Mural Global

Simonstrasse 26 Wuppertal

Mural Global is a worldwide mural project that the association “Farbfieber eV” from Düsseldorf set up together with the responsible artist Klaus Klinger in 1998 as part of Agenda 21 under the auspices of UNESCO . The purpose of the project is to use the message of the pictures to enter into a dialogue with other cultures about the state of the world and globalization and to find alternatives to improve the quality of life. Since 2003, the “Mural Global” project has been supplemented with the “Mural Mobil” project.

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As part of the Mural Global project, more than 100 public murals have been created worldwide by artists from different cultures within four to six weeks on exposed walls of public buildings. In addition to Germany, more than 25 countries took part, including India, Cuba, Brazil, Nicaragua, Chile, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Latvia, Spain, Turkey and the USA.

In Germany, the project is mainly supported by the organization Eine Welt , which assists with the bureaucratic permits, the selection of artist groups, the acquisition of local sponsors and the design of the supporting program. In addition, local young people are involved, who can contribute their own ideas and who should develop a special view of the country and the people through cooperation with the foreign artist groups.

In 2001, Mural Global was selected by UNESCO as the official German contribution to the UN year: “Dialogue between cultures”. In addition, in 2002 the association Farbfieber eV received the innovation award of the “Fonds Soziokultur” for its initiative and organization from Mural Global.

Since 2003 the project has been supplemented by "Mural Mobil" while maintaining the socio-cultural aspects. The pictures are created on vinyl mesh and can be temporarily attached to construction sites or house walls as an eye-catcher on certain occasions.

Murals as part of Mural Global (selection)

Anna Bunker Food

Arpana Caur created two large wall paintings on exterior facades in Hamburg-Altona and New Delhi in 2000 together with the German painter Sönke Nissen-Knaack .
In 2000, Heinz Velten and others realized a wall painting on the house at Simonstrasse 26 in Wuppertal

In 2000 Moni van Rheinberg created a more than 1000 m² mural at the “Anna Bunker” in Essen-Altendorf together with the artists Xholile Mtakatyka ( South Africa ) and Claudio Francia ( Chile )

Artists from Cuba and Germany designed a mural at Torhaus 5, Alleestraße 144 in Bochum from May to June / July 2000

In 2000, the artist RappaPort and Xholile Mtakatya from South Africa created the mural “Water is Life” at the old bunker in Hagen .

Wall painting on the corner of Gielenstrasse and Adolf-Flecken-Strasse in Neuss with artists from Germany, Colombia and Latvia, September 2000

Daniel Man realized a large mural in Hildesheim with the title Kommunikation in 2000, at that time still under his graffiti name Codeak , together with the Brazilian graffiti artist Os Gêmeos

Daniel Man created another 300 m² mural in 2001, together with the Brazilian graffiti artists Os Gêmeos, Vitché , Herbert Baglione and Nina Pandolfo as well as with the German graffiti artists Loomit , DAIM and Tasek in São Paulo , Brazil

After the first Mural Global project in Rostock in 2004, further murals were created in Schwerin , Greifswald and Wismar in 2005 with artists from Zimbabwe, Brazil and Bolivia

As part of the cultural exchange between the twin cities of Cape Town and Aachen , several works of art were created in both cities between 1999 and 2011, including in Aachen:

Murals on the former bunker at Sandkaulpark (2000), at the Inda and Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium Aachen (2003/2004) and at the Welthaus at the Aachen Schanz stop (2005) and in Cape Town:
Murals at the Desmond Tutu Center (2001), Zenzeleni Primary School (2004), Zenzele Training Center (2005), Fairview and Parkwood Primary School (2008/2010),