Paint the Wall: Graffiti in NRW

On August 23 and 24, 2025, "Paint on Walls" will take place in Geldern. Graffiti artists will participate in the street art festival. We took a look at an earlier edition of the festival.

Denis Klatt sprays oversized animals on the walls of the Ruhr area. We interviewed the street artist from Dortmund.

The graffiti artist Shyeone has been active in the scene since the beginning of graffiti. When Dortmund became a stronghold of the art form in the mid-80s, he was right in the middle of it. An interview.

With his "Inside Out" project, JR makes the audience an accomplice of his art. Photos of 450,000 people from 148 countries come together to form a gallery in public space - also in Dortmund.

As a "banana sprayer," marking exemplary places of art, Thomas Baumgärtel is known nationwide. Now the Cologne artist wants to buy an abandoned church to turn it into a museum.

Paderborn creates the best conditions for international graffiti artists and even promotes with the paintings. A stroll.

That the Museum Folkwang has no reservations about popular phenomena is once again demonstrated by a trend exhibition that connects hip-hop as a cultural form with contemporary photography.