolink 2016.</div>

Metropolink #9

Hendrik ECB Beikirch

<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

Robert Proch

<div><strong>Robert Proch<br></strong><br></div><div><strong>(b. 1986) is a painter, muralist and animator who lives and works in Poznan, Poland. He was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland<br>He took part at Metropolink 2nd edition in 2016. We are very proud having one of Robert´s amazing art-works in Heidelberg.<br></strong><br></div>

Metropolink #7

assistent LIMOW

<div>Sam3 is a Spanish artist whose artwork is ironical, poetic, inspiring, but also provocative and challenging. Sam3 is well known for his large scale black and white paintings that remind of silhouettes or shadows. The reduction of colors and clear simple shapes caused by their intense presence builds the focus of his paintings and turns them into a magnet for the observer. Sometimes they even take the space of the whole house wall and refer to the urban surrounding.<br><br></div><div>Born in Elche, Spain, Sam3 currently lives and works in Madrid. His large street murals are certainly hard to miss and can be found across Europe.<br><br>We are very happy Sam participated for 2017th Metropolink &nbsp;in the city of Schwäbisch Hall.<br><br></div>

Metropolink #4

Formula76

<div>Sweetuno (SUI) and Formula76 (Hamburg, D) on their first big cooperation. Graffiti-Graphic-Design. All the neighbours are huge fans of their new-designed view out of the window...</div>

Metropolink #2

Quintessenz (GER)

<div>Quintessenz is an artist duo from Hannover and Berlin.</div><div>Thomas Granseuer and Tomislav Topic met in 2006 at the HAWK Hildesheim and have worked together on projects in film, illustration and painting since 2008. The abstract works by Quintessenz are concerned with the environment of the field of emergence. They filter structures and compositions out of the room to translate them in an artistic way. The addition of color creates a contrast to the original environment. In this way, a subtle area of tension emerges, in which both artists can conduct further studies.<br><br>This work´s name is "collusion" and was produced for the third edition of Metropolink in 2017.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div>

Metropolink #6

<div>LIMOW Based in Barcelona since 2005, Limow has participated in art festivals and has showed his work in different galleries and art fairs around Europe for the last years. In 2012 he started collaborating with the Willibender projekte, an art project based in Heidelberg, Germany.<br><br></div><blockquote>Past and future, animals and humans in a characteristic and powerful style.</blockquote><div>Limow combines studio works and urban projects, abstract and figurative stuff in an extraordinary line of work. Artworks made of staples, filters or pins play with material, size and optical effects in a minimal-barroque style; drawings and paintings mix alluring and dark, past and future, tracking uncanny relationships and stories between animals and humans in a characteristic and powerful style.<br><br></div><div>*1972 in Murcia (Spain),<br>lives and works in Heidelberg and Murcia.<br><a href="http://www.limow.com/">www.limow.com<br></a><br></div><div>This was LIMOW´s 2nd third wall for Metropolink, in St-Leon-Rot.</div>

Metropolink #5

Zest

<div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/franck_noto/?hl=de">Zest</a> from Montpellier did that in 4 days. Plan: create a 24m long gap, colored. We are very happy about this creation... and about Zest´s participation. Lovely family!<br><br>Franck Noto, famous under the pseudonym "Zest", is a French artist born in Montpelier. Due to his family background, he discovered graffiti and tags in 1995, at the age of fifteen and got involved in this very area quickly. From then on, he became an urban abstract painter.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>Zest's work summarizes his various influences. His work is structured through key recurring elements, these include bright fluorescent colors and women's bodies. The sensual curves of the latter are in contrast with the pure forms and letters and lose their bearings in a pictorial labyrinth, where suggestion is more important than representation.<br><br></div>

Metropolink #3

Anna Taratiel

<div>Anna Taratiel, previously known as Ovni, is a Spanish contemporary artist born in Barcelona (1982). She completed her study in graphic design at Vapor University, Terrassa, in 2002, as well as in painting from Escola La Llotja, in 2005, and MA in Art direction from Escola Elisava, Barcelona, in 2010. She has developed a particular style, dominated by colorful and abstract mental landscapes that live in the imaginary space. Using a wide range of simple materials like wood, cardboard, thread and painting she creates collages and installations that provoke an intriguing visual confusion between the two and three dimensions of space. Anna’s work is not about abstractions but about the creation of structures and layers in a fantasy world that’s almost tactile.<br><br></div><div>“My artistic path can be described through two main dimensions that have characterized my work: ‘organic’ and ‘geometric’. The organic shapes had been the focus in my earlier works, when the need for the search and the expression of the interior, emotional world was predominant. Afterword, a more rational and structured view gradually started to take over the impulsiveness of the beginning. More geometric lines slowly replaced the previous irregular figures and impossible shapes. This new representation of the outside world, instead of the inside one, has been influenced by urban landscapes and social structures. Currently, I’m going through a new explorative phase, where the organic shapes are silently coming back and gradually melt into the geometric sheltered world. „<br><br></div><div>She painted for METROPOLINK in 2015&nbsp;<br><br></div><div><a href="http://www.taratiel.com/">www.taratiel.com<br></a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/annaovni/">Instagram<br></a><br></div><div>&nbsp;<br><br></div>

Metropolink #34

Kera1

<div>Christian Hinz aka Kera, born in Berlin in 1985, has been dealing with colors, printing techniques and facade design for over 15 years.<br>&nbsp;His love for the tactile and craftsmanship has always given him new impulses. The connection between the digital and transferring it analogously to the wall, is what appeals to the graphic designer / artist, i.e. his production area cannot be large enough. His graphic design studies and his passion for lines and surfaces are visibly reflected in his work, as well as the years of handling spray cans, wall paint and brushes. The works are abstract, but at the same time spatial, with graphics and aesthetics playing a major role.<br><br></div><div>Kera has worked on murals and for “art in architecture” projects around the world, from Qatar to Mexico to Great Britain and many other European locations. The artist is also represented in galleries and art fairs, for which he paints on canvas or forms objects and presents his style in a compact and more detailed manner.<br><br></div><div><a href="http://kera1.de/">http://kera1.de<br></a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kera.1/">Instagram<br></a><br></div>

Artworks in Heidelberg