Urban Art Association

It would be nice given I live in Stockers. But lets face it, someone is having a laugh and svt has fallen for it.... 

There are some galleries on Hudiksvallsgatan and it would seem more likely to me that one of them may have bought a few prints to flog at inflated prices, rather than the man himself.

I think this is probabaly a commerical excercise rather than a true Banksy exhibition - I cant see bansky doing a bit of blatant PR like this in advance - he does like to keep things a bit discreet innit - its not like hes needs the money and it would be a rather oddly placed distraction from the current Syria stuff going on

happy to be proved wrong though

Exhibition (Sale) of street pieces perhaps? "Vermin" or whatever they're called?

Unless it is tied into this water thing. But that is unlikely. Otherwise it would say wouldn't it? I agree it is a vermin thing or similar. Still, I will have to check it out on Sunday.

would be interesting to know who paid for the ads, if anyone..?

What the maxim that Journos are supposed to use when handling potentially iffy sources ?

Being a stockholmer, have you gotten any more info?

You are right, it's a bit Outisly But you never know

There are some speculation that it's Akay and Klisterpeter behind it. They are street artists from Stockholm that's been around almost as long as Banksy. Let's hope this is true and that it's a prank instead of some gallery.

www.dn.se/kultur-noje/axel-bjorklund-ar-det-verkligen-banksy-som-kommer/

Translated via Google:

COMMENT . It was on Tuesday that the news that one of the art world's biggest names, the British street artist Banksy exhibit in Stockholm landed on the country's culture editors in the form of an anonymous letter .

Half a day later, question marks remain over the zeros in the prices of Banksy's works.

Will he ? What is the kind of exhibition that will take place on Hudiksvallsgatan - more specific address than the capital's gallery street number one ( in addition misspelled in the letter ) is not given - on Sunday at 13-16 ? And have it all with Banksy to do?

Giant companies JCDecaux and Clear Channel asserts that Banksy does not advertise with them, even though advertising demonstrably sitting on their light boards . On the net claiming someone that the posters have been put up illegally by Stockholm artists Akay and Klister-Peter .

The two 40 -year-old street artists are veterans of the Stockholm graffiti scene and participated last year in an exhibition at Kulturhuset in Stockholm (where Klister-Peter marked integrity by spraying his signature along the base of the obelisk at Sergel Square , visible from the exhibition window) . It would not be surprising if the two are connected if Banksy exhibit in town - they have previously had contact . It explains , in fact, a lot. But it might as well be an art coup that occurs without Banksy's involvement , albeit with his good memory .

The mailing of the exhibition came in a handwritten old envelope from SJ. Train memorabilia is popular in graffiti circles but does not feel as clear as a bell in Banksy's aesthetic world . The writing reminds definitely more about Akays than about Banksy's own . Nowhere in Banksy's official online channels is something about the exhibition.

It is alleged in the letter that the exhibition is Banksy's first in Stockholm , but already in 2005 he participated in a street art art exhibition at restaurant General Gallery in Stockholm .

Some of Banksy's most high-profile projects in recent times has resulted in meta- stamp. In the Oscar-nominated documentary " Exit through the gift shop" - a sort of 00 -century version of Orson Welles classic art spoof film " B as in scam ' - we meet the artist " Mr. Brainwash " whose exhibition in Los Angeles, despite clearly limited originality , attracting record crowds thanks to a post on Banksy's website. During a show in New York last year was sold Banksyverk for bargain prices , but speculators did not know who was the author until time of purchase was over.

Banksy's name is today greater than himself , which is often manifested as false Banksykonst be for real . Either way , this is a campaign entirely in Banksy's spirit. And now when we established culture media immediately went into spin may well be regarded as the art exhibition opened.

My first thought when I saw the picture of the letter yesterday. But then again, there was a link to akays site from banksy.co.uk waaaaay back...

Jo Brookes might not have been told.....she may not even represent him / them anymore...she might think she does though...dont write this in a book or anything.

So I was at the exhibition, and it can all be concluded in one picture:



It was actually not bad at all the first 35 minutes.

I would say a couple of thousand ppl had showed up at Hudiksvallsgatan. A guy in trainers shows up at 13:00 and blows in his wistlepipe and everyone follows him a couple of hundred meters to another location. Some good work there even if not Banksy. But after 35-40 minutes someone decided to take a can from a room, and after that everyone went mental. Rockabilly grls and hipters taking whathever they could take. Even the fkkn real living mice (from a box) was taken by the normally so well behaved swedes. The shit I saw today....awww. Lost some respect for humanity.

So,
this is how it looked like at 13:00 on Hudiksvallsgatan, so let´s just say that who ever did it, did the marketing part pretty good:




and we all followed this dude like as he was the Pied Piper of Hamelin:


to this place:


where there indeed where some quality artwork:




but then someone broke in to the little "banksy factory" and took a can. Then all things just went ape. Rockabilly girls started to climb the walls. Photographers filling their bags with cans (not even Montana Gold), ppl staring to tear down things from the wall, and even take the mice!
(this perticular mouse I am sure found a good home..the kid that took it seem to take it because of some love for animals...but don't be suprised if "banksy-rats from stockholm" show up on ebay).






and here is the show manifesto:



and the perfect picture to frame this story...hipsters: