It is a fact that I've adored Bfree's colourful stickers ever since I first lay eyes upon them. His funny characters literally brighten up your day, smiling at you, urging you to follow them along on their path to ultimate bliss. Now, Bfree's first book was just published and with the 111 black and white drawings - a selection from 5 years of work - the artist shows another side of him, still cheerful, but also dark. Definitely worth taking a deeper look...

Tomorrow, "gallertique" Swiv Tackle Circus is opening its doors! Part gallery, part boutique this place will host shows and sell artists' merchandise in Oceanside, California. Apart from starting up today, everyone's very invited to their official grand opening celebration on March 28th, when they will present the first exhibition "Memory Sale" by Ben Horton.

Die Gestalten Verlag's "Latex For Fun" book editor Maximo Tuja is presenting his first solo show at Duduá in Barcelona tonight. As Max-o-matic, he's contributed to many a group show and project already, but with "Aludd" he'll finally show a selection of his newest works, inpired by the industrial revolution. Sounds very serious, but it's actually just beautiful :)

Currently running in Los Angeles is "Nomadaz", a Mediterranean Art Connection. Curated by Pablo Aravena at Scion Gallery in Los Angeles and featuring some of the Mediterranean's best artists, this is one you should definitely try to drop by!

This new video by Sofarida follows the building of an art installation by L'Atlas and G at Boaz in Brussels in 2006... Always interesting to take a sneak peek behind the scene and see the artists at work!

Maya Hayuk (right)

Are you in Brussels on Thursday? Then definitely stop by Alice Gallery, who present their newest show "Apocabliss" that evening. Maya Hayuk is the curator for this neat group exhibition with works by twelve more than interesting American contemporary artists.

The boys and girls over at 85 Gallery in Antwerp, Belgium have just started a new project. They took a few cans of paint, hauled all the wood (chairs, tables, closets, whatever) they could find on the streets inside their space and asked a bunch of friends to give them some merchandise to sell. The result? A temporary shop called "Diamant" (meaning "Diamond" in Dutch/Flemish) with plenty of original and hard-to-find goodies to buy yourself broke.

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A young Swiss art lover works at a silkscreen company and invites seven of his friends to design a limited edition t-shirt and box for him that he prints up and sells over the internet. The project is baptised SOM-Tee (Straight Of Mind T-shirts) and its exclusive launch is on Thursday!

After six weeks of performative installation work, tomorrow Anton Unai presents 200m² of his paintings, sculptures, drawings, writings, wallpaintings and street objects. Experience Unai's surrealistic, fantastic, chaotic, poetic and radical landscapes, for one night only!

Our discovery of the week is James Gallagher. The whole Modart staff agrees: this guy has "it", whatever that "it" may be. Old photograph clippings, combined with yellowed book pages in clever compostions just can't go wrong. So if you're around Berlin these days, check out his work at / pool gallery, and if you're not keep an ear out if you ever hear his name drop.

What can we expect from an exhibition called "The worlds of two nocturnal pandas"? Through a series of works on paper, wood, vinyl and large scale mural pieces, Ariel and Andrea of Pandarosa will explore the abstract notion of 'time'. The installation aims to create a portrait of the pair immersed in their own creative wonderland, and interacting with the 'dream world' of time.