ARTIST
Still Alive
Switzerland
Still Alive (b.1978) started writing his names on walls in 1989 at the age of eleven. His first teenage years he spend mostly on a skateboard listen to punk. During the early 90’s his love to hip hop culture developed mainly to rap music and he had some years as an active breakdancer too. Later in art school in Biel he started focus on the art of graffiti and with the help of his graffiti crew he could take it to the next levels. In the late 1997 he was co founding a swiss graffiti magazine and made travels to New York City, Barcelona or Milano. In the early 2000’s years he settled in Bern where he played a significant role in the scene and helped develop “Bern Graffiti” style.
After stops in Zurich and Tel Aviv he located to Africa. In Addis Ababa the capital of Ethiopia, he lived for 8 years, developed a hip hip TV show program, worked as a dj and maintained a graffiti blog from there. With his family he moved back to Bern in 2018 and become part of the swiss graffiti scene again.