--- author: Jan Brennenstuhl categories: - Street Art cover: alt: 'Street Art 3.0: Mentalgassi in Berlin' height: 1616 src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/mentalgassi-big-in-berlin/Mentalgassi_Berlin-street-art.jpg width: 2432 credit: '' date: '2010-04-16T09:58:39Z' description: The street art collective Mentalgassi is well-known in Berlin for their large-scale paper artworks, which always show crazy faces. Recently they created a brand-new artwork at Alexanderplatz... tags: - 3d Art - Berlin - Art Installation - Paper Art - Mentalgassi title: 'Street Art 3.0: Mentalgassi in Berlin' url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/mentalgassi-big-in-berlin/ --- # Street Art 3.0: Mentalgassi in Berlin Yes, it’s a commercial work, but nevertheless it’s really amazing! The Berlin-based street art crew **Mentalgassi** did a nice job at the Alexanderplatz in the heart of Berlin. They created so-called “Flip-Images”, large-scale image-installations which make it possible for the public to see different images from different perspectives. Mentalgassi are well-known for their oversized paste-ups, showing expressive, crazy faces of their friends. In the past, they also experimented with concrete, stickers and X-films, self-sticking color transparencies, for the [ticket validators](http://mentalgassi.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-post_9033.html) on the Berlin subway-stations. One of their slogans is “Mentalgassi create street art to open your eyes...”, which describes their doings in a great way, because their artworks often let people be aware of their surrounding and the street equipment they would never notice... Here are some impressions of their recent artwork: ![Mentalgassi - Alexanderplatz 3d]() Mentalgassi - Alexanderplatz 3d ![Mentalgassi - paper art berlin]() Mentalgassi - paper art berlin Info via [urbanshit.de](http://urbanshit.de/?p=2245), photos via [taz.de](http://blogs.taz.de/streetart/2010/04/14/riesige_flipimages_am_alex/).