10 years LackStreicheKleber – Urban Art Festival Dresden

The next LackStreicheKleber Urban Art Festival Dresden will take place from June 1-9, 2024.

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After a two-year break, the LackStreicheKleber – Urban Art Festival returns in 2024. Filled with a rich program, the LackStreicheKleber Festival will once again provide a comprehensive insight into Dresden’s urban art.

In 2024, the festival’s own program will focus on two themes – “40 Years of Urban Art in Dresden” and “The Beast”.

Behind the title “The Beast” is an exhibition with a supporting program. The exhibition will present three international artistic urban art positions. All three have approached the topic of refugees on freight trains in their own way.

Mexican-British photographer Pablo Allison, who presented his book “The Light of The Beast” in Dresden in January, has been traveling across Mexico on the Bestia together with Latin American migrants for several years. The Bestia originally refers to a freight train that crosses Mexico from south to north.

Inspired by Pablo Allison and a piece of paper, Czech graffiti writer Jan Glín traveled sections of the “Balkan route”. Jan Glín found a document left by a refugee on a European freight train.

Glìn’s documentation was published in the book “Riding the Beast of Europe”.

Simone Ferrarini, part of the Italian artist group Collettivo FX, has repeatedly thematized the dangerous flight of African migrants to and through Europe in his artistic works. Among other things, he created large-format drawings on freight trains. These freight trains cross the Brenner Pass, among other places.

Part of the exhibiton are guided tours, workshop offers, a public talk and a KÜFA.

The thematic complex “40 Years of Urban Art in Dresden” deals with the history of graffiti and street art in Dresden, which goes back at least as far as the 1980s.

In an open call, both professional artists and photographers as well as amateur artists and photographers are invited to submit artworks, documents or similar relating to Dresden’s forty-year urban art history. The contents of the Open Call this year will be the contents of the mobile RadKunstwurf exhibition and RadKunstwurf distribution campaign. The award-winning works and other submissions will be presented at the opening of the RadKunstwurf exhibition at the Groove Station.

In cooperation with the Stadtmuseum Dresden, there will be a panel discussion with Mirko “DAIM” Reisser from Hamburg, Benjamin Schandelmeier from Munich, Dr. Harald Hinz from Lauterbach and Dr. Christina Ludwig from Dresden.

The moderator will be Gerrit Retterath from Kassel. In the discussion, different approaches to the reappraisal of Dresden’s urban art history will be discussed and afterwards we would like to talk about the feasibility with the interested Dresden audience.

Finally, the live drawing performance DRESDEN ARTIFACTS by MURALS OF THE FUTURE will take place at the Dresden Museum Night.

In addition to the festival’s own focal themes, it is above all the partners that give the festival its diversity. This year there will be the following partner events, among others:

– the children’s street parade through Pieschen organized by ZENTRALWERK

– a mural at BAHNHOF KLOTZSCHE

– the SPIKE MEETS URBAN UP exhibition by SPIKE URBAN

– the Vinyl Lounge of the STÄDTISCHE BIBLIOTHEK DRESDEN

– the LSK Urban Shop by PIECES FOR PEACE

– workshops by BENJAMIN BUTTER and SPIKE URBAN

– an URBAN SPOTS spray campaign organized by SPIKE URBAN

– city tours organized by NIGHTWALK DRESDEN and DRESDNER MIGRATIONSGESCHICHTEN

– Live Polylux calligraphy by SILVIO COLDITZ

– a drawing meeting by SCRIBBLE CLASH

The LackStreicheKleber Festival 2024 is funded by: