Reclaim Your City: A global call to arms from urban artists to refresh bland, gray urban areas with statements of political and individual intent.

While in most cities they work under constant risk of arrest, Berlin, Germany’s capital, has become an urban artist’s Utopia – areas left empty both by the city’s division and unification are a morally, if not a legally legitimate canvas; posters, cut-outs and stickers splattered across once rotting fences and luminous, surreal images lightening the murkiest of industrial wastelands. Neighborhoods such as Prenzlauer Berg may have all but lost their artist population but new well-to-do inhabitants and families still tolerate the so-called ‘graffiti’ that has shaped its identity. It is- as much as the Nazi architecture of the Olympic Stadium, and the Communist spectre of the TV tower – a major part of their legacy.

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