Art exhibitions by ELKE GRAALFS, SHAVI LAVI & NORA BELOW

~ Kunst ist keine Geldanlage. Sondern eine Bereicherung. ~

~ Art is not for the accumulation of money. It's an enrichment. ~

Elke Graalfs

For the first time, art got its own space in our STYLE! IT! TAKES! night of fashion, performances, arts & music with three wonderful exhibitions at Urban Spree gallery... All three had their very own character and topics, but have been set up in such a lovely style, that they worked amazingly well together and looked simply beautiful in their interaction... Thank you so much, Elke, Shavi & Nora for your gorgeous contributions to our extra-ordinaire event!!! I think, I never loved an art exhibition opening and the aesthetics and atmosphere of your united works more than this one of the three of you... it was just perfect!!! ♥♥♥

ELKE GRAALFS - Coats

ELKE GRAALFS painted these amazing coats at Urban Spree extra for this super special one-night-exhibition!!! A photo from some days before the event. (it's about the 'true colours', in contrast to the next pic)

A guest posing in front of ELKE GRAALFS coat arts @ STYLE! IT! TAKES! # 4 (photo by House of Rough Arts)

Guests and photographers in front of ELKE GRAALFS' coat arts during the Transgender Fashion Show by BAAL @ STYLE! IT! TAKES! # 4 (the wonderful photo is by Jarka Snajberk)

SHAVI LAVI - The Breasts of Tiresias

SHAVI LAVI from Ljubljana setting up her photo exhibition The Breasts of Tiresias with the help of Manuele

A model from the BAAL show catwalking in front of SHAVI LAVI's photo exhibition @ Urban Spree Gallery 
Berlin Fashion Week, 17. Jan. 2014

NORA BELOW - Instinkten in Winter

 NORA BELOW's Comic Wall "Instinkten in Winter"

 

Sheila Wolf (The Teaserettes) & model Sinteque (Feisty Cat store)

posing in front of NORA BELOW's Comic Wall

@ STYLE! IT! TAKES! # 4

Berlin Fashion Week, 17. Jan. 2014, Urban Spree Gallery

ARTS by:

★ ELKE GRAALFS (Berlin)
Fashion Related Visual Arts (Coat paintings)
www.elke-graalfs.de

★ NORA BELOW (Berlin / Stockholm)
"Instinkten in Winter" (Comic Wall Exhibition)
www.norabelow.de
http://norabelow.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/norabelow.artmusic

★ SLAVICA VESELINOVIC (SHAVI LAVI) (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
"The Breasts of Tiresias" (Photographic Art Exhibition)
http://elle.rs/lifestyle/kultura/5273-izložba-fotografija-“tiresijeve-grudi”.html
http://style-berlin.blogspot.de/2014/01/the-breasts-of-tiresias-by-shavi-lavi.html

♥♥♥

POPSIMONOVA trägt DEGENEROTIKA

Das Berliner Avantgarde Fashion Label DEGENEROTIKA von Thea Adora Bauer und Jasa Gladez ist mit seinem Hang zur eher düsteren Seite sicherlich der perfekte modische Ausstatter für die großartige kroatische Electro-Diva POPSIMONOVA. Beide kommen für die zweite STYLE! IT! TAKES! Nacht am 18. Januar 2013 im Grünen Salon für eine ganz besondere Show zusammen. Herzlichen Dank auch an Shąvi Ląvi für diese wunderschönen Photos, die bereits letztes Jahr bei einer gemeinsamen Session in Berlin entstanden sind. ♥

This picture by MAJLO MILEVSKIJ

Music / Model

 

★ POPSIMONOVA

Amazing Croatian Electro Diva

http://soundcloud.com/popsimonova
www.myspace.com/popsimonova
http://romancemoderne.bandcamp.com/album/yellow-lamps

POPSIMONOVA performing live with REVERSO @

SABBAT CRISIS
Sa 12th January 2013
23.30 h

SHIFT
Köpenickerstr. 70 (next to TRESOR)
10179 Berlin

 http://www.facebook.com/events/473962075980740

 POPSIMONOVA performing live wearing amazing fashion designs by DEGENEROTIKA @

STYLE! IT! TAKES! # 2

 Night of Fashion, Performances & Music
 Fr 18th January 2013

21.00 h

GRÜNER SALON der Volksbühne

Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 2

10178 Berlin - Mitte

U2 / Bus 142 / M8

http://www.facebook.com/events/433806033353750

 http://style-berlin.blogspot.de/2012/12/style-it-takes-2-18-jan-2013-night-of.html 

Fashion Design

 

★ DEGENEROTIKA

Violent Avantgarde Fashion from Berlin

www.degenerotika.de
http://degenerotika.carbonmade.com/
www.notjustalabel.com/degenerotika

DEGENEROTIKA fashion label will host a showroom during

Berlin Fashion Week - Showroom Days at labels residence atelier:

HOUSE OF ADORA

Schreinerstr. 10

10247 Berlin

U5 Samariterstrasse

January 16th | 8 pm - 11:55 pm | 

January 17th &January 18th | 1 pm - 5 pm |

January 19th | 3 pm - 6 pm |

free entrance

Photography

★ Shąvi Ląvi

 http://www.facebook.com/shavi.lavi

More about POPSIMONOVA in this blog:

POPSIMONOVA & Thea from DEGENEROTIKA wearing DEGENEROTIKA fashion designs at our Style! It! Takes! # 2 Party (Jan. 2013):
http://style-berlin.blogspot.de/2013/02/stylish-at-night-like-this.html

Photos of POPSIMONOVA live in DEGENEROTIKA fashion design at Style! It! Takes! # 2 - January 2013:
http://style-berlin.blogspot.de/2013/01/popsimonova-live-tragt-degenerotika.html

More great Video Cuts of POPSIMONOVA live in DEGENEROTIKA fashion design at Style! It! Takes! # 2 - January 2013:
http://style-berlin.blogspot.de/2013/01/marlene-von-steenvag-bird-of-paradise.html

Great Video Cuts of POPSIMONOVA live in DEGENEROTIKA fashion design at Style! It! Takes! # 2 - January 2013:
http://style-berlin.blogspot.de/2013/01/eine-phantastische-nacht-in-berlin.html

Pictures of POPSIMONOVA live at AKC Medika / Zagreb (Oct. 2012):

http://style-berlin.blogspot.de/2012/10/croatian-diaries-part-ii-akc-medika.html

POPSIMONOVA record review:

http://style-berlin.blogspot.com/2012/07/stylish-records-by-popsimonova-zarkoff.html

POPSIMONOVA in fashion design by LANA JASTREVSKI performing live at Style! It! Takes! # 1 - July 2012:
http://style-berlin.blogspot.de/2012/07/later-hours-with-popsimonova-zarkoff-djs.html

Introduction POPSIMONOVA: 
http://style-berlin.blogspot.com/2012/04/blog-post.html

AFTERHOURS II: Elke Graalfs painting walls

Already in the morning hours after the first Style! It! Takes! night (see my first Afterhours post for this) it has been somehow clear that this project should continue. So there have been many afterhours, meetings and conversations in the weeks and months after the event.

Schon am Morgen nach der ersten Style! It! Takes!-Nacht (siehe meinen ersten Afterhours Post) war klar, dass dieses Projekt weitergehen sollte. Es gab also eine Menge Afterhours, Treffen und Gespräche in den Wochen und Monaten nach dem Event.

A fine one took place in the studio of artist ELKE GRAALFS in Neukölln. The relatively empty place with its huge white walls, combined with great music playing from the little blaster, drinking coffee and eating Mum's delicious Lemon Cake has been a perfect place for getting the head fresh & free for new ideas for all tomorrow's projects...

Eine schöne Afterhour war im Atelier der Künstlerin ELKE GRAALFS in Neukölln. Der relativ leere Raum mit seinen großen weißen Wänden, gepaart mit großartiger Musik aus einem kleinen Blaster, Kaffee und Mamas leckerem Zitronenkuchen waren der perfekte Ort, um den Kopf frisch und frei zu kriegen für neue Ideen für künftige Projekte...

In July, Elke had been on stage at the Style! It! Takes! performance of musician and artist NORA BELOW and fashion designer LOUIS FLEISCHAUER / AMF KORSETS. On this summer afternoon she was doing her art and I could watch her painting, while we were talking and listening to the music. Mum's delicious Lemon Cake not to forget. (^.^)

Im Juli war Elke bei der Style! It! Takes! Performance der Musikerin und Künstlerin NORA BELOW und des Modedesigners LOUIS FLEISCHAUER / AMF KORSETS auf der Bühne. An jenem Sommernachmittag war sie wieder mit ihrer Kunst beschäftigt und ich konnte ihr beim Malen zusehen, während wir uns unterhielten und Musik hörten. Mamas leckeren Zitronenkuchen nicht zu vergessen. (^.^)

Pictures by Magenta Netzwerk (Summer 2012)

Elke Graalfs painted by her colleague Nora Below:

Elke Graalfs portraitiert von ihrer Kollegin Nora Below:

 

Elke in Iceland by NORA BELOW (Acrylic on canvas, 0,90 m x 0,80 m, 2010)

A 'finished' one of ELKE GRAALFS' amazing works:
Und so kann es aussehen, wenn ELKE GRAALFS' faszinierende Kunst 'fertig' ist:

Elke Graalfs: »then climb into bed and turn to dust« (acryl/wand,decke 2009)

Obviously things are never finished, so here's what can happen with / to this art, too:

Natürlich sind Dinge niemals fertig. Was (mit) der Kunst auch passieren kann:

       

eine performance mit der malerei »schnee von gestern«:

ich bestreue einen sessel durch ein sieb mit puderzucker. dann sauge ich den sessel ab, um ihn wieder bestreuen zu können...

(Elke Graalfs @ Galerie Crystal Ball – Kopfüber)

Elke Graalfs beim Beseitigen der Arbeit. Kunst ist eine Bereicherung, keine Geldanlage.

Traditionally, clothings, fabrics, stitches, patterns and fashion play a big role in Elke's art.

These are wallworks with reflections about coats, below enlarged to an installation:

Kleidung, Stoffe, Maschen, Muster und Mode spielen in Elkes Kunst traditionell eine große Rolle.
Hier Wandtapeten mit Reflexionen über Mäntel, unten zur Rauminstallation erweitert:

      

Elke Graalfs: »oT«

acryl/papier/ausgerissen + tapeziert
265cm x 132cm
2010

  Elke Graalfs: »over the hill« (acryl/papier ausgerissen + tapeziert, 2011)

 

www.elke-graalfs.de