happy holidays

XLAB closes from 23 december for Xmas holidays...we wish you all a fantastic new year

see you in january with a great new programmation!

december event!

Street Art in Berlin - version 3.0
Kai Jacob's book release and photo exhibition

exhibition:

ALIAS (Berlin)

FREAK REVOLT Berlin (Mork, Grafro, EmaJones)


opening: friday 11th december from 18.00


X Lab Gallery meets Kai Jacob and his book about the Berlin street art.
The event will gather a collection of pictures to describe and celebrate the importance of this artform like a real, free and spontaneous action.
On 11th december X Lab will also presents the work of one the most clever stencil artist of the Berlin scene: ALIAS.
His pastings talk to the people about war, misery and other social themes simply realizing images of children and other emblematic figures, forcing people to think and reflect about.
Besides, in one only big exhibition will be exposed the original works of Freak Revolt, an artistic collective, which goal is to explore the idea of street art in different directions and using different recycled materials and surfaces.
(Discordant)

SUNDAY 6th dec.: from 10 am
SUNDAY EXTRAORDINAIRE!

XLAB will present his stand at XMAS FLOHMARKT at HBC Art Center
Karl-Liebknecht Strasse 9 Alexander Platz

A fantastic mixture of unfoundable collectors, useful utensils, creation generators, sharp clothings, intense items.
An indoor sunday event with awesome food, live acts, rock n roll and love to get you out of the sunday blur with care.


http://m.berlin.unlike.net/event_occurrences/107471-Sunday-Extraordinaire

TILF + TENIA exhibition photo report

more pics here:
http://www.flickr.com/xlabgallery

Mindeltilf + Tenia exhibition

MINDELTILF

Create animated gif


NEXT EXHIBITION:
MINDELTILF

artìworks by TILF + TENIA

opening friday 13th november
from18.00

short videos projection: by Tilf
Disegni Matti fanzine new release



ElTilf is an italian artist, his school was the street, abandoned buildings,scraped walls, forgotten factories.
He paints over every kind of support and material, creating a perfect combination and harmony with the contest.
His intent is to leave a sign. Something visibile everymorning, on your way to work, a message readable by everyone.
At first he started drawing letters, then he developed his tecnique creating imaginary puppets, scary figures, dark charachters.
These expressions represent the sensations the city was giving him in that period, less freedom and more intollerance, heavyness, lack of spaces and colours.
From all this background is born MINDELTILF.


Tenia is born in 1983.
His creativity and his skillness don't come from an art school but from the street, where he has always experimented his tecniques.
He is part with TILF of the artistic collective Disegni Matti, presented at XLAB in a fanzine and in some videos made by Tilf.

PRE PUNK! opening - reportage

more pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/xlabgallery

light box ready!

PRE PUNK! the New York Music scene 1972-1977
photographs by Paul Zone
opening: 17th october 2009 h.18.00
until 10.11.09

The american photographer will present inedite photos of back stage and live concerts of young Blondie, Ramones, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and many more from the New York undergound scene of the 70's.
The artist will be present during the opening to sign his books, meet the public and make interviews.
The day before he will be at Ramones Museum to present his books.

During the opening a selection of punk and new wave music by dj MATT SIMS ( Mount Sims) and BAROXMIX (Piatto Forte )


XLAB
CORROSIVE ART FARM
Skalitzer Str. 67
10997 BERLIN
www.xlaboratory.org


If i could hypothetically go back in time, I would choose the seventies, if I could choose where to spend my nights the choice would fall on New York City and in particular on the scene of musicians, artists, drug adicted, drag queen who used to met in Max's Kansas City at 213 Park Avenue South.Andy Warhol and his glittering and decadent court of miracles has made of this place the center of the New York underground life of that time. The stage of this american version of Cabaret Voltaire gave birth to great music realities like Debby Harry's Blondie and the Velvet Underground, and Paul Zone with his camera, member with his two older brothers of the band named the Fast, consacrated to immortality these seminal figures in the history of rock .
At the time he was studying photography at the high school and always used to bring with him his reflex, to capture emaciated faces and beautiful people close to him and concerts of bands that become essential figures for fans of rock and experimental music.
Attending, since the tender age of 11 years, cinema and music underground scene, filled with transvestites and drug dealers, Paul formed his character and his personality, for better or worse, conscious that he had a rare privilege. His shots reveales faces, uses and consumptions of most of the scenes' creative, crazy and cool aspects,among the subcultures.
He capture the period when the glitter and platform shoes left room for leather jackets and pins by mercy. The sparkle of glam scene started to get dirty in a rage and raw attitude of punk. From the New York Dolls to the Ramones. From the Stooges to Debbie Harry.

(Emanuele Sturlese)

THE INVISIBLE CITIES

artworks by paola verde marcello gungui aka mars
opening: friday 25th september 09
from 18.00

until 10th october

XLAB @ RAUCHHAUS

friday 18th september we did a great d.i.y. market with Mikelina "diy freak clothing", Pastedminds, Discordant and all the friends.
A lot of new stuff handmade with love in limited serie :)
you can find it at XLAB, Berlin or write us for infos and shipping!
mail: info@xlabgallery.org

SENSO @ B girls JAM with Martha Cooper

Great jam! dedicated to girls in all hip hop disciplines
Senso made a great paint and got congratulations by Martha Cooper :)

Derelict building - Senso solo show

Senso Live painting XLAB

Here some pictures of Senso LIVE PAINTING at XLAB outside wall.
all the pics here: http://www.flickr.com/xlabgallery

NEXT EXHIBITION: SENSO ' derelict building'

next exposition: FRIDAY 4th september from 18.00

SENSO (Italy) ' Derelict building'

Alessandra Odoni aka Senso is a writer - street artist active since 1996.
She is a member of the TDK group and the Interplay Art Group, and she deals also with video production and post-production.
In 1996 she painted for the first time with spray.
She prefers to create her own concepts, instead of the purely representation of lettering.
She draws and usually concretizes ideas and logos on the walls or other surfaces mixing spray and acrylic.
Her hihest form of poetry is to do street-art, poster art, writing, and the road remains her main artistic workshop.
The base of its style is a spiral purrs to figurative elements, visceral, surreal but alive forms, free and without skin, from which bud urban and alien microorganisms.
Her pictures represent vertical vivisections of elements that intersect among them, obsessive and repetitive as labyrinths, in a renewed and contemporary symbolism.
***CHECK HER WEBSITE **** http://www.crazysen.it

new stickers!

new XLAB stickers ready!

SIEBDRUCK - SERIGRAFIA - SCREENPRINTING @ Xlab!

We are finishing to organize our space, the room for screenprinting is already at work!
Sapi from Pastedminds' collective is preparing her new collection of handmade screenprinted tshirts, sweaters and bags.

xlab outside wall by seacreative

http://www.seacreative.net

WELCOMETOMARS

Born in 1981 in Nuoro (Italy) he lived for 8 years in Milan, where he graduated at NABA New Academy of Beauty Art in graphic and advertising.
His artistic growth was experimented on the street, between abandoned factories and graffitis, tasting the genuine experience of street art in happenings and illegal events.
Then he specialized in vectorial art developing his own personal style, and started to collaborate with many artistic projects, musicians and self.productions.
He moved to Berlin in 2009 and founded the XLAB project.

http://www.myspace.com/welcometomars02
http://welcometomars1.blogspot.com

PAOLAVERDE photo expo

Paola Verde is born in Milano in the same year when punk was born,
She graduated in Arkitekture at Politecnico in Milano, then she attended Italian Institute of Photography. and worked as a freelance photographer for galleries and cultural spaces.
The city borders have always been the center of her personal research, from street- art
to abandoned factories, from underground culture to the metamorphosy of the metropoly.
In 2005 she published KAOS book, a d.i.y and no copyright reportage on rave parties in Italy.
As art curator she organized several events and expositions, most of them in cultural places
like 'Stencil Art - new pop in urban culture' with Traffic Gallery (BG), B SIDE CITIES and POLVERE c/o Zerologico, 'Delicatessen' c/o S' agapo', KAOS c/o LA CUEVA no art gallery, CSOA COX18, CALUSCA CITY LIGHT, CENTRE CULTURAL NIU Barcelona ... Other importants events where organized totallly illegal, like Whereis101 and Whereis107, two importants artistic happening in abandoned factories in Milan.
www.paolaverde.it

DISCORDANT - photo expo

Emanuele Sturlese aka Discordant was born in Spezia (italy) in 1984.
Attending a Graphic Design course he fell in love with creative writing, contemporary art and subsequently enrolled himself in DAMS School of Arts of Bologna where he found an artistically stimulating environment, he started producing several collages on many different surfaces and supports.
Then he attended the Academy of Beaux Arts of Carrara, where he developed a passion for photography - especially of abandoned places and dehumanized individuals.
He graduated with the highest marks with a thesis about Prof. Bad Trip.
He currently lives in Berlin.
His pictures talk about a surreal toxicity, time-less reality, undiscovered sexuality, obsessions and marveillous human-dolls living in post-atomic forgotten lands.

july -august 2009 discordant expo @ xlab
www.discordantphotography.xb61.de

HANDMADE CLOTHING limited collections @ XLAB!

XLAB shop presents always new handmade clothing collections in very limited editions.
All the items are original, unique models and cured in every detail.
They are made with high quality materials.
XLAB is against the use of furs and leather in fashion collections.


This month we present the fashion collections of: DIY FREAK CLOTHING, an indipendent label based in Berlin, L' USINE A BULLE, a french young designer with her flowered and elegant dresses, and BRAIN ENGINE with her last fashion show 'japan style' collection.



WELCOMETOMARS and ELMORO will present limited edition screen-printed t.shirts and LITANTRACE will present her jewels, necklaces, bracelets made with recycled gum.