Gods of Ink Tattoo Convention 2023

Gods Of Ink Tattoo Convention 2023

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THE STORY OF MIKI VIALETTO – THE ORGANISER OF GODS OF INK TATTOO CONVENTION

After a three year halt due to Covid and the knock-on effect of the pandemic which put pretty much any activity that involved crowds on standby, we can finally announce the new project which has been keeping me busy for the past months: a new convention.

As I made known over a year ago, London is a chapter that came to a close with the passing of my business partner and brother-in-life Marcus Berriman.

For me, London was Marcus and without him, doing it made no sense anymore. I decided it was a time for renewal, that 15 years of London was enough for an event the goal of which had been to be so international that it would actually lose any geographical connotation.

Now for the hard part: to find a city that could tick all the boxes with an international airport convenient for arrivals from all parts of the world, a metropolis interesting enough to form the backdrop for this kind of gathering, and, last but not least, or rather in first place in terms of priorities, not already the location of a tattoo convention.

Because, unlike certain other organizers, I have always respected the ethical rule that you don’t go promoting a convention where someone else is already organizing one, i.e. don’t go down the track already beaten by another.

Finally, I found everything I was looking for in Frankfurt.

Frankfurt was the venue for one of the longest-lived historic European conventions which continued for almost thirty years but were discontinued some years back, leaving it open and fertile ground for replanting a new event. And so Frankfurt became my “red point”. But I also wanted to distinguish myself from the old event and put the seal on a new departure starting with the name in order to avoid confusion with the previous convention.

So here it is, GODS OF INK, a name that both brings me back to my roots in the nineties, back to the beginning of my career on the tattoo scene, as well as recalling my deep love of Heavy Metal.

Frankfurt will thus be the NEXT STOP in my work and, I trust, in the tattoo scene. The list of artists who have already confirmed their presence includes historic names to whom I feel I simply have to pay personal tribute: from Grime (who designed the first poster) to Filip Leu, Robert Hernandez, Theo Mindell, Big Meas, Jose Lopez, Tin Tin, Luke Atkinson, Henning Jorgensen, Nikko Hurtado, Ami James… the greatest in the world and the most innovative artists will once more come together under the same roof for a three-day celebration of the purest essence of tattoo.

Once again, the selection process for artists will be solely and exclusively based on merit, just like it always was for London. The number of followers, notoriety on social media or celebrity status on some television show have never been and certainly won’t now be among the prerequisites for that list I have drawn up every time I’ve decided to put my own reputation and that of Tattoo Life on the line and involve the people in this sector who I most respect in something which will certainly only grow with the support of everybody.

I, therefore, invite you all to save the date 14-15-16 April 2023 because the great names in tattoos are going to be in the spotlight once again, this time in Frankfurt.

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