Thanks to everyone who came to the Hopped-Up opening night at the BRAUSE!

Thanks to Carsten and the Metzgerei Schnitzel e.V.

Thanks to HELD Vodka.

Thanks to Mona for the photos.

and some more shots outdoor of the gallery by Jacek

Keith, motor journalist, UK in his blog

“Towards the end of the month it was up to London for a mid-week gallery
opening of cool photograph’s shot by German photographer David Biene.
David
has been shooting cool black and white pics at traditional car e…vents
all over Europe and last year had them published in a book titled
‘Hopped Up’.

The Proud Galleries in Camden liked the book so much
they offered David a couple of weeks display in there exclusive
gallery. It was an interesting evening with a live rockabilly band and a
few friendly faces in attendance from the London area.”

thanks to Keithfor the photo

On friday, 09.04.2010, the MPC, a club of german motor journalists, has awarded Hopped-Up the best book in the special category people.

The awards were presented to the winners on the car fair AMI in Leipzig.

I’m very happy and glad and so is the publisher Onkel+Onkel.

Marc Nutsch/ onkel+onkel, David Biene, Jürgen Lewandowski/ MPC

all awarded authors and publishers that were personally there

official press anouncement:

”

09.04.2010: Zum nunmehr sechsten Mal ist am 9. April der MPC Autobuchpreis auf der AMI – Auto Mobil International in Leipzig vergeben worden. In sechs Kategorien wurden die Gewinner ermittelt. Der Motor Presse Club ehrt mit diesem Preis Autoren und Verlage, die sich in besonderem Maße um das “Autobuch” verdient gemacht haben.

Der traditionellen Verbindung zwischen der Leipziger Messe und der Bücherwelt trägt auch die AMI in diesem Jahr wieder Rechnung. Der Motor Presse Club vergab die Preise für die besten Bücher rund um das Thema Auto. Der Preisträger in der Kategorie “Autobuch Design Produkt” ist zum zweiten Mal in Folge Prof. Dr. Othmar Wickenheise für sein Buch “Mini Design”. In der Kategorie “Autobuch Modell/Marke” wurde der Engländer Houston Bowden für sein Werk “Morgan – 100 Jahre klassische Sportwagen” geehrt. Überzeugen konnte auch Walter Näher in der Kategorie “Autobuch Design” mit “Porsche 917″, das optisch ebenfalls reizvoll ist. Der Gewinner in der Kategorie “Autobuch Historie” ist Karl Ludvigson mit “Ferdinand Porsche – Genesis eines Genies”. Den Preis für das “Beste Autobuch Motorsport” gewann der englische Schriftsteller Antony Pritchard für “Silberpfeile”, einem Buch über die Historie von Mercedes vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Der Sonderpreis People ging an den jungen Schriftsteller Davis Biene für das Werk “Hopped-up”.

(Quelle: LM)”

Hey everybody,

while the exhibition at PROUD gallery in London is still on having great feedbacks I’m happy to announce the next exhibition in Germany this time.

The art club Metzgerei Schnitzel invited me for a show in their showroom in a former gas station from the 1950-60s. The opening will be on thursday, april 8th from 7 pm-1 am.

Please feel invited and tell your friends to accompany you for the opening night.

From there on the exhibition is on for the rest of april.

As always all the prints are for sale in a edition of 25 prints each for very reasonable prices.

Eröffnung 08.04. ab 20:00 Uhr
Ausstellung 09.04.- 29.04    Donnerstag 20:00- 01:00 Uhr
sowie nach Absprache

Brause
Bilker Allee 233
40215 Düsseldorf

www.metzgereischnitzel.de
brausepost@metzgereischnitzel.de

invitation flyer front

full page article in magazine AUTOVISIE from the Netherlands about Hopped-Up and the exhibition in London shown until april 11th.

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!