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Street Art Pop Culture (21 Photos)

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Street Art Pop Culture (21 Photos)

Swedish street artist Herr Nilsson is known for blending pop culture with a rebellious twist.

His works take familiar cartoon characters and place them in unexpected, often subversive situations. From childhood nostalgia to dark humor. Below are 21 photos of his street art along with a short interview.

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Interview with Herr Nilsson:

When, how and why did you become an artist?

I was pretty […]

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Website: https://www.herrnilsson.me/

🥳 Ich wünsche Euch allen eine
schöne Silvesternacht. Wir sehen
uns im Jahr 2025🥂
🥳 I wish you all a beautiful New Year's
night. See you in 2025🥂
🤨 Artist: #HerrNilsson in City: #Stockholm #Snösätra Sweden 🇸🇪 2021 - Title: "Minnie's Cocktail" 🧨 - #Art #Mural #Streetart #Artist #MolotovCocktail #MinnieMouse
Website: https://www.herrnilsson.me/

🥳 Ich wünsche Euch allen eine
schöne Silvesternacht. Wir sehen
uns im Jahr 2025🥂
🥳 I wish you all a beautiful New Year's
night. See you in 2025🥂
🤨 Artist: #HerrNilsson in City: #Stockholm #Snösätra Sweden 🇸🇪 2021 - Title: "Minnie's Cocktail" 🧨 - #Art #Mural #Streetart #Artist #MolotovCocktail #MinnieMouse
Website: https://www.herrnilsson.me/

🥳 Ich wünsche Euch allen eine
schöne Silvesternacht. Wir sehen
uns im Jahr 2025🥂
🥳 I wish you all a beautiful New Year's
night. See you in 2025🥂
🤨 Artist: #HerrNilsson in City: #Stockholm #Snösätra Sweden 🇸🇪 2021 - Title: "Minnie's Cocktail" 🧨 - #Art #Mural #Streetart #Artist #MolotovCocktail #MinnieMouse
Website: https://www.herrnilsson.me/

🥳 Ich wünsche Euch allen eine
schöne Silvesternacht. Wir sehen
uns im Jahr 2025🥂
🥳 I wish you all a beautiful New Year's
night. See you in 2025🥂
🤨 Artist: #HerrNilsson in City: #Stockholm #Snösätra Sweden 🇸🇪 2021 - Title: "Minnie's Cocktail" 🧨 - #Art #Mural #Streetart #Artist #MolotovCocktail #MinnieMouse
Website: https://www.herrnilsson.me/

Interview with Swedish street artist Herr Nilsson (+18 artworks)

Interview with Herr Nilsson

Swedish street artist Herr Nilssons socials: Webpage // Instagram // Facebook

When, how and why did you become an artist?

I was pretty young when I found out that I was good at expressing myself in drawings, most often much better than in spoken words. I spend a lot of time drawing and when I was about 21 years old I decided to aim for the goal of being a professional artist.

How do you see your role as an artist today? 

To make people have a good laugh and start to think critical to norms at the same time. I want my art works to be like punches with a smile, hard and precise, but in a fun and good way. In contrast to all the visual commercials I like to do visual mind benders. 

How would you describe your working method?

I’m almost constantly trying new ideas, sketching them in my mind until they are pretty much done, then I realize them in a painting or a sculpture. Most often I experiment with two strong symbolic things or characters that convey totally different messages. And then, when I put these two together in a painting or sculpture, the new meaning conveys something totally different. Something I would like to share with my audience.

Can you name some contemporary works of art or projects that inspire you?

Fat Porsche – Erwin Wurm

Pepsi Cola – Lana del Rey (Rick Nowels / Elizabeth Grant)

Piss Christ – Andres Serrano

Banksy – Napalm and Dismaland

Yoko Ono – Instruction paintings

Caravaggio – All of his paintings. I know he’s not contemporary but the story of his life is very fascinating and his painting skills were the best.

How can artists be paid for their work and at the same time maintain a critical attitude towards the commercial art market and public funding partners?

Most often you can say “fuck you” to people if you can laugh about it together. The collectors that buy my art, at least those that I have had the chance to talk to, are all persons that like critical thinking and satire. Provocative art is not for everybody but there are a lot of people out there that like it.

Sometimes you are lucky and get a win-win situation together with the client. For example my latest art work, the sculpture of Ariel is entirely constructed out of rubbish from Lake Mälaren. It was sold to a Swedish entrepreneur, Konrad Bergström, founder of a company, X Shore, which builds electrical boats. He has a strong interest in the environment and the waters in particular. All rubbish that the sculpture of Ariel is built from was retrieved by the non-profit organization Rena Mälaren that specializes in retrieving debris from the bottom of the lake. Konrad payed me a good amount of money for the sculpture and then I give back a major part of that income to Rena Mälaren to finance their ongoing work, and then I can finance constructing more sculptures and so on. I find this cycle being very good for all participants.

What would you like to change in the street art world?

More and more cities around the world are commissioning big murals at boring buildings and many artists can make their living on this. This is very good of course. But it is also a trend that these murals are almost always made to be decorative and nice to everybody, like the music on a big commercial radio station. Without any provocative or critical thinking concepts at all, this street art will be nothing more than generic. I would say that I wish that the clients could be a little bit braver when they commissioned these murals. 

The good part is of course that all of us still can do street art works without permission and stay free in our creativity.

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‘Part Of Your World’ The Disney Princess Ariel Cleaning Up

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‘Part Of Your World’ The Disney Princess Ariel Cleaning Up

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‘Part Of Your World’ The Disney Princess Ariel Cleaning Up

https://streetartutopia.com/2024/02/21/part-of-your-world-ariel-cleaning-up/

First artwork from Herr Nilssons ‘Clean Street Art’ Series

By Herr Nilsson cooperation with Rena Mälaren in Stockholm, Sweden.

Herr Nilsson: “After many years of provocative street art around the world, I was looking for something new and meaningful closer to home. When a friend presented the idea of creating something unique from scrap found on the bed of lakes and waterways, therefore highlighting a very important environmental issue, it immediately sounded just right. With the help of Rena Mälaren and an enormous number of hours later, the sculpture is finally ready to see the light of day!”

Constructed from rubbish

Today Herr Nilsson revealed Ariel, entirely constructed from rubbish from Lake Mälaren in front of the Royal Palace in Stockholm. The rubbish is retrieved by Rena Mälaren, the non-profit organisation that specialises in retrieving garbage from the bottom of the lake. Ariel is the first sculpture in a ‘Clean Street Art’ series in Stockholm, an inspiring new initiative to protect our seas. More sculptures in this series will be installed in various public locations around Stockholm during summer.

• Fredrik Johansson, Rena Mälaren cleaning in Västerås 2021 © Oskar Kihlborg
• Fredrik Johansson, Rena Mälaren cleaning in Västerås 2021 © Oskar Kihlborg

Ariel consists of mobile phones, cord phones, a vacuum cleaner, a sink, an oil barrel, a car tyre, a computer mouse, a watch, screws, and circuit boards. Key features such as Ariel’s hair are made from hoses, while her eyes are discarded CPU fans. Most notably, one of her raised middle fingers are represented by a knife, while the rocks situated at the front of the sculpture are old lead boat batteries, which are incredibly damaging to the environment.

Ariel and her soon-to-be companions are not only works of art, but symbols of the importance of
protecting our waters. For as long as she remains in position, Ariel can be seen with her two middle fingers up, saying F*** OFF to those who pollute the seas, oceans and waterways, day after day.

About Herr Nilsson

Herr Nilsson broke onto the international street art scene in 2012 when he painted a series of paintings titled ‘Dark Princesses’, including Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty armed with knives and pistols. The Disney princesses lurked around street corners in Stockholm where they appeared to wait for passers-by. As a result, Herr Nilsson was invited to a number of exhibitions in New York, Miami, London and Tel Aviv. The collectors of his work are found all over the world, among them being famous financiers and royalty.

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‘Part Of Your World’ The Disney Princess Ariel Cleaning Up

Ariel by Herr Nilsson at Mälaren in Stockholm, Sweden

First artwork from Herr Nilssons ‘Clean Street Art’ Series

By Herr Nilsson cooperation with Rena Mälaren in Stockholm, Sweden.

Herr Nilsson: “After many years of provocative street art around the world, I was looking for something new and meaningful closer to home. When a friend presented the idea of creating something unique from scrap found on the bed of lakes and waterways, therefore highlighting a very important […]

https://streetartutopia.com/2024/02/21/part-of-your-world-ariel-cleaning-up/