Berlin Connect: Mint&Serf Book Launch
6 Nov | Celebrating over two decades of collaboration: Mint&Serf present Between Language+Art (1998–2024)
Overview
Berlin Connect is our hub for Berlin’s social scene – dedicated to creating spaces where people truly connect.
Inspired by Shepard Fairey’s exhibition Photo Synthesis, Berlin Connect partners with New York icons Mint&Serf (The Mirf) for the launch of their book Mint&Serf: Between Language+Art (1998 - 2024)
Known for their fearless blend of graffiti, studio work, and nightlife culture, Mint&Serf embody the raw creative energy that bridges New York and Berlin.
Together with American visual artist Dylan Kraus and graphic designer Robin Weißenborn, the duo sits down for a conversation and Q&A, taking a deep dive into the past, present, and future of their work and what this new book represents for them.
Afterwards, Melizards will set the tone with a signature DJ set.
Image credit: © Mint&Serf
ABOUT THE BOOK
Mint&Serf: Between Language+Art is a comprehensive look at over twenty-five years (1998–2024) of collaborative in-studio work and outdoor practice by the New York City–based artist duo Mint&Serf, also known as MIRF.
Rooted in graffiti and formal mark-making, the two artists continuously explore the effervescent spirit of vandalism as it relates to public and private space within the context of contemporary visual culture.
ABOUT MINT&SERF
Mint&Serf are New York City-based visual artists who have been working together since their fateful meeting in 1998. Their so-called career spans more than twenty-five years during which time they made plenty of graffiti, vandalized Birkin bags, collaborated with the NY Yankees, organized illegal exhibitions in uncommon places, were featured in Artforum, and traveled the world to spray-paint even more graffiti.
They have been arrested in at least a dozen countries and continue their pursuit of the action no matter how precarious it might be. To this day, they have remained consistent with their in-studio work and outdoor practice.
ABOUT MELIZARDS
Melizards dove headlong into the underbelly of the internet’s music archives after sharing mixes on MySpace in 2008. Both erratic and distinct, she playfully weaves through ’70s–early 2000s synth punk, experimental cassettes, cosmic disco, janky house, electro, new beat, garage rock, B-side psychedelia, and beyond. She began her nonsense in NYC before relocating to Berlin, where she most often plays this Lo-Fi hodgepodge at Sameheads, O Tannenbaum, and (the now-closed) Loophole.
Schedule
- 19:00 – Doors Open
- 19:30 – Talk and Q&A
- 20:00 – DJ Set by Melizards
- 23:00 – End
