Street art in München

Where to find street art in München (Germany)

Munich played a pioneering role in European graffiti history: in 1985, a local schoolboy who later became known as Loomit painted Europe's first wholetrain — an entire S-Bahn covered in graffiti — at Geltendorf station. By the late 1990s, the city was considered a world-class graffiti destination on a par with New York. The Positive Propaganda e.V. association has since brought international names like Shepard Fairey, Blu and ESCIF to produce socially engaged mural commissions.

The Werksviertel-Mitte, behind Ostbahnhof, concentrates the most recent large-scale works on repurposed shipping containers and industrial facades. The Schlachthofviertel along Tumblingerstrasse hosts some of the most imposing murals in the city. The Glockenbachviertel, the Olydorf campus — the former 1972 Olympic athletes' village where residents have full artistic freedom — and Schwabing round out the key districts.

The MUCA (Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art), opened in 2016 as Germany's first museum dedicated to urban art, has given the scene strong institutional grounding in Munich. The Hands Off The Wall festival, focused on female artists, was staged at the Werksviertel-Mitte in 2020. Guided street art trails now map the works across several districts of the Bavarian capital.

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