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Speerstra Gallery Paris presents "Trainspotter" Selected Graffiti Works 1980 - 2023
13 Apr - 25 May 2023The exhibition 'Trainspotter ' highlights the passion of artists for trains, whether they are vandalised or not, whether they run underground or in the open air. This object of desire...Read more -
Speerstra Collection @ BASQUIAT × WARHOL, À QUATRE MAINS / FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON
5 Apr - 28 Aug 2023Between 1984 and 1985, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) and Andy Warhol (1928-1987) produced some 160 paintings 'four-handed', including some of the largest formats of their respective careers. Keith Haring (1958-1990), who...Read more -
Speerstra Gallery Switzerland presents "Graffiti: 50 years of history"
2 Apr - 7 May 2022Since the dawn of time, mankind has never ceased to cultivate a need for expression and communication. Natural surfaces, such as the stones of caves or walls, were the first...Read more -
Speerstra Gallery Paris presents "Papers, please!"
12 Mar - 23 May 2022The exhibition 'Papers, please!' is an invitation to a selection of artists to express their thoughts. All have the same starting point. A blank paper format. A light and luminous...Read more
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Speerstra Gallery Paris presents "I Love Graffiti"
11 Sep - 9 Oct 2021It is a look at a passion that the gallery proposes: the passion of the post-graffiti movement. 'I Love Graffiti' is a declaration of love for this art movement, its...Read more -
Speerstra Collection @ Musée des beaux-Arts de Calais / France "LIBRES FIGURATIONS - ANNÉES 80"
11 Jun 2021 - 2 Jan 2022The Musée des beaux-arts and the Cité de la dentelle et de la mode de Calais, in association with the Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la Culture, offer Libres...Read more -
Speerstra collection @ SIG art space, Geneva, Switzerland, "One, Two… Street art !"
10 Sep 2020 - 14 Mar 2021Street art is undeniably the artistic movement of the 21st century. And 2020, marked by the health crisis, has seen the emergence of new talents, openly expressing what the public...Read more -
Speerstra Gallery Paris presents Crash "Genesis"
15 May - 21 Jun 2020A living legend of 80's old school graffiti, Crash is one of the major protagonists of the New York post-graffiti scene. With 'Genesis', Crash takes us back to the very...Read more
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Speerstra Collection @ musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy "Fire on Fire"
12 Oct 2019 - 30 Mar 2020While the first generations of writers were more inclined towards soul or heavy metal, they were later greatly influenced by funk, jazz or reggae, as can be seen in the...Read more -
Speerstra Gallery Paris presents "Legends"
13 Apr - 11 May 2019Thirty-five years after their first exhibition in Monaco, the Speerstra Gallery is renewing its original commitment to defend graffiti art, that gave them a pioneer role as an art gallery,...Read more -
Speerstra Gallery Paris presents Crash "Life of Icons"
27 Jan - 24 Feb 2018Crash composes brilliant conversations between colours and forms; he has worked lovingly on canvas, paper and walls since 1980. Born in the Bronx and now a reference in American post-graffiti...Read more -
Speerstra Collection @ Fonds Fondation Leclerc "LIBRES FIGURATIONS - ANNÉES 80"
10 Dec 2017 - 2 Apr 2018Five years after its opening, the Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc in Landerneau welcomed over 850,000 visitors, who flocked to see the exceptional historical exhibitions devoted to the great masters...Read more
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Speerstra Gallery @ 13 Art Fair Paris 2017
12 - 15 Oct 2017From October 12 to 15, the first edition of 13 Art Fair will be held at the Cité de la Mode et du Design, in the heart of Paris's 13th...Read more -
Urban Painting Around the World - Monaco 2017
15 - 16 Jul 2017Devised by Alberto Colman, editor of the Italian magazine Monte Carlo In and director of the events company WSM Events, the exhibition entitled Urban Painting Around the World (UPAW) offered...Read more -
Speerstra Gallery @Stroke Art Fair Munich 2016
4 - 8 May 2016It all began inside a vault. Several years later it continued with a gallery in Berlin. Eventually pinnacling in 5 years of STROKE Art Fair on April 30. Brothers and...Read more -
Speerstra Gallery @Art Fair Paris 2016
31 Mar - 3 Apr 2016For more than thirty years, the Speerstra Gallery is dedicated in the dissemination of the graffiti movement. Gallery owners and collectors from father to son since 1984, the gallery is...Read more
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Speerstra Gallery Switzerland presents "Kaleidoscope, Optical Sweets for the Eyes"
15 Nov 2014 - 21 Feb 2015'Kaleidoscope, optical sweets for the eyes', a fabulous group show focusing on new talents from the urban and contemporary art scene: fifteen artists, five countries and over thirty works are...Read more -
Speerstra Gallery Switzerland presents CRASH "Back to Metal"
7 Feb - 8 Mar 2014The Speerstra Gallery presents John CRASH Matos in 'Back to Metal' exclusive spray painted works on metal. 'The last several years I have seen new and improved spray paint by...Read more -
Speerstra Collection @ Spacejunk Art center / France "Graffiti – In the Beginning"
9 Nov 2013 - 11 Jan 2014Commençons par l’essentiel: Graffiti : In the beginning n’est pas une exposition de graffiti… mais une exposition sur le graffiti. Plutôt que de chercher à capturer entre ses murs un...Read more -
Speerstra Gallery Switzerland presents 2013 "Summer Group Show"
1 Jun - 19 Jul 2013The Speerstra Gallery presents 'Summer Group Show': Stohead (DE) Blancbec (BE) Crash (USA) Shepard Fairey (USA) Hobz (FR) Tilt (FR) Swet (DK) Smash137 (CH) Mist (FR) Remi Rough (UK) Aurel...Read more
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Speerstra Gallery Switzerland presents John CRASH Matos "The True essence of Graffiti"
23 Sep - 23 Oct 2012Since the artist's first show at the Speerstra Gallery in 1984, Crash is back for his latest show 'The True essence of Graffiti'. 'Painting is my blog. Painting is my...Read more -
Speerstra Gallery Switzerland presents Group Show "Hall of Fame"
8 Nov - 20 Dec 2011'Hall of Fame' A passion for graffiti art since 1984. A show including the graffiti all stars from the american and european graffiti art scene. A selection of works on...Read more -
Speerstra Gallery Switzerland presents Crash "Art of the line"
1 - 29 Mar 2008'I always love working on paper, drawings, watercolors, sketches and collages are what I call the heart of my work. This is where I explore my mind, my soul and...Read more -
speerstra collection @ "Graffiti Stories" Musée Paul Valéry à Sète & Fondation de l’Abbaye d’Auberive / France
13 Oct 2007 - 28 Jun 2008Organized jointly by the Musée International des Arts Modestes, the Musée Paul Valéry in Sète and the Abbaye d'Auberive, the Graffiti Stories exhibition offers a non-exhaustive reading of graffiti, taking...Read more
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Speerstra Gallery Paris presents CRASH "The Lucky Strike Diaries"
2 Feb - 2 Mar 2006'I was very honored when I was approached by Lucky Strike to create a special commissioned painting for their collection. I recalled Keith Haring and pop artist Mel Ramos' had...Read more -
Speerstra Gallery Paris presents CRASH & Hervé Di Rosa "À Quatre Mains"
24 Apr - 12 Jun 2004The Speerstra Gallery presents a collaboration on canvas, between the American graffiti artist John Crash Matos and the French artist Hervé Di Rosa from the art movement 'figuration libre'. This...Read more -
Speerstra Gallery Paris presents CRASH "The Train Paintings"
21 Nov - 28 Dec 2002American old school graffiti artist from New York City presents his early works on trains, thirty photographs taken by himself between 1976 and 1982. 'From early morning, till late at...Read more -
Speerstra Gallery Paris presents CRASH "Notes of the West Side"
8 Mar - 20 Apr 2002“After the Twin Towers felt down, New York has changed, me too. Why? Well, we are no more completely free and able to make what was natural for us. But...Read more
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Selection of exhibitions from 1989 to 1999 organized by Speerstra Gallery and Gallery B5
5 Apr 1989 - 5 Apr 1999Selection of exhibitions from 1989 to 1999 organized by Speerstra Gallery and Gallery B5 1989 'Crash' John Crash Matos / Speerstra Gallery ( B5) Monaco 1989 'Daze' Chris Daze Ellis...Read more -
Opening of the Speerstra Gallery / 1984
5 Apr - 20 Jun 1984Opening of Speerstra Gallery in Monaco, April 5, 1984. 'Artists from New York in Monte-Carlo'. Live performance by Rammellzee. With works by Futura 2000, Rammellzee, Noc 167, Quik, Zephyr, Dondi...Read more
