…..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 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 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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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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The fantastic MEMUR FESTIVAL took place in Oldenburg on the railway embankment wall along the Bundesbahnweg from August 12th to 14th in 2022. The title is a combination of memorial and mural. More than 30 regional and international artists designed a 280-meter-long wall with magnificent works depicting experiences and impressions of recent years, such as the pandemic, war, conflicts, and other areas of social and political tension. The common denominator of the artworks was thus the experience and reflection of collective memory.
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With its flowing and tilting walls, the MARTA MUSEUM in Herford, East Westphalia, is one of the most unusual museum buildings in the world. For the facade, the American star architect FRANK GEHRY chose dark red bricks, which contrast with the bright stainless steel roof and the white plastered core of the building. The development of the museum’s collection began with the construction of the MARTA, which opened in 2005. It comprises around 500 works by approximately 170 artists, many of them large-format pieces of contemporary art.
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This time we’re going to Wunstorf to a Hall of Fame that is hardly in the public eye and should not be underestimated. West of the Wunstorf train station, the span of the railway tracks to the west towards the city of Minden and to the northwest towards the city of Bremen is crossed by an elevated national road Hochstraße (B 441). Between these tracks and below this “urban planning fiasco” there is a small legal spray spot. This little insider tip often surprises with the finest pieces, which (at times) do not have to shy away from a quality comparison with those of the famous halls in the cities around.
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The fantastic graffiti jam SUMMA MADNEZZ has been taking place in Bremerhaven since 2010 and brings together local and international artists every year to create a huge wall. Since then every year amazing artworks are sprayed by more than 50 participants under a specific motto. In 2025 from 29th till 31st August it was „Ancient Egypt“. The main spot is the 400-meter-long wall in Oststraße on a former shipbuilding hall at the Fischereihafen quarter. Besides that area this time an additional wall got included behind a supermarket at Georg Seebeck Street 56 as well. Check out the masterpieces!
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