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.
Backpiece Exhibition Berlin
Urban Art Weekend Tip | Tomorrow evening, another interesting urban art event will take place in Berlin. Do you remember these graffiti kids back in the eighties who painted their names or those of their crews on their jeans jackets? To pay homage to these so called backpieces, the German creative crew Klub7 organized an interactive exhibition this weekend!
Supported by Molotow, Levi’s and other brands, urban artists from different background including Bronco, Gogoplata, Flying Förtress, Peachbeach, Poet, Tika, Tower, Superblast and others will wear their own customized jackets at the “Party Arty Vol. 34 – Klub7 Special” party. So you will have old-school and new-school writers, illustrators, street artists, painters and fashion freaks in one location!
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Urban Documentary: Streetosphere
Yesterday I received a nice e-mail by two French film-makers you informed me about their new urban documentary series “Streetosphere” about the surprising urban cultures in Europe.
The first episode will take place in Paris. After that, many cities will be discovered in Europe. Each episode is 26 minutes long. We Discover the city with people who use the urban space to make insolite actions. We want to have a poetic approach in a dynamic program. (Sterenn Films)
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Unlike U - Trainwriting in Berlin
Graffiti Documentary | Another trainwriting film premiers in Berlin: February 2nd, Unlike U - Trainwriting in Berlin will be shown first at the Babylon cinema in Berlin-Mitte.
Unlike U portrais four generations of sprayers in Berlin, of which the oldest of the hardcore artists is already over 40 years old, while the youngest are around 17. All protagonists have one thing in common. Each one has sprayed countless trains in their lives, some of them even over a 1000.
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Stickcore - Sticker Exhibition
Sticky Street Art | One of the first medium which was used to put art on the streets have been stickers. They are cheap, easy and effective and for that reason also more and more well used by advert companies. Nevertheless, stickers are still part of street art which is the reason why the next bigger thing in Berlin is the sticker exhibition Stickcore!
Stickcore will present stickers by artists from all over the world ans calls you to “discover this medium as a part of street and urban art and get fascinated by its wonderful diversity of colour, form, elements and expression.” Also it is still possible to submit your own sticker to be part of the show…
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Jaybo Live Painting, Soto Berlin
A lot of reknown urban artist, like Herakut, El Mac, Augustine Kofie and Remi/Rough already painted live in Jaybo’s Project Room in Berlin.
Now, the master himself invited to watch him paint at the Soto Berlin shop. He painted simultaneously three artworks in front of an audience. Unfortunately I missed this event, so I have no new “Urban Artist in Action” shots for you…
Nevertheless, Jaybo’s live painting was recorded and for that reason there is this really nice short video online. Have fun watching the master painting!
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Kelsey Brookes Interview in Berlin
Artist Interview | Do you remember that two weeks ago the “Caped Creatures” exhibition by Kelsey Brookes opened its doors in Berlin? Back then I posted some snapshots from the opening, but now something more interesting is online: An interview with Kelsey Brookes in Berlin!
The interview-magazine “Freunde von Freunden” met him in an apartment in Kreuzberg, took some nice portrait-shots of him and asked him some questions. Here is a small excerpt:
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Graffiti Fine Art: Morten Andersen in Berlin
Graffiti Art Exhibition | The master of flying colors, Morten Andersen will open his first solo-show in Berlin in a few days! No, he’s not a former National Football League kicker, but a high skilled graffiti fine artist from Denmark. He started tagging back in 1989. Since then, his style was more and more influenced by abstract forms, hand styled line work, patterns and fantastic colors…
“Since he was a kid - Mortens fascination in colours, forms and shapes and their influence on human feelings lead him to draw and paint. After years of beeing a graffiti artist, he began to work more and more on canvas. With his unseen unique style, Morten is one of these rarely seen artist who passed the evolutionary step from Graffiti to fine art with flying colours. With his work he truly belongs to the selected lists of artists like Futura2000, Boris Tellegen or José Parla. With his artworks Morten is composing the soundtrack of our time.” (intoxicated-demons.com)
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Spanish Paste-Ups in Berlin
Street Art Action | After these fantastic spider tags and QR code paste-ups, today is the third time I write about the Madrid-based street art collective La Pluma Eléctri*k…
La Pluma Eléctri*k is an street art collective that was born in the bohemian neighbourhood of Lavapiés, Madrid, in the beginning of 2008. They define itself as a multidisciplinary mad Group whose leader is a cat followed by the FBI. (about La Pluma Eléctri*k)
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Kelsey Brookes in Berlin!
Fine Art Show | Since last Thursday, brilliant and very colorful artworks by artist and former biochemist Kelsey Brookes from San Diego can be seen at Circleculture Gallery in Berlin. Brookes, who is well-known for his raw and energized style presents his latest “Caped Creatures” works, showing half human, half animal creatures mixed with letters, abstract explosions and neon colors…
The creatures become a framework from which the figures anatomy is experimented with. Parts of these chimeras are missing, exaggerated or abstracted beyond functional reality in an effort to relate to the viewer their intense character or predicaments. The loosening of the figure as well as the strong and unique interplay with abstract forms and text, increases the sense of awe and wonder found in Brookes’ signature style. (Circleculture Gallery)
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1st Urban Arts Award Berlin
Berlin’s urban art scene is about to get a vibrant new addition! After recent setbacks, like the disappointing closure of ATM Gallery, there’s finally some uplifting news for street art enthusiasts. At the end of this month, the French art association ARTAQ will host the inaugural Urban Arts Award Festival in Berlin, celebrating groundbreaking talent from around the globe.
This prestigious event recognizes 19 exceptional artists chosen from over 320 submissions worldwide, with 4 receiving Special Jury Awards. Their work will be showcased in a traveling exhibition across five major European cities—Angers, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, and Lyon. Berlin’s iconic Stattbad Wedding, a former swimming pool turned creative hub, will be the festival’s central stage.
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