Who can benefit from the Berlin street art tour?

Street art is for everyone! Our tours too!

Our Berlin street art tour is intended for both specialistsand those who want to discover this art form. Whether you are travelling with your family, a school group or your company, we will guide you through the city’s alternative districtsto discover unique and temporary artworks.

As our other tours, the Berlin street art tour is fully customised. We adapt the route and the themes to suit your wishes and needs, whether you are already a specialist or simply curious.

Why a Berlin street art tour?

Berlin has become one of the world’s street art capitals, attracting artists from all over the world. There are numerous and varied artworks in thecity centre. Sometimes monumental, often illegal, wheat-pasting, graffiti or murals, they are the pride of the locals and the Berliners defend them with passion.

Street art is present in Berlin in both quantity and quality. To learn how to spot it,understand it and make sure you don’t miss anything, follow the guide!

If you want to discover this art form, Berlin is an ideal city for a street art tour, as you will get a broad and varied overview of what exists. You will get a sense of the multitude and complexity of the trends. We will give you tips on how to find your way around and we will get the chance to see some of the world’s most famous pieces. From small hidden gems to large formats, we will help you understand the pieces, what they mean and how to identify the artists, their techniquesand their intentions. You will become a real specialist and will see your streets differently when you are back home!

If you are already a fan, you will probably enjoy discovering the artwork of international artists and some impressive Halls of Fame. You will also discover theavant-gardethat is currently in the spotlight and learn more about the history of the development of street art in Berlin and what makes this city so special.

What will we talk about on the Berlin street art tour?

Graffiti vs Street Art

The two forms are often confused in everyday language, although they belong to very different genres. Don’t tell a graffiti artist that he does street art… or vice versa! Each genre has its own codes, goals, philosophy and reputation to fulfill. We will therefore see illegal and temporary artworks, some of them with an assumed vandalism, others very political, others trying to bring colour, emotion and humour to the city. We will make sure to identify each type of practice, in order to better understand them and better appreciate them.

Berlin street art and its history

Abandoned spaces, low rents, importance of the subculture, West Berlin has had everything to attract street artists since the 1970s. After the fall of the Wall, the reunited Berlin offers an incredible playgroundfor artists from all over the world. Artworks are multiplyingand street art is becoming inseparable from Berlin in the collective imagination.

Despite the years, Berlin remains a particularly prolific city that continues to attract artists. This allows us, though not without pain, to mourn the loss of past artworks and to be amazed by new creations.

Berlin urban art techniques

Stencils, wheatpaste, installations, stickers or graffiti have reinvented or transformed many techniques already used in the visual arts. New methods were also needed to adapt to the realities of the field: quickly producing art at night, that had to resist to bad weather and Berlin’s winter.

Large formats, single pieces or in series, temporary or permanent, we will help you enjoythe preparation work, the cleverness and sometimes the risk-taking and acrobaticsrequired to produce certain pieces.

Berlin’s local and international street artists

Do you already know about street art? Here are some names that should bring images to mind: Kripoe, SOBR, El Bocho, 1UP, Vhils, Thierry Noir, Alice Pasquini, BLU, Shephard Farey, Vrubel et bien d’autres…

Where do we go the Berlin street art tour?

Street art, murals and graffiti are present in all parts of the city. This is what is special about Berlin. However, each district has its own specificities and the alternative districts will offer a greater diversity of works.

Depending on your wishes and needs, we can stay in one area and explore it in detail or discover several areas to get a broader view of the city and its urban art.

This Berlin street art tour is both an exciting experience and a challenge for us, as we have to constantly adapt to the evolution of the artworks, as some disappear and new ones appear. This motivates us even more to customise our tours, according to your needs and the current artistic situation!

Berlin street art tour around Alexanderplatz

Alexanderplatz represents the centre of the city. The area is a major shopping area and close to the city’s fashionable neighbourhoods. It is also one of the major centres of street art and graffiti in Berlin. Well-known and prolific artists such as Kripoe, SOBR, Obey Giant, Taosuz, Kam & Laurene and El Bocho display their work in unexpected corners of the neighbourhood, between the Hackescher Markt and JanowitzbrückeS-Bahn stations.

In the Mitte neighbourhood, most of the pieces are illegal and rather small in size. Techniques, humour, politics, poetry… a good reason to (re)discover this neighbourhood.

Urban art on the banks of the river Spree

The neighbourhood on the banks of the river Spree is unique as it concentrates some of the most important venues in Berlin’s alternative scene.

The Holzmarkt25. the most recent venue of Berlin’s subculture, wants to defend an alternative economic model using considerable resources. The YAAM, an association promoting African culture, reggae, hip-hop and urban arts, is one of the most moving and surprising places in the Berlin alternative scene. On the other side of the Spree, a residential building is the result of a collective and its collaborative business model. Next door, a village of Tee-Pees resists real estate projects. A little further on is one of Berlin’s largest alternative spaces, which defends punk music, street art and its right to exist…

This area is especially interesting for its huge murals, painted legally or on commission by some of the most famous artists of the moment, who wished to support these places or to defend political ideas. We can admire their works and understand the close link between urban art, protest movements and the alternative scene.

Artists: Cranio, WE.N.U, ARTEZ, VilS, El Bocho…

Protected and historic murals: the East Side Gallery

The East Side Gallery in Friedrichschain: a must-see. It is thelongest section of the Berlin Wall still standing and accessible to the public. Just after the fall of the wall, artists from all over the world were invited to come and paint a section of it.

More than a hundred historical pieces of art cover 1.3 km of the Berlin Wall in its original location. Some of these works illustrate today’s history books.

Urban art and street art being both irreverent and temporary per nature, this tour is an opportunity to mix art and history, to question the link between art and memory.

Berlin street art tour in Kreuzberg

Kreuzberg, a former West Berlin neighbourhood, takes you back to the origins of street art and graffiti in Berlin. Between Kottbuserand Schlessiches Tor, we will see pieces that resonate with the 1980s and the end of the Cold War, but also contemporary or universal themes.

Kreuzberg,a Turkish neighbourhood and a historical and contemporary centre of the protest movement, is also the headquarters of the new generation of graffiti artists, who compete to renew the genre with their ingenuity.

This tour is ideal for an overview of rebellious street art, as well as an introduction to the evolution of the movement, from its origins to its most recent developments.

Berlin street art tour in Friedrichschain

Friedrichschain, a former East Berlin district, is the counterpart of its western cousin, Kreuzberg. Also an important centre of the protest and rebel subculture, this neighbourhood is known for its quality of life, its charming and colourful little streets, its designers and its impressive murals, alternative spaces and anarchist groups, its nightlife and its industrial wasteland converted into a space dedicated to cultural and sports activities.

The gem of the neighbourhood is none other than the RAW Gelände, the last cultural center in an abandoned industrial area in the city centre and it is home to a large number of Berlin’s subculture activities (clubs, concert halls, galleries, a climbing club, a skate park, etc.). The rare walls stil standing are covered with street art and graffiti

An ideal route to get an overview of the different styles and for families or large groups.

Extras of the Berlin street art tour

We make sure that our Berlin street art tour islively and interactive. The idea is to discuss art and to appreciate (or not!) the pieces of art that surround us. We share with you our knowledge of the art movement and the local network. We hope that we will help you explore and deepen your perspective on urban art, but also on art in general.

To continue discovering the street artists after our visit, don’t hesitate to ask us for the list of artworks you saw together.

On the way, you will have the opportunity toadmire some of the city’s most famous attractions, such as the magnificent Oberbaumbrücke bridge, the Karl-Marx-Allee, a street that has become the emblem of East Berlin, the 368-metre-high television tower or the Hackesche Höfe, magnificent courtyards in the Jewish quarter.

As part of the Berlin street art tour, we can also advise you on restaurants, bars and entertainment, or work out a full programme with you, to extend your exploration.