--- author: Jan Brennenstuhl categories: - Art Shows cover: alt: 'Concrete Playground: First Impressions!' height: 840 src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/concrete-playground-art-show-photos/buffdiss-tape-art-essen.jpg width: 1880 credit: '' date: '2010-05-09T14:02:39Z' description: For already three days, the street art festival Concrete Playground is running in Essen. Now there are the first impressions of the great art show online... tags: - Art Festival - Concrete Art - Street Art Germany title: 'Concrete Playground: First Impressions!' url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/concrete-playground-art-show-photos/ --- # Concrete Playground: First Impressions! Last Friday, [the urban art festival “Concrete Playground”](/concrete-playground/) started in Essen. With about 20 internationally well-known street artists, contemporary artists and urban art photographers the art show with its unique installations and paintings is the most important part of the festival, which also offers different workshops and lectures. *To put the phenomenon Streetart under the microscope, a series of events called Concrete Playground is taking place in 2010’s subcultural capitals Essen, Bochum and Dortmund. In the Fördermaschinenhalle 1/2/8 of Essen’s Zeche Zollverein you can find different workshops and temporary exhibitions of modern and classical street artists.* ([Words from the Playgroud](http://www.concreteplayground.de/category/editorial/)) My friend **Parsproto**, who made the eighth place at [my Urban Photo Contest](/the-winners-urban-photo-contest/) last year, took some nice shots of the “Concrete Playground” exhibition and also [tape artist **BUFFDiss**](http://www.flickr.com/photos/buffdiss/) captured his amazing artwork... For more nice photos, visit their photo-streams on Flickr! ![concrete playground festival]() concrete playground festival ![concrete playground - urban art]() concrete playground - urban art ![concrete playground 2010]() concrete playground 2010