Nicolai Juhler

A lover of art and urbanity. With a great passion for creative use of the city. I am project manager of street art events, and Master student at History of Ideas. find me at facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nicolai.juhler

Huge urban gardening event in Aarhus

Center of Urban Art has received 100.000 kr / 13450 Euro in support from Realdania for a great public Urban Gardening event, in Aarhus 5. maj

The project is working with the spaces between the houses, by makeing mini parks, green islands in the potholes and much more. Besides the urban gardening workshop, the city gets a green work by the internationally renowned artist Nikolaj Recke. At the seminar experts reflects at  creative use of the urban space, and verything is varnished at one of the miniparks to celebrate the city and it’s new green spaces, writes Center of Urban Art at their blog.

 

Urban Gardening: Growing organic plant material in the urban space, such as making a flower bed between the tiles, lawns on land, herb gardens at the building corners, etc.

By Nicolai Juhler • March 15, 2012
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Paint shop paints the town

A paint shop in Aarhus exudes so much color that it rubs off on the bikes that are parked nearby.

 

The colored bikes create life in a cheerless area, and tickle the eye among the boring building fronts. Bicycles in Denmark are so common that people don’t pay them any attention. The colors on the other hand are a great lack in Denmark, so the color at the bikes draws more attention than the bikes. The colored bikes are obviously placed by the paint shop, but still they bring color to our everyday life.

Thanks!

By Nicolai Juhler • February 13, 2012
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New girl in town

A new girl has arrived in the town of Aarhus, and she is walking in the footsteps of the famous Danish writher Hans Christian Andersen’s paper cuttings.

The Street art is found in Aarhus – far away from our Capital where Andersen lived the most of his life. But these days Aarhus is the City of Fairytales.

Artist the Lovely Ronia Kiil 

 

By Nicolai Juhler • February 2, 2012
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Street Art Royal

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is celebrated by street art.

May Enhedslisten (danish left wing party, that's aginst the royal house) preserve me

Each piece has a quote from the Queen’s New Year’s speaches over the years.

Every New Year’s Eve at 6pm our Queen transmits the traditional New Year’s speach that many Danes see as part of their New Year’s Eve traditions.

The speaches are often used to summarize the key events and themes from the past year. She must not, according to the Danish Constitution, interfere with politics, but she is always critical to the way the Danish society is heading. So she does not take any political positions, but still she comments unfortunate trends in Danish society. The New Year’s speaches are always the subject of great public debate, and in that way important in the creating of our national feeling, and repeat the central Danish values; as social responsibility, and open mindednes.

The Royal Street Art is found in Aarhus, and must have been set up as a tribute to the Queen on her 40th anniversary.

Artist: Urban Olsen, Aarhus

It is in the retrospect that the past seems so safely manageable, while the future is full of "if"

At Aarhus main shopping street

also at Aarhus main shopping street

currently it seems as if we have opinions on almost everything in relation to society. Large as well as small

It was the pure evil. A wanted recklessness. In front of Aarhus Art Building

it is typical for us in Denmark, we do not like conflicts

In front of the contemporary art gallery Lunchmoney

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Congratulation Queen Margrethe the II of Denmark

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By Nicolai Juhler • January 14, 2012
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Street art from Aarhus

It has been a while since I have made the last picture entry. Not that anything has happened, but I haven’t had the time to update you.

So this is an update of what I found in the city since my last post.

The Cardinal and his altar boy - artist unknown - Aarhus

Spin. Artist: Urban Olsen - Aarhus

"New Arrivals - Urban street Wear, 2011 collection". Artist: Urban Olsen - Aarhus

"Is it possible to own anything". Artist: Hr. Værk - Aarhus

"Here lives mom" Artist unknown, Aarhus

"Open air bath" - artisk unknown, Aarhus

New great Graffiti piece in Aarhus. Artist unknown, but i am told his from Australia

Street words from Aarhus. Artist unknown

The very little Aarhus mermaid. Artist unknown, Aarhus

Shelf painting. Artist known as unknown, Aarhus

By Nicolai Juhler • May 8, 2011
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Walk This Way: Two kilometer street art

The exhibition Walk This Way presents 16 Danish and international Street artists and street artist groups adorned a 2000 meter route. The route starts at KØS (museum of art in public spaces) in Køge, and flows through the city of Køge’s historic streets, cross the railroad and ends at Søndre Port (the south port).

It is open until 8. September 2011

The artists is: Akay (SE), Armsrock (DK), Basco5 (CA/DK), Brad Downey (US/DE), Don John (DK), Josefine Günschel (D),Mormor (DK), Moss Couture (DK), Papfar (DK), PHUCISME – Phuc van Dang (DK/VN), Pink Army (DK), Sten & Lex (IT), Stickkontakt (S), Swoon (US), Tejn (DK), Ultra Grøn (DK).

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A pink worm is consuming the city of Aarhus

A big pink worm has consumed garbage in the city of Aarhus.

The pink worm at the pictures have settled in the second largest Danish city, Aarhus, and it has been observed several places in the city. The worm fling itself along the buildings, and at the first glance it seems friendly and sweet with it’s pink silky skin, but make no mistake, it has big sharp teeth that eats its way through town.

The worm is made of the sustainability agency WorldPerfect as an awareness campaign on the free pickup of bulky refuse, which Aarhus Municipality offers all its citizens. The rubbish is often just placed at the street in the darkness by a unknowing residents who do not know about the arrangement. WorldPerfect them self contacted therefore the municipality with a proposal for this campaign. This campaign about a big pink worm, that eats its way through the city’s bulky refuse, and in a cute way is making awareness about  that big garbage can disappear by itself – if you just order a pickup.

Follow and ‘like’ the project at their facebook group

The official site of the municipal arrangement  www.storeårm.dk – the site is unfortunately in Danish. It informs briefly about the arrangement, and is a easy portal to get the bulky refuse picked up.

foto: WorldPerfect and Andreas Agerlund Petersen

By Nicolai Juhler • March 24, 2011
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Harald Bluetooth anno 2011

The Danish national stone the Jelling Stone from year 965, is considered to be the oldest treatise on how King Harald Bluetooth proclaiming the Danes as Christians.

The stone is from when we Danes raided Europe as Vikings, and it is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

It has  been vandalized a couple of times. In 1916 a student at the college struck two letters into the stone, and once agin in this year 2011 a young kid tagged at the stone with spray paint. The stone is now fit again after being cleared of, and this time Harald strikes back.

A stencil of Jelling stone where King Harald gives them the finger has been set up on top of a roof’s several places that says TAG DEN, which in Danish means both ‘tag on this this’ ‘take this [back home] ‘ and ‘Eat this’

Artist: Urban Olsen

Type: Paste up / Stencil

By Nicolai Juhler • March 9, 2011
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Chewing gum and wodden art

Wooden creativity

The students at Aarhus University has started a chewing gum tree at the university campus. Everyday when they go to lectures, where you not are allowed to have gum, they put their rubber on the same tree.
When you walk past it gives the tree in campus a thoughtful expression …the Students are not allowed to chew gum, so they put it in a place where it where it does not belong; Done in a creative way that only can give an old professor a smiley thought

The heart below is cut into a tree in the old forest at Graasten.

It is many years since the heart was cut, and we can only imagine what has happened with the love ever since.
… this heart has only grown prettier over the years. The way it has grown into the tree bark, and with the little ladybird, it seems almost as an everlasting love story.

See also the post The face of the organic city

By Nicolai Juhler • February 13, 2011
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Reverse Graffiti -retrospect on a rainy day

Just because it is a rainy day in Denmark, and it is no the time to do street art, I’ll post an old video from early 2010 from a workshop with the British Reverse Graffiti pioneer ‘Moose’.
Moose did a presentation about his work, before we all went out to town and worked reverse with the many different layers grim.

The presentations about urban creativity and Benjamin ‘Moose’s show about his work, was at the Art Academy of Jutland and the cleaning work was different spots in Aarhus.

The workshop was made by Gadekunstdage, in cooperation between British Council, Denmark, Architect school Aarhus and, the youth project the Frontrunners… I was a managing the project.

By Nicolai Juhler • January 21, 2011
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Funky Violet

Name: Funky Violet Mario

Funky Violet

call 662500666

Honk for your Life

By Nicolai Juhler • January 17, 2011
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do I need food

Stencil of a cadger close to some of the fancy cafes that charge 5€  for a Latte. Made by Missing

By Nicolai Juhler • January 16, 2011
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Street art at the COSY way

The COSY girls  been to town.

The Cosy girls and Hop Louie

The pices are made of small plastic pearls, which normally are a traditional Danish toy for children. Now it is used for street art. The artist’s is a group of cosy girls, that love the urban way of living. The girls is from our capital Copenhagen. Visit the Cosy girls website. Thanks for the  cosy work!

The Cosy girls

I found these piece of street art at a cosy gate in town, but unfortunately the COSY-pearls have already been taken. The Paste up is a stencil made by a fabulous Swedish guy called Hop Louie, and is still viewable at Mejlgade, Aarhus.

By Nicolai Juhler • January 14, 2011
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Street Art Show Off

Two of the local street artist showing how big they got.

The Street artist MorMor and R-Galt is showing off their size in 1:1

Many street artists have a very big ego, and likes to show off in public. These two street artist is two very exposed artist in Denmark, and in their home town we know them by their size.

By Nicolai Juhler • January 6, 2011
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Street art workshop in the winter

Super Mario vs. Bubble Bobble

Aarhus Art Building facilitated a cozy and creative street art workshop in collaboration with Perlepladesyndikatet and Gadekunstdage. The theme of the day was to do street art with pearls and Lego for the city.

There where a lot of people, both building Lego and playing with pearls.

This is some of the results:

Guarding Lego dog

Lego Castel

Lego house

Lego snow rabbits

Pearls

By Nicolai Juhler • January 2, 2011

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The face of the organic city

Street art & urban creativity

This street art piece is found at a park (Mølleparken) in Aarhus. The face is an old piece, so it has been allowed to watch out for the park in a couple of years, properly because of the high level of creativity. I wonder what it has seen through the years; the park is mainly used of young people, and a great place for a minor party.

The tree has many faces and in the twilight it’s quit spooky…

Yes, it is winter in Denmark

Photo: Andreas Agerlund Petersen

By Nicolai Juhler • December 20, 2010
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Street art Advent calender

This Christmas once again you have the opportunity to go street art advent calendar treasure hunting, at the street of Copenhagen. You can follow the calendar and find a new pice of street art every days at the Streetheart Christmas calendar

By Nicolai Juhler • December 8, 2010
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The world of Street Art

Street art for a backyard in Aarhus.
The backyard is the most creative and pro-active in Denmark’s second city. Here you find the youth project house the Frontrunners and the project educationthe KaosPilots

By Nicolai Juhler • December 6, 2010
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The rules of a Gentleman

A open call to be a real man.


Found at ‘Snævringen’ betwen Mejlgade and Studsgade in Århus
Please, be gently to the city.

By Nicolai Juhler • November 21, 2010

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Danish design -Sculpture of chairs

Danish Design when it is best, functionalism made unfunctional, nearby Enghaveplads in Copenhagen.

The sculpture is made of stacked chairs, and is builds into each other. The sculpture plinth is the top of a shelter from the Second World War, and the chairs are properly designed by the famous Danish designer H.J Wegner. So what was highly functional is now purely artistic and ornamental.

CORRECTION: the real designer of these dining chairs are the Danish architect Kai Kristiansen. Thanks to Anton from Great Dane Furniture for the information.

By Nicolai Juhler • November 8, 2010
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The art of hiding

I was walking the city yesterday and found this butterfly of the Danish street artist Frantz Flottenheimer.

I love that the butterfly is camouflaged and hiding at the corner.

Just had to share it.

By Nicolai Juhler • November 7, 2010
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With Lego Denmark shall be repaired

Aarhus city got repaired with Lego.

At three different construction sites Aarhus got its cracked walls, and missing bricks repaired. Jan Vormann from Berlin, were in Aarhus to do a workshop with us, to shine up the city of Aarhus’ broken surface.

The 130 participants started with a 2hour seminar about street art and urban creativity at Aarhus Art Building. In the end Jan Vormann showed his artworks and how he works with the Lego cracks.

The workshop continued outside to repair the cracks, at three different construction sites around Aarhus city. The construction was finished after about 3hours. The Lego-reparations was the third workshop of the street art project ‘Gadekunstdage’ (Street Art Days). This project  included a workshop with the British Reverse Graffiti pioneer Benjamin ‘Moose’ Curtis, where Aarhus got cleaned up in pictures. The project is made by Gadekunstdage and Center of Urban Art

See more pic’s at the projects facebook group or at flickr

By Nicolai Juhler • October 24, 2010
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Street art in Denmark

Street art in Denmark This first blog I’ll show some of the things that have been done in Denmark in the past, and the way the artist are working… And please add comments or show us what you have seen at the streets in Denmark, because obviously I cannot show all of it myself. The streets in Denmark is often used for artistic expression I different ways. My focus will be at the visual con-temporary art that gives the city its dynamic and exchanging urban living.

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The creativity is great and there is a large group of very active street artists that express them selves in different ways.

Here is tow examples of the same visual but with different content. The Splash at the left is cut out of a poster wall and the one at the right is paint bombs at a end wall.

There are a lot of street art events in Denmark with national and international street artists.

Here people in the Aarhus is rebuilding their city with Lego. The street art project ‘Gadekunstdage‘ (Street art days) had invited Jan Vormann from Berlin to Aarhus, for doing a workshop with his Dispatchwork. 130 participated in the workshop.

The street art environment in Denmark uses the streets to comment on the way the city and society is thought and used by the inhabits.

This is the world wide street art group Pink Army who have invaded a cable box in Copenhagen, our capital. The camp they are guarding  is made by Flyhouses for the Street Heart Beatsparty.

The street artist Fætter Dub (Cussin Dub) have made this paste up of a little boy who cut not wait any more. It is a stencil on paper, which have been pasted up with a mix of flower and hot water. The the pic is form the street art website gadentaler.dk (the speech of the street)

By Nicolai Juhler • October 18, 2010
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