Kategorie Essen-Nord

URSULA MEYER for Streetdreams Festival 2023

Ursula Meyer is a permanent fixture in Essen’s graffiti and street art scene. She was born 1987 in San Juan (Argentina) and studied at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Southafrica and Folkwang University of Art in Essen. In addition to murals, poster art and freight train graffiti, she is known for her installations and stage designs […]

ANNA SCHULDIG for Streetdreams Festival 2023

The street name ANNA SCHULDIG is the new pseudonym of one of the Ruhr region’s most active female graffiti artists. It probably needs no further explanation. This choice of name refers to her practice of self-authorised design in the urban environment, which she began in abandoned industrial halls. Viktoriastraße 4 Grundstraße 122 more pictures -> […]

VAN HAAN for Streetdreams Festival 2023

„I wish you a really good day“ is how passers-by coming to Katernberg from the south are now greeted. The well-known Essen-based artist VAN HAAN is flexible in his means of expression. From figurative to graphic, he can draw on many years of experience in graphic design and commercial mural design. Schonnebeckhöfe 228 Schonnebeckhöfe 235 […]

INVISIBLE BEING – DAS UNSICHTBARE WESEN for Streetdreams Festival 2023

The Invisible Being is well known in the Ruhr region. Pithy sayings with a wink and humour, often provocative and very political. He likes to provoke the authorities to the point of blood, in short – the UNKNOWN BEING is what our parents have always warned us about. Or, to use a popular punk and […]

MUGGI MAGOO for Streetdreams Festival 2023

MUGGI MAGOO has been a well-known name in the graffiti scene in the Ruhr area for 20 years. With a solid background in craftsmanship, the artist, who is also in demand as a tattoo artist, is now working more and more experimentally. I don’t know much about him, but one thing is obvious: he has […]

58 LINES for Streetdreams Festival 2023

It took a little longer, but then the penny dropped. The style of the Cologne graffiti artist and tattooist 58 Lines seemed somehow familiar to me. No wonder, after all, he has long been part of the living inventory of the annual Hafendampf Festival. Viktoriastraße 4 Viktoriastraße 4 Viktoriastraße 4 & Grundstraße 122 more pictures […]

Troy Lovegates for Streetdreams Festival 2023

Last Sunday, the first Streetdreams Festival came to an end in Essen Katernberg. A lot had been planned, but unfortunately the weather did not play along favourably. The artists did what they always do when it comes to breathing new life into grey and neglected walls. Katenberg got some fresh colours. There is still a […]

Street dreams are made of these

Yes I know, this is late! But if you still have time for spontaneous changes of plans for the weekend from 26. – 29.10.2023 – I still have something. Last minute, so to speak: I would like to draw your attention to STREET DREAMS FESTIVAL in Essen Katernberg In Essen Katernberg, international artists from the […]

Hafendampf 2023

Last Sunday the 11th Hafendampf Graffiti Festival came to an end. This time, the neighbourhood of Dinastraße in Karnap benefited from the work of the artists who invaded in droves to redesign the railway embankment along Dinastraße. As always, the short-term guests did not leave without leaving generous gifts. A couple of brass players from […]

Hafendampf 2023 – Please save the date

Yes! Finally, it’s that time again! The gong for the 11th round of Hafendampf will sound on 12 & 13 August in Dinastraße in Karnap. A horde of national and international graffiti artists will invade and take care of the hitherto drab, grey wall of the railway embankment so that the neighbourhood living there will […]