Berlin

Berlin is an enchanting place for urban explorers looking for wild urban art and evocative abandoned places. The urban environment of this city has something untamed, that make it The Place for hybrid zones' seekers. Berlin is scattered by places of transition between use and unused; physical emptiness left by war, history and economic choices; abandoned or unfinished from urban planning or in a waiting list to be redeveloped and dispatched to some function; These kind of places, in addition to lots of natural species, offers oodles of artsy organisms, better known as urban art specimens, stratified like natural geological layers, generated by a scattered and anonymous creativity that perfectly represents the human condition in the contemporary world. This proliferation is an ode to differences, to multiplicity, to blending and to re-use.
If you are looking for art that develops in the wild areas of the cities, Berlin will completely satisfy your craving, you will feel this creative potential and unrest all around you. If you would like to have an affordable but very charming overview on the multiplicity of landscapes that compose the city, I strongly recommend having a complete turn on the “ring”, the train that over one hour travels along the city’s boundaries.
I had many rides there, even when everything was freezing, I loved the views from the train window; the amazing succession of profoundly different kinds of landscape that make Berlin such a unique urban reality. The succession includes super modern skylines, different perspectives of wild nature, miles and miles of railways unrolled under and over the many bridges, as well as huge abandoned and derelict industrial buildings which survived through World War Two. There are also heaps of inhabited caravans, and above all, the constant presence of examples of all types of urban art, enough to satisfy the craving of the most passionate fan. I’ve seen street art pieces of every kind in all types of places, on traffic signs in the middle of the river, on rooftops and in courtyards of sparsely populated Turkish neighbourhood’s tenement blocks. They seem to spread like vines over every kind of available space, exploiting the most different materials, techniques and images, creating a colorful and kaleidoscopic visual cluster that could give you the feeling of vertigo.