A glimpse of Munich's rich graffiti scene - Phase 1 2025 #muenchengraffiti #munichgraffiti

LACK THE PERLACH

Since 2023, Fred and Z-Rok have organized this annual spray jam to support emerging artists in the graffiti scene. Held in the last week of September, it’s the only time the underpass is legally open for painting.

LANDO

funky-fresh.de, IG @landograffiti

Lando is an artist from the generation that began early on, starting his career in the late 80s. Working as a freelance graphic and graffiti artist in Munich today, Lando also is the co-founder and board member of the Verein zur Förderung urbaner Kunst (Organisation for the promotion of urban art). Since 1999, he has been running the first graffiti agency, Funky Fresh.

Additionally, he has played a very active role in Munich's graffiti scene as a curator and organizer of spray painting events such as Stop Bombing Civilians, Zeichen Gegen Rechts, and ISART at Brudermühlbrücke.

In 2024, at the Munich concert venue, Lando and his crew partner Bert painted a large-scale portrait of British singer Adele, which became a worldwide Instagram sensation and a popular selfie spot during Adele's concerts.

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2020

Lando, Cis Cis 2016

Lando, Eat, Brudermühlbrücke 2008

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LAPIZ

lapiz.ca, IG @lapizgraffiti

Lapiz is a self-taught artist who started working in the streets of Dunedin, New Zealand. In South Africa he worked in Aids-research and processed the indescribable circumstances as artistic statements in the public. Living in Buenos Aires he developed his large-scaled multi-layered stencil pieces.

ONE LOVE was first painted at a festival in Lemwerder in 2018. Over 3 m tall, a bright coloured Vladimir Putin was kissing himself. During that time the FIFA world Cup took place in Russia and the intention was to highlight Putin's narcissism and homophobia. Four years later, in February 2022, this motive of course is very up to date.

"When I pitched the idea to Loomit, he immediately understood that it needed to be seen. And just like that he gave away part of his most prized wall in Munich's Werksviertel, a piece he painted back in 1999.

Over the next couple of days I recreated ONE LOVE, so here is again the homophobic narcissist loving no one else but himself."

LAW ONE

Law One, Eazy, Jeroo, Graphism 2012

Brudermühlbrücke 2012

LEOPOLD KINO

Located on Leopoldstrasse in Munch's University district Schwabing, the cinema was one of the first to screen Charlie Ahearn's Wild Style in 1983. Since the screenings started at 1 p.m., skipping school to watch the movie was a very tempting option - though most of the young newcomer graffiti artists had seen the movie before, since German TV ZDF was coproducer of Wild Style, airing the movie already in April 1983, months before the cinema release.

LESIE

lesie.net, IG @lesieofficial

Lesie grew up in Greece spending the last years in Berlin and now in Munich. He drew and painted since a child. He started using cans on walls with twelve and never stopped ever since. The medium of the wall, as well as the direct connection to the public, are still fascinating him so much.

Lesie is a mural artist and illustrator, working also parallel as an interior architect and exhibition designer. This package of properties describes his passion for designing two and three-dimensional space.

In recent years, he has painted mainly using black and white colours. On the one hand, he is concentrating optically on the power of the shapes, offering his works a strong graphic character. On the other hand, he creates a visual world in search of meanings in aesthetics.

In his art he draws stories that connect local and other cultures of the world, but also animal or fantasy figures, giving his art a surreal touch. (lesie.net)

LEWY

IG @lewy_design

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Lewy has worked as an illustrator and street art artist, being the co-founder of the crew Casual Monks and a member of Munichs famous crew the City Slickaz. Besides participating regularly at spray gatherings, he worked as an illustrator with clients such as the BMW Park (Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle) and for the FC Bayern Munich basketball team and fan shop.

Boschetsrieder, 2017

2017

Brudermühlbridge

City Slickaz Deadline Festival 2015

2015

Since Lewy's passing in 2023 Munich's writer scene has continuously dedicated pieces in his honour.

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LIQEN
Corneliusstreet 2017

LIVING LARGE

This annual hip-hop event was held at the Muffathalle from 1994 to 2003. It was initiated by Main Concept and organised by KuchenGeorge and the Färberei.
The popular jam featured international and local graffiti artists, including Seen, Ces, Mode 2 and Delta, as well as local artists such as Neon, Scum, Paze, Smal, Flin and Z-Rok.

LOOMIT

@loomit_official

In 1983 Loomit sprayed his first graffiti on a water tower in his hometown of Buchloe. Soon after he moved to Munich and continued painting walls. Visiting graffiti lectures by Dr. Peter Kreuzer and hanging out in youth clubs, he met other artists. Among Blash with who he later formed the Blash Loomit Corporation, which got known for their piece, American Dream - Horrorvision, painted next to the train tracks. Around this time, other local artists joined, forming one of Munich's famous first crews, The Force.

In March 1985, Loomit (under the pseudonym Cryptic2) and six other local artists painted Germany's first entire whole train. This train, known as the Geltendorfer Zug, would become a milestone in European graffiti history.

Over the following years, Loomit travelled the world, learning at the studio of New York graffiti legend Seen.

Without the internet around at that time, artists would exchange photos of their work. It was Loomit who, through his trips, connected with other artists early on and showed the wider world the Munich graffiti scene and its first Hall of Fame on the Dachauer flea market grounds.

Today, Loomit is a world-renowned artist who organises and curates projects for Munich's street art scene. He regularly invites international artists, particularly focusing on the Werksviertel, where his studio is located. In addition to his art, he has created murals worldwide, from New York to São Paulo, Russia, and beyond.