ZACK 195 

IG @zack195_

Zack, Dator 2017

2018

Zack, Eazy 2017

ZAR

A well-known Munich sprayer of the first generation, who did a whole series of works in his characteristic style from the winter of 1983/84 to the summer of 84, mainly in the west and western suburbs of Munich (especially Lochharn and Gräfelfing).

ZAR ZIP FLY ZERO

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It is 1983 in Munich, the walls are gray and bare, marked only by a few political slogans and the odd declaration of love. Then, suddenly, abstract sign language, peculiar characters and cryptic combinations of letters begin to appear, their meaning a puzzle to all who chance upon them. The pieces begin to spread across the city and mark the start of the graffiti movement in Germany and throughout Europe. The photographic archives of attorney Konrad Kittl and Anthropology academic Peter Kreuzer reveal the first layer of graffiti in Munich: experiments with color and form, unprecedented and free from rules or preconceptions.

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Z COMMON GROUND ZSCHOKKESTRASSE

The exhibition project "Z common ground" was curated by Loomit and Codeak and the art historian Laura Lang. In June 2019 artists were invited to paint 4,000 square meters of walls at Zschokkestrasse.

The "Z" in the name has multiple meanings, standing for temporary use (Zwischennutzung), collaboration (Zusammenarbeit), Zschokkestrasse, and renewal (Zerneuern).

HNRX

Matthias Mross

Lapiz

Philipp Frank

Philipp Frank

ZED 

IG @_zlep_

ca. 1986

ZEICHEN GEGEN RECHTS

The "Zeichen gegen Rechts" (Signs Against the Right) graffiti event in Munich was a significant initiative organized by the Verein zur Förderung urbaner Kunst (Association for the Promotion of Urban Art). In March 2020, around 40 graffiti artists from Munich and southern Bavaria came together to create a large-scale mural on a 100-meter-long and up to 8-meter-high wall in the Tumblingerstraße, located in the Schlachthofviertel. The mural featured a prominent quote attributed to Hans Scholl, a key figure in the White Rose resistance movement: "Nicht: Es muss etwas geschehen, sondern: Ich muss etwas tun." ("Not: Something must happen, but: I must do something.") The mural included a portrait of Hans and Sophie Scholl and listed dates of right-wing extremist attacks in Germany over the past 30 years, serving as a clear statement against nationalism, xenophobia, hate speech, and fear-mongering, while promoting a tolerant, open, and active society.

The idea for the project emerged by artists like Lando, Zero, Scout, Loomit, and the Blauer Vogel collective. Tragically, the mural was vandalized and defaced just hours after its completion, with the perpetrators suspected of having waited for the artists to leave. While no explicitly nationalist or right-wing slogans were used in the defacement, a political motive was not ruled out, as some artists' names were mimicked in the vandalism. The mural was quickly restored, underscoring its importance as a symbol of resistance against right-wing extremism.

Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPmi0yreotk

2020

ZEMENT

IG ©zettdavid

ZERO

Tumblingerstrasse 2025

Zero, Flin Brudermühlbrücke 2008

ZIP

ZOMBIE

2015

ZOPE

Active in the mid 80s, cofounder of the legendary The Subway Rockers (TSR) crew.

Z-ROK

z-rok.de, IG @zrok.original

Belonging to the first generation of Munich's graffiti artists, Z-Rok has long since broken away from the usual standards of ‘traditional New York’ graffiti, giving it fresh impetus. Using a variety of innovative but also conventional techniques, he creates multi-layered Kaligrams. With his extraordinary handwriting - especially with the ‘Z’ - he has been showing countless variations of the forms of the alphabet.

ZWIST   

IG @zwistone

Zwist known for his distinguished wild style writing is a member of the Munich-based artist collective ADK which he had founded with Dout in 1998. Later artists Kult, Köbes, Sanz and Pyser joined creating in the mid 2010s Der Blaue Vogel (The Blue Bird) crew, a references to the Blaue Reiter one of the most important avant-garde art collectives of the early twentieth century.

Zwist regularly collaborates with his team on local art festivals and organizes the annual Neujahresverchromung event on Tumblinger Street. He has also participated in worldwide graffiti projects, painting in countries such as Austria, Croatia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, the Netherlands, France, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Turkey, China, and Indonesia. Nearly all of his pieces feature the famous blue bird.

2018

2025