…..on tour….
A new name, a new location! After seven years of URBAN NATURE in Hannover the organizers changed the name to GLOCKE FESTIVAL and hosted the first edition around the Glocksee Hall of Fame, the Independent Youth and Cultural Center and several other buildings around from 7th till 10th May in 2026. The plan is to paint new surfaces on those walls once a year. Check out the huge gallery from this year’s event and the numerous styles, characters and abstract works.
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The great festival URBAN NATURE in Hannover began in 2018, emerging from an initiative by the city and the local graffiti network to create more legal spaces for urban art. A large open wall area at the IHME HALL near Spinnereibrücke became the festival’s central location, quickly turning into a key meeting point for the graffiti and streetart community every summer. International artists, local writers, and guests from partner cities transformed the walls year after year, accompanied by workshops, jams, music, and community exchange. It developed into an open, non-commercial cultural event with a strong creative identity and growing recognition.
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From 9th till 10th May in 2026, the great CHARACTER JAM took place again at the JUGENDHAUS AM BÜGEL, this time it was the 14th edition of this fantastic event, where several artists redesign and color up the building complex and surrounding facades. This time, the pieces weren’t done on the stage, but instead the entire front building was decorated with a great concept wall by the BORN CREW and KWG CREW aka KIDS WITH GUNZ, also the backyard wall adorns now a collab by the TIF CREW aka THE INFAMOUS FACES, and the youth center has now a new large mural facing the sports field made by EMESA and HERA.
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In March it was time again for the annual ANTI RACISM JAM in Moabit at the spraygrounds of the 21ER GALLERY with more than 50 creators. Every year the popular jam brings top-class artists to the walls with fantastic concept collaborations to make a colorful statement against racism and discrimination. The event from 25th till 28th March 2026 took place at six locations, namely at the large Concept Wall, at the Hamberger Wall, at the Union Sports Hall, at the Union Park, around the “Center for Art and Urbanism” (ZK/U) and at the Theodor Heuss School.
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From 1st to 3rd August in 2025, the INTERNATIONAL STREETART FESTIVAL WILHELMSHAVEN took place for the 13th time in downtown Wilhelmshaven. In the pedestrian zone and in the Nordsee Passage, 31 artists from eleven countries laid their colorful and ephemeral works of art at the feet of visitors via floor murals. From imaginative motifs to astonishingly realistic depictions, the entire spectrum of street painting was presented in the three categories “Copy,” “3D,” and “Free Art”. The first edition took place in 2011. Since 2024, there has also been the additional SPRAY WATT GRAFFITI FESTIVAL, which is specifically for writers.
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The FABRIK 23 is a former factory over 100 years old, hidden in a typical Berlin backyard, an authentic, not „over-renovated“ industrial ambience that cannot even be found in this form in the city. When the factory building with an area size of 16.500 qm was bought some years ago by a billionaire from New York who was interested in art, it was partly empty. Meanwhile, the factory has turned into a place that was even featured in the New York Times. A place where businesses, craftsmen, artists and creative companies find a home. And of course Graffiti and Streetart! Check out the artworks in the huge archive.
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The old animal feed factory with the disused phosphate plant of the VEB Coswig Rüdersdorf company is an abandoned place that nature is reclaiming piece by piece. Filmmakers have also discovered this fantastic scenario and the area has already been the backdrop for some great movies, including „Manifesto“, „The Monuments Men“ or „Enemy at the Gates“. A perfect place for creative projects and of course interesting graffiti gets done here. We have some photos of the old chemical plant, who knows how long it will be around.
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The huge parking garage ROSE PARKHAUS at Marie Wagenknecht Straße 24 was transformed into a fantastic art gallery of graffiti and streetart in the summer of 2025. Large murals and pieces on the ground level adorn from the outside, and inside the parking garage there are plenty more works in a wide variety of styles, created by more than 50 artists. This place used to be avoided and was considered a hotspot for drugs and crime, but now the colorful building attracts artists and art lovers from all around. The project was initiated by BJÖRN STEINSIEK as part of HILDESHEIMER ART.
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The graffiti writer MANUEL GERULLIS aka YOURS grew up in the 80s with his crews DBL or CNB. In 1997 he launchend the WALL STREET MEETING in Wiesbaden, today known as the MEETING OF STYLES, which became a global event network with more than 400 held jams world wide, but is also passionately involved in many other projects to open creative spaces like the KONTEXT, the SCHLACHTHOF, the KULTURCAMPUS or the EUROPEAN HIP HOP MUSEUM. His mission is to bring more color, creativity, respect, and peace via urban art into the world. We spoke with YOURS in an interview about his own development and the story of MEETING OF STYLES.
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From 15th to 17th June in 2018, an extraordinary urban art spectacle took place right on the Weser River in the municipality of Lemwerder: the FARBFLUT FESTIVAL. More than 200 local, national, and international artists decorated the 920-meter-long and 3.5-meter-high flood protection wall on the western bank with countless magnificent works. This has created what is probably one of the largest open-air galleries in Germany, if not the largest, here in the Wesermarsch region. It’s called the WESER SIDE GALLERY.
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