Various and Gold

Various and Gold

The artist duo Various & Gould from Berlin has been working in close collaboration since 2005. Both share the love for paper, enthusiasm for accidental beauty in everyday life and urban art. Collaborations with friends and the work in public form the basis for their common creating.

Various and Gould deal with social themes such as work, migration, identity, death and the current financial crisis, in a playful and humorous way.

Both prefer methods like silk-screen printing, collage and poster, but recently they begun experimenting with public performance and installations.

After their study in the academy of art in Berlin (KHB) in Weißensee both made their degree in 2010.

The duo's first large mural can be found in Berlin. It reflects their love for collages and screen-printing. The image is part of their same-titled series “Face Time“ which subverts the idea of portraits in a traditional sense and plays with fictional patchwork identities.

Additionally the Berlin artists temporarily installed a so-called “WitchHunt“ in various cities. This witch-hunt should not be understood as a chase, but rather as an interactive scavenger hunt, in which you seek their portrait-posters of fascinating people. The paste-ups are equipped with QR-codes. Through texts and audio tracks you can find out where the next poster is located and learn more about these people. For this printings a particular color was used that allows the ignition of matches on the artworks.

An other project was the Marionette “Heinrich” in June 2012. The urban-artists installed a life-size marionette beneath the Görlitzer Bahnhof in Berlin.

One of their most famous project is the “modern saints” poster series. They created different saints each of them for one relevant and social problem. They pick issues like globalization, climate change, financial crisis and torture out as a central theme.

In summer, 2013 Various and Gould led the Kunstworkshop “Street meets art“ for Teenagers. The motto was: “the wall is the game!”

Go visit their official homepage if you're interested in finding out more about them!