Gomma and Chromemusic ran a temporary offspace in munich for a few months. A gallery and barspace where several artists were showing their work and Gomma DJ’s playing the music.
Art by following people has been shown: Ray Moore, Mirko Borsche, Martin Fengel, Nomad, Dompteur Mooner, Andreas Neumeister, Thomas Gothier..

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The Gomma label becomes 15 years old!
We started as babies and now we’ve got beards..

To celebrate we just released the Pop Futuro Compilation with contributions by Hot Chip, WhoMadeWho, Metronomy, Moullinex, Daniel Avery and many others and we will do a big spectacle at Kammerspiele Theatre in Munich – with many friends, new Gomma artists and an exhibition by our graphists Mirko Borsche and Thomas Kartsolis:

Wed, 3. june
21:00 – 3:00
Come early!

Live:
MUNK * OBALSKI * BAROTTI
DJs:
AZARI & III * BLACK LOOPS * RHODE & BROWN * MANUEL KIM * MORITZ BUTSCHEK

Little Postershow by BORSCHE & KARTSOLIS

Find it on Facebook:
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As you might know we did a new issue of our Gomma Amore poster-magazine. Made by Mirko Borsche and Thomas Kartsolis aka Smal & Paze – Our friends who did the Gomma visual universe since the beginning.
The new issue gets distributed by Antenne Books/ London.

Now it’s available again. Get it here: www.gomma.de/merchandise

Made by Gomma.
Art direction: Mirko Borsche & Thomas Kartsolis
for SMALPAZE productions.
Featuring the G-O-M-M-A Universum 1999 – 2014.
Guest apperiances by mighty P.A.M., Kostas Murkudis, The Rammellzee, Michael Sailsdorfer, Daniel Josefsohn, Benjamin Röder, Valentino… Transcendental illuminations by Mathias Modica.

Available for 6€ + shipping. Mail to moritz@gomma.de

Gomma artworks are part of the german Lead Awards exhibition in Deichtorhallen/ Hamburg.
This is the most important forum for Graphic design in Germany. We feel honored!
Both our graphist: Bureau Mirko Borsche and Thomas Kartsolis are nominated as German Visual Leader 2014.

Modern Art Museum Haus der Kunst in Munich invited us to be part of the Festival of Independents exhibition.
We will show posters, artworks and stuff by our graphists SMAL & PAZE. More Information here.

Haus der Kunst also printed a whole GOMMA POSTERMAGAZINE. 50 pages.
Send us a mail if u wanna know how to get one!

AMORE is an irregular poster magazine, designed by SmalPaze and published by the Gomma label. In the past 4 editions, artists such as Michael Sailstorfer, Daniel Josefsohn, New York Freak Art legend The Rammellzee, Kostas Murkudis, Martin Fengel, P.A.M., and many more have contributed with artworks.

AMORE No. 4 – The PsychoMagic Issue (2008)
AMORE No. 3 – Nur Du Allein (2006)
AMORE No. 2 – Revue OK (2004)
AMORE No. 1 – Una festa sui prati

In connection with the release of each issue of AMORE, several exhibitions have been taking place all over the world, called MondoGomma Picture Shows:

MondoGomma Picture Show MUNICH 2009
MondoGomma Picture Show BERLIN 2008
MondoGomma Picture Show TOKYO 2006
MondoGomma Picture Show STUTTGART 2005
MondoGomma Picture Show BARCELONA 2005
MondoGomma Picture Show STOCKHOLM 2005
MondoGomma Picture Show BERLIN 2005

Mathias Munk has been asked to be part of SPORT HIT PARADISE. An art project of New York based artist
Elisabeth Arkhipoff taking place in Paris. Elisabeth asked MUNK to record a track for an imaginary band called “Sport Hit Paradise”. Besides MUNK there are also: Discodeine (Paris), Gavin Russom (DFA New York), In Flagranti and others.

The exhibition will take place:
ELISABETH ARKHIPOFF / SPORT HIT PARADISE “You In Me”
12Mail Paris from 11/12/09 to 12/02/10

You can download the music for free here: Sport Hit Paradise ART project

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….