Mona and I just returned from London. We, my brother and his friend flew there on tuesday already and had a nice stay though it was raining all the time.

Wednesday  the opening of my exhibition took place in PROUD Camden. It is one of three galleries in London situated in an old Horse Hospital called Camden Markets or Camden Stables. adress is The Horse Hospital, Chalk Farm Road NW1 8AH

Wednesday evening then we got dressed and went to the gallery. As we were pretty late I had the chance to see taht about 6-7 hot rods and oldstyle pick-ups were parked in front of the place. GREAT! When we entered there were already about 50 people there. The music CD of the two Hopped-Up CDs was playing and it all looked really great. I think all over it must have been about 200 people in there for the opening. I had very nice conversations with different people from London but even from somewhere in Pennsylvania. It was a very nice opening which was topped by the info that already prints were sold within these first 2 hours. Oh what a good feeling.

Some of the photos did not fit on the walls. These are hanging at PROUD Central now which is next to Charing station at 32 John Adam Street,
London WC2N 6BP.

Thanks to everyone who was involved, thanks to all the people that showed up!

Exhibition is on until april 11th!

This is the official invite of the gallery:

Dear Friends,

Proud Galleries invites you to the exclusive VIP launch of Hopped Up – a new photographic exploration of Hot Rod culture from photographer David Biene.

Look forward to seeing you on the 24th February from 6.30pm-8.30pm at Proud Camden.

Please RSVP to info@proudgalleries.co.uk

Kindest Regards

Berlin based photographer David Biene shows 24 photographs out of the work for his book ‘Hopped-Up’. The 240pages coffeetable was released injune 2009 and sold out in the first print by october 2009.

This event is the firstin a new series called ‘Faster! Stronger! Brighter!’. Curated by Ivan Aranega the gallery Lucas Carrieri will host exhibitions and happenings by different artist for one night only.

David Biene is booked to do more exhibitions of published and unpublished photographies out of the work for  Hopped-U. the two next are
feb 23rd- march 29th PROUD Gallery London
april 8th- april 29th BRAUSE Galerie Düsseldorf
u.v.m.

Last weekend I reconfirmed the second exhibition 2010 showing photographies published in my book Hopped-Up plus some that are still unpublished.

feb 23rd - march 29th:  PROUD gallery, Camden Horse Hospital, London, UK

april 08th - april 29th : Galerie Brause, Düsseldorf, Germany

More exhibtions and news are there to be announced as soon as they are confirmed. I’m still looking for more international galleries- please give me tips on nice spots that might be interested!

Hey kids,I would like to offer you guys my last shirts. get your hands on them now for less and if you take 2 you ll get one for your lady for free. have a look into the ‘order’-section!

I am so sad that I couldn’t see them in action.
The french theatre company Theatre Royal made a fantastic piece of street theatre playhappen in the streets of Berlin. Two giant puppets were looking for each other to finally reunite at the Brandenburger Tor. The puppets are hanging from cranes but actually are moved by humans. And the not only move their feet but even their eyes are moving. They are amazingly lively! WOW! I loved it!
here are my pictures taken at night when they were sleeping:

I would like to suggest you this event in Munich:I am invited to show photos out of the book (and some unreleased ones) in a very great group show with my friend and tattoo artist Ratz/ Martin Radtke, great streetart artist Won ABC and woodcarver Anselm Kiederer.
it will all take place in the gallery Masset and Richter in Munich. all artwork is purchasable. there’ll be a live band and a lot of interesting people.
I am very much looking forward to this event!!hope to see you around!

LAst weekend I was at the Head Banging, the hotrod race where the book’s history started. That is where I saw for the first time for real hotrods and customs racing.
Yvonne and Lutz were so kind to sell my books at their stall with the event shirts as there are no stalls on the event. (THANK YOU!) So I could walk around, have a chat and a beer and take some photos of the race.
The event was smaller than the years before which was really nice for the athmosphere. Also the race was smaller but not worse! In the final Ottl of Suedstahl and Alex with his Hemi-powered roadster were the two competitors. I lied on the ground to take a photo. I don’t know… some of you probably know the sound of these two monsters that win races like nothing… but lieing on the ground… oh my god I can tell you… the ground was shaking!! I’m serious!!! amazing!
It was a great fun weekend! and then on sunday: HOPPED-UP was SOLD OUT! Where the whole book thing started for me it ends now. But only for the moment of course!

Again I am looking for sponsors to be able to get printed the second print run of this book that sold 1000 copies within 3months! please let me know if you have an idea!

enjoy the photos I took on the great Rust’n'Dust weekend! thanks to the organisers and see you next year!

http://hopped-up.com/new/rnd/index.htm  

http://www.RustnDust.de

what a great weekend! thanks to everyone involved and big thanks to Terry& Anna and Jerry Chatabox for inviting me! (and Sue for the fantastic lift to the race)