Walk­ing through the streets of Ber­lin is always an intense exper­i­ence. If you open your eyes you can read the whole city and see its cit­izens com­mu­nic­ate with each other. You will recog­nize the hip scenic neigh­bor­hoods from the dense of graf­fiti and streetart and you can dive into an uni­verse of col­or­full sur­prises around every corner. We love that.

In the last years more and more big­ger pro­duc­tions were integ­rated into the urban envir­on­ment next to the major­ity of smal­ler pieces. The so called Brand­wände (Fire Walls) are typ­ical for Ber­lin. They are win­dow­less side­walls of houses and per­fectly attract­ive for every artist.

Next to a lot of com­mer­cial walls in Mitte — the area of Kreuzberg (and espe­cially around Schles­isches Tor) estab­lished itself with a lot of nice pro­duc­tions from well known inter­na­tional artists like BLU, OsGe­meos, The Lon­don Police, ROA and many others.

Cre­at­ing such a wall is always spe­cial for the artists. In dif­fer­ence to most other works the space is not in an aban­doned area but right in the middle of the neigbor­hoods. They char­ac­ter­ize the streets for many years and their houses become a visual land­mark for the whole Kiez.

For this post we vis­ited Dustin Schenk in Neuk­ölln for one of the latest Brand­wand pro­duc­tions in Ber­lin and talked with him about his wall. If you want to dive deeper into the sub­ject you should check out Wed­ding Walls who are cre­at­ing a couple of new walls in Wed­ding too.