To see all the Gomma people together is quite hard. Everybody is in a different place: The Phenomenal Handclap Band in NYC, Rodion in Rome, WhoMadeWho in Copenhagen, Diskokaine is hanging in Tokyo right now, Golden Bug between Paris and Barcelona, Munk living in Marseille, Telonius in Munich…….

So last spring we started doing big “one off” parties in Berlin… to bring all guys in one place…we do it now 2 times a year…to get all the GOMMA family together.
The GOMMA SUPER SHOWS.

The next one will be on 14th November in Munich. We got this crazy One-Off location: The Munich Old City Hall which is a medieval city building, never used for parties. Most of the current Gomma guys will perform there: WhoMadeWho , Telonius, new portuguese disco band Moullinex, Munk, Golden Bug and
our old friend SHIT ROBOT from DFA and JUNIOR BOYS will come. We also have a little exhibition with the latest visuals by our boys SMALPAZE and Lukasz Jaworski.

If you are in Berlin these days, go and visit the first German solo exhibition of Belgian superillustrator PARRA. Mathias Modica – Our man from M.U.N.K. will do some nice music at the vernissage event on Thursday 27th August.

Not only is PARRA one of the most interesting talents in graphic and new subcult art but he also has a nice little music project: It’s called LELE and he did his first remix for us here at Gomma. Check LELE REMIX of HEADMAN’s “Running into time”. Vernissage will be Thursday.

PARRA exhibition
POOL Gallery Berlin Mitte
Vernissage 27th August 7 pm
Music by MUNK

We were invited to take part at the big THE ART OF MUSIC exhibition in Los Angeles in September 2009. Besides artworks of SO_ME (Ed Banger), Steve Harrington there were many by our GOMMA art directors SMAL AND PAZE.

Photos by Colin Young-Wolff

BERLIN, Pool Gallery, Tucholskystrasse 26.6 – 7.7.2008

Featuring works by The SMALPAZE aka Borsche und Kartsolis and special guest MISHA HOLLENBACH from P.A.M.

Berlin’s POOL Gallery invited us to do a MONDOGOMMA exhibition in summer 2008. The POOL guys are specialized in these new things in new alternative art. Recently they did ARKITIP, MIKE MILLS and that kind of stuff. So it was nice to have this opportunity. Our illustrators SMAL and PAZE did a lot of obscure hight level enlightment shit. Big size prints, small size visual gimmicks. And we had a special guest illustrator: MISHA HOLLENBACH from P.A.M. from Melbourne contributed some big posters , too. We did a nice Vernissage there and afterward a big GOMMA Party at Cookies with MUNK, Telonius, Kaos…Yeah!

And yes: We released a new Amore Poster Magazine along the exhibition. (Including the P.A.M. stuff)

The new “Psychomagic” issue of AMORE poster magazine will be released accompanying the MONDOGOMMA pICTUREsHOW exhibition in Berlin. It features illustrations by SMALPAZE and guest MICHA HOLLENBACH aka PERKS. The man behind the – so much talked about – Australian art & fashion collective PAM.

Open web version

The 3rd issue was made by German illustrators BORSCHE & KARTSOLIS aka SMAL PAZE. Limited edition 500 copies. 300 copies special edition include a Gomma Mix CD made by MUNK.

The mag was presented at the „HEIMAT ALS UTOPIE“ exhibition in Tokio. The exhibition was organized by Berlin’s 032C magazine and took place at Hillside terrace/ Tokio… March 2006. Among AMORE & GOMMA there were also shown works by JONATHAN MEESE, HEDI SLIMANE, CARSTEN NICOLAI and other artists/ collectives.

Open web version

TOKYO, Hillside Forum, 24.2 – 19.3.2006.

GOMMA at „HEIMAT ALS UTOPIE“ Exhibition. GOMMA artworks and other visual things have been shown at an exhibition in Tokyo, curated by Jörg Koch and 032C magazine from Berlin. Eight different European artists/ collectives were invited. Along with Gomma there were works by Jonathan Meese, Hedi Slimane, Konstantin Gricic and others.

There was a nice Vernissage on 23 February 2006 with MUNK and others….

MondoGomma picture show, Stuttgart/ BRD at ROCKER 33, September 2005

Posters by SMAL & PAZE