In the summer of 2019, I was given the opportunity to present an expanded version of my Paper Bullets exhibition at the acclaimed Neurotitan Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Oliver Baudach, the director of Hatch Kingdom Sticker Museum, was the driving force that made the project possible. It was an enormous undertaking, in that for the first time I drew from my entire collection of thousands of new, unused, historical and contemporary political stickers from around the world. Neurotitan is a non-commercial, alternative art gallery that features urban art. Housed in the Haus Schwarzenberg in Mitte, the gallery dates back to…
Exhibition and Book Proposal Catherine Tedford Hidden in plain sight, publicly placed stickers with printed images and/or text have been used for decades as a form of sociopolitical protest or to advocate sociopolitical agendas. In the United States, for example, as early as the 1910s, labor unions such as the Industrial Workers of the World created the first “stickerettes” or “silent agitators” to oppose poor working conditions, intimidate bosses, and condemn capitalism. Later, during World War II, Allied and Axis countries dropped gummed “paper bullets” or “confetti soldiers” from the sky as a form of psychological warfare to demoralize both…
Sticker boards from exhibition at Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2019.
Kleben und leben lassen Eine Ausstellung in Mitte widmet sich der einhundertjährigen Geschichte von politischen Stickern. Eine Reise von Montreal über New York an die Spree Von Paul Linke Es gibt ein paar Orte in Berlin, die als Hall of Fame der alternativen Stickerszene bezeichnet werden: die Fassade des Kino Intimes und das gesamte RAW-Gelände in Friedrichshain, in Mitte das Haus Schwarzenberg und die S-Bahnbögen am Hackeschen Markt Richtung Alexanderplatz. Wer dort klebt, lebt in einer tendenziell linken Welt, im Dauerwiderstand gegen Kriegstreiber, Spekulanten, Rassisten, Nazis. Im Gegensatz zum Sprühen ist Kleben keine Sachbeschädigung, sondern eine Ordnungswidrigkeit. Die Wurzeln der…
TRAVELING EXHIBITION – NOW AVAILABLE FOR 2025-2028 100+ Years of Adhesive Art & Culture Dial it up to eleven with the expanded blockbuster edition! In the last forty years, street art has exploded dramatically from the spray-painted graffiti that vandalized subway stations, back alleys, and train yards during the 1970s and ’80s. Today, new forms of visual communication are created in public spaces, often attracting viewers in more interactive and contemplative ways. Street art stickers, or simply “stickers,” have burst forth as a vehicle for self-expression and as an effective way to engage passersby. Stickers may be used to “tag”…
Since 2010, I have had the good fortune to collaborate with Oliver Baudach on four traveling sticker exhibitions. Oli is the founder and director of Hatch Kingdom Sticker Museum in Berlin, Germany, the world’s first and only of its kind. Our international collections complement each other well in that his collection of over 30,000 stickers focuses on urban art/artists and street and skateboard culture, while my collection of over 18,000 stickers focuses on political stickers. Digital image files of our scanned stickers from two exhibitions are also sorted by themes, countries, and dates. Scroll down to see examples from Paper…
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