Monster street art gallery summer 2019

New street art and graffiti from the best city in the world: Berlin

Yes, we did hear, there are other cool places for street art, and it might even be bearable to live in those places, but they all have one giant elephant-in-the-room-sized problem, they are not Berlin, and therefore by definition less glorious and even less worthy of our attention. Sure, London is pretty rad too, and Barcelona has the sea, the coffee is waaay better in Milan, but, … wait, where was I going with this? Anyway, we hopefully agree this much: Berlin is an awesome spot for street art, with an extremely productive and ever-changing scene of locals and international artists, that help make our wonderful a more colourful place. If you like exploring new and well-known street art with a guide that knows their way around all the little intricacies this genre has to offer, join us on our regular and public Street Art Bike Tours every Fri/Sat (or in German on Fri/Sun).

Enough chit-chat, here we go:

Urban Art Hall – Secret Spot.

The old hub of Deutsche Post in downtown Spandau closed down a couple of years ago, and it was always clear, the area would be commercially developed. But, until demolition started, a couple of Hip-Hop and Street Art impresarios turned the whole compound into an entirely awesome art/party space, skate hall and overall great place to hang out and experience some of the most exciting work we have seen in the last couple of years. We have to admit, to only have visited spontaneously during a bike tour, which means we didn’t even have a proper camera and all the indoor shots are so bad, we can’t show them. What we did get, though, is quite stunning, indeed: