Since 2013, 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 15,000 “paper bullets” 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 Bullets: 100 Years of Political Stickers from around the World and from Re-Writing the Streets: The International Language of Stickers.
Each exhibition is listed below with links to more information including curators’ statements, exhibition contents, artists, and installation photos. Fees vary depending on venue locations; a fine arts shipper is preferred when possible. Our ultimate goal, however, is to present a comprehensive exhibition from both our collections in a major museum or arts center. Unlike other exhibitions of stickers pulled off the streets, our blockbuster exhibition includes only original, unused stickers.
Inspiring | Controversial | OBEY! Silkscreen prints and stickers by Shepard Fairey
Inspiring | Controversial | OBEY! sticker boards in the exhibition, as well as curators’ statement and exhibition contents
Inspiring | Controversial | OBEY! at St. Lawrence University installation photos, 2022
Paper Bullets: 100 Years of Political Stickers from around the World
Paper Bullets sticker boards in the exhibition
Paper Bullets examples (USA)
- Industrial Workers of the World “stickerettes” or “silent agitators,” 1910s-1970s
- War in Vietnam, 1960s-1970s
- President Richard M. Nixon, 1969-1974
- Black Lives Matter/Prison Reform, 1970s-2010s
- President George W. Bush, 2001-2009
- Nature and the environment, 2012-2019
Paper Bullets examples (Germany)
- Spuckies, 1980s-present
- Nature and the environment, 2009-2019
- Anti-sexism, -homophobia, -transphobia, 2009-2019
- Football Club St. Pauli, 2009-2019 (in progress)
- Linksjugend [solid’] (political youth organization), 2010-2019
- Inforiot – alternative politics and culture, 2010s
- Pop culture and culture jamming, 2010s
- Memes, 2010s
Paper Bullets examples (Canada)
- Indigenous rights, 2010s
- Police brutality, 2010s
Paper Bullets examples (Egypt)
- Arab Spring, 2010-2011
Paper Bullets examples (Russia)
- Civil protests, 2012
Paper Bullets examples (Ukraine)
- Euromaidan protests, 2013-2014
SHE SLAPS! Street Stickers by Women Artists from around the World
SHE SLAPS! sticker boards in the exhibition
Re-Writing the Streets: The International Language of Stickers
Re-Writing the Streets sticker boards in the exhibition
Re-Writing the Streets & Paper Bullets combined exhibitions at Susquehanna University, 2015
Re-Writing the Streets & Paper Bullets combined exhibitions at Central Washington University, 2018
Re-Writing the Streets examples grouped by artists and themes
- Hatch Kingdom
- Hello-My-Name-Is
- Stencils and linocuts
- Postals
- Taggers
- Character design
- Culture jamming
- Robots, zombies, flying objects, skulls and crossbones
- Artists: Tower, Haevi, Flying Fortress
- Bad-ass women
- Food
- Birds, monkeys, cats, bunnies, dogs, fish, donkeys, bugs