Stop 03 · 03–09 Nov
OpenTattoo collective / Kreuzberg / On the road Oct–Feb
Four chairs.
Eight cities.
Every autumn Ninth Needle closes the Oranienstraße shop and takes its four resident artists on guest spots. Pick a stop to see who is tattooing there, and when the books open.
Live · Season books
72.4%
of 412 guest-spot hours booked
03 / 08 · Montréal
The travelling chairs
Four residents, two stops each.
01 · Chair 1 since 2017
Mara Sólveig
Fine-line botanicals
Single-needle ferns, seed heads and pressed-flower studies that sit flat on the skin and age softly.
Lisbon · Montréal
02 · Chair 2 since 2019
Ilja Brandt
Blackwork & dotwork
Geometric sleeves built from stippled gradients — no outlines, only density, about nine hours a forearm.
Reykjavík · Seoul
03 · Chair 3 since 2020
Tavi Okonkwo
Neo-traditional colour
Heavy lines, saturated ochre and teal, and animals drawn with more expression than they strictly need.
Mexico City · Melbourne
04 · Chair 4 since 2022
Sen Arakawa
Large-scale backpieces
Waves, smoke and wind bars planned over a year of sittings. Guest spots are for consultations and outlines.
Osaka · Cape Town
How a guest spot works
Three steps, no queue outside the door.
- 01
Send the idea
Placement, rough size and up to three reference images. Each artist answers their own inbox within five working days.
- 02
Hold the slot
An €80 deposit, taken off the final price. It moves once to any other stop on the tour, and is refunded if the artist cancels.
- 03
Sit for it
Drawings are finished before you arrive. Most guest-spot pieces are a single sitting of three to six hours.
Next release
Seoul and Osaka books open 1 November, 10:00 CET.
Montréal, Mexico City and Melbourne are open now. Sold-out stops keep a waitlist; cancellations go out in the order they arrived.