Barbara

Barbara

Barbara – that's how he or she is called,  however, nobody really knows since this (let's say probably female) streetartist from Germany wants to stay completely anonymous and doesn't want to tell anything about her identity. Anonymity to her means freedom and she wants her art to be rated by itself and not by who she is.

Her street art can be admired in Berlin, but after she moved to Heidelberg for private reasons you can see her works in that new location as well. She´s also known beyond the city limits, seeing as her fanbase on Facebook is rather big; also, numerous interviews were made in Germany as well as in Austria by „Spiegel“, „Stern“, „dem Kurier“ and other magazines.

The main point of her work is to comment or estrange road and evidence signs, advertising or graffiti by sticking on own notes of paper. So you see signs like „Plakate ankleben verboten“ being answered with a „Das respektiere ich zu 100%. Doch wie hätte ich dir das mitteilen sollen, ohne ein Plakat hinzukleben?“ or „Ausfahrt Tag und Nacht freihalten“ changing to „Rassisten Tag und Nacht Mund halten.“ (Pictures and translations can be seen below.)

Her comments sometimes have a political background, but oftentimes they're simply funny.

Her conjunction to streetart already started while she was a small child when her grandfather told her about the meaning of twisted crosses.

Young Barbara decides to draw windmills of them.
Since then she has kept her enthusiasm for her art and of course she's always ecxited about comments and feedback that she's getting on her work. She earns a lot of positive feedback with many of her facebook-posts, with politic-criticizing posts there are often big discussions which seem precious to her.

The fact that her mostly on paper written comments cant´t resist opponents or the rain and consequently dissappear within a few days or months, sometimes even hours, doesn't matter to her. As long as it is immortalized on fFcebook and seen by her fans she is contented.

"Keep driveway clear day and night!" turns into "Racists keep your mouths shut day and night!"



Sign on top: "Post no bills."
Sign below: "I respect that to 100%. But how was I supposed to tell you that without posting a bill?"