NEW YORK 29.02.2012 – With “Ordinary Superheroes: Toronto’s Urban Life”, the first solo-show of Toronto-based photographer Giovanni Damiola, ContestaRockHair is pleased to start the 2012 series of Gate 535 events in partnership with ContaminateNYC boutique agency. Giovanni has always been fascinated by street life and the random wandering that triggers unexpected and unplanned encounters. He [...]

Miami, December 1-4 2011. From December 1 through 4  2011 ContestaRockHair will sponsor “Haired” ,a group show created by Cream Hotel boutique firm and developed on international artists and their interactive activities around the theme of hair. The event will take place  at the L-M-N-T Gallery in Miami, exploring hair as a concept: a synonym [...]

NEW YORK 19,10.2011 – Gate 535  is pleased to start a new exciting season of events @ContestaRockHair with the solo show of Mexican New York-based artist Maxine Nienow. “The Viewer’s Choice” presents a selection of photographs from the series “Mexican Family.” In this body of work Maxine explores topics of prejudice, power structures and social [...]

NEW YORK 27.07.2011 – Ephemeral is the quality of urban creativity  according to Samuela Malizia, Italian photographer and painter at her first solo exhibition in New York at ContestaRockHair from 27 July to 27 September 2011. This is the way Gate 535 concludes its summer session, with a photo collection that the artist from Verona [...]

NEW YORK 04.05.2011 – GATE 535, the collaboration between ContestaRockHair and the boutique creative agency Contaminate NYC,  arrived this time to a theme that has always been part of our world, influencing our style greatly:  the mixture of sacred and profane, that the Italian-born artist  Manu Hell shows off with an exhibition curated by Virginia [...]