Berlin’s street art scene flourishes through historic rebellion, diverse artistic communities, and iconic locations like East Side Gallery transforming urban landscapes.
Berlin stands as one of the world’s most important street art capitals, with a vibrant scene rooted in the city’s history of political rebellion, cultural transformation, and artistic freedom. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 created unprecedented opportunities for artistic expression on vacant buildings and abandoned spaces throughout the reunified city.
The iconic East Side Gallery, featuring murals painted directly on remaining Wall sections, symbolizes Berlin’s transformation from divided city to unified cultural center. Neighborhoods like Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, and Mitte showcase diverse artistic styles from traditional graffiti writing to large-scale murals, stencil art, and experimental installations.
Girl Power - Graffiti Movie
Yeah, do you know, that there will be a new documentary movie about women in the graffiti world? No? I will tell you some facts about it:
“Girl Power” is the name of that new graffiti film, which shows impressions and emotions from around the world. The film crew traveled with 20 graffiti girls to over ten cities, like Berlin, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Budapest, Moscow, and so on.
For some weeks, the first teaser for the documentary movie, which will be released in 2011, is online! It presents some parts of the Berlin trip.
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PHO - Urban Live Painting
The last I wrote about the artspace “Projectroom” in Berlin, was the article about the Herakut live painting several weeks ago.
This time, the true talented urban artist Marco Grassi aka PHO painted live at this location! While he did his interesting performance, some other guys filmed him and made a crazy time-lapse video.
PHO approached street art for the first time in Paris. He is now one of the major protagonists of the Italian street art scene…
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Artiste Ouvrier - Stencil Art Show
Yesterday evening was the vernissage of Artiste Ouvrier’s stencil art solo show in Berlin. The Parisian artist started with street and especially with stencil art in the early 90’s. In the last years, he exhibited around the world, e.g. in Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Hamburg and London, and made himself a reputation as an outstanding stencil artist.
In Berlin, he will now present his new series of artworks about the historic battle from Waterloo, called “Pochoirs Normands”.
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Huskmitnavn - Danish Street Art
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His characters are funny, his street art tends to political statements and his pastel graffities and comic-style paintings are internationally known. Huskmitnavn (in English: Remember my name), alias Anton Berg, is in addition to Armsrock one of the most famous Danish street artists.
Modern Street Art from Denmark
In Europe, but also overseas, for example in Portland, New York, Montreal, Tokyo and Osaka, the Dane with the funny name, who really always wanted to be butcher, was already active.
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Berlin Wall - Tear Down Tape Art
20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an American TV channel and a German urban artists collaborate to celebrate the end of separation in an artistic way. “Go Beyond Borders” is a tape art project by Berlin-based street artist El Bocho and CNN.
In the last days, El Bocho and his crew created unique art installations using tape at historic sites along the former Berlin Wall and made some videos of their actions.
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Backjumps #4 - Photos
As I told you yesterday, the next version of legendary urban art exhibition project “Backjumps”, started in Berlin.
Backjumps #4 presents different unusual artworks and projects by the seven Berlin-based urban artists Pigenius Cave, Brad Downey, RZM (Ritsche Koch/Zasd/Christian Marien), Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf. The exhibition shows, in which ways it is possible to explore and use the urban landscape.
Pigenius Cave explores with a homemade “Tricycle” the canals and underground access ways of the city. Brad Downey presents artworks, which demonstrate his sculptural as well as his performative dealing with the city. RZM deals with the world of sound, architecture and texture of Berlin locations. And Matthias Wermke and Misha Leinkauf show a video installation, in which they move through the underground and suburban rail network of Berlin.
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Backjumps - Urban Communication
Backjumps, the legendary magazine and exhibition project on street art, urban communication and aesthetics is back! After two years of abstinence, Germany’s most famous urban art curator Adrian Nabi invited seven Berlin-based artists to present their engagement with the city of Berlin.
For this reason, I will give you an short overview of the history of Backjumps, so that you are able to understand, why this street art event is so important!
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Superblast - The Shadow of the Future
One of the first posts, I wrote on this blog was the hint for the Superblast exhibition “The Shadow of the Future”, which opened on August 22nd at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Berlin. Recently, the show was extended until November 7th.
Superblast creates artwork themed around psychological archetypes, fictional mythologies and his personal utopia.
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Berlin Advertising Takeover Preparation
Some days ago, I told you about the spectacular adbusting by urban artists in Berlin. About 20 different urban artists took over so called citylight-posters with their artworks and made in this way a wide street art group-exhibition in public-space, called Nothing but Quality Street.
But how did they do that? In Berlin Mitte, Kreuzberg and Neukölln it’s almost impossible to do such a big action they did. Because of the high number of arson attacks by left-winged autonomists, there’s a very high police appearance.
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Berlin Advertising Takeover
My friend Martin from the online platform for contemporary urban art “LetterXIII” asked me to post some infos and photos about the urban art group-exhibition and advertising takeover “Nothing but…”, which took place in Berlin some days ago.
About 20 different urban artists took over so called citylight-posters with their artworks between Mitte and Neukölln.
Involved on this wonderful, temporary adbusting action were for example Evol, Bronco, Brad Downey, Filippo Minelli, Akim, Laurent Basset and many more!
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