Skate off the Art Recap

Due to renovation works in the Wien Museum at Karlsplatz, the unique opportunity arose to combine art and skateboarding. Street Art artists can act out and immortalize themselves in the period from July 5th to September 1st on approx. 2,000 m² - at least for two months. During this time there will also be a permanently installed skate park by Spoff in the rooms of the museum.

Blue Tomato Skate off the Art

The weekend from August 15th to 19th Blue Tomato was on-site and organized exciting workshops, coaching sessions, a photo competition and the Flip the Museum skateboard contest in cooperation with Etnies.

It all started on Thursday at 2:00 pm. The doors of the museum opened and the visitors streamed in. The program was of course primarily about skateboarding. Since we wanted to make the weekend unforgettable, we brought the Blue Tomato Rebuild the City obstacles to the already existing skate park. They were then to be "destroyed" in the beautiful, light-flooded hall of the atrium. The Rebuild the City skate park changed from day-to-day. There were also spontaneous Goodie4Trick sessions, so every skateboarder went home with some stuff.

In between, all visitors were able to live out their creativity at the "Design Your Own Skatedeck" workshop.

The first two days gave our youngest visitors the opportunity to participate in the free "Skate4Fun Kids Skateboard Coachings" presented by Blue Tomato to gain first experiences. Under the supervision of experienced coaches, the kids could try their hand at skateboarding, whether they were courageous beginners or already experienced mini shredders.

On Friday there were girls courses for all age groups in addition to the kid's courses. Led by our team rider Alisa Fessl all the girls cut a good figure in the skate park. Afterwards, the girls could go to the all-day jewellery workshop and make their own unique pieces of jewellery from old skate decks. So each visitor could take home a one of a kind.

On Saturday the highlight of the weekend took place. The "Flip The Museum" skateboard contest supported by Etnies enjoyed a large number of participants and even more spectators. The skate park of the museum was positively destroyed by skaters and their tricks that made the contest a real experience for all participants. In total there was cash and vouchers worth over € 1,600 to win.

On Sunday the winner of the "Where Art Meets Sk8boarding" photo contest was nominated. During the whole weekend, you could choose your favourite picture of 16 pictures. Here are the final rankings of the photo competition:

1. Julien Visse
2. Stefan Diesner
3. Joachim Zotter

Here again all finalists of the photo competition.

Thanks to everybody who participated at this unique event.