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Germany, Land of Ideas

Many hands, one picture of Germany.

In front of Berlin Central Station, we spent a weekend spraying with ten Berlin graffiti artists and the visitors: around 800 m² in the outline of Germany.

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Public graffiti project “Germany Bursting with Ideas” in Berlin
Locations
Berlin, in front of Central Station
Timeframe
Fall 2015
Technique
Graffiti workshop on a PVC tarp with spray cans and stencils

01The problem

A picture everyone helps paint.

“Germany, Land of Ideas” wanted an event in front of Berlin Central Station where the public gets creative themselves. Only previous award winners could take part, and we had already won ourselves.

The task: a surface where passersby with no experience can spray, and still a picture that holds together in the end.

02The solution

Germany as a canvas.

On a PVC tarp, we laid out around 800 m² in the outline of the Federal Republic. Ten Berlin graffiti artists guided the visitors, and with spray cans and stencils everyone quickly arrived at their own motif.

The work didn't end with the weekend: the painted tarp was made into bags.

Participants painting the large Germany tarp at the workshop in front of Berlin Central Station
The workshop
At Berlin Central Station

  1. The outline as a frame

    The national border holds the many motifs together as one picture.

  2. Ten artists on site

    Berlin graffiti artists showed the visitors how the spray can works.

  3. Tarp becomes bag

    After the event, the sprayed PVC tarp was turned into bags.

03The result

The picture lives on as bags.

≈800 m²
painted surface outside Central Station
10
Berlin graffiti artists

04The proof

One country, many motifs.

  1. Participants posing for a group photo on the finished tarp
    01The joint workGroup photo after spraying
  2. Colorfully painted Germany-shaped tarp in front of Berlin Hauptbahnhof
    02Germany as a pictureFull view in front of Central Station
  3. Overhead view of participants in blue protective suits spraying the large tarp together
    03Together at the tarpParticipants spraying
  4. View from the hall of Berlin Central Station onto the square with the workshop
    04The square in front of the stationView from the station hall
  5. Participant spraying the tarp after dark, next to boxes of spray cans
    05Spraying in the eveningWorkshop at dusk
  6. Graffiti artist wearing a respirator spraying a black silhouette onto a board
    06Artists at workGraffiti artists spraying

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