The Circleculture Gallery Berlin will be back in Hamburg for the second time this year opening a new art exhibition November 25th entitled The Old Casino. It will run through December 22nd. Five different solo shows will be presented. Works from Katrin Fridriks, Stefan Strumbel,  XOOOOX will be show. As well as a world premier presentation of the complete set of the print edition “Saint Nimmerlein“ by Various & Gould. And Berlin based calligraphy-graffiti artist Stohead will be bringing an installation along with his new artwork.

Along with the solo shows there will also be a group show, it will include new works by Jaybo aka Monk, conceptional painter Cornelia Enderlein, former Baselitz student and Princeton teacher Christian Awe. Italian artist Marco “Pho” Grassi. And last but not least, Kevin Earl Taylor.

There a more images after the fold from the artists. It’s an impressive lineup for a huge space. I’m sure the show will not disappoint.

A new mural buy David Flores and OBEY Giant. Go check it out for yourself in person here.

Check out more images after the jump.

If you are aware of Hedi Slimane’s work you will be excited (if you are in Los Angeles) to go visit the exhibit at MOCA Pacific Design Center. It opened November 12th and will run through January 22nd, 2012.

The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Hedi Slimaneʼs California Song, the first West Coast solo museum exhibition of the photographerʼs work, on view at MOCA Pacific Design Center from November 12, 2011, through January 22, 2012. California Song spans the photographerʼs “California period” and traces his explorations of cycles of urban youth culture and artistic communities, through installations of photographic essays, exhibitions, and publications.

Slimane has achieved global recognition over the past decade for his discovery and presentation of emerging musicians and artists. His publications on London youth are among the first books published about the early days of the new British punk-rock movement at the beginning of this decade, capturing the birth of the first generation of Internet users, and redefining the concept of “fans” as an indie youth imagery that has developed globally through emerging social networks. Slimaneʼs widely followed photographic “diary,” created in 2006, established and popularized an entirely new genre—the online photo diary. via: MOCA PDC.

Opening November 17 at West Berlin Gallery and as the title suggests, it will showcase modern day dissidents.

A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution. By acknowledging the social and political unrest of this year, West Berlin Gallery cordially invites you from 18:00 until 22:00 on November 17th, 2011 as we debut Dissidents, a Group Show featuring: ALIAS, SP38 , Prost, Emess, Rallito X, BR1, Linda’s Ex, Niark1, Jakob Tolstrup, and Giacomo Spazio.

Images from the artists after the jump.

A new collaboration between artist/director Saam Farahmand and Absolut vodka. Taking place in London and running November 17th-27th, off London’s Brick Lane, with the grand finale December 2nd at Village Underground.

In short ABSOLUT BLANK Live is the unique digital concept of video
director Saam Farahmand, giving members of the public the opportunity
to create their own intimate artwork through personal visual
expression, as though their bodies are the paintbrushes – the bottle
their canvas. Open to London’s public from 17th-27th November, the
result will be a series of video portraits that form both an online
commission and a specially curated live a/v set by Jamie XX on
December 2nd. People will also be able to view their portraits or buy
tickets to the finale on Facebook. (www.facebook.com/ABSOLUTUK)

Check out the promo video after the jump. There are some pretty great images created using the 3D motion tracking technology and infrared cameras used in the capture process.

Hugh Leeman is an artist living and working in San Francisco. He is self taught. He is helping those that go unnoticed and overlooked to be remembered.

At 18, he grabbed his backpack and traveled the world, hopping trains to see as much as he could. Three years later, he was in the Tenderloin for a six-month stopover. He’s not quite sure why he never left. Inspired by the work that Shepard Fairey and others were doing at the time with wallpaper glue from the hardware store, a world of possibilities exploded in his mind. via: The Bold Italic

Watch the video recently created to spotlight his social mission and hopes for the future of the Tenderloin after the jump.

If you are in Los Angeles, I’d highly recommend coming out for this show. It opens November 12th at Known Gallery.

Traditionally oil and water do not mix. The surf, hot rod and motorcycle cultures that grew out of Southern California from the 50’s-70s however, were all connected by the idea of personal freedom and expression-not conforming to the standards of the societies they existed in. For this show we are bringing together dozens of artists and craftsmen from these respective backgrounds and beyond-from legends to rookies. Each artists will be provided with a particular canvas: a blank board from City Fog Surfboards, helmets from Biltwell, gas tanks from Lowbrow Customs among other items.

Via: Oil and Water

Video of Wes Humpston after the jump. And if it doesn’t get you excited about the show, I don’t know what will.

Leon Keer and Planet Streetpainting has unveiled new 3-D paintings at the Sarasota Chalk Festival in Florida. Keer was inspired by the recent Ego Leonard sculpture that washed ashore nearby. To see the story about the Lego castaway again, it was posted here on Curated a few days ago.

Planet Streetpaining is a collaboration of street artists based in the Netherlands. As Planet Streetpainting’s art director, Leon Keer is always fascinated about what history reveals. He tries to connect the historical events with current issues in this society. For the Sarasota Chalk Festival he has been inspired by the discovery of the Terracotta Army of China and Ego Leonard who washed ashore in Sarasota yesterday morning.

via: Twisted Sifter

More images after the jump.

At the corner of La Cienega and Venice Blvd in Los Angeles, a new series of murals is set to go up:

Triple A is a two-year public art project initiated by Francois Ghebaly, Emma Gray, Mandrake Bar and OHWOW. Eight internationally recognized artists will be asked to create a single color image to be painted at large scale on the exterior wall of a former muffler shop that sits at the corner of Venice Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard, just south of the 10 Freeway in Los Angeles California. The wall, situated in the Culver City gallery district, also sits at one of the most heavily trafficked intersections in Los Angeles.This location offers high visibility to both arts professionals and the larger general public.

Via: Slamxhype

Nick Veasey has created some striking images for The Macallan.

Shooting with an X-ray machine rather than with a traditional camera, British photographer Nick Veasey produces surprising, visually enchanting work that begs the observer to think about what’s under the surface. With more than twenty years of experimental experience, the TED speaker’s fascinating body of work spans subjects from insects and flowers to cars and even airplanes, each broken down to expose its raw inner components. Veasey’s next project finds him putting his graphic images on whisky bottles as part of a collaboration with The Macallan.

Via Cool Hunting. More images after the jump.