Shimoni's artwork is exhibited in galleries around the world including Berlin, Madrid, Tel Aviv, New York and more. The idea for Hipstory came when Shimoni started looking for a way to connect his generation to history's finest political and cultural leaders.
You never know what sales and opportunities your Instagram account might lead to. With Instagram, you can tell your story, share your inspirations, invite your followers to see your creative process, and more. That is why we have created a full guide for establishing your brand on Instagram, and the different strategies you can implement for a more successful Instagram profile. This is part 3 out of our 4 part Instagram guide.
"Life should not be taken too seriously – stay open and creative and remember what inspired you when you were young". Interview with Henrik Larsen Kirkeby, the man behind the many faces.
You never know what sales and opportunities your Instagram account might lead to. With Instagram, you can tell your story, share your inspirations, invite your followers to see your creative process, and more. That is why we have created a full guide for establishing your brand on Instagram, and the different strategies you can implement for a more successful Instagram profile. This is part 2 out of our 4 part Instagram guide.
Interview with Brian Saaby. What happens when you superimpose your childhood memories and characters into a raw and often times brutal reality of adult life?
You never know what sales and opportunities your Instagram account might lead to. With Instagram, you can tell your story, share your inspirations, invite your followers to see your creative process, and more. That is why we have created a full guide for establishing your brand on Instagram, and the different strategies you can implement for a more successful Instagram profile. This is part 1 out of our 4 part Instagram guide.
Art makes your business more produtive. A happy and stimulated worker will be a productive worker and a well decorated office can make employees 15% more productive.
Furthermore, empowering your employees by including them in the office decoration, productivity increases by up to 30%! At the same time, stress levels decrease, employees show greater autonomy and become more involved in your business.
"Treat your art practice similar to a sport, you have to exercise, set a routine to improve. In order to create work you have to set
yourself a flow and but I also think its okay to allow yourself to become frustrated."
Just as when one has been in a crooked posture for a long time, he feels pain in his body and he has to correct his posture, I have to correct my mental posture.
Forget the politics and other stuff, It's about the art.
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Children draw fearlessly, as they wander through their imagination, and at some point, some children stop drawing and others keep on drawing. I am of the kind that kept on
drawing.
"When I arrived at the apartment block, I climbed the stairs to the 4th floor, where the door was already open - it was like stepping into a jungle of art with a pleasant warm atmosphere"
Since a very young age, I always drew and dreamed of becoming an artist. The dream of course came true! Everyone in our family has an artistic side, my twin sister is a painter and my dad is cartoonist, illustrator and worked in the theater as a puppet maker and scenography artist.
More is more – less is a bore with Ruth Crone Foster
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Coining the perfect term for what I do is impossible. You can choose freely from “creative consultant” over “experimental illustrator” to “entrepreneurial one-woman-army”.
Anne Philipp is fascinated by people, facial expressions and feelings. Read the article and discover how Anne Philipp investigate people and enjoy her amazing paintings.
Experience the international artist Soos Tiberiu Anton’s colourful universe and awesome style created with watercolors, acrylics and oil colors. Soos only paints when he feels happy so his positive energy affects his artwork.
Art is all around us. It is created all over the world. But we are incredibly lucky to have a lot of talented local artists right here in Aarhus. In this article you can discover local art and support some of our cool local artists.
Meet up-and-coming artist Konstantinos Skopelitis and his inspiring artwork. Konstantinos uses old vintage book pages as his canvas to tell new stories with a urban-comic aesthetic.
Iris Bakker's work is intuitive and all about loosing control and making in the process. She is very experimental and sometimes she makes her audience co-creators of the art. For Iris art is all about interaction between people and see where the process is going.
Explore upcoming artist Signe who is still finding her style by exploring lots of different techniques, skills and materials. She finds inspiration everywhere she goes and when she finally gets a good idea there isn't long time before the artwork is done.
Learn about Danish artist Cecilie Bødker and her inspiring photos
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Cecilie Bødker is an artist and feminist who lives and work in Copenhagen. She is amazing with a camera and and her photo art shows a big passion for her fields of interest like sexuality and gender.
Sarah is known for her amazing oil paintings of motives of different cities. Her style is very recognizable because of her originality. Sarah is very aware of her color use in her paintings, because she believes they have a special impact on us.
Isaac Malakkai is a Spanish artist from Almeria currently based in Copenhagen. Isaac is doing some amazing artwork painting in the street. His style is very colourful, non-realistic and it also has a bit of humor.
Camilla Gabriele and her beautiful captures of nature
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Camilla Gabriele is a Danish artist living and working in Aarhus. She is mainly working with photography and is specially fascinated with nature and its processes.
Joanna Jensen is a Danish illustrator, Art Historian and watercolor alchemist. Looking at her art is like going into a magical universe, which is why her own description of her style is surreal, dreamy and experimental.
Yulia Brodskaya is a British artist making the most beautiful artwork out of paper. Right here you can discover her amazing quilling technique, and take a look at some of her unique artwork which she made only by using paper and glue.
Crowdfunding has become possible in recent years thanks to websites that allow nonprofits, artists, musicians and businesses to raise money. This is the new digital and social media version of fundraising.
Ulrik Myrtue is an full time artist from Aarhus. He is doing a lot of different art but is especially known for his creativity, when he uses trash as the material for his amazing artwork.
You might be an amazing artist, but without a bit of promotion it will be hard to reach a broad audience. All the hard work and dedication put in your work is certainly inspiring but won’t help to introduce yourself in the art-community. Targeting and reaching the right audience is crucial to reaching success. We’ve gathered some tips to help you promote your art effectively!
Copenhagen is considered to be the design capital of the world, but the city vibrates with many art-related events and places as well. From well-established museums and festivals to pop up cultural spaces, we keep on getting entertained and filled with wonders.
We browsed through some of the upcoming or ending events of the city and made a list just for you. Check it out!
BREATH is an environmental-art project designed to fight the deforestation of the Mount Olivella, Southern Italy..
With the help of the Spanish artist Escif, they decided to build a nature-generated battery with trees, which illustrates the energy cycle -regenerating itself, following the natural pace of time and Earth, following its own wilderness.
For his latest project he bought 10 homeless people from the streets of London, and then sold them as artworks. The homeless are fitted with smartphones and tracking devices so the buyers can follow their every move through an exclusive app.
Hipstory, or how to transform politics into hipsters
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Shimoni's artwork is exhibited in galleries around the world including Berlin, Madrid, Tel Aviv, New York and more. The idea for Hipstory came when Shimoni started looking for a way to connect his generation to history's finest political and cultural leaders.
Alex Senna is an artist from Sao Paulo. He has been passionate by drawings and comics since his childhood, and share his passion by making amazing drawings and embellishing streets and walls in different countries.
Why is art so interesting in relation to interior design?
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Art can be perceived as the idea of looking for beauty, and incorporating it in our lives. And what is more present in our lives than our own environment?
For my most recent exhibition "An Exploration of Tomorrows Billboards" I jumped into the deep end again. I asked myself the question: “How can I exhibit my moving images - motion photography - in a physical space?
The special thing about this artistic movement is that artists are inspired by the society, and make people feel more concerned by it. The artists are witnesses of their time and they spread ideas across art about our current society.
The iconic view of the Manhattan skyline reflected in vertical mirrors. Water walls that rhythmically appear and disappear. Vivid orange park benches that brightens up the urban landscape.
Two of our artists join forces and create this wonderful mural!
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Thanks to a post on Facebook, the two Venezuelan artists Marco Castillo and Flores Soláno met and discovered that both of them had a campaign at Artboost. Where they ambraced the opportunity for them to begin a collaboration.
On Sunday the 11th of june 2017 Artboost took you behind the scenes of some of the most amazing Danish artists. If you didn’t make it, this article will give you the insight, of what took place at this inspiring event. Keep on reading, and go behind the scenes of the artwork yourself!
Exclusive interview with Kitt Buch. Discover her artwork and find out more about the meaning of her work. Where did the ideas come from? Why clowns as a focus? Keep on reading to get a view behind the work of Kitt Buch!
I come from a very poor reality. I have always lived with very little things and would like to continue to live these emotions. I believe that only those who have known real love in small things can generate emotions. I just want to send a message, a small message with my artworks.
Do you want to embellish your place with affordable art? Then Artboost is made for you! Discover our 10 masterpieces in different scales of prices, and find your heart’s desire!
As an artist, you might have many sources of inspiration. Let people know more about it and show them the different elements that are the source of your creativity.
We all know about continuous line drawing in some way, as an exercise from school or just for fun, but can it also be a part of amazing and popular art? In this article you will get wiser on that subject!
What some people probably don’t know is that for a few years he worked on commissioned designing Christmas cards for big names like Harper’s Bazaar and Tiffany & Co. Warhol’s cards were subsequently published by Tiffany's every year until 1962 when he began to show his Campbell soup cans paintings.
We all faced this situation during an exhibiton, standing up in front of a paint thinking “Oh I like it but… what does it mean? For those who never studied art, this world can be intimidating.
5 tips for a better (or maybe just different) Art Museum experience.
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Art Museums are great! Whether they are new territory for you or you’ve been to more museums than you can count, every now and then you’ll have an off day. Sometimes it’s just harder to engage. You’re not as easily impressed or moved, and everything looks like something you’ve seen before. This is a guide for getting the most out of your visit.
Art and fashion are major elements of Wynwood. In fact, you will find two different sub-districts inside Wynwood - the Wynwood Art District and the Wynwood Fashion District.
For this artist it all started back when he was a young boy and used to draw the ”teenage mutant ninja turtles”. He enjoyed creating his own heroes and villains. He basically created his own toys for his imagination to run loose with.
The museum is interested in many periods in the story of art : you can discover Greek, Egyptian, and Roman Antiquity, which takes part of the permanent collections, across sculptures, sarcophagus, and paintings. The surroundings are pretty adapted to the theme of the collection, and then guests feel set back for years.
Looking from the outside, the Arken museum is already amazing. The very modern architecture of the property perfectly suits to the inside. It is designed by Søren Robert Lund, and the building is very simple, made of straight lines and of white rough concrete.
The world of art can be intimidating. It seems like everybody gets it – except for you, making it hard to make your first art purchase. Well, not anymore!
Here is a guide to buying your first piece of art on artboost.
Making the world a little more colorful with Frida Stiil Vidum
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I really got serious about art when I came home from a trip to Africa. I experienced a cultural shock when I realised that the world wasn’t the way I had imagined. It was hard, but also very good for me, and that’s where my own little mission began.
Learn about Japanese artist Akiko Kobayakawa and her creative universe
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I have been working consistently with paintings that have challenged us to examine ourselves through the juxtaposition of different images together. In particular, my drawings attempt to combine disparate elements together which create degrees of humor and tension simultaneously, for example; sexiness and innocence.
An inspiring interview with artist Lars Christian Kraemmer
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It is important for me that art works as a tool for enhancing the experience of living. A tool for learning by experience. Drawing or painting help me focus the attention on one thing for an extended period of time.
Banksy’s works are often related to politics with messages about society, war and capitalism. He is very interested in the Great Britain’s politics especially politics within the increased surveillance and the police power.
Pricing your art can be a challenging task – you would like to secure a price that represents the time and expense you have devoted to your work, but which is still reasonable and appealing to buyers.
Learn about artist Joanna Jensen's unique way of creating art
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I never, or very rarely ‘plan’ a painting. The first layer is completely abstract (watercolor). Then while it’s drying I like to look at it for a couple of days, and then it usually turns into something in my imagination – this image I get, I simply draw on top of the dry watercolor, with a black pen.
I prefer not to have a specific agenda or some kind of theme in mind while photographing or working. I believe the fact that there is an unconscious motive on how we all find something enchanting and attractive.
Insights from Kristian von Hornsleth on Artmoney International 2015
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Good art is something such as artmoney. It is a project, you cannot really figure out. I cannot decide whether it is good or bad. It bothers me in a good way. Good art is something such as artmoney. It is a project, you cannot really figure out. I cannot decide whether it is good or bad. It bothers me in a good way. There are a lot of details involved like some artmoney are worth more than others, or is that possible?
I noticed that most images from the refugee crisis looked the same. To a greater or lesser extent, the photographers use images of individual refugees to tell the same story as being the same for everyone, and therefore, we see very little diversity in the image material. Instead, I try to portray the story from above, so you suddenly have an idea how many 5000 refugees really are.
Learn about artist Jenny Hedlund's love and passion for oli painting
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If you’re a painter, you’re a painter. It really is a particular relationship that you have to the process, to the materials, the way you organize information, the way you organize the world. It is the way you see, and express feelings through the way you see.
At a first glance, Xu Bing’s installation resembles a beautiful tiger skin places flat on the floor. But a closer look will show you that it is, in fact, cigarettes placed to resemble the pattern of a tiger skin.
Most of the time I know what my paintings will look like before I begin, but on other times I also embrace the freedom to change courses many times along the way. I like to experiment a lot. And I like to do that without having to limit my brush strokes and feelings.
I think art is innate. You are always interested in art if you are that way inclined. The evidence of this is when you think back to when you were a child - did you pick up a crayon, soccer ball or book?
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