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.
Mode2 Live Mural Art - Photos
Graffiti legend and famous character-painter Mode2 did (as I mentioned before) a nice live mural art painting event at Schau Fenster Gallery in Berlin-Kreuzberg! Of course I joined this live painting event and took a few photos. Again it was impressing - not just for me but also for all the other visitors enjoying the characters becoming alive - to watch Mode adding his well-known dancing characters to such a big wall.
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Anthony Lister Live Art Performance
As announced, famous Australian painter Anthony Lister did a nice live art performance in Jaybo’s Project Room (Herakut, Kofie, El Mac and other famous urban artists painted there before!) in Berlin two days ago…
Tools, brushstrokes, spraypaint, electric guitar, doubts and hopes, hate and love, heroes on the walls, fallen dreams, questions and answers, visibles and invisibles - Mr. Lister will take the challenge to paint about, with and for Berlin.
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Another View on Street Art & Graffiti
Today is the day for some first official words about my upcoming urban art photography exhibition in Berlin! Entitled Urban Artists in Action - Another View on Street Art & Graffiti Westberlin Gallery will present selected photos of my Urban Artists in Action series, featuring some well-known street and graffiti artists from around the globe!
His close knit, almost family bonds with prominent street artists from both Berlin and around the world including Buff Diss, Morten Andersen, FinDAC and Remi/Rough naturally developed into a large collection of intimate photographs following studio visits and street actions of some of his, and our own favourite heroes.
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Rallito X - Abandoned Monster Art
I personally met Spanish street artist Rallito X first when I visited Madrid earlier this year. Yesterday I hook up with him again, this time in an abandoned area in the eastern part of Berlin, to explore the rooms of this old sausage factory and to extend my photo-collection of urban artists in action…
In the end, Rallito, whose dirty monster paintings are often garnished with comic-like dicks and provoking slogans, found a nice spot on the very top of the building, for what reason I had some special butterflies in my stomach during the whole action. Nevertheless the results are great again: Berlin has a new crazy monster character and my collection has some nice, new photos!
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Anthony Lister Berlin Marathon
Crazy Australian-born painter and installation artist Anthony Lister is going to come to Berlin next week for a big fat experimental art marathon! For 6 days and 6 nights he will live in Berlin’s Project Room being permanently creative and watched online…
Tools, brushstrokes, spraypaint, electric guitar, doubts and hopes, hate and love, heroes on the walls, fallen dreams, questions and answers, visibles and invisibles - Mr. Lister will take the challenge to paint about, with and for Berlin. (circleculture-magazine.com)
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Caleb Neelon’s Wedding Wall
Mural Art | Caleb Neelon’s Wedding Wall… when I wrote this title I noticed that actually it’s a bit strange for a city to have a district called Wedding.
I mean this post is not about fairytale weddings or golden weddings but about the first part of the “Wedding Walls” urban art project in Berlin, which commissioned - as I already mentioned - six internationally well-known urban artists to repaint huge walls in the north of Berlin!
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L’Atlas in Berlin - Action, Photos, Exhibition!
Urban Art Show | Famous French urban artist L’Atlas used, as some of you already know, the last couple of days to prepare some new artworks for his upcoming show at Skalitzers Contemporary Gallery in Berlin!
For this new series L’Atlas combined stamping, painting and taping to create a new style of multi-layered abstract typography in black and white, which plays with the viewer…
Seeking a universal form of urban communication, L’Atlas invents a new language for global mega-cities, a language of signs as much as words. Beginning with the tag in the early 1990s, L’Atlas went on to study Arabic calligraphy with classic and modern masters in Morocco, Egypt and Syria, taking particular inspiration from traditional Kufic calligraphy – the oldest calligraphic form of the Arabic scripts. […] The rectangular shapes of the Kufic script are applied to the Latin alphabet to create his own typography, in which he writes his name as a labyrinth. Within his script, each shape is a letter, and each letter a shape - making each message both enigmatic and aesthetic. (Skalitzers)
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Hot Urban Art Cheese
Urban Fine Art | Yeah I know, this posts heading is quite confusing, but in the end hot urban art cheese is exactly what we will see tonight at Westberlin Gallery when they will host the first solo-show of the German Hot Cheese Crew in Berlin!
“Hot Cheese Crew is a gang of four artists and designers with a background in graffiti and urban art, who also have a fashion label under their wing. Like a deep melting pot, in which all kinds of unique ingredients are combined together to make the most delicious of brews, the crew thrives on collective action via the individuality and different methods and interests of each member. Collaboration is the essential ingredient. Inspired by pop-art, club-culture, street art, music and fashion, their works consist of painted worlds of colour combined with graphic design, illustration, a love of life and a constant lust to create.” (WBG)
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Wedding Walls - New Murals for Berlin
Mural Art | At the end of this month, the urban art project “Wedding Walls” will start to let six internationally well-known urban artists recreate some huge walls in Berlin’s north!
Currently Wedding is becomming an increasingly more popular area for Artists, students and entrepreneurs. Administrated by the French and surrounded by the Berlin Wall on three sides, the area changed drastically after the fall of the Wall. Due to the cheap rent and access to both the Ring Line, and the U-Bahn, this once detached district is begin noticed as a great location to both live and work in.
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Pictoplasma Character Walk
Character Art | In two days, the next big art-event for fans of characters and contemporary art will take place in Berlin!
As a part of this year’s “Pictoplasma Festival of Contemporary Character Design & Art”, the “Pictoplasma Character Walk” will showcasing the wealth and diversity of today’s characters by connecting 25 selected galleries, project spaces and hidden locations in Berlin-Mitte! It’s the official kick-off event of Pictoplasma 2011 and is taking place on Wednesday, the 6th, starting from noon, with many of the locations celebrating their welcome receptions in the early evening.
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