HARAKAT BARAKAT

A paint’formance by Amigo & Nomad

Amigo and Nomad are two of the biggest names in Berlin’s vibrant urban art scene. Both grew up with hip hop and street culture and achieved impressive international careers as versatile artists.

“Harakat Barakat” is an Egyptian term for ‘blessing in motion’ – and it is precisely this blessing that will be staged exclusively for the Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt by the two Berlin originals: While one forms sounds, the other transforms his dance into horizontal lines. This symbiosis creates a “symphonic carpet” that becomes a personified localization – a testimony to artistic transformation.

This extraordinary performance blurs the boundaries between performative and visual art and will take the audience into a new world of urban art and movement!

The smashing of Deutsche Bank

Performance by Kiddy Citny

Friday, November 1 | 4 pm 

The Berlin artist Kiddy Citny will smash up the Deutsche Bank in a performance to effectively multiply money. Ten editions of the dismembered bank will be added to the art market.

Kiddy Citny (the child of the city) achieved international fame as one of the Berlin Wall painters. Together with Thierry Noir, they painted the West Berlin Wall in Kreuzberg from 1984. Their intention: to reduce the dreariness of the ‘anti-fascist protective wall’ to absurdity. The heart faces and crowned heads that Kiddy Citny painted on the wall were interpreted as a symbol of the new freedom after German reunification and can be seen in Paris, London and in front of the UN headquarters in New York amongst other places.

Kiddy is constantly on the move – ‘my centre is where I am.’ Citny is a restless artist whose aim is not to create museum artefacts, but art for everyday life, which at its best improves the world and invites everyone to actively participate in this process.