Berlin (25 Photos)
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Berlin’s street art story runs from the Wall years to today’s mural era: protest slogans, post-reunification experimentation, abandoned spaces turned open-air studios, and a constant push between institutional support and raw DIY energy. This 25-piece selection is strictly Berlin — a timeline in images showing how the city’s visual language has evolved without losing its edge.
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1. Painting Reality — IEPE & The Anonymous Crew
Painting Reality is one of Berlin’s iconic concept-driven interventions, where traffic itself became part of the artwork. Using temporary paint at a major junction, the piece reframed ordinary infrastructure as a participatory canvas. It reflects Berlin’s long appetite for ephemeral, idea-first urban actions. The intervention is documented in detail by Designboom, including method and scale.
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2. DECYCLE — old-school Berlin edge
DECYCLE represents an older Berlin stencil sensibility: raw edges, immediate character presence, and anti-polished attitude. The work feels tied to a period when experimentation mattered more than permanence. That old-school energy still informs how many Berlin artists approach public walls today. For collector and exhibition context, DECYCLE is also listed at Pretty Portal.
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3. Vermibus Process — Adbusting in Berlin
Vermibus’ adbusting practice is crucial to Berlin’s expanded definition of street art, where intervention includes media sabotage and image politics. By chemically altering commercial posters, the work attacks beauty and consumption norms at source. It links Berlin’s street scene to broader counter-public strategies.
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4. Angel in Berlin
Angel’s Berlin entry reflects the prolific publishing era when SAU documented smaller but culturally revealing city interventions. These pieces matter because they show the everyday texture of Berlin’s scene, not only its headline murals. Street culture is built in accumulation.
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5. Alice Pasquini in Berlin
Alice Pasquini’s Berlin piece brings human-scale intimacy into a city known for oversized statements. Her figure work softens the wall without sentimentalizing it. It’s a reminder that Berlin street art has always included tenderness alongside confrontation. For more on her international practice, see Alice Pasquini’s official site.
More: By Alice Pasquini – In Berlin, Germany
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6. Plotterroboter Ken in Berlin (2014)
Plotterroboter Ken’s line-driven approach sits between graffiti logic and illustrative experimentation. In Berlin, that hybrid language found fertile ground on permissive and semi-permissive surfaces. The result is work that feels both coded and immediately readable. Plotterroboter Ken’s background is also covered by Urban Nation.
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7. Guashe in Berlin
Guashe’s piece reflects a period when bold color and character narratives were rapidly expanding across Berlin walls. It demonstrates how international styles were absorbed into a distinctly local urban context. Berlin didn’t just import aesthetics — it recontextualized them.
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8. Urben in Berlin (2014)
Urben’s Berlin work carries the hand-made character emphasis that defined much of early-2010s street output. The tone is accessible, slightly mischievous, and rooted in wall-level communication rather than spectacle. That sensibility remains central to Berlin’s street identity. Additional artist context is available on Urben’s official site.
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9. Street Art in Berlin, Germany
This archival Berlin snapshot is valuable because it captures a transitional phase: remnants of classic graffiti culture coexisting with newer mural ambitions. You can read the city’s layered history directly in the surface language. It’s less a single style than a visual negotiation.
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10. Absent — Innerfields
Innerfields belong to Berlin’s long-running tradition of figurative, psychologically loaded wall painting. Absent uses restrained color and cinematic composition to communicate grief, distance, and political unease without becoming didactic. It’s a strong example of contemporary Berlin mural work that still feels personal. The piece is also mapped on Street Art Cities, where its Berlin location and context are documented.
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11. Herakut in Berlin
Herakut’s Berlin presence is historically significant for blending narrative figuration, emotional text, and mural scale. Their work helped define a generation where Berlin street art could be both intimate and monumental. It remains one of the city’s most recognizable visual signatures. For historical background on the duo, see HERAKUT’s profile.
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12. Mural for Peace — Marycula
Marycula’s peace mural shows Berlin’s enduring use of walls for civic messaging. Rather than relying on shock, it uses clarity and symbolic composition to invite identification. This softer political register has always existed alongside Berlin’s more confrontational street voices.
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13. Plotbot KEN in Berlin
Plotbot KEN’s work in abandoned Berlin spaces reflects a major part of the city’s visual mythology: industrial leftovers turned into experimental studios. The setting is as important as the paint. It documents a practice where location and atmosphere carry equal artistic weight. For background on the artist, see Urban Nation’s Plotbot KEN profile.
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14. Under the Hand — CASE Maclaim
CASE Maclaim’s signature hand studies are part of Berlin’s transition from raw wall writing to highly crafted muralism. In this piece, the architecture itself feels animated, as if the facade is flexing from within. It captures a key Berlin trait: technical precision used in service of immediate street impact. For broader context, Urban Nation’s artist profile outlines his Ma’Claim background and long-running hand motif.
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15. Facebook — Nafir
Nafir’s Facebook-themed piece belongs to the social-critique thread that has long run through Berlin street art. It turns platform behavior into a visual punchline while keeping the execution simple and legible. In a city saturated with signals, clarity is part of the power. Nafir’s broader practice is profiled by I Support Street Art.
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16. James Bullough x ONUR
The Bullough/ONUR collaboration highlights Berlin’s role as a meeting point for distinct mural vocabularies. Precision, depth, and large-scale staging are pushed without losing urban grit. It reflects how Berlin’s scene has matured technically while staying rooted in public-space dialogue. Both artists’ official pages provide extra context: James Bullough and ONUR.
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17. My Fantastic Social Media Life vs Real Life
This work captures how quickly Berlin walls react to global media moments. Satire, meme logic, and public commentary collapse into one readable image. It’s very Berlin: fast, topical, and unapologetically direct in how it addresses attention culture.
More: My Fantastic Social Media Life vs Real Life – Mural in Berlin, Germany
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18. Patron of the Wealthy — NATRIX
NATRIX’s mural speaks to a central Berlin tension: cultural visibility versus economic exclusion. The work uses direct symbolism and blunt composition to address inequality in public space. It belongs to a lineage of Berlin pieces that treat the wall as a civic argument, not just a surface. Additional Berlin context for NATRIX can be found in this streetart map entry.
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19. Berlin Dogs — One Truth Bros
One Truth Bros channel a contemporary Berlin mural language that combines clean execution with playful character dynamics. Berlin Dogs feels local in tone — humorous, slightly absurd, and visually bold. It shows how city identity can be expressed without resorting to cliché. You can also see more process and wall work on the duo’s official channel archive.
More: Berlin Dogs – Mural By One Truth Bros in Berlin, Germany
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20. Isakov in Berlin
Isakov’s Berlin mural sits in the newer wave of polished large-format works that still respect the city’s rough visual context. The composition is controlled, but it doesn’t feel detached from the street. It’s part of Berlin’s ongoing balance between craft and immediacy. A useful artist profile appears in this WePresent feature on Alexander Isakov.
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21. Elephant in Berlin — Jadore
Jadore’s elephant in Kreuzberg shows how large-scale murals in Berlin can still carry emotional softness. The scale is monumental, but the energy is human and protective rather than aggressive. It fits Berlin’s current mural scene, where landmark walls often function as shared neighborhood symbols. It is also featured in visitBerlin’s mural roundup, confirming its status as a city landmark.
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22. Cat Waiting for Mouse — LIZ ART BERLIN
LIZ ART BERLIN’s cat series proves how repetition can build urban folklore. By placing the same character across different surfaces, she creates a citywide visual game that rewards attention and local knowledge. This is classic Berlin street logic: low-tech presence, high memorability. Her wider body of work is also visible through her artist page, which helps track recurring motifs across locations.
More: Cat waiting for mouse – 11 Paste Ups by LIZ ART BERLIN
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23. Politicians Discussing Climate Change — Isaac Cordal
Isaac Cordal’s miniature interventions operate at the opposite scale of Berlin’s mega-murals, yet hit just as hard. The suited figures standing in water have become shorthand for political paralysis in the climate era. Berlin’s streets are ideal for this kind of sharp, small-format satire. Background on the project’s circulation and attribution is summarized in the Isaac Cordal overview.
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