They are engaged in urban intervention, creating original approaches from images that they use for their actions and which are made using paper and scissors. Employing the wheatpaste technique and powerful images, this group transforms traffic signals, recycling skips and ticket validating machines into urban elements that arouse sympathy and spark off emotions. Through their creative concept of turning “monotone cities” into places of more fun, Mentalgassi manage to get through to ordinary people, involving them in their surroundings. As well as having a presence on the streets of Berlin and other cities, they took part in the Art Basel Fair in Miami, and also in Getxo.

Mentalgassi is a Berlin artists’ collective. What started out as an alternative to graffiti, quickly developed into a whole new world for its components. By playing with different forms of wheat-pastes they received broad recognition and found out that people react more to photography than they sometimes do to the rather cryptic world of abstract street art. Their mission is to make people see everyday situations from another perspective and maybe even make them smile. This could be called urban entertainment, because what they do is play around with new techniques and images to surprise people.

Mentalgassi (Berlin)
No Monotone Cities

2010 Edition
Outdoor installation
Venues: Old Port, San Nikolas Square and the city's glass recycling bins
Collaborator: Abad Diseño