Ministry of Walls Street Art Gallery:

Banksy is probably the most famous steetart and guerrilla artist in the world.
His works polarize the cultural scene and have triggered a new era of street art. As a political activist, he remains the focus of many discussions, and also as a filmmaker he has made a name for himself – especially with “Exit Through the Gift Shop”. The documentary film has won a lot of awards and was nominated for an Oscar.
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Inkie can be considered part of Bristol’s graffiti legacy along with Banksy, 3D and Nick Walker. He is popular for connecting Art Nouveau styles with an urban touch. In addition to creating Street Art, he has also worked as a designer for a number of well-known game companies. He also designs illustrations, prints and clothing. His influences come from a variety of sources, including punk rock culture, Mayan architecture and Islamic geometry.

The artist originally hails from Clifton, Bristol. There he began his artistic career in the early 1980s as a member of the Crime Incorporated Crew (CIC) together with Felix and Joe Braun. For Inkie, graffiti is a challenge that always leads him to do something better. Thus, as he says in an interview, street art makes his writings and bold symbolic images tangible. Large-format, colorful and unique paintings were shown on the city walls, inspired by crystals. In 1989 the artist took part in the World Street Art Championship. There he took second place against strong enemies from all over Europe and the USA.
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Alexis López, better known as Otto Schade, or simply OSCH, is a Chilean-German architect and artist. He is known for his paintings that perfectly blend abstract and surreal art.
For years he has worked as a street artist, photographer, and sculptor, working on collages as well as prints, drawings and installations.

Otto Schade was born in Chile in 1971. His talent was evident at an early age: he began to draw. Later he studied architecture and although Otto has already received numerous awards for his achievements in this field. His greatest passion however, as before, remained painting. Through his artworks Schade tries, as he says himself, “[…] to break the flatness of a canvas”. In his abstract paintings Schade experiments with layers and thus builds a depth of spatial representation.
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Nick Flatt was born in the state of Texas, USA. Today he lives and works mainly in Berlin. Flatt is primarily known for his large photorealistic portraits. He prefers to work with professional models and stages them for his artworks. He often makes them look like Barbie dolls, for example in his work “Rebel”.

In this age of consumerism and massive advertising, it takes a lot to see what is most important in life. His photorealistic paintings fit perfectly with the idea of the American dream, because it allows him to recreate almost identical scenes from advertising. He creates them in a way that doesn’t make you want something. Rather, he creates a certain level of discomfort. His works may seem provocative and vulgar, but there is a whole picture behind them. An image that criticizes all the bad things that happen today. As well as all the broken dreams around the world. And all the injustices that are more present today than ever before.
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D*Face is one of the most prolific contemporary urban artists of his generation. Working with a variety of mediums and techniques, he uses a family of dysfunctional characters to satirise and to hold to ransom all that falls into their grasp – a welcome jolt of subversion in today’s media-saturated environment.

His aim is to encourage the public not just to see, but to look at what surrounds them and their lives, reflecting our increasingly bizarre fascination with celebrity, fame consumerism and materialism, rethinking, reworking and subverting imagery appropriated from currency, advertising, comic books, these now iconic motifs, cultural figures and genres are subverted to comment upon our conspicuous society.
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The artist has successfully produced his epic street art creations in limited editions. Born and raised in London, the artist began drawing as a child. Breakdancing also played a role in Sarson’s life from a very early age: “We used to go to school earlier, so we were able to practice on the linoleum floors in the rooms before class.”
He later studied fine arts at the Byam Shaw School of Art, supplementing his graffiti skills with traditional artistic disciplines. Cosmo Sarson’s success was not long in coming – the legendary Paul Smith sponsored his first solo exhibition.
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L.E.T. is a German-French contemporary artist based in Düsseldorf, Germany. Beginning with stencils in the early 90s, he experiments with graphics, sprayed writings or pictures on posters or walls. The nickname L.E.T. stands for Les Enfants Terribles, traditionally called outsiders and eccentric people from art circles. Furthermore, L.E.T. belongs to the early German street art movement and is still active on the street today, forming the image of his hometown of Düsseldorf. He sprayed his motifs on paper and inscribed them as sections all over the city.
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Frank Shepard Fairey (* 15 February 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina) is a contemporary street artist, graphic designer and illustrator from the skateboard scene. He first became known for his “André the Giant Has a Posse” sticker campaign.

This campaign, developed in 1989, came about at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where Fairey was studying at the time. It evolved into the “Obey Giant” campaign, which became a worldwide effort through the collaboration and reproduction of the stickers.

In a manifesto Fairey wrote in 1990, he links his work to Martin Heidegger’s concept of phenomenology. His Obey campaign uses various quotes from John Carpenter’s film “They Live!”, including the “Obey” as well as the “This is Your God” quote. Other influences on the project included feminist conceptual artist Barbara Kruger and artist Robbie Conal.
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Blek le Rat is the street art icon of whom Banksy said that everything he had done himself, Blek le Rat did 20 years before.

Blek le Rat was born as Xavier Prou in Paris in 1951. He was the pioneer of graffiti artists in Europe and one of the pioneers to use the stencils to create icons, instead of names. Blek le Rat first came into contact with graffiti in the early 70s in New York. Ten years later, he created his own street art work. Inspired by a stenciled portrait of Mussolini, he created a silhouette of a rat running in the streets, which very quickly became noticeable all over Paris.
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