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.
No More Street Art In Berlin
Street Art Show | Yes, “it’s sad but true - this is our last show”! This is the first sentence in the latest newsletter I received from Berlin’s most famous gallery for street art stuff… ATM Gallery will close its doors one day before Christmas.
Yes, you’re right, that doesn’t mean that there will be no more street art in Berlin, but nevertheless a big meeting point for street art enthusiasts, urban artists, collectors, fans and documentarists will be absent and will leave a big hole in our hearts.
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Dido & Aeneas - Tape Art Opera
Tape Art | Again I have some new info about Berlin-based tape artist Buffdiss (here in action). The Australian-born urban artist combined his trained eyes for impressing patters and his graphically skills to create an interesting new tape art series in an abandoned environment about the “Dido and Aeneas” opera in the last weeks!
“Dido and Aeneas” by English Baroque composer Henry Purcell includes a prologue and three acts and is the story of the love between Dido and Aeneas, intrigues and suicide. It is remembered as a monumental work in Baroque opera and although you can like Buffdiss’ tape artwork even if you don’t know the whole story I recommend to read the short synopsis on Wikipedia…
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Stroke.03 - Urban Art Fair
For some of you it’s just another way of street art commercialization, but with round about 25 participating galleries and art collectives, Stroke.03 is the biggest urban art fair in Germany and will this year take place for four days in Berlin.
Including eleven indoor live-paintings by well-known urban artists like Morten Andersen, FinDAC, Herr von Bias, SP38, and nine outdoor mural live-paintings by Roa, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, Faith47, and others in the streets of Berlin, the third issue of Stroke will dominate the German capital’s urban art life during October 7th and 10th, 2010! The main part of Stroke.03, the art fair, will take place in the former train-station Gleisdreieck, in the heart of Berlin.
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Jaybo’s Hazardous Brushstrokes
Short news for those of you who are in Berlin today: Circle Culture Gallery will open its doors for Jaybo’s “Hazardous Brushstrokes” exhibition this evening! The art show will present Jaybo’s latest artworks, including crazy paintings and of course hazardous brushstrokes…
Jaybo’s work always seems to take giant leaps and it’s quite hard to keep up with his ever changing styles and ideas… This show is no different, a big departure from the figurative into some really abstract realms. I only wish I could be there! (Remi Rough)
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Berlin’s Painting Reality
Do you remember that ominous massive paint attack in Berlin earlier this year? A group of unknown bikers hit the Rosenthaler Platz in the heart of Berlin and spilled about 500 liters of colorful, water-based environmentally-friendly paint on the asphalt. Back then, a rumor circulated in the web about whether this paint attack was just another form of guerrilla marketing or a brilliant urban art action?
Massive Paint Attack Video Today the official documentary video, named “Painting Reality”, was published by IEPE & the anonymous crew! It shows the whole procedure of spilling paint on the junction, which only took a few seconds.
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Berlin in Tilt-Shift
It’s always interesting to see the own city from a different view or in a different style, especially when it shows the urban flair and nice details of the local architecture.
I already showed you some rather impressing city portraits, like New York in HD or in tilt-shift, Vancouver as a time lapse, Tokyo and Yokohama by night or the street life in London, but today I will show you an fucking awesome tilt-shift video of the sexiest city on earth: Berlin!
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Great Typography Posters
The Berlin-based Redspective label is currently showing amazing typography posters and prints by the two urban and typography artists Otto Baum (Klub7) and Sven Neitzel (Nepomuk)!
Dot per Dot is a collaborative project between Otto Baum and Sven Neitzel focusing on blurring the border between illustration and graphic de sign. The two designers use self-made type faces and playful drawings in order to attempt to shift these borders. It was the aim of the two designers to interpret old gra phic forms and create a new approach to design. The exhibtion will also include older works from the artists past 2 years. (redspective.com)
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Backjumps 4.2 - Junior Street Art
“Backjumps” goes into the next round - The popular street art and urban intervention exhibition project with its long history opens the doors for the “Backjumps 4.2 Junior Issue” at the end of this week and will in addition to an exhibition present workshops for kids and still-kids…
As usual, the line-up includes the big names of the international urban art scene: Victor Ash (Copenhagen), Martha Cooper (New York), Dave the Chimp and Poet & Aski (Berlin), Delta and Pips Lab (Amsterdam), Jonone and Skki (Paris), Mode2 (London).
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Tagging Culture in Berlin
Readers of this urban art blog should already noticed the Skalitzers Gallery in Berlin, where for example the Cope2 and the Babou, L’Atlas, Sun7 and Tanc exhibitions took already place.
Skalitzers is a new contemporary art gallery located in Berlin, with an international focus on new artists and art forms. (Skalitzers)
Recently the “Finding Berlin” project visited the gallery and its owner to talk about graffiti and tagging culture in Berlin and of course about the idea behind Skalitzers. The final result is an nice, but unfortunately short video interview, including some interesting statements about the feeling on the streets in Berlin…I guess, when I’m back in Berlin I will pay a visit to corresponding tagging shop!
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Emess & Czarnobyl Live - United Colours
The last weekend was marked by the “United Colours” street art festival, which takes place in Berlin for the first time. Two workshops, one on graffiti characters and one on stencil art, called on to participate and the concept seems to work…
The “United Colours” street art festival is a collaboration between the famous ATM Gallery and the RosengARTen in Berlin-Mitte and will run until the end of this week. They present a mixture of creative entertainment, do-it-yourself workshops with professional help by local urban artists and live-paintings.
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