On 31.05. the Streetart Istanbul collective payed us a visit in Kassel. Curator and Organisator Pertev Emre Tasaban collected some works from 18 artists from all around the world (Turkey, Greece, Persia, France, USA, Austria) and and brought them to the walls of our beloved Wild Wood. Visitors had the chance to come by and have a chat with the guys behind the first artsy event in the name of Street Culture in Istanbul. Streetart Istanbul and Wild Wood had an exciting artistic exchange overthe last few years. For the second time artists from Wild Wood gallery traveled to Istanbul to participate the Street Art Istanbul Festival and paint huge Murals in the city. During this exhibition, first time turkish Artists traveled to Kassel to show their artwork at Wild Wood and to meet with local artists from Kassel.

Exhibitors: mami ( persia ) , olga alexopoulou ( greece ), daniel anguliu ( usa ), gilbert mazout ( france ), hot cheese crew ( germany ), Wel91 (Brotlosekunst) ( germany ), amirsu247 ( germany ), roman tschiedl ( austria ), recep batuk ( turkey ), uygar demoglu ( turkey ), beyza boynudelik ( turkey ), baysan yuksel ( turkey ), busra uzgun ( turkey ), hakan bayer ( turkey ), emrah eski ( turkey ), zone ( turkey ), mekazoo ( turkey ), pet05 street projects ( turkey )

About Streetart Istanbul:

Streetart istanbul is an initiative which organises and creates festivals, shows, performances, seminars in Turkey and its aim is toconnect watchers and artists. Because of the geographical position of Istanbul which connects two districts Asia and Europe, the cityinfluences many diffrent cultures.

Today, besides its historical atmosphere Istanbul is becoming an observer of new kinds of art and music, young population who developed new tecniques. For another word, the shape of unorder architecture of the city impressed the coming into existence of new forms. Streetart inititative combines presentation of the city and events, while supporting this form of art.

Its aim is inviting artists from all over the world to create bridges, show people how to be a part of a piece and feel for the all incredi- bility and amazing creation. Inititative works for showing different types, techniques, pioneers and well known artists from the scene of different cities to increase the audience.