Every year the Urban Nation Museum for urban Contemporary art invites 5-6 artists to create a mural in Berlin that comments on current issues. Jim Avignon, an influential street artist in Berlin since the 1990s, unveiled his mural on June 18, 2020. The mural features a hot air balloon designed to look like the earth with colorful characters in the gondola. Avignon's mural is located in Artwork Tegal on the facade of Neheimer Straße 8.
This portrait was done in 2012 by street artist James Cochran and is located directly outside of the Anne Frank Zentrum. This is located in Haus Schwarzenburg, one of the most famous areas in Berlin for street art. This piece is one of many filling the streets outside of the exhibit that is part of a greater project to support and bring attention to the exhibit which is in partnership with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
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Street Artist Alias is based in Berlin and his smaller scale murals from over the years can be found all over the city, other locations in Germany, India, and Istanbul. He is a stencil artist and well known for incorporating the location and materials around his piece in its significance. Some of his most iconic works in Berlin include "Cut it out", "Faceless", "Hiding", "Game Over", "Praying", and "Batter Up".
JR is a French artist whose project Wrinkles of the City features paste-ups of the elderly. He began this project in the Spanish town of Cartagena in 2008 with the goal of shining light on the forgotten of society, the elderly. His work can be seen in cities such as Havana, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Istanbul, and Berlin. JR brought his exhibit to Berlin in 2013 by putting 15 paste-ups all over the city. Most of the paste-ups have been destroyed throughout the years, however their influence on Berlin remains.
The East Side Gallery is one of the largest open-air galleries in the world and a big tourist attraction. It is located at the site of the wall that divided east and west Germany. Many of the paintings in the East Side Gallery illustrated reunification, hopes for the future, and breaking free of oppression.
This famous mural was done by famous Italian street artist Blu in 2007, whose work has a unique way of memorializing the historical significance of the piece's location and offering critical social and political commentary. Blu has done several iconic large murals in Berlin but The Pink Man is one of the only remaining pieces that has not been painted over. It is located in Kreuzburg at the west end of the Oberbaum Bridge.
In 2007 Victor Ash created one of Berlin's most iconic murals, the Astronaut Cosmonaut. The mural is on a white building located in Kreuzberg, Berlin and features an astronaut floating in space. Though simple in appearance, the mural comments on multiple culturally important aspects of Berlin and has become one the city's most pictured murals, making it an important part of Berlin's cityscape.
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A tour of some of the most iconic street art found in Berlin. Starting with Victor Ash's Astronaut Cosmonaut this tour explores the East side gallery and work done by famous artists such as Blu, James C, JR and Alias.
