From the 16th of October to the 1st of November, works ranging from drawing, graphic prints, painting and monumental mural collages to graphically inspired 3D-illustrations, book art and animation were on show. With more than 60 artists from all around the world, Illustrative brought together an inspiring cornucopia of visual contemporary culture in the Villa Elisabeth located in the heart of Berlin.

Illustrative opened with a big bang on October 15th. Thousands of people came to the opening ceremony to see the works of more than 60 exhibiting artists. In the course of the festival the Swatch Young Illustrators Award was given to Julia Bruderer. The main exhibition was accompanied by many side events, such as the Illustrative  Degree Shows, the Portolio Reviews, a Conference, the Swatch MTV Playground and an Artists Brunch.

Illustrative - General Information:

Illustrative showcases an international scene of artist-designers, whose works have been inspired by subculture movements like comic and graffiti as well as by applied arts like illustration and book art. The exhibition explores the merging of infinite materials and techniques in widely unprecedented combinations, which challenge learned ways of seeing – e.g. the latest development, where illustration and graphics are translated into the third dimension, or new narrative strategies in 3D-animation. [More general information about Illustrative here.]

Exhibiting Artists - An Overview:

• Main Exhibition

Eda Akaltun / Jesse Auersalo / Luke Best / Roman Bittner / James Blagden / Tim Dinter / William Edmonds / Siggi Eggertsson / Jorge González / Martin Haake / Olaf Hajek / Eva Han / Tomer Hanuka / John Casey / Lok Jansen / Keiichi Tanaami / Diego Lorenzini / Rebecca Manley / Christian Montenegro / Yoh Nagao / Eric Nyquist / David O’Reilly / Lorenzo Petrantoni / Pixelgarten / David Polonsky / Sébastien Preschoux / Gregori Saavedra / Erik Sandberg / Ville Savimaa / Daniel Stolle / Antti Uotila / Aya Kato / Edwin Ushiro / Yokoland / Line Hoven / Sidney Pink / Skinner / Mario Hugo / Dan McPharlin

Next to the main exhibition, Illustrative also invited young, up-and-coming artists to join the exhibition.

• New Artists
  

Oda Broch / Pierre Le Gonidec / Good Wives and Warriors / 110 specialblack / WCH / Eric Schockmel / Heiko Windisch / Sonja Danowski / Santtu Mustonen / Cristóbal León / Alina Günter / Jörn Kaspuhl / Marco Tadic / Akinori Oishi / Cloud Cuckoo Studio