Katia Hermann

French-German art historian, curator and writer. After her studies of art history and cultural management in Paris, Katia moved to Berlin in 2001. For twenty years, she has worked as a freelance exhibition-maker/curator, cultural manager, writer and translator. After working for documentary film- and exhibition productions, she curated thematic exhibitions of modern & contemporary art and photography for institutions, project spaces and galleries. She always endeavors to promote artists with contemporary relevant topics, new visual languages, and tries to mediate to a wide public. After her research grant for fine arts with the topic Urban Art Berlin (Berliner Senate Department of Culture and Europe) in 2017, she initiated and coordinated the Urban Art Week in Berlin in 2018 and 2019. The photo exhibition BERLIN: WRITING GRAFFITI started 2019 to tour to Brussels with a publication. Beside her curatorial practice, Katia gives art tours and writes about urban art, contemporary art, and in particular about post-graffiti painters for magazines and blogs.

Xavi Ceerre in Spain: Confluences and fusions in abstraction

Written by Katia Hermann on 24 March 2024.

The Spanish artist Xavi Ceerre, based in Barcelona, started with graffiti writing when he was 9 years old in Alcoy (Alicante), an industrial town whose economy collapsed in the 70s leaving many factories abandoned and creating a perfect playground for painting graffiti. Rapping at the age of 15, later moving to electronic music, he painted […]

OZM in Hamburg: Art Lab for graffiti writing, urban art, visual arts and AI

Written by Katia Hermann on 17 February 2024.

The OZM in Hamburg was founded in 2007 in the Schanzenviertel. Alex Heimkind developed the concept of the OZM and has repeatedly found premises over the last seventeen years. Active in various locations, it now represents more than 20 artists, many with origins in graffiti writing. The name OZM stands for OneZeroMore, Leibniz’ binary numbers”, […]

Book Review: Essential posthumous monograph “Daniel Weissbach aka COST aka DTagno”

Written by Katia Hermann on 29 January 2024.

Four years after the end of his life, a bilingual monograph about the Berlin artist Daniel Weissbach (* 1976, DE, † 2020, DE) has now been published. His longstanding gallery Ruttkowski;68 published this comprehensive 528-page retrospective with texts in German and English in January 2024. After two years of intensive collaboration of a group of […]

Anders Reventlov in Denmark: Automatic script on paper and walls

Written by Katia Hermann on 15 January 2024.

Danish artist Anders Reventlov has developed his abstracted style on walls and on paper since he started style writing in 1996, going through different artistic phases, figurative or conceptual, after his fine art studies. Reventlov focussed over the years on black and white works. Drawing since his childhood, the practice of doodles on a daily […]

Blazej Rusin, Poland: Abstract post-graffiti painting with spirit

Written by Katia Hermann on 10 December 2023.

Early years with graffiti writing The painter Blazej Rusin was born 1988 in Bielsk Podlaski, in North-eastern Poland, near the oldest forest in Europe, the Bialowieza Primeval Forest. At the age of 7, he moved to a larger city of Bialystok, where he grew up. As a child, Blazej was drawing a lot and clearly […]

Salvaje Selva in Spain: Expressive abstraction with engraving techniques on walls

Written by Katia Hermann on 21 November 2023.

First contact with art through the family Salvaje Selva was born in 1993 in Yecla, a town in the North of Murcia, and grew up in the city of Murcia. During his childhood, he enjoyed watching animation and started drawing regularly. His father liked painting like his grandfather and his mother was into history of […]

Taleggio in Italy: From letters to playful abstraction

Written by Katia Hermann on 15 October 2023.

First contacts with style writing The Italian painter Taleggio was born 1991 in the South of Italy and grew up in the countryside. In his family, art was present. His grandfather was a sculptor and his mother visited an art school and used to paint figurative and abstract paintings. As a child he used to […]

SEIKON (PL) : Sketching every day and painting non-figurative forms

Written by Katia Hermann on 17 August 2023.

Growing up in a graffiti writing neighborhood in Poland SEIKON is a Polish artist, born in 1987 in Poland and living in Greece since 2019. He grew up in an urban neighborhood in Gdynia, a port city on the Baltic coast of Poland, where graffiti writing started to be very present after 1999. As a […]

Interview with ichbin3oeltanks, Berlin

Written by Katia Hermann on 14 July 2023.

Where did you actually grow up ? I was born in the 80s and grew up in the Ruhr area, but I moved to Niedersachsen, when I was 7 years old. However, I have always kept a strong attachment to the Ruhr area, and later moved back there for a short time. Did you draw […]

Emilio Cerezo in Spain: From style and characters to painting

Written by Katia Hermann on 17 May 2023.

Beginnings in a rural environment The Spanish painter Emilio Cerezo grew up in a small town called Totana in the South-East of Spain. As a kid he describes himself as introverted enjoying drawing, watching 90s animes, reading mangas and video game magazines. During his teenage years, he was listening to music all the time and […]

7th Urban Art Biennale Völklingen 2024

Power of Female Art Festival 2024, Berlin-Teufelsberg

On Platform 3: The Generation How & Nosm, Rage & Roger

Stellen – Daniel Weissbach

Hafenhustle

Katia Hermann

Xavi Ceerre in Spain: Confluences and fusions in abstraction

OZM in Hamburg: Art Lab for graffiti writing, urban art, visual arts and AI

Book Review: Essential posthumous monograph “Daniel Weissbach aka COST aka DTagno”

Anders Reventlov in Denmark: Automatic script on paper and walls

Blazej Rusin, Poland: Abstract post-graffiti painting with spirit

Salvaje Selva in Spain: Expressive abstraction with engraving techniques on walls

Taleggio in Italy: From letters to playful abstraction

SEIKON (PL) : Sketching every day and painting non-figurative forms

Interview with ichbin3oeltanks, Berlin

Emilio Cerezo in Spain: From style and characters to painting