Jaakko Pallasvuo is maybe the first artist who I am featuring, who is the exact same age as me. Born in 1987 in Helsinki, Finnland, Jaakko is a digital native, just like everyone born after 1982 in developed countries is considered to be one. As such, he has based his work on net art and fully embraces new media as
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You know that we at Grateful Grapefruit easily get excited by facial hair. We on the other side know that right now the whole fashion and style world is going bananas over beards. And they know it works. If it didn’t, I wouldn’t write up this post presenting interpretations on facial hair. To promote their partnership with Braun, WAD Magazine created this
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Mike Reedy’s art makes me uncomfortable. Big time. In his drawings and paintings he addresses issues of privacy, intimacy and exposure which are over-occupying my thoughts recently. Looking at his works isn’t really helping me get my mind off those topics but definitely gives me a way to try to resolve them. Mr. Reedy got his Master of Fine Arts in Painting
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If you’ve landed on Grateful Grapefruit, I assume you have heard the name or seen the work of visual agent provocateur Erwin Olaf on multiple occasions. Having made that clear, we can move to the actual part of this post that doesn’t require many words. I have a very close connection to Mr. Olaf’s art since my childhood. You can
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I came across Jaime’s videos maybe a week or two ago, when my good friend Pino showed me a video of a struggling musician in an over-dramatized music video showing a bearded guy with a guitar wonder the streets, collecting coins from the ground and playing in an empty venue. Of course Pino was drooling over the guy, however I
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The works of Mustafa Sabbagh may come off pretentious and “a bit too much” first, but I guess that’s the faith of every fashion photographer. Thus, there is more to Mustafa that pretty pictures and fashion films. His clicks dissociate themselves from the glamour fictitious standard beauty. He focuses his lense on normal subjects, caught in their wonderful imperfection. Vacuity and immediacy
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Coke or Pepsi? McDonald’s or Burger King? Beluga or Ossetra? The newest culinary dilema: City Chicken or Ris A? In Berlin, fast food has long been dominated by the mighty Döner. While I love a good Döner, diversity is the key to happiness. Pizza by the slice, when available, is a horror. Banh mi can hit the spot, and who
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It was supposed to be a quiet early night. However, since I’ve made overworking myself my new unsexy hobby that slowly replaces my private life, my friend and über fierce mentor Nadja aka the hostess with the mostest from ArtStars decided to break the pattern and take me on an arts night out. The venue – the legendary oyster-shaped building of Haus
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This Friday Prosume This! opens from 5 till 7 PM – the Product is the Medium, at the electronics store BEKO at Kottbusser str 9 in Berlin. Beko is a typical mid sized electronic retail chain that will lend the organizers some of their corporate space. Prosume This will use 30 of their in-store high definition screens to show works
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Brian Donnelly’s creatures exist in a perpetual state of encroachment and human-animal cross-breeding. And somehow, some of them arouse me. Brian Donnelly is a Canadian born painter working in Toronto. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design’s painting program in 2003, Brian has actively been questioning the role of the figure in contemporary painting for the last
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Because appearance is everything, you should buy S. T VALENTIN. At least that’s what the slogan of the sophisticated store in Aarhus, Denmark. In the small city with almost 250 thousand citizens, there seem to be a lot of picky gentleman with fine taste, since the shop is calling out to a very special breed of clientele. S. T VALENTIN is
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Wonwei and Shanghai-based design studio Super Nature Design collaborated on an interactive art installation for the 2011 International Science and Art Exhibition in Shanghai. The installation, named PRISMA 1666, focuses on the light refraction properties of a prism, allowing the user to experience these properties by interacting with various colors, angles, and shapes being projected onto a group of prisms. The installation
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