Visual Art
Art Installations. Performances. Live Art.
Ultra Korea is honored to welcome such a diverse spectrum of talented, world-class artists to this year’s event. Be sure to visit the following artists work at Ultra Korea this June!
Chicadania is a multi disciplined contemporary artist. In 2017 she was invited to the first edition of the Distrito Graffiti Festival, then called Mural City in Bogotá. For the first time she launched herself to paint in large format. Thinking of giving a more original and personal meaning to her murals, she decided to make up her children and then portray them. Her most recent work is on the “World of Women”, she is working with other women artists from different fields to create new atmospheres of the feminine universe. She always paints her friends with the purpose to open a dialogue between women and art.
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Maximiliano Bagnasco is an artist based in Argentina. He has created countless illustrations for national and international magazines. He was summoned to paint pictures and murals in tribute to great personalities of Argentine culture such as Jorge Luis Borges, Mercedes Sosa, Lionel Messi and Diego Armando Maradona. His artistic presence grew internationally thanks to his paintings and murals of Maradona and Messi, getting to see his name in the most important media in the world. He painted murals in Argentina, Miami, Russia, Kosovo, Italy, Albania, Jamaica. In 2022, in Pompeii, Naples, Italy he painted a mural of the Argentine star and the revolution was such that they ended up changing the name of the street to “Via Diego Armando Maradona”. In early 2023, in Jamaica he painted a mural of JoMersa, grandson of Bob Marley.
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Pez started painting in 1999 on the outskirts of Barcelona. He is known for his colorful murals filled with vibration and happiness. He started out as a graffiti writer, making large format tags and letters but quickly created his iconic character of the smiling fish. He found in its big smile a way to convey good vibes to passersby on the streets.
His works of art both on the streets and in galleries have been in more than 20 different countries of the world with exhibitions and murals in Europe, America and Asia. Today Pez is an essential name when we talk about relevant urban artists.
His works have also been published in important Urban Art books such as “Street Logos”, “Art of Rebellion”, “World Piecebook”, “Graffiti Planet”, “Graffiti and Street Art”; etc. Also in documentaries specialized in Street Art such as “Bomb It”, “Next: a premier of urban painting”, including Banksy’s controversial film “Exit through the gift shop”.
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