Linda’s Ex

Biography

In 2003, Roland Brückner left south Germany and moved to Berlin where he became an art student at the Universität der Künste Berlin, but did not complete his degree. During the same year, his campaign “Linda’s Ex”, where plastered stickers and posters became widely known throughout the city, usually displaying a boy in despair, begging his girlfriend, Linda, to come back – a seemingly desperate yet chevalier attempt – began to progress.

Naturally, people ignored these posters, due to the city’s saturation of street art, but as the messages grew deeper and the images developed, Berliners were forced to take notice. People began to write on these posters, attempting to raise the artist’s spirits, who through his work, managed to gather opinions from people all over Berlin. Part of the success stemmed from the artist’s ability to communicate intently with his audience, who in turn gave him the attention he needed in order to establish a base for his now on-going artistic career.

A year later, Linda’s Ex, the alias of artist Roland Brückner, faced the public. There was no Linda, he confessed. The whole campaign had been a hoax, but this gave Roland the opportunity to not only debut his work at Berlin Museum für Kommunikation but he is now considered part of Berlin’s street art history, developing his work and career as a Berlin based artist. Quite an achievement!

Selected Exhibitions
2011 Contemporary Istanbul – Istanbul – Turkey
2011 Dissidents – West Berlin Gallery – Berlin – Germany
2011 Beyond Good & Evil – West Berlin Gallery – Berlin – Germany
2010 My Fire is Your Water – West Berlin Gallery – Berlin – Germany

Interview
Available Works
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