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.
Wallbreakers Urban Art Tour
Today the time has come - The “Wallbreakers Urban Art Tour” starts this evening with the opening of Just’s first solo-exhibition! (Don’t forget to win your urban art photo-postcards by Just!!!)
The “Wallbreakers Urban Art Tour” is a series of several different street art exhibitions, artwork presentations and graffiti events all over Berlin until October 23rd.
This weekend, highly recommended are Wallbreakers for “Write The Wall”! The three Berlin-based writers Bas2 (GHS), Poet (GFA) and Wesp (GHS) will paint on original pieces of the Berlin Wall on Saturday and Sunday.
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Freestyle Berlin Photos
There’s a good reason for not writing something last weekend - the phenomenal extreme sports event Freestyle Berlin!
Freestyle Berlin, that was impressing freestyle motocross (FMX), great freestyle skateboarding in a four meter vertramp, freeskiing and freestyle snowboarding on three days at the former airport Tempelhof in Berlin.
My friends, I and about 13,000 other visitors were fascinated by the extreme stunts, jumps and drops. I took a lot of photos there and made a nice black-and-white series out of them - take a look into my Flickr-photostream!
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Herakut Live Painting - Photos
Yesterday, the German urban artist duo Herakut painted live in Berlin! I was there for taking some photos…
Herakut - Between graffiti, street art and art
Hera and Akut combine with their mixture of graffiti and contemporary fine arts the urban roughness of the streets and the natural richness of detail.
Yesterday, the both artists showed in an impressive way, how they interact with each-other and in which way they create their artworks. Tinting paint, water and spray-paint became in several hours a dirty, interesting and impressive mixture and lead to a harmonious whole.
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Dreamyourtopia - Fall of the Berlin Wall
“Dreamyourtopia” is a urban art project at the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. 12 internationally known and famous street and urban artists, including Dadara (NL), Nomad (DE), Dave the Chimp (UK), Peter Fuss (PL), The London Police (UK/NL) and Roa (BE), will build their own fortress:
“Potential immigrants should download immigration form WXRZYQSFG-23587-492A from the Dreamyourtopia website, print it out, fill out both sides of the questionnaire, and bring it with them to the Officer On Duty operating the Checkpoint.
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Herakut Live Painting in Berlin
Breaking News: Herakut will be painting live in Berlin this week!
The German artist duo Hera and Akut are working together for years. Their contrasting styles and their strange way of creating artworks, has made them famous urban artists.
Their book “Herakut - The Perfect Merge” shows in a strong way that the mixture of two such different styles can lead to a harmonious whole.
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Giants in Berlin
For the last three days, the giants visited Berlin! I was on the streets today to take some photos of the big and very impressing marionettes.
Me and thousands of other people were astonished about the vitality, the giants radiated. The parade was a huge spectacle with live music, confetti and cheering people… If you want to get some impressions, take a look at my photos!
“spielzeit’europa | Berliner Festspiele and the legendary French street theatre company Royal de Luxe present The Giants Arrive – A Fairy Tale for Berlin: an open-air theatre spectacle to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Freestyle Berlin 2009
Next week, a phenomenal extreme sports event will taking place in Berlin - Freestyle.Berlin!
If you are interested in urban sports or other freestyle activities, you should read the next lines from the press release very carefully:
Freestyle Berlin 2009
“On a full weekend, the 60 world’s best athletes in the disciplines of snowboarding, freeskiing, FMX and skateboarding compete for cash prizes totaling more than US$ 110,000 and the titles “freestyle.champ” and “crossover.champ”.
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Backjumps is Back! - Street Art Event
The famous street & urban art exhibition series “Backjumps” is back! In its fourth version, the “Backjumps” will present seven selected, Berlin-based artists from November 7th to November 29th.
“Backjumps Version 4 #1” is the prelude to twice-yearly “laboratories” and researches of current strategies and forms of urban art and aerosol culture expressions.
Participating artists are Pigenius Cave, Brad Downey, RZM (Ritsche Koch/Zasd/Christian Marien), Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf:
Pigenius Cave explores with a homemade “Tricycle” the canals and underground access ways of the city. He documented findings, lost treasures and places of this underworld.
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Berlin East Side Gallery
There were a lot of photos, videos and documentations about the Berlin Wall and its East Side Gallery, but I have rarely seen such beautiful pictures like this!
“The East Side Gallery is the longest preserved stretch of the former Berlin Wall. It is the largest open-air gallery in the world with 106 original mural paintings on 1.3 km-long created by artists from all over the world after the collapse of East Germany.
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Futura 2000 by Ruedi One
After my photos and the interview, I found a further impression from Futura 2000’s “Odyssey Two” exhibition in Berlin today!
Famous graffiti photographer Ruedi One documented the development of some of the artworks, which were shown at the Futura show. The video, which was created thereby, showcases Futura in a classical, beautiful black-and-white shot sequence.
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