Hendrik Beikirch

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Hendrik Beikirch (Cologne 2013)

Hendrik Beikirch (born March 6, 1974 in Kassel ) is a German graffiti and street artist.

life and work

Hendrik Beikirch, who is also known by his stage name ecb , creates black-and-white portraits that he paints on facades, canvases and paper. He has been a household name in the graffiti and street art scene since the mid-1990s. In 1989 he created his first picture with a spray can. From 1996 to 2000 the artist studied art education at the University of Koblenz-Landau .

Contribution to the Cultura Nova Festival (Heerlen 2014)

His works are often captivating due to their huge dimensions, an extraordinary visual language and the socially critical statements that he makes with his pictures. In August 2012 he created the 70 meter high portrait of a fisherman in Busan, South Korea . Many fishermen have been evicted from the port in Busan as new high-rise buildings have been built. This gigantic work of art is the tallest mural in Asia. Beikirch finds it exciting to work with dimensions and is of the opinion that there is still air upwards and would also like to enlarge his works of art to a height of 100 meters or more.

The street artist likes to alienate his works by running individual drops of color and by distorting them by stretching and compressing. They belong to the genre of realism . He has been invited to festivals around the world for years, for example CityLeaks 2013 in Cologne and Cultura Nova 2014 in Heerlen.

In Mannheim-Vogelstang , Beikirch has enlarged a black and white portrait of a woman, which is part of his Siberia series, to a high-rise building with 15 floors.

He lives and works as a freelance artist in Koblenz.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2014 SCOPE NEW YORK, Galerie Wolfsen, NYC, USA,
  • Galerie Wolfsen, Monochrome Matters, solo exhibition, Aalborg, Denmark,
  • St.ART Delhi, Tallest Mural in India, New Delhi, India
  • 2013 UNIT44, After the dark, group exhibition, Newcastle, Great Britain,
  • MuBE, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, biennale graffiti fine art, group exhibition, São Paulo, Brazil,
  • Ruttkowski68 , Trans-Siberian Greyhound, solo exhibition, Cologne, Germany,
  • Galerie Wolfsen, Pieces of Heaven, group exhibition, Aalborg, Denmark
  • 2012 Soze Gallery, Graffuturism, group exhibition, Los Angeles, USA,
  • Platoon Kunsthalle, Urban void, group exhibition, Seoul, Republic of Korea,
  • Busan Cultural Foundation, highest mural in Asia, Busan, Republic of Korea,
  • cbk amsterdam, group exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2011 Scope Art Basel Miami, 101exhibit, Miami, USA,
  • rizzordi art foundation, expression beyond, group exhibition, St. Petersburg, Russia,
  • Kunstencentrum Signe, Urban Script Continues, group exhibition, Netherlands,
  • World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte - European Center for Art and Industrial Culture, Urban Art Graffiti 21, group exhibition, Saarbrücken, Germany

Video documentations

Web links

Commons : Hendrik Beikirch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with HENDRIK 'ECB' BEIKIRCH Wertical-Magazine, accessed January 13, 2015
  2. ↑ CityLeaks 2013
  3. ^ Claudia Henzler: Mannheim: Can graffiti save a city image? Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Beikirch, Hendrik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ecb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graffiti and street artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel