A Deutsche Bahn project on the theme of "façade art"

Preface

Here you can see the results of a very special action by Deutsche Bahn, completely detached from the Muralu project.

It is almost inconceivable how desolate underground corridors can be transformed into an art mile! It is also almost inconceivable what works of art have been created here. You stand in front of it and ask yourself: how can something like this be done "simply" with spray? What technique is behind it, which artists are capable of something like that?

Sometimes I show excerpts to make clear how incredibly detailed the work has to be in order to make a desired effect appear that way from the viewer's perspective when he or she looks at the whole work from a distance.

Great respect to all these artists, and many thanks to Deutsche Bahn for giving us these art walks!

An article by Manuel Gerullis, founder of the artist collective Buntic-Media

Initiated by Deutsche Bahn, Buntic-Media and a collective of 24 artists from the region and half of Europe completely redesigned the spacious subway complex at Ludwigshafen main station in September and October 2020. 

Under the motto "Meeting of Styles", the artists transformed numerous drab and monotonous surfaces into a lively graffiti gallery using the power of colour. The graffiti festival of the same name, "MOS" for short, which has been taking place worldwide since 2002 and is considered the largest festival of its kind in the world, has been organised by Buntic-Media for many years and enjoys a worldwide reputation. So it was obvious to organise a mini-meeting as part of the Meeting of Styles series and thus enliven the station.

Says Manuell Gerullis: "The power of motifs and colours is able to bring quality of life and atmosphere to an urban space that is predominantly characterised by monotony and monotony. The design of the station subway was therefore a very appealing project for us. Because here, with the graffiti art, we were able to transform a sterile, lifeless subway, through which people previously hurried, into a lively, colourful open-air gallery that invites people to linger and look at the pictures."

How many hours of work? How much material? How many artists?

Around 1,500 hours of work

Approx. 400 litres of wall paint

Approx. 1,000 spray paint cans

24 artists

Participating artists:

Alien, Koz Dos (Venezuela)
Mate One (Italien)
Sorvy Sovrino, Cany Sanchez (Spanien)
Dirty Six (Frankreich)
Enuf, Friend (Belgien)
Esobe (Polen)
Elevenade (Russland)
Ums (Darmstadt)
C.Saso, Sport (Ludwigshafen/Mannheim)
Smok, Yours, Sqer (Wiesbaden)
Honsar, Cor, Naxos Kolletiv (Frankfurt)
Pern, Kaot (Bielefeld)

Thank you, Manuel, for your information!

The dreary area before this artistic intervention

Thanks to Manuel Gerullis of Bunticmedia for these memories!

A walk through the artistic underworld of the railway main station

Video walks

Two wonderful productions by Andreas Hilgert! Please click into a picture.

The individual works

It was not easy to assign these works to the artists mentioned above: The signatures often led nowhere, or I found none at all with the paintings.

Works that are still unknown can be found at the end of this page, under "Info wanted".

Unknown works

Links to the pages of the artists' group:     Buntic-Media      Meetingofstyles